The Thing

Co-Founder

building the "media arm" for a growing industry
increasing AI and opensource literacy, for all. 
 Sponsored by👋 Jan

Host - unsupervised learning podcast 

Growth Contributor 

Wrivu Consulting

Growth Consultant 

Optible AI

criteria-matching AI for grant assessment use-case 🤖
supported founder-led sales/HR initiatives/event marketing

Head of Operations

Genvis

Growth Operations Coordinator 

Stealth Startup

Product Marketing Manager

Locafy

special projects monkey 🐒 for COO and CTO

Continuous Improvement Manager

Digital Operations Specialist

Business Analyst

on page SEO/CRO
clients included:
Ray White
Glam Corner
Hello Social
Web Profits

Marketing Strategy Consultant

Wordpress CRO Consultant

Hi, I'm Renee, co-founder of "The Thing". 
Vibe curator, nerd-to-normie api, fostering CBCs (community building communities) & post-internet building at The Thing (open project for community building infra & experimental media/events).

You might've come here because of a silly comment I've made, but I'm glad you stayed!

I'm always eager to speak with folks in the open-source space.

Renée Shaw

your mom @ tl;dv (meeting ai for orgs) 💙

i quit



I quit tl;dv as CEO. frankly, the team is too intelligent and it's making me look bad by comparison. 

the product keeps adding features people want like "a mobile app" and "multi meeting insights" as well as really transparent, GDPR compliant privacy settings. 

it sickens me. i'm used to operating under shaky-at-best (fraudulent at worst) principles and these people are making it difficult to be true to myself. 

before I left my role, I gave myself a healthy amount of equity. this reflects my sentiment on the direction they're taking. 

 while I am bearish on my ability to lead effectively at the company's helm, I am bullish on the direction of the company and will be returning to a humble position within the social media team (you may still refer to me as CEO).

CEO @ tl;dv (again) (meeting intelligence for orgs) 💙

interviewer: "what's your greatest strength?"
me:

LinkedIn is NOT a dating app!

please know that if you DM me trying to hit on me, take me out, send nudes etc...


I WILL pitch tl;dv to you and you WILL regret it.

"you got your job through Bumble?!"



i'm sick of people asking this, it's rude.
the truth is, I got my job through Hinge.

i wasn't going to share this


but i believe in being vulnerable and sharing my failings. 

they sent me this the day after my birthday too 🥲

think you know about OpenAIs CEO Sam Altman?
 
think again.

Sam is a famously private person with immense lore.

-at 19, he creates "Loopt"- a location sharing app

-in 2005 he got accepted to YC

-in 2012 Loopt was acquired for $43 mil

- in 2013 Sam was devastated by the MCR breakup and vowed never to paint his nails black again or wear eyeliner

-due to Sam denying his emo self, Paul Graham decided to declare himself Altman's "Daddy" and made him YC president.

- years later, the implosion at OpenAI with Sam's stepping down as CEO was due to him revisiting his alt boi era. (the board made him promise to not do it again)

billionaires are people too and we've got one who needs some compassion.
 
it's hard for him

next step is to ask for a loan from the government

"why do people pay attention to you when all you do is shitpost about that tl;dv place?" 


heres a checklist for consistent engagement 

- daily posts

- engaging with others 

-content strategy 

- have a boyfriend who works in machine learning at LinkedIn on the recommender systems (algorithm) and bully him into pushing my posts in the feed. 

just follow the steps and you'll take off.

if "meet the team" photos could talk.. 

ft Heather Barnett Adam Faulkner Sean Kennedy

in case you didn't know..



birds can speak and use words in context.
we should be more alarmed about this.
they could be leading teams and optimising their workflows using tl;dv but they don't.

they just eat worms and avoid taxes. 

i'm incredibly jealous.

i'm leaving!



i'm being replaced by Rebecca. she’s been at tl;dv for a year but hasn't been allowed to post. she’ll be running this account until Jan 2026.


as a challenge, she's doing 30 days of actual honest posts instead of satire.

coming up
• how I choose what to post
• what startup CEOs actually want
• turning jealousy into creative fuel
• breaking down a flop
• what I wish people posted
• mistakes I made this year
• self-inflicted startup obstacles
• what’s wrong with remote work

personally, I’m excited to see what Rebecca does

altia

Working across all levels of the Australia and New Zealand public sector, I am responsible for generating new business in the region as well as expanding on existing relationships. Altia provides a suite of products that implements huge impact in the intelligence and investigative space.

