Ottavio Siani

personal projects: triangle coffee, haotable, lindo || fractional CFO at a number of amazing companies

[Burhan Azeem, Cambridge Vice Mayor @realBurhanAzeem]

Here's the playbook that made rent go down in Austin.

Over the last decade, Austin rents went up 93%. It was one of the worst rent spikes of any major American city.

Then Austin changed its rules.
- They reformed the zoning process
- Sped up permitting
- Passed a $250 million affordable housing bond
- Built apartments near transit
- Passed a single stair ordinance

Rents fell for 19 months in a row. Today Austin is one of only three major US cities where rent is going down year over year.

Austin reversed its fortunes by making a series of bold, evidence-backed choices.

I published my housing plan this week, and it's grounded in the same idea: make it easier, faster, and cheaper to create housing across Massachusetts.

[Emil Verner @EmilVerner]

Way out of my lane, but... I just listened to the New Yorker interview with Abdul Al-Sayed. I was impressed. He is one to look out for after his primary win today. He is articulate and has an optimistic energy and charisma. There are echoes of Obama (and many parallels). While he is progressive, he is explicitly not "democratic socialist," saying that he believes in capitalism (low bar, but you never know these days...). Also, he is explicitly very pro-America, like in this excellent response:

[Patrick Roath @PatrickRoath]

The politics of “wait your turn” are over.

I’m Patrick Roath. Boston is ready for a congressman who will stand up to the status quo and fight.

With your help, we can win this.

Join us at https://t.co/jyx1iVCRQi

[Burhan Azeem, Cambridge Vice Mayor @realBurhanAzeem]

Facebook was born in a Harvard dorm. Microsoft's first code was written in a Harvard computer lab. MIT invented the fusion reactor now being built in Virginia.

Massachusetts: where great companies are born and never raised.

We face a deep recession, so let's invest in growth

[Thomas Frank @TomFrankly]

Currently 892 hours into automating a 30-second task I do 4 times a year

It's gonna be so worth it once I get everything working

[Ryan Leachman @RG_Leachman]

“Kids I have good news. Daddy is out of Claude tokens until 3PM. He has time to play with you now.”

[Alex Kaplan @alexkaplan0]

@JonathanRoss321 most coffee shops will look similar

[Composer by SoFi @ComposerTrade]

Ever wished ChatGPT could actually trade? Composer is the AI that understands trading strategies, builds them, and trades them end-to-end.

5 years in the making. $20B+ traded. Your new AI trading partner is here.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

New technology will solve road deaths, if we let it.

[Ottavio Siani @OttavioSiani]

@benrollert What! I had no idea. Thats insane man.

[Ottavio Siani @OttavioSiani]

@benrollert Never seen it! While we're on rewatching movies with movie stars from The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon remains amazing. Impossible to order pizza for a group of people without thinking of that movie.

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

1/6 Can AI beat the S&P 500?

This is a sincere question. I actually wanted to know: can AI do better than the Standard and Poor's committee?

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

Market closed early today, and we still did $118M in trade volume. God bless America! 🇺🇸

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

if AI can make companies way more capital efficient, we will just get way more companies even if each company is smaller. I don't see the doomsday unemployment scenario in this case (given where AI is at now and will likely be at for next couple years)

[Ottavio Siani @OttavioSiani]

@sdamico Wow!

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

This is a chance to work with one of the best designers in the game, on a product celebrated for its design, in an org where design is a true first class citizen

[Benjamin P Rollert @benrollert]

Fire.

[Ankur Nagpal @ankurnagpal]

Wouldn't it be nice if paying taxes in America was logging on to a website that told you how much you owed & paying that amount?

If not for the actions of a single company, that is the system we could have had

Here's how Intuit is making things worse for all of us:

[Ottavio Siani @OttavioSiani]

@ankurnagpal Yes please

[Ottavio Siani @OttavioSiani]

@benrollert “Thats the difference between us. You think were fighting i think were finally talking” - Rod Tidwell