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Stripe Press’s newest author is in the tiny handful of people with the strongest claim to being New York’s modern power broker: Mary Ann Tighe, CEO of CBRE’s New York Tri-State region.
Mary Ann’s fingerprints are all over Manhattan. Since becoming CEO in 2002 she’s brokered more than 133 million square feet of commercial real estate transactions. A (very small) selection of her deals:
She brought Condé Nast to 4 Times Square, and at the time it was the first new office building constructed in New York in a decade(!).
She represented the NYT in the development of its new headquarters on Eighth Ave.
She brought Coach in as the first Hudson Yards tenant.
For 1199SEIU, one of the country’s largest healthcare workers’ unions, she helped engineer a 580,000-square-foot headquarters deal projected to save the union and its benefit funds roughly $400 million over 30 years.
And perhaps most meaningfully, Mary Ann was instrumental in rebuilding the World Trade Center, including bringing Condé Nast to One World Trade, and, more than two decades later, securing American Express for roughly 2 million square feet at 2 World Trade Center (broke ground ~ two months ago!).
Mary Ann’s book (tentatively titled BUILDING NEW YORK) traces the stories of the deals themselves, but also the personalities who’ve made modern New York, from mayors, to CEOs, to the Vatican—whose approval she needed to broker the air rights for St. Patrick’s Cathedral!
It’s rare to get such a candid view into how the real estate sausage gets made, especially at Mary Ann’s level. We can’t wait to bring you her book.
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we're hosting the screening of the best ai films made across the world, in SF.
also doing a workshop with a walkthrough of how some of the best AI video-gen content is made out there.
chill vibes. good films. good ppl. and ofc free food.
rsvp: luma.com/eb9qwhtt
Made with AI
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anthropic people really love talking about how their product will kill us all, dont they
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
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whimsy is good
i’m hopeful AI makes the internet a little weirder and a lot more fun.
i’ve always wanted to turn Hidden’s logo into a mini golf course. so i finally did.
9 holes: hidden.golf
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ive been obsessed with the fact that majority of gen-z found out about bourdain after death. not many people can impact a generation alive, let alone impact a generation when your dead and they didnt know when you were alive. i think it ramped up starting in 23’ rona was just ending and young people craved travel which then lead to eurosummer memes in 24/25.
bourdains ability to be eloquently crass when needed, quaint charm when listening, and monologuing his absurdism are one of one
anthony bourdain is so special, and i love the reverence gen z has for him through memes etc. it makes sense as a reaction against optimisation culture. he feels like such a symbol of vitality, curiosity, slowness, and actually savouring your life
i especially love the advice to eat out on tuesdays. may we resist saving delight for special occasions. eat the bread, order dessert, go out on a tuesday. rejoice whenever possible
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Nick Tran retweeted
while we are finally finishing up moving to a new project for LocalHost, our creative team is on hold.
so for the first time we're open to doing:
- launch videos
- design contracts for websites
- product designs
- posters
- large scale extremely curated event
- blogs
- proofreading of persuasive manifestos (remember essay writing is the next trend!)
we’ve been quite busy in the past months with our events that we have never gotten time to work on the offers of friends, so it’s exciting to finally be able to work for companies we admire!
if you're interested, please reach out to @Chandan_Perla in DMs and he'll hop on a call with you instantly.
for our proof of work, you can click the search button on my profile in the top-right and search “min_faves:100” after my username.
you should be able to see our videos shipped, our websites and our event highlights.
i’m also doing a couple of quote tweets below.
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why did i just find out about this now, beautiful
The loudest story about AI is a lonely one. One person with an army of chatbots. Other humans are friction.
That gets the future wrong. The best things aren’t built alone.
In a moment of change, we want to remind the world (and ourselves) what Notion stands for:
— Think Together
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This Independence Day 🇮🇳, I asked, "What will the next century of young Indians look like?"
$0.01 Drone Deliveries. UAVs that never land. Groceries in under 10 minutes.
Meet The 22nd Century Indian. A Documentary on a New India.
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allen & the freestyle team have been grinding on this for the past couple months, check the rebrand out!
have had the privilege to watch and learn from them since ive moved to sf
Friday is no more. We spent $150K to buy @FreestyleDotAI
Today we launch the most powerful email memory system in the world.
With it, I handled a week's worth of email without typing a word.
All within native Gmail. Email is solved. Reply for access.
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there is no other format (essays) that i have found that have pierced my heart and soul the way essays do.
especially the ones that seek to express and process love that is trying to figure it out where to go.
to read and feel and try to understand the mournfulness and joy that Emmad’s soul has expounded onto a piece of paper is an experience that my own two eyes feel grateful for
I wish you would read this piece yourself, but if you don’t, thats okay as well. Just know that you’ll be missing out on a beautiful piece that expresses this: A brothers love has no bounds
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Nick Tran retweeted
doubling down on my rooftop dj set vision
we made a lil page for folks to rsvp, and we’re handing out physical invites all through the week
comment below if u wana slide through
summertime in sf and i wana throw a lil rooftop set
only problem: i need a vibey rooftop
ideally someone’s home and w a rooftop that feel like a backyard
twitter pls halp me
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Nick Tran retweeted
🚪Where are the most beautiful and quirky doors in SF? Over the next few days we’re filming @majamediaco , @hannah_ahn and @juliafedorin for the Side Doors doco. Seeking location suggestions on foliage draped doors, beautiful archways, cute gates, quirky garages, rusted fire escapes and more! Would love to hear from you if you know a place ☺️
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making friends in SF is easy lowkey
if u want content of someone talking to everyday ppl, u should follow along
project coming soon
@gavinonfilm @elzpl
ty ahmed and yasmin for being the homies, and my bad for the poor blur lmao
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For the past three months, ever since I started living in the city, I've come to appreciate twilight more.
There is a sense of uniformity that makes twilight magical in cities.
The light and dark blue meet to form a line that cuts across the most beautiful painting in the world that we call the sky
The sun is gone, but its light still reflects onto the buildings
In this moment of magical quaint quietness, birds streak home, just how humans do.
There is something quaint and quiet in the air during this and time gets lost in existence. I suppose my brain has thought: I wish the sky could be like this forever.
But then twilight wouldn't be so special, would it?
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