Senior Account Executive 

Lucid

Lucid is a visual collaboration suite that helps teams see and build the future. Virtual whiteboarding, intelligent diagramming, and cloud visualization come together to empower organizations to take plans from initial ideas all the way to successful delivery. Together, they are utilized in over 180 countries by more than 25 million users. Ninety-six percent of the Fortune 500 use Lucidchart, and customers include Google, GE, NBC Universal and Johnson & Johnson. Lucid’s partners include industry leaders such as Google, Atlassian, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, and Microsoft

Corporate & Government Account Executive 

Faria Education Group

Senior International Account Manager

Senior Sales Consultant- Faria Education Group, ManageBac

Founded in 2006 to transition schools off paper, ManageBac, a Curriculum-First learning platform, and OpenApply for online admissions serve over 2,500 schools and 700,000 students in 120 countries with a distributed team of 75 spread across 7 cities around the globe.
www.managebac.com 

> Key sales person looking after the end-to-end sales process in the EMEA Region. 
> Responsible for overall growth in the Region.
> Key product and on-boarding person delivering complex training and information sessions to Schools.
> Working with our market leading IB product and service, ManageBac (https://www.managebac.com).
> Dealing with a wide ranging client base including School Groups, larger and smaller stake holders.

Sales and Support Associate - EMEA Region

adidas

> Responsible for Wholesale e-commerce in the Pacific Market, which consisted of over 180 Accounts.
> Designated to handle key sales projects within the Pacific Sales team including automation of old manual processes, staff purchasing enhancements and reporting.
> Centralised role in regards to analysis and generation of Wholesale "Clearance" Packages.
> Strategic support role working direct with a "top 5" key wholesale partner, 2015 saw us grow in double digit growth with the partner.

Sales Coordinator

18 Month Trainee Program: Consists of five rotations across Sales functions in the adidas group

Rotation (1) 6/12-9/12: Teamwear and specialists sales associate - Successful outcomes in this function were developing the first national teamwear database in the Pacific region. Developing a miTeam customer and consumer manual which helped launch miTeam in the Pacific region (www.miteam.com) as well as providing functional assistance to wholesale partners and sporting clubs in the use of miTeam, resulting in more landed sales and increased usability in the new tool. Conducted a viability report on the sport of cycling in the Pacific region using in depth statistical analysis. Which used population data, conducted study data, eCommerce statistics and economical researched facts. 

Rotation (2) 9/12-3/13: Field Account Representative  - This roles directive was to manage a territory of 45 wholesale accounts in the Victorian region including metropolitan and regional stores. The main focus of the role was the lead in to the 2013 Spring Summer sell in to our wholesale partners.

Rotation (3) 3/13 -7/13: Global sales position in Hong Kong, regional sales hub for Asia Pacific. Held project ownership of global initiatives B2B and clearance. Conducted analysis in the clearance business for 14 countries across Asia Pacific. The highlight of this rotation was working towards the 2014 Brasil football World Cup in B2B, dealing with multinational companies and regions in global sales.

Rotation (4) 7/13 - 12/13: Sales coordination adidas Pacific. This role was focused on key projects in wholesale e-commerce in the Pacific, clearance processes and building a sales induction program for any new starter in the sales team. Along with this the role entailed providing key daily reports as well as ad hoc assistance to the sales force. This rotation saw the rounding out of the functional trainee program.

Sale's Functional Trainee

TSA TELCO GROUP

TSA is one of Australia’s largest national providers of outsourced sales and sales support to organisations needing assistance with their outbound telemarketing, sales consultancy and face-to-face marketing channels. TSA provides a wide range of products and services to targeted groups of past, existing and prospective residential and corporate customers using an Australian based workforce. 

My major responsibilities at TSA involved selling Mobile and Broadband Telstra Products to outbound customers in a telemarketing environment. After four months at TSA I graduated to the highest internal level of Sales Representative standings. This was achieved by hitting consistent Mobile targets on a weekly basis, as well as articulating excellent product knowledge in a tense environment.

Sales Representative

Bicycle Victoria Incorporated

Sales and Marketing Intern

gemba group

Baker Smith Management

A driven professional who has worked internationally across different industries and roles. Previously I worked for sporting giant adidas in Australia & Hong Kong. Across four years, I held positions in the Sales Operations team, Regional Centre of Excellence (Hong Kong) and as a Sales Representative to the local Australian market.

Since February 2016, I have dedicated myself to progressing in a SaaS sales environment, I have worked in varying roles via Senior Account Manager at Faria Education Group to Corporate Account Executive at Lucid. I place a deep emphasis on building strong relationships and finding proactive solutions in my work.

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