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Father of two awesome kids. Also, founder of @GovtechFund.

San Francisco
Joined July 2009
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The protest yesterday lacked creativity worthy of a Stanford student Rather than sit-ins, graffiti or divestment (pointless), figure out a way to have Stanford anchor a $1 Billion Palestine Youth Investment Fund to educate 1000 children over the next 10 years + startup capital
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Those students - arguably some of the brightest minds that could shape the region’s geopolitical realities in the future - will find themselves expelled. My immigrant dad used to say “Think. Don’t sink” Those students didn’t think. And now they’re sunk.
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I can't find coverage of the Fox News settlement with Dominion Voting on any of the foxnews.com properties, including foxbusiness.com, etc Does anyone have links to stories Fox reporters have written up about Fox's settlement?
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Just had the most amazing experience with @SFPD helping to apprehend a burglary in process at my office @ 2:30AM. Response time under 3 minutes, 3 officers on site, with me remotely opening doors / remote cameras, apprehended the individual. Professional, effective and courteous.
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In 2021, US Fed Gov't collected $4 Trillion in taxes representing ~18% of GDP ($22 Trillion)...but ran a ~$3 Trillion deficit At that spending level, just to break even, US would need to add $16 Trillion of GDP in 2022 ie. 73% GDP growth US 40-year GDP avg growth: ~2% Ugh.
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This war is going to end when China believes it is hurting their interests. We’re not anywhere near there yet.
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Poland is not sending mixed signals. They are realizing the realpolitik downside risk of sending jet fighters to support Ukraine, using lower level officials to publicly float support this "cooler heads" position. US should not have publicly "green lit" this concept. @DavidSacks
Live updates: Poland gives mixed signals on fighter jets (from @AP) apnews.com/article/23327d0cb…
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COVID will prove to be the greatest asymmetric warfare in geopolitical history.
1.1M new children COVID cases last week, up from 165K new cases four weeks ago. I pray we don't discover that COVID has long term impacts on children...we'd probably wish we had adopted a different Omicron narrative than "oh it's mild for most, let's get back to normal".
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Share of total hospitalizations during 4-week COVID-19 peak: 0-4 year olds: Delta +39% vs. Alpha Omicron +200% vs. Delta 5-17 year olds: Delta +15% vs. Alpha Omicron +66% vs. Delta Share of total thankfully still lowest of all age categories. statista.com/statistics/1254…
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I get a lot of WhatsApp spam, random folks trying to contact me. Always iterating the message and the sender always some attractive girl. I block them all. Props for this latest version:
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If you want to understand total compensation (salary, bonuses, equity value) in the United States economy, you need to analyze it through the framework of: * risk * innovation * capital What society “should” perceive as valuable doesn’t factor in.
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Risk: level of risk taken by the individual or on behalf of a group Innovation: technology innovation generally but can, to a lesser degrees, refer to execution innovation Capital: proximity to capital, most obvious, but also ability to generate capital returns for many
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Replying to @kimbal
@kimbal @mikejcasey great Spaces talk today! Would love more info about how we can use our DAF to contribute to the DAO.
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Our 12-year old confessed to thinking that "friends with benefits" were two people who got married for the tax benefits and joint bank accounts.
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"Some men just want to watch the world burn" -- this tweet aged well.