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Zaid Farooqui
@zaid
currently: tinkering before: product @cloudflare
Manhattan, NY
timelessapps.org
Born June 1
Joined August 2007
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    Jun 19, 2025
    After 7 years, I’m going from working at Cloudflare to building on Cloudflare! Tomm is my last day I’ll miss working with so many insanely driven ppl who made each day fun—none more than @rrnn & @KankaniAbhishek. Thanks @dok2001 for the life-changing DM that started it all 🧡🚀
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    Jul 25, 2021
    We’ve come full circle 💫😅
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    Mar 19, 2023
    have a graveyard of tightly scoped side projects that i’m just feeding to this thing and it’s just spitting out code…….that just executes lmaooo
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    Nov 23, 2022
    a16z’s refusal to even hear ftx pitch shows insane conviction this isn’t getting even 1% of the attention adam neumann did because it goes against the media’s a16z narrative
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    May 7, 2023
    Pre-elon: Twitter execs tweeting word salad disguised as thoughtful “PoLiCy” Post-elon: Twitter engineers tweeting raw demos on a Saturday afternoon 🔥
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    Mark Kalman
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    May 6, 2023
    Be sure to smash that like button, etc.
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    Jul 15, 2016
    Reminder: More people have died playing PokemonGo than while driving Tesla Autopilot.
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    Jul 30, 2018
    SoftBank is pouring money into new companies at the same run rate as *all* of NYSE: - NYSE IPOs have raised $19.3B this year. - In comparison, SoftBank alone has invested $45B of its Vision Fund in the past year.
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    NYSE 🏛
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    Jul 27, 2018
    -2,400+ NYSE listed companies -41 IPOs, raising $19.3B -12 International IPOs, raising $5.2B -9 spin-offs, $24B in market cap -6 Special Purpose Acquisition Companies -1st NYSE Direct Floor Listing: @Spotify -1st in ETFs, with $7.5B AUM -1st female NYSE President: @stacey_cunning
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    Dec 23, 2020
    finally walked into a pizza place for first time that I’ve ordered from 50+ times this year on ubereats: “I’ll have a chicken panini no 🍄 , no 🧅 , no olive oil, extra 🧀 , very light chicken, light...” *interrupts me mid sentence* “are you zaid? hey make him a zaid special”
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    Dec 23, 2021
    brown parents are hella quiet abt the new onlyfans ceo idk why
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    Dec 13, 2020
    sf has a nightlife and it’s called “sleep tracking”
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    Nov 4, 2022
    Replying to @gamescan and @yoyoel
    The moment you put a paywall in front of something, abuse decreases by an order of magnitude
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    Sep 24, 2018
    Retailers spend 9.1% of total cash collections on collecting, reconciling and safely depositing the cash. This makes credit card processing fees of 3.5% seem like a great deal.
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    Dec 5, 2018
    Common view: Facebook is lucky to have Instagram and WhatsApp because Facebook as a product is dying. Uncommon knowledge: Facebook made 40 BILLION dollars in revenue in 2017 and a vast majority of it did NOT come from IG or WhatsApp.
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    Zaid Farooqui
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    Aug 5, 2018
    Silicon Valley: “Build painkillers, not vitamins.” World: “Did you know the market for vitamins ($37B) is 2x the market for painkillers ($19B)?”