Gabriel Macuare

Blockchain Enthusiast, Finance and Football Lover.

[MisterChip (Alexis) @2010MisterChip]

Si España se clasifica para la final de la Copa del Mundo sortearé MIL DÓLARES entre todos los seguidores que hagan RT.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[MΛRC VIDΛL @marcvidal]

El anuncio que publica este fin de semana @FT pagado por el despacho de @robertamsterdam sobre la Agencia Tributaria española.

Dice algo así como que en España, "el sistema fiscal funciona con una lógica perversa: los inspectores de Hacienda reciben bonificaciones en función de cuánto dinero logran recaudar, incluso cuando los tribunales terminan anulando sus decisiones por injustas."

Define este modelo como "casi inexistente en otras economías avanzadas, genera incentivos que favorecen la agresividad recaudatoria por encima de la precisión y la justicia. El resultado es un entorno donde proliferan conflictos de interés, investigaciones precipitadas y un impacto devastador en familias, autónomos y empresas que, aun teniendo razón, quedan atrapados en un engranaje diseñado para recaudar primero y preguntar después."

A ello se suma, dicen, que, "en España, los contribuyentes deben pagar una liquidación fiscal incluso si es manifiestamente errónea antes de poder recurrirla. Esto implica embargos, intereses acumulados y años de incertidumbre judicial que muchos no pueden soportar."

Y termina con que "más de la mitad de los recursos se ganan finalmente contra Hacienda, una cifra que revela la magnitud del problema: un sistema que no solo se equivoca, sino que penaliza a quien intenta defenderse. En definitiva, un modelo donde la Administración siempre gana… y el ciudadano siempre pierde."

#marcaEspaña

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“To be successful at anything, you don’t have to be special.

You just have to be what most people aren’t: consistent, determined and willing to work for it. No shortcuts.”

— Tom Brady

[RYAN SΞAN ADAMS @RyanSAdams]

what's crazy is crypto spent 10 years building an entirely new financial system that's 10x better than the old one

but we couldn't roll it out because they made it illegal so we had to build in the grey and get political (meanwhile they blamed us for having no use cases while making all our use cases illegal)

but then in 2025 crypto become legal so now we have 10 years of awesome stuff we can roll out

so we're starting to roll it out

banks and wall street have no idea what's about to hit them because they've been shielded from competition in a cute little regulatory box

but now we can deploy the defi we spent 10 years building and actually do things

in a fair fight crypto wins

[Gabriel Macuare @The_Gab_riel]

@MonicaLongSF @bbva The agreement mentions that BBVA will provide custody services only for Bitcoin and Ether, but not for XRP.

Why was not this point negotiated directly between BBVA and Ripple, considering XRP is among the most traded assets in Spain?, it does not make sense to me.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Hard truth.

[Victor Cardenas Codriansky @victorcardenas]

We raised $60M for this moment: Introducing Slash Global USD (in partnership w/ @base).

It's the first banking platform that lets you open a USD account without an LLC, EIN, or the rampant account closures they call "account safety".

It took major legislative changes AND 3 years to pull this off.

Here's what makes it so different:

1. Banking without an LLC. Before Slash: You needed a LLC, $1K in fees, a virtual address, and a U.S. tax ID. With Slash you get a real U.S. account & routing number in ~10 minutes with your foreign documents.

2. No more hefty fees. PayPal charges a 3-4% conversion fee. We let you receive USD and crypto (USDC) with NO fees. Not enough? We pay you up to 4.5% cash rewards just for holding your money with us.

3. Account freezes. The big guys love flagging success as “fraud”. We're built for fast moving founders. We'll never wrongfully freeze your funds. I'm putting my money where my mouth is: If we do, I'll wire $10K to a charity of your choice.
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In 2021, I dropped out of the number 1 school in America as a Venezuelan immigrant to build Slash. I pivoted the business 2x before getting our first customer.

Today:
- 3,000 businesses use @slashapp
- We bought the domain Slash . com for $1M
- $4B is spent on our credit cards every year

And we just raised $41M from the people who built fintech: @MenloVentures @NEA @ycombinator @goodwatercap
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To celebrate this launch, we're giving away our internal AI finance Agent free.

It watches your bank accounts 24/7. Flags double charges. Cancels forgotten subscriptions.

It saved us $39,000 last month.

You don’t need a Slash account. It works with any bank.

Retweet + comment “Slash” and I’ll send you a free access link.

[Gabriel Macuare @The_Gab_riel]

@victorcardenas @base Slash - Que bueno ver venezolanos emprendiendo por el mundo, mucho éxito paisano!! 👌

[Hablamos de fútbol @insolado]

Tremendo mensajote!!!

[Gabriel Macuare @The_Gab_riel]

It is evident the US is at some point of that cycle

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

History shows us that having too much debt during an economic downturn leads to a classic, self-reinforcing cycle where:

1) The empire can no longer borrow the money to repay its debts
2) It prints a lot of new money, which devalues the currency and raises inflation
3) Living standards decline, leading to the rise of political extremism
4) Turbulent economic conditions undermine productivity and there is conflict about how to divide the shrinking resources
5) Populist leaders emerge pledging to take control and bring about order

#principles #raydalio #history #debt

[Gabriel Macuare @The_Gab_riel]

🤣🤣

[Acholi godddd @Acholi_godddd]

Dude outsmarted the whole bench 😂🙌

[Eurosport.es @Eurosport_ES]

Le preguntan a Ilia Topuria si se siente invencible y su respuesta habría que ponerla en todas las escuelas 👏

#TopuriaenMax

[Gabriel Macuare @The_Gab_riel]

El mejor partido de tenis que he visto y seguramente veré en toda mi vida, que clase de extraterrestres los dos para aguantar más de cinco horas a ese nivel.

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Carlos Alcaraz’ reaction after beating Jannik Sinner to win back to back Roland Garros titles

3 championship points saved

Longest final in Roland Garros history

He dug deeper than anyone thought was possible

Chills 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

[Salomón Rondón @salorondon23]

Un amor para toda la vida. 🇻🇪

[Vetta 🆇 @Vettaverso]

Como puede ser que no haya visto esta maravilla antes

[Juez Central @Juezcentral]

El Liverpool es campeón. Los futbolistas se hacen frente a los hinchas y empieza el mítico "You'll never walk alone".

No se pierdan estos 2 minutos. Qué lindo que es el fútbol❤️

[Peseteiro @jpeseteiroDT]

Un golazo al 90+5 para clasificar a un mundial.

Efectivamente, es cine. 🚬�

[Manly Mentor @manly_mentor]

Men,
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