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It's why Supreme can sell a brick that costs 25 cents for $30 dollars and stans cop it for $800 on the resellers market.

It's why Disney reported over $91 billion+ in earnings this year, even though Walt Disney has been dead for the the last 60.

If your customers are obsessed with your brand, they'll buy anything you create. Long after your tech ages, or you've exhausted your cohort of customers, or your best employees have moved on. Long after you're dead.

Founders, I'm going to say something you're not going to like 😡

Your startup's most valuable asset isn't the tech, the customer, the team - it isn't even you.

It's your brand. Here's why:

Do you know an extraordinary woman in business? She might be #autistic like me or otherwise #neurodivergent and not even know it

I talk about success & my #autism in this Fortune piece

https://fortune.com/2023/05/12/men-elon-musk-kanye-west-women-neurodiversity-leadership-glass-ceiling/

my middle name is aya (安耶) & I’m half Japanese ✨

never finished learning kanji as a kid but from what I understand it’s an unconventional way to spell the name, loosely translated to tranquility / question mark LOL bc my mom wanted me to have a lucky number of brush strokes in my name

Hi ! I'm safety Japanese.
夜＝Night
安息地＝Haven
Happy AAPI Heritage month !

Same! I don’t have any invite codes but kind of sad there were only about a dozen folks who replied to my roll call post!

Hey all! My full name is Krishnaveni. I was named after the goddess Durga (who has many names)

She is a goddess of strength and justice who brings compassion, peace, calm, and order to chaos, destruction, and conflict

Taiwanese! My given name means fragrant temple. Was almost named snow temple because it was snowing when I was born, but because it’s a Mandarin near-homophone for blood, they decided to roll with fragrant

My name is 劉有智。 I grew up in Taiwan and moved to US to pursue my graduate degree and start my career here.

劉： the surname of China’s longest dynasty 🤴
有： HAVE 🈶
智： Wisdom 🤓

Ofc growing up my peers teased me that I don’t have any (wisdom) therefore try to compensate with name. They might be right 🧐

Rice rice baby

Happy AAPI Heritage Month Y'all! My name is Iku Okada, I'm "The remarkable growing child from the family of rice fields on a hilltop" originally from Japan, the land of mountainous known by the rice craze people. 🌾🍙🌾🍙🌾

岡 = oka = hill, highland
田 = da = rice field
育 = iku = growing

曾俊禧

曾: Already
俊: Talented
禧: Good Fortune

Which I totally messed up haha 😂

Identify with us so hard

Yes some flowers make me feel nauseous THANKS A LOT PARENTS

Phương Anh

A bit fuzzy to translate literally since both words can take on different meanings, but my aunt suggested it based on the "beautiful fragrance" of the gardenias blooming around the hospital.

Awww tied to your birth story! 🌸

নেহা means loving 🥰

I love hearing our histories

my name is Gautham — which i like to tell ppl is after the surname of the historical buddha, Gautama

.. but actually my parents saw a bollywood movie and there was a character w this name they liked 😶‍🌫️

Who here knows what Eddie’s name means?

楊明吉 is my Chinese name 😊

楊 = family name (variations of Yang => Young in my case)
明 = bright/smart
吉 = lucky

I’ll go first. I’m Hong Kong Chinese and my name is 吳祖儀 “Ng Jo Yee”

吳: mouth of the sky
祖: ancestral
儀: ritual

To speak loudly of our ancestor’s ways

❤️IT’S AAPI HERITAGE MONTH Y’ALL ❤️

If you’re Asian American or Pacific Islander on bsky - drop your names in the thread and tell us what they mean

How I feel about everyone posting on LinkedIn asking for Bsky invites

Do you wanna play BITEY?

This restaurant gets it

Love that I’m seeing more bipoc on Bluesky. ❤️👊🏾

My bad.. will do shitposting onwards😉

I’d be very upset if you’re not actually a hot girl wtf