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How to Compete against Tech Goliaths like Apple, Google, and Microsoft

The big tech companies aren’t invincible.

7 min readOct 21, 2020

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Ambition & Balance

How to Become a Market Leader in 10 Years

Lessons learned building a sustainable company in a competitive market with millions of users and zero investors.

8 min readJan 12, 2017

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Ambition & Balance

Why We Don’t Have an Exit Strategy

What’s better than an exit strategy? It’s a long-term mission that your company truly cares about.

7 min readFeb 8, 2016

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Ambition & Balance

Systemist: A Modern Productivity Workflow

Learn the system Doist’s founder and CEO uses to combat overwhelm and get more of the right things done.

8 min readJan 15, 2016

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Hacking and Gonzo

bitmapist: Analytics and cohorts for Redis

In 2012 I released bitmapist, a powerful realtime analytics library that can help you answer following questions (for millions of users and…

4 min readDec 16, 2015

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Hacking and Gonzo

Reactive vs. proactive development

It’s essential for good developers to switch between reactive and proactive modes.

1 min readDec 11, 2015

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Hacking and Gonzo

10 Vim tricks you should know

Here are 10 Vim tips that I think you should know about.

2 min readDec 9, 2015

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Hacking and Gonzo

How Reddit ranking algorithms work

This is a follow up post to How Hacker News ranking algorithm works. This time around I will examine how Reddit’s story and comment…

6 min readDec 8, 2015

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Hacking and Gonzo

How Hacker News ranking algorithm works

In this post I’ll try to explain how the Hacker News ranking algorithm works and how you can reuse it in your own applications. It’s a very…

3 min readDec 8, 2015

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Hacking and Gonzo

Flux vs. MVC (Design Patterns)

A look at how Facebook’s Flux pattern solves things differently.

5 min readFeb 9, 2015

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Amir Salihefendic

Amir Salihefendic

Remote-first CEO of @Doist, the company behind @Todoist and @TwistAppTeam. Born in Bosnia, grew up in Denmark and now living in Barcelona. New dad.

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