Mark DiGiampietro

Educated in Economics - Forged in Commerce | @SFSU alum | @Patriots Fan | Libertarian at heart & Italian by nature

[Kelly O'Donnell @KellyO]

In the summer of 1946, three US presidents were born within 67 days. Donald Trump on June 14. George W. Bush on July 6. Bill Clinton on August 19. Each man is now 80 but their two terms in the highest office span more than 33 years. Same generation. Different eras of influence.

[Presidential Wisdom @PrezWisdom]

I always liked this letter George HW Bush 🇺🇸 left for Bill Clinton 🇺🇸 in the Oval Office on Clinton’s Inauguration Day

#POTUS ♥️
@Bush41Library @WJCLibrary42

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

On the last day of the Obama administration the national debt was $19.95 trillion. Now it’s $40 trillion. Trump and Biden and Congress under both parties doubled the national debt in the last decade. Once you get past the fun finger pointing, the fact remains this was a bipartisan failure.

[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

When I was a kid, bedtime was 9 pm. I couldn't wait to be a grownup so I could go to bed anytime I wanted.

Turns out that is 9 pm.

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

In 1776, George Washington asked for a volunteer to report on British movements. 21 year old Nathan Hale volunteered, was captured and hung as a spy. His last words:

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

American, remember who you are descended from.

[Mark DiGiampietro @pacificagroup]

@CNBC Maybe another company will come in and make them an offer they can’t refuse - 😎

[Hardcore Italians @HardcoreItalian]

Centuries of Italian ingenuity have helped shape the way the world communicates, travels, creates and lives. From groundbreaking science to everyday innovations, the impact of Italian minds can still be felt around the world today.

16 incredible contributions. One proud legacy. Which one gets your vote as the greatest? 🇮🇹👇

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Tokyo train features a striking PlayStation ad.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Einride will buy the Tesla Semis, which will be made to Amazon and other customers.
https://t.co/nO1Lrg0ryD

[Mark DiGiampietro @pacificagroup]

🤔 & 🤯 - Google to buy Spirit Airlines business data for $10 million https://t.co/lCOHFgZilY

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

The Democratic Party is becoming the party of socialism.

58% view socialism positively.

50% view capitalism negatively.

I’m a proud free market capitalist.

This is lunacy.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Underrated career advice: Choose to work in a place with high talent density early in your career.

You tend to rise or fall to the level of the people around you. When you work with exceptional people, you absorb their standards, pace, frameworks, and instincts almost through osmosis.

High-talent environments compress learning cycles and force you to grow faster than you would on your own. They change your opportunity set and rewire your brain. The compounding effect of a few years in that environment can change the trajectory of your life.

Early in your career, there’s probably nothing more valuable than choosing the room with the highest talent per square foot.

[I'm From Cleveland @ImFromCle]

Little Italy is PACKED for The Feast in Cleveland, Ohio 🇮🇹

🎥 Anthony Zingale

[Mark DiGiampietro @pacificagroup]

@TylerPurcell24 Next up for me - @clickskeyboard

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, believed a red carnation in his lapel was his lucky charm and wore one nearly every day. On September 6, 1901, while greeting the public in Buffalo, he took the carnation off his own coat and handed it to a little girl in the crowd as a sweet gesture. Minutes later, now without his lucky flower, he reached out to shake the next hand in line. It belonged to an assassin, who shot him twice in the stomach. McKinley died days later, and Ohio was so moved by the story that it made the scarlet carnation the state flower in his honor.

In happier times, his free time was full of odd charm. McKinley kept a pet parrot named "Washington Post," a green Mexican parrot he adored. The President had a little routine with it: he'd whistle the opening notes of "Yankee Doodle," and the parrot would finish the tune. The bird also worked as an unofficial White House greeter and would famously squawk "Look at all the pretty girls!" whenever women walked past its cage.

But the most moving thing about McKinley was how he treated his wife. Ida McKinley suffered from severe epilepsy and would have sudden seizures, sometimes right in the middle of formal state dinners. Instead of hiding her away like many men of that era would have, McKinley insisted she sit right next to him at every dinner, breaking official seating rules to do it. When a seizure struck at the table, he would calmly drape a handkerchief over her face to give her privacy until it passed, then lift it and continue the conversation as if nothing had happened. He did this quietly for years, out of pure devotion.

His murder also changed the country permanently. McKinley was the third President assassinated in about 36 years, and his death is the reason the Secret Service was formally assigned to protect the President full time.

So the real William McKinley: gave away his lucky flower minutes before he was shot, taught his parrot to finish "Yankee Doodle," and loved his sick wife so tenderly that he'd shield her with a handkerchief at the dinner table and never miss a beat.

That's a President.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Ro, I like you. You know that. But you need to read the state of the state.

The number of Deca Unicorns in Cali is growing by the day as investors chase amazing startups.

A unique feature of these 10b startups is that even if they raise a billion, little, if any of that money goes to the founders, who are now worth billions of dollars over night. They are the definition of cash poor, stock rich

How are you going to tax them ? Make them borrow money against their shares, if they can? They just raised money to grow their company and a bank will come along and loan them money ? A company that has been in business maybe less than a year ? lol

Will you take their stock if they can’t ?

Do you really think each of multiple founders, who started an amazing company in Cali and is now a billionaire, can each just pull out $250m per billion of net worth from their raise ? You know they can’t.

If this passes , and it doesn’t directly impact me at all, I won’t be a cali resident, but you can bet if I’m investing in a multi billion dollar startup, I’m asking them to move from California first.

IMO, if this passes, only idiot startup founders stay in Cali.

I’ve done it before and will do it again. Dallas. Pittsburgh. Indiana. I will make NOT being in California a pre requisite for an investment

Ideology is not a strategy Ro.

[Visual Capitalist @VisualCap]

Ranked: U.S. States With the Widest Wage Gaps 💵 

https://t.co/1OObevFvHO

[Mark DiGiampietro @pacificagroup]

"Age, to me, is just a matter of becoming more of what you've always been." - Francis Ford Coppola 🤔

[Mark DiGiampietro @pacificagroup]

Mike DeWine: Trump Would Shock Everyone With This Reform https://t.co/o1zP552mi3 via @NYTOpinion