Jonathan Friedman

CEO & founder @DemostackHQ, previously @Reactful. Ