telling stories @formacity. prev cofounded @usefluent. life is good 💙

dubai
Joined March 2019
The world would be fucked without founders They see something broken and put all of their energy to make it better for the rest of us So we created a new series to tell their stories Ones that you probably haven't heard before
Introducing ORO. This guy literally put gold on the internet.
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Ara Ghougassian retweeted
What is Forma Georgia?
pretty common for restaurants to make most of their margin off alcohol what if we flipped it beers sold for cost cheap wine whiskey and drink guests get hammered then you make your money off $32 Mac and cheese $47 Smash Burgers $17 Truffle Fries ?
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apple should buy fujifilm imagine if your iPhone captured pictures in vibrant fuji colors with no editing
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when im running and want to quit i tell myself ok but hit the end of the road first i hit the end & it's like ok one more one more block and I'll stop suddenly I’ve done another mile or two one more push one more ship one more bet just one more makes all the difference
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i will lose spectacturly or win spectacturly there is no in-between
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We have completed most of this task through New Stadium in Toronto at 83 Walnut Avenue. If you have been to New Stadium, it might be interesting for you to read the quoted post. Everything starts out as a thought. New Stadium has been validating how many root causes can be solved simply by consistently providing a well run space that can support collaboration, early ideas, communities, and vision. This will become more obvious to everyone when we share new incubator mechanics we have been developing behind the scenes. The idea of just providing space is oddly simple when you think about the complex ways in which people describe the problems in the Canadian ecosystem. But it is working and will continue to work. We are already starting to see startups look for space and sign leases based on proximity to New Stadium. We are on the ground level in the heart of the problem set. You would not believe what we see day to day. You would not believe the range of conversations we have. Things are changing a lot in this ecosystem. This is core infrastructure. The next step is kind of a black swan event that needs to happen. We need to, some how, secure a building in Toronto over the long term that becomes the beginning of a technology campus. New can operate this building. Right now, New covers the costs of New Stadium, but we need a way to entirely remove the problem of "space" from anyone within the orbit of increasing the technical output in Canada. If you can help, I would love to chat.
yeah sure @tobi, help us establish a space in the west end of toronto that has the following affordances: - seamless support of programming for 30 - 200 people - access to advanced tools for rapid output - support for deep work, small team collaboration, or larger scale demos and lectures - support for a hackathon based environment every weekend - the space can be entirely open and reconfigured depending on its current functional purpose, or the space could be partitioned in advance to enable these affordances hope is by creating a space with these affordances, which don't currently exist, we might be able to create a positive cascading effect in the surrounding area, and within the city's technical and creative ecosystems.
Ara Ghougassian retweeted
Dear Traveler, Thank you for flying Forma Airlines. Destination: T’bilisi, Georgia ETA: 7 days
One of the great gifts my father gave me was showing me that giving a gift is just as enjoyable as receiving one
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also films are incredibly good ways at spread wealth. they provide so many good paying jobs and production brings millions of dollars of spending to whichever cities are shot in. there's a reason why states literally fight over each other to attract new movie production. ai threatens to take away all those direct and indirect economic benefits sure it'll probably become cheaper to make films. sure that's probably a good thing in the grand scheme of things. but I understand the anger from the creative community a good way of life for millions of people is being completely threatened
creatives are mad AI could end this doesn't matter if ai is more "efficient" the point of art isn't efficiency. it's to feel something & the creation is just as much a part of that as is the output if you've ever been on set or even seen one you know what that magic feels like
🎬 The official Harry Potter account on TikTok showed what the battles really looked like without visual effects The video shows actors waving their wands and shouting spells in front of green screens — with no flashes or magic around them. Viewers joked that without CGI, the scenes look like “a school play with yelling and sticks,” while also admiring how much imagination and effort the actors put in before the special effects were added.
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Forma Georgia. Absolute cinema.
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Peter Thiel, from the Mark Zuckerberg emails perfectly predicting that young US voters would shift to socialism 5 years ago.
Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century. nyti.ms/4qK137J
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Ara Ghougassian retweeted
Imagine fading Solana. It’s literally the culture of San Francisco and the capital of New York City forked (successfully) to the internet. And accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world, with an internet connection. I could never.
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for most of human history literally nothing happened nothing really changed wake up, survive, go to sleep now you are born in the one period of time where everything is changing the literal inflection point of humanity where it either completely goes to shit or we enter a new world of unthinkable abundance, progress and prosperity isn't that insane? doesn't that make you feel like the main character man. how fucking cool is that. you are literally in the most important chapter of human history you are alive as the ultimate destiny of our entire fucking species is being decided in realtime just sit with that for a second man
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treat life like a game man it's not that serious it'll come and it'll go so why be anxious why care about if it will or won't work why get hung up on this or that fuck it man take action just play play to win and don't worry end of the day the score resets back to zero anyways
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We put out a new launch video at the end of September and grew our ARR by 76% in the last 4 weeks. Launch often, friends.
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Gf's cat is at the vet Might have some health problems, might not. We're waiting for results. Hopefully it's nothing! If you could send a prayer for Loonie would be much appreciated 🙏🤍
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Ara Ghougassian retweeted
we need more canadian billionaires
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convinced my little sister to start creating in public she is a 10x more talented storyteller than I am. highly recommend giving her a follow & tracking her journey!
made a bunch of videos for a startup before we pivoted (shocker) but this was the first one. 🥶 debating if i should post the rest or let them live in my drafts forever
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the secret of a winning team? the one thing that you absolutely need surround yourself with people that sweat the details even when you don't ask especially when you don't ask that care about their craft that care about the details that just fucking care
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