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Diligently adhering to confidential information destruction requests for a decade.

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@WestsideLAGuy Between this and your nyc post, you earned it

[Ana Mostarac @anammostarac]

This is a good reminder of why you should never take for granted the people in your life who will actually tell you the truth. You’re telling me Evan Spiegel’s 4,000+ employees, his closest friends, and his family all looked at these glasses and told him they were great? It seems to be the result of some combination of groupthink culture, yes-men, and the best people having already left the company. Either way, the cultural issues inside Snap seem far more concerning than any product flop.

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

Making a ruckus over introducing stupid bills that’ll never pass is all Bernie does. In all his time in Congress Bernie’s only successfully passed 3 bills into law, 2 of which were for renaming post office branches in Vermont

The last successful bill he introduced was in 2013

[Rex Thundercock @rexthundercock]

If I own a rental property and someone starts squatting and I can't just remove them legally, I'm straight up killing them

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@Vinny_Daniel0 Do you both have autism?

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Imagining if this guy was the VP Ops

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

It will take 5+ years to replace 39 days of munitions used in the Iran war

What an absolute disaster

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

The people making your cars these days actually hate cars and hate driving

[David Asman @DavidAsmanfox]

NYC spends $42,000 per K-12 student per year. NYC parochial schools cost $13,500 per year, and their scores, graduation levels, and college acceptance are far above PS’s. If we had school choice, public schools would be out of business…and NYC would have a balanced budget!

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@JesseTinsley He was clearly a giant douchebag in the interview. You can defend his right to be silent on details and still call it like it is which was clear as day with his shitty “I’m better than you” demeanor and ridiculous “it’s on the website” replies.

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@ReesePolitics You’re a moron.

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@puppyeh1 I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone with such poor listening skills or reasoning. Fascinating and excruciating to watch beyond 90 seconds

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@AmazonHelp lol

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The @amazon prime broadcast of the Celtics - 76ers game may be the worst tv production of any event I’ve ever seen. I’ve legitimately seen high school games with better production. @nba you should be embarrassed.

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Would pay extra for these type of AI slop jerkoff session posts to get off my timeline

[klöss @kloss_xyz]

imagine you’re Travis Kalanick

you built Uber from nothing into a $70 billion company and changed how every city on earth moves

then in the worst three weeks of your life, family tragedies hit, and five of your investors hand you a letter demanding you resign

so you step down

the board replaces you, your successor and board sell off the self driving division you created, the thing you believed was Uber’s entire future

gone

$4 billion to Aurora

the mainstream media tries to write your obituary: toxic culture, bad leadership, and a cautionary tale

silicon valley moves on
as they always do

but you don’t

you don’t really forget

you go quiet, completely quiet

you take $150 million and buy a ghost kitchen company called CloudKitchens

you raise over a billion dollars, hit a $15 billion valuation, build a company with thousands of employees

and nobody even knows the name
eight years in stealth, employees aren’t even allowed to put your company on their LinkedIn

then today you rename the company Atoms, and it’s not a kitchen company anymore

it’s a robotics company

1. food
2. mining
3. transport

your first move?

acquiring Pronto

the autonomous vehicle startup

built by Anthony Levandowski, the same engineer you originally swooped away from Google to build Uber’s self driving program

oh and he went on to deploy 100+ autonomous trucks for one of the largest materials companies on earth

now he’s coming back to work with you
and the reports say Uber itself

the same company that pushed you out, is now backing you to go after self driving harder than Waymo

the guy they removed is the guy they end up needing

poetic justice

your framework aka everything in civilization is mined or grown, manufactured and moved

you call it the golden age

your manifesto ends with three words:

“I never left”

eight years of silence

then this

but here’s what people keep getting wrong about your situation

everyone wants to call it a comeback or a revenge story

it’s neither

you just went quiet and built for eight years while everyone who wrote you off had stopped paying attention

that’s not revenge, that’s just what true builder obsession looks like

most founders would’ve stayed bitter

most would’ve written a book and done a podcast tour, most would’ve taken the $2.5 billion in shares and disappeared off to a beach or Epstein’s island

you didn’t do any of that
you just kept building

and now the same people who pushed you out need you again

so whether you love him or hate him

the most dangerous person in any room is the one who goes quiet yet never stops building

karma is real

welcome back Travis

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@Clearingfog_ Amazing

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Another year of NFL Combine stats and I’m reminded of Steve Schwarzman’s well-documented, absolutely verified athletic prowess - comparable to elite NFL defensive backs. Incredible stuff.

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@shaneparrish Did you ask him about his 42 inch vertical and what his favorite dunk is?

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Show this to everyone on here who thinks an MD who gets pissed when he has to save a file to PDF is going to replace all Associates and start vibe-modeling on their own.

[joey baum @joeybaum13]

feels like excel skills are now totally irrelevant. I am building models in Claude that I wouldn't be able to build in 100 years doing it manually. Imo this will give analysts more time to understand property operations, build asset management skills and differentiate between a good and bad deal instead of just "building models"

[Blueprintsmb @blueprintsmb22]

I can't imagine telling someone they need to leave immediately because you as the CEO are targeting $2MM gross profit per employee.

If I told my blue collar employees I was targeting $150k gross profit employee, they would just look at me strangely and ask if this means I need them to come in tomorrow (Saturday). This Saturday yes, I need a few team members to come in
https://t.co/wPkNEK7gTB

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@austin_rief Your friend / his firm are morons