Managing Partner @ Gremlin Ventures. Previously led Product Design @onverve / @pollen, @citymapper, @mtv. ❤️ remote. Currently 🇨🇦 / Always 🇪🇺
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Joined April 2009
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My 2 year old daughter pointing at and naming her class mates this morning at the daycare:
“ANNA! Parker. Don’t know. Coochy. Don’t know. Hot Tub. Don’t know. Don’t know. Don’t know. Pepe. Don’t know. Keith.”
That low key identity crisis when you fill in a form and scroll the entire alphabet in the drop-down looking for any example or combo of Britain / British / British Isles / England / English / Great Britain / United Kingdom / UK / UK Citizen
Rob Boynes retweeted
This, by @edyong209, is magisterial. Clear, insightful, empowering. If you want to understand why the #coronavirus pandemic has played out in the way it has, and how things go from here, you don't need to read anything else: theatlantic.com/health/archi…
There’s a special circle of hell for hotel rooms that don’t offer a shower and just presume you have an hour to draw a bath because...idk...luxury etc?
Any business that HMU with auto generated CRM emails on Christmas Day or Boxing Day suggesting I try their tech product or learn more about their Saas - I like you less.
There's one guy in the door area who has build a pillow fort of 5 huge cases and is pretending to be asleep on them
2019 me will have the confidence of a freeform amateur rapper on a London tube. But hopefully not the heavy reliance on 'it's in my brain / I'm on a train' rhyme element.
Rob Boynes retweeted
This is Mora. She’s a bouncy bucket beagle. Rarely leaves the comfort of her bucket, for the world is scary, and her patience is thin. 13/10
It's been like this for months in my @NHGhousing building - although in truth it's been a variant of this for at least 3 years. A daily fight against damp, call centres, black mould and painting over problems. This is just the entrance hallway. Sigh. #housing #London
Hey @NHGhousing this is still happening 2 weeks later. Any chance of someone maybe ever addressing it?
Rob Boynes retweeted
The stats for Fortnite, the top free-to-play console game, are incredible.
Annual revenue per user:
Google: $27
FB: $19
Twitter: $8
Snapchat: $3
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Total: $57
Annual revenue per user for Fortnite: $96.
Almost 2x more than Google+FB+Twitter+Snapchat combined. teapaw.org/ntdillon/status/101386…
Fortnite stats:
🎮#1 F2P console game
💰Last 8 months, pulled $1.2B in rev
📈Record $318M rev in May
⚔️Est. 40M MAUs, 125M tot players
💳Avg user spends ~$8/month
🏆In May, Fortnite got $100M prize pool to venture into eSports
🏌🏽♂️Nearly 9x Masters purse
Pretty epic.