if you have founded, led, and/or worked for a mission-driven startup: what did you experience as the pros and cons?

your brief was definitely one of the highlights of my career so far! grateful to have had the opportunity to cross paths with you

Elon tried to kill Blockparty, and it came back even stronger. Or at least strong in a new way.

Also: Hell yes we cited them in that brief!

Spent most of the morning on @blockpartyapp.com clearing out previous social media. Plan is to delete everything except for a shell Facebook to use for Marketplace and @bsky.app. I can feel my mental health improving by the hour…

thank you for all your support, from the earliest days!! number 1 external tester of our extension!!

The internet is not yet the safe, equitable, empowering place it could be, but I've never stopped believing it can get there. The mission continues. It just got a lot more powerful.

We could have kept building toward this on our own. But the threats people face online aren't waiting — and neither should the solution. This acquisition lets us move at the scale the mission has always deserved.

Our go-to-market playbook was basically to copy DeleteMe. Perhaps, then, the best way to scale would be to join them — and now, that's exactly what's happening.

As we did sales discovery, we realized that virtually every one of our customers was also a DeleteMe customer, with the same buyer and the same buying reasons.

We closed deals with name-brand logos in tech, media, and finance, working with security teams to bring employees inside the security perimeter.

Like many an engineering founder who has to learn the hard way that even a wonderful product doesn't sell itself, I became our lead salesperson and we built an enterprise sales motion from scratch.

That's the Block Party of today, praised by the Washington Post's tech journalist as "one of the most useful tech tools I've come across in years."

We were forced to re-conceptualize our product and business, but we stayed true to the mission of keeping people safe online, and it was a good push to go bigger. We expanded beyond Twitter to cover 12 platforms; we expanded beyond anti-harassment to security, privacy, and content cleanup.

Our brick wall took the form of Elon Musk buying Twitter and cutting off our access to the platform.

Some companies pivot because they realize they're just not headed in the right direction. Other companies get smacked in the face by a brick wall that materializes out of thin air.

We were cited in an amicus brief before the Supreme Court, filed by Francis Fukuyama et al, as a leading example of middleware, a model for countering authoritarian capture of social media.

Our users raved about how we transformed their online experience, and the whole trust and safety industry took note of what was possible with a tiny, dedicated team working on problems previously thought to be "just too difficult."

The first version of Block Party was a viral anti-harassment product for Twitter with tens of thousands of users and devoted paid subscribers, including accounts with 1M+ followers.

I started Block Party because I couldn't accept that simply being online meant surrendering control — over your safety, your privacy, your data. The internet is too important to opt out of, but it shouldn’t be the danger zone that it is by default.

A professional update, as it were! @blockpartyapp.com has been acquired by @joindeleteme.bsky.social!

went for a run without my fitbit and it’s like it never happened

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

brett, kindly fuck off ty

my impressions of google as a consumer vs as a vendor are diametrically opposed

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

What it was like to be a bush at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance The bushes on the field during the halftime show became a meme after the internet found out they were actually human performers.

journalism is not dead www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

how bad is the traffic in the bay area going to be tomorrow

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

apparently epstein was on quora so the quora weekly digest emails are in his inbox… if you were a big contributor to quora way back when you might find your name in the files

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex