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Jeff Lawson

@jeffiel
10 posts
2024-04-26
That's why we're asking everybody to pitch in $1. If you care about The Onion, if the Onion ever made you laugh - give us a buck. For that dollar, you get... absolutely nothing. Just a smug sense that you've once again spent less on The Onion than its worth in your life. 3/4
2024-04-26 View on X
New York Times

Former Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion from G/O Media, via his company Global Tetrahedron; Lawson had long wanted to buy the satirical site

The satirical news website was bought by a new firm in Chicago that took inspiration for its name, Global Tetrahedron, from a book written by The Onion's staff.

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Alright, the news is out. Yes, I bought The Onion. Why? 1/4
2024-04-26 View on X
New York Times

Former Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion from G/O Media, via his company Global Tetrahedron; Lawson had long wanted to buy the satirical site

The satirical news website was bought by a new firm in Chicago that took inspiration for its name, Global Tetrahedron, from a book written by The Onion's staff.

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The Onion is an institution, a national treasure, and we need it. But its success is based on something different than most media companies. The Onion has been stifled, along with most of the Internet, by byzantine cookie dialogs, paywalls, bizarro belly fat ads, and clickbait...
2024-04-26 View on X
New York Times

Former Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion from G/O Media, via his company Global Tetrahedron; Lawson had long wanted to buy the satirical site

The satirical news website was bought by a new firm in Chicago that took inspiration for its name, Global Tetrahedron, from a book written by The Onion's staff.

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Over time, we'll be introducing new products and getting into new mediums. But more than anything - this is about unleashing the creative team that's been making you laugh for over 30 years. Letting these amazing writers do what they do best. I can't wait to see what you pee in...
2024-04-26 View on X
New York Times

Former Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion from G/O Media, via his company Global Tetrahedron; Lawson had long wanted to buy the satirical site

The satirical news website was bought by a new firm in Chicago that took inspiration for its name, Global Tetrahedron, from a book written by The Onion's staff.

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2021-01-17
Thanks Heather, great piece. I enjoyed our conversation! https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-17 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson calls out tech leaders for bailing on SF and being rude about it as they leave, says he is staying and working to make the city better

There are plenty of ways to leave a party.  —  You can quietly say your thanks and goodbyes and be on your way.  You can stay a while to help clean up.

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Thanks Heather, great piece. I enjoyed our conversation! https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-17 View on X
New York Times

Interviews with more than two dozen tech execs and workers who have left San Francisco for other parts of the US over the last year amid a rise in remote work

money that will go plenty further somewhere else.” Great piece by @NellieBowles https://www.nytimes.com/... JP Mangalindan / @jpmanga : Ironically, that's my old SF apartment build...

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2020-10-13
Today @twilio announced we're acquiring @Segment. By adding their data platform into the Twilio fold, we'll be able to build the customer engagement platform of the future, providing unparalleled insight into the way customers interact across every channel. https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-13 View on X
TechCrunch

Twilio confirms it is buying customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2B in an all-stock deal, expected to close in Q4 2020

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :

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2020-10-12
Today @twilio announced we're acquiring @Segment. By adding their data platform into the Twilio fold, we'll be able to build the customer engagement platform of the future, providing unparalleled insight into the way customers interact across every channel. https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-12 View on X
TechCrunch

Twilio confirms it is buying customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2B in an all-stock deal, expected to close in Q4 2020

Twilio today announced its biggest acquisition to date, spearheading a strong move into customer data management alongside its existing API-based tools …

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2019-10-19
Zuck champions free speech, but fails to mention that the FB algorithm decides what billions read every day, amplifying the speech that maximize revenue. Don't pretend this is a 1st amendment matter. It's about revenue maximization. Shut down the algo and we're aligned.
2019-10-19 View on X
New York Times

Zuckerberg gives a full-throated defense of Facebook as a champion of free expression and defends Facebook policy to opt out of fact-checking political ads

In an address at Georgetown University, the Facebook chief executive called for more free speech — not less …

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2019-10-18
Zuck champions free speech, but fails to mention that the FB algorithm decides what billions read every day, amplifying the speech that maximize revenue. Don't pretend this is a 1st amendment matter. It's about revenue maximization. Shut down the algo and we're aligned.
2019-10-18 View on X
New York Times

Zuckerberg gives a full-throated defense of Facebook as a champion of free expression and defends Facebook policy to opt out of fact-checking political ads

In an address at Georgetown University, the Facebook chief executive called for more free speech — not less …

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