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McKay Thomas | Blog

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McKay Writes And Designs. I’m from Utah, but now I live in Brazil. As co-founder of Baby.com.br. I’m in the middle of what I feel could be my magnum opus. I’m a father of a daughter. And I’m married to The Startup Wife. I write about what to do. And what not to do. And sometimes I’m controversial. But I’m always ready to do something big. All the time. Let’s talk. Designed by the author.

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McKay Thomas | Blog — The Things We do To Change The World

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The Things We do To Change The World. August 7, 2013. I read a great post by Mark Suster. A few weeks ago about always asking for what you really want. Just today I had to buy an iPhone case at the mall and when I was told they were $20 and up, I found the one I wanted and asked to pay $10. And I ended up paying $10 with almost no hassle. What could I lose? Ldquo;Rick, thanks for making the time! Ldquo;Sure, no problem.”. To Rick and Josi and their young one, I wish you safe travels. You’ve sol...Nsanis ...

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McKay Thomas | Blog — I think everyone can relate with my current email...

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As much as I don’t LOVE getting them, I love what I get from them. I love seeing trends emerge and watching one innovate and the others follow. I love comparing the ones that are doing famously well against the ones that are famously not doing so well. McKay Writes And Designs. I’m from all over, but São Paulo, Brazil most recently. As I co-founded Baby.com.br. I’m now in the Bay Area working on what could be my magnum opus. I’m a father of a daughter. And I’m married to The Startup Wife.

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McKay Thomas | Blog — University of The Possible

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University of The Possible. January 6, 2014. Twenty Thirteen was a university of the possible for me. It wrapped up the way you wrap up lunch with an old friend. Awkwardly. You both loved it, but neither knows how to say goodbye. Twenty Twelve delivered me, cold and wet, on to the streets of San Francisco. The ensuing hours and days took my brightest dreams and darkest fears and smacked me in the face with them. My son started walking. My daughter started school. My wife and I lost a combined 43 ...My ki...

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McKay Thomas | Blog — Startups Are Like Friends

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Startups Are Like Friends. May 6, 2013. Sometimes you love them. You can’t get enough of them. You wake up Monday morning and can’t believe how lucky you are to have them. Sometimes you hate them. They take and they take and they take until you feel like you have nothing more to give. Sometimes they make you laugh. Sometimes there’re tears. Sometimes they give you facial ticks and sometimes they give you money. Sometimes you make new ones. And sometimes they die. Acqui-hires, too much money ( ahem, color.

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McKay Thomas | Blog — stephthomas33:FOUR Four years ago {tomorrow}...

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Four years ago {tomorrow} McKay and I tied the knot. Four years. It feels like a lifetime ago, and yet it feels like we’re babies still. Babies with babies. In four years we’ve lived in two countries, three states, four cities, a basement, a high-rise, a house that we bought, and an apartment twice the price of the aforementioned mortgage payment. We’ve had two kids, three startups and too many adventures to count. It’s been a pretty eventful four years! I love you, McKay. For years three, two and one}.

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McKay Thomas | Blog — Baby Weight

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October 15, 2013. So much was right about my last startup, Baby.com.br. They say so much in business is luck and after Baby I’m inclined to believe them. We had the right business at the right time with a team that knew how to roll with the punches. We ended up hiring 200 people within our first 12 months. But that isn’t the whole story. After I left Baby.com.br and moved back from São Paulo to San Francisco (Go Niners! McKay Writes And Designs. I’m from all over, but São Paulo, Brazil most recently.

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McKay Thomas | Blog — High Highs, Low Lows

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High Highs, Low Lows. January 31, 2013. On December 6th 2012 I left Brazil for San Francisco to answer a call. The universe had been reaching out to me and inviting me to do something more, or at the very least different, for weeks, and it was that day that things finally aligned for me to answer. Ldquo;Fear. Deep rotting fear. They were infected by it. Did you see? Had this cancer taken root in me? Why for a week? Or weeks and weeks? And who knows how long this will be before we find an apartment. O...

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McKay Thomas | Blog — Manifesto For 2014

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December 17, 2013. The city breathes. It inhales with hissing busses, dripping coffee, and the foreign tongues of conference attendees. It exhales with the crisp, cool air blocked by coat collars and scarves. You feel it in the vibrations of the stairs you climb at the MUNI station on Market. Your feet scratching like sand paper on every step, while your messenger bag waves and taps on your back in perfect rhythm. You catch your breath, but the city exhales without you. Another path for another day.

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McKay Thomas | Blog — What Humanity Does Next

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What Humanity Does Next. August 5, 2014. When I was first designing and building at PoolTables.com in 2006, 1 in 100 websites I actually used impressed me. In fact, I had a bookmark list back then of websites that really blew me away and that list was very, very short. Tonight, to actually draw a point to this collection of personal observations, I’m wondering where we, as a human race, and more specifically as a clan of design thinkers and creators, apply our problem solving spirits to next. W...Of cour...