CEO & Co-Founder @kitavakitchen 🥗 Host @MFRPod 🎙 Former PM @intuit @strava 💻 Reader 📚 Go Badgers! 🦡
Oakland, CA
Joined June 2009
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Bryan Tublin retweeted
I order from Kitava too much and hate reading pdf tables so if you're part of the <100 TAM people who frequent Kitava and track macros I vibecoded a nutrition calculator for you
Bryan Tublin retweeted
🚨 Healthy airport food is finally here.
Kitava just opened in Terminal 1 at @flySFO — the first restaurant at an international airport serving meals and snacks 100% free of seed oils, gluten, and refined sugar.
Grateful to the Kitava team for making this dream a reality 🙏
Bryan Tublin retweeted
“We want to make real food that makes you feel good and that is accessible to as many people as we can. ... people who have gluten allergies or sensitivities ... We want to make it so when they come into Kitava they don’t have to think about it."
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I can't stand going to twitter/x for product support, but it's my last resort.
I've been trying to import my long history of Evernote folders/files to Notion. After trying half a dozen times, it's still not syncing over all my folders and files.
@NotionHQ can you please help?
Bryan Tublin retweeted
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: “I wish upon you plenty of pain and suffering”
“There’s a phrase that says you should choose your career based on your passion. And usually people connect passion with happiness… Nothing there is wrong, but there’s something missing. And the reason for that is because when you want to build something great, it’s not easy to do. And when you’re doing something that’s not easy to do, you’re not always enjoying it.”
Jensen continues:
“I don’t love every day of my job… And every day I’m not happy… But I love the company every single second. And so I think what people misunderstand is [they think] the best jobs are the ones that bring you happiness all the time. I don’t think that’s right. You have to suffer. You have to struggle. You have to endeavor. You have to do those hard things and work through it in order to really appreciate what you’ve done. There’s no such thing that is great that was easy to do.”
He tells the audience:
“I wish upon you greatness, which by my way of saying it, I wish upon you plenty of pain and suffering.”
Video source: @stripe (2024)
Yes AND we can make it so much better as a community. Excited for the opportunity we have this fall... let's get to work Oakland!
Bryan Tublin retweeted
Shaking my head at San Francisco.
Tons of crime.
Lack of enforcement.
Yet,
Plenty of Billionaires...
Who are really good engineers...
AND NOT EVEN ONE mysterious tech-powered masked vigilante.
Do better.
hey @joshmuccio will you let @kitavakitchen feed the investors, entrepreneurs, crew, and live audience when you come to SF?
let's chat!
Founders everywhere! If you are currently fundraising this is for you 👇
The last time we did this 8 founders raised $2.5 million from @cyantist @chudson @dunkhippo33 @paigefinnn @MacConwell and listeners of the show.
We’re about to do it again! Over the next few weeks we will select 20 founders to come pitch the investors.
This is the ultimate pitch event. An audience in the hundreds of thousands. Better than TC Disrupt, faster than YC, and stronger than Ye 💪
@thepitchshow is coming to San Francisco on June 18-20th
FOUNDERS APPLY HERE 👉pitch.show/apply
Angels & VCs can join the live audience thepitchevent.com
RT or tag a pitchin’ founder you know 🙏
Bryan Tublin retweeted
“Wasting your time doubting whether you’re going to be successful is pointless.”
~ Kobe Bryant
The innovation SF didn't know it wanted. But the one it needed.
@kitavakitchen
@squarepieguys
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If entrepreneurial success is a function of persistence and longevity, working on something you genuinely care about is a cheat code.
Nothing wrong with being motivated purely by making money, or "winning the game." Those are powerful drivers too.
It's just way easier to push through all the really hard things if you truly care about solving the gap in the market your business exists to serve.
For me personally, I would have given up a long time ago if I didn't genuinely think @kitavakitchen needed to exist in the world.
And I'm grateful for that.
Snail Bar was broken into for the third time and robbed. Then the City of Oakland sent him an invoice for boarding up his storefront.
The business owner has to pay the city for the pleasure of being robbed.
You literally cannot make this stuff up.
BREAKING: City of Oakland now invoicing small business owners after being burglarized.
Snail Bar Owner Andreas: “this is the definition of being kicked while you’re down.” This is the third time Snail Bar has been broken into.
Oakland Council President Nikki Bas, after you declared that public safety for Oakland should be defunded by 50%, you can’t start billing small businesses every time they are broken into. It’s insulting and is killing off jobs. The community demands you STOP the practice of destroying small businesses.
As Supervisor of Alameda County, my first order of business will be to stop Nikki Bas and the Oakland City Council from destroying small businesses. I stand with small businesses in our community. They provide jobs for our youth and business taxes to support services.
#WeWantMOORE
#Oakland
#MOOREPublicSafety
It's like a comedy of errors.
This city can't afford to lose more small businesses due to crime.
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Every time a business closes we lose local culture, jobs, fun, quality of life, and city tax revenue ... not to mention the blight, debauchery, and other activities that occur around vacant storefronts.
Huge moment for the mass market food industry, and it's long overdue!
If you're in NYC check out @ZeroAcreFarms at the Hudson Yards and Battery Park City @shakeshack locations 🍟🍔
Let them know with your food dollars how important this is 👏
I'm thrilled to announce that @ZeroAcreFarms has partnered with @shakeshack!
Starting today, select Shake Shack locations in New York are frying in Zero Acre oil instead of soybean oil. prnewswire.com/news-releases…
Why does this matter? 👇
It's easy to think home cooking is way more complicated than it has to be.
This is why @myles_cooks is a great follow.
Drops practical gems like this on the reg 👇
A big theme of my work is kitchen minimalism.
There is no shortage of companies trying to sell you gadgets, tools, and cookware that are totally unnecessary.
Here's a list of what you actually need.
I believe in buying high-quality basics that are versatile, durable, and actually get used.
Your kitchen will be less cluttered, you'll spend less money, and you'll learn to leverage everything in multiple ways.
This summer I brought most of my cookware to a different location where I was filming stuff for my course. I kept only a few of the very basics at home— and it turned out I was able to easily cook everything I needed with just a few simple things.
These are my essentials.
COOKWARE
- 8in chef's knife (does everything you need)
- wood cutting board (safe, aesthetic, and easy on your knives)
- 10in stainless steel skillet (the most versatile pan)
- 3-5qt saucier (for braises, soups, stews, and grains)
- sheet tray and wire rack (for roasting, resting, cooling, and dry brining)
- a set of stainless steel bowls (for mixing and prep)
UTENSILS
- kitchen tweezers / tongs
- fish spatula
- wooden spoon
- silicone spatula
- microplane
- y-peeler
BRAND RECS
For chef's knifes I like Shun, Misono, or Material Kitchen (for a budget option).
For pots, pans, sheet trays, cutting boards, and wooden spoons I like Made In Cookware.
All of the utensils I mentioned can be found on Amazon.
I put together specific posts about cookware and utensils in my newsletter, along with links to where to buy everything. Link in my bio if you're interested.
