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Daniel Belfort ⊙
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Daniel Belfort ⊙
@danielbelfort
Building Blok, the physical solution to digital distractions // prev @microsoft @stackai @proctergamble @uofillinois // danielbelfort.com 🇻🇪🇺🇸
Joined September 2010
- This is Serena Williams' coach talking about the rise of Novak Djokovic in a time when Rafa and Roger seemed to have no competition on tour. How did he did he do it? "Because he deeply believed it"
00:00 - Moving to SF has been the best decision both for my career and personal life. It's insane how much it matters to be surrounded with all sorts of interesting and creative people. This plus the ocean, parks, mountains. It's only been 6 months.
- Blok just landed its first angel check. Holy fuck.
- last week, we hosted a no-phone event here in san francisco. this is how it went:
00:00 - Last week, the @_buildspace sf2 batch ended. Coming in — I had no idea what I was going to build. I was lost. Yet by week 11 I had sold over 200 bloks + landed a big, fat angel check. Here's the demo day recap:
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00:00- fighting software with software is hard. that's why screen-time blocking apps rarely work -- and why i'm building the alternative. the name? blok.
00:00 - Blok has prevented 10 years worth of doomscrolling. Here's how we're doing it (and how you can benefit too):🧵
