Mark van Oppen

Tech enthusiast and VP of Sales @FusionAuth X- @VMware @Heptio, @BlueBox, @IBM . K8s, Open Source, Finance, curious about Crypto; Seattle native.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

I can’t understand how any strong and intelligent woman, if she’s honest and not deceiving herself, could encourage others to elect to any office, let alone to the American presidency, an adjudicated sexual assailant whom a court found committed acts that in many jurisdictions, and in colloquial terms, would be considered forcible rape.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Utterly brutal.

Deserves 300,000 retweets.

[Mark van Oppen @MarkvanOppen]

🙋🏻‍♂️

[Jessie Frazelle @jessfraz]

Apparently, Gen Z is making fun of older generations for never buying big ticket purchases on their phone and always using a desktop. I’ve never felt more attacked in my life by something I didn’t realize I was subconsciously doing.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

After eight years of covering Donald, too many journalists have gotten into the habit of seeing strategy in his crude and instinctive behavior. The truth is quite simple--Donald can’t help himself. When it comes to him, we shouldn’t overthink it. He is exactly what he seems: a racist, a misogynist, a liar. He is a bully who has no business getting anywhere near the White House. His pulling out of the debate should remind us that he is also a monumental coward.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Read these. Print them out. Send them to your friends and family. These are the official psychiatric diagnostic criteria for two very severe personality disorders.

Ask yourselves:

1. Which of these criteria does Donald Trump not satisfy? (Note that not all of them are required!)

2. Are these the traits you want to see in the leader of the free world? In a friend or colleague or boss?

We’re going to start this discussion tomorrow.

[Maile @MaileOnX]

Prior to marrying Melania in January 2005, Trump was calling Jeffrey Epstein in 2004 on the regular.

We see Donalds phone messages in the West Palm Beach indictment of Epstein, released today. His messages are in between girls calling to confirm “massage appointments” and messages from disgraced modeling agent Jean Luc Brunel.

What did they talk about?

[Kevin S. Xu @kevinsxu]

Immediately started imbibing the new InfraRed Report (https://t.co/bmfGW2KwxW) from the good folks at @Redpoint: @ericabrescia @sraney @loganbartlett @jordan_segall @SaiVC_ @patrickachase @Machiz

Tons of insights worth unpacking, but this chart jumped out at me above all: multiples delta between private and public cloud infra companies has never been wider!

Either: 1. public co's multiples recover because recent sell off and "software is dead" clarion is overdone; or 2. private co's best of breeds accelerate with new/better offerings, while taking advantage of "private status" to grow into their valuations

Reality always ends up being somewhere in the middle

Anyways, you should read the report!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

COHEN closes with this disconcerting thought: "Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power."

[FusionAuth @FusionAuth]

Did you know that you can customize how FusionAuth looks?

https://t.co/3tQN1wpnNJ

[Mark van Oppen @MarkvanOppen]

This is epic

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Gilfoyle makes over $6M/yr writing a newsletter about why tech newsletters are insufferable. He doesn't understand why it's so popular, and he spends his money investing in the least-popular YC hardware companies.

[emily freeman @editingemily]

Them: “Listen with empathy.”

Me: “Are you quoting AWS management training to me right now?!”

Them: “Yea, sorry.”

[Mark van Oppen @MarkvanOppen]

👀

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

Major tech layoffs so far this year:

Okta - 400 (7%)
Zoom - 150 (2%)
SAP - 8000 (7%)
eBay - 1000 (9%)
Discord - 170 (17%)
Unity - 1800 (25%)
Twitch - 500 (35%)
PayPal - 2500 (9%)
Wayfair - 1650 (13%)
Google - 1000 (0.5%)
Salesforce - 1000 (1%)
Microsoft Gaming - 1900 (9%)

[Mark van Oppen @MarkvanOppen]

Same

[zeu @zeu_dev]

IF YOUR APP IS FREE AND IT GOES VIRAL YOU OWE APPLE MILLIONS LMAO GOOD LUCK EUROPE

[Mark van Oppen @MarkvanOppen]

Going to watch this next adventure closely! 👀

[Kit Merker @KitMerker]

Some personal news -- I'm leaving @nobl9inc this Friday. I will share more details soon on my next adventure. Read the full post on Linkedin.

https://t.co/U2rS6LRiKR

[Mark van Oppen @MarkvanOppen]

@jesseproudman Pics required… In my head you may need this M70 Meritimo. 😍

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

The 2023 Headline of the Year Nominees

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[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

2023 Headline of the Year nominee (August)

[Slashdot @slashdot]

Broadcom Is Killing Off VMware Perpetual Licenses, Strong-Arming Users Onto Subscriptions https://t.co/fTCWIZXFqf

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Clerk: cuts prices by 75%+
Auth0: increases price by 300%

The entire auth industry shifted in under a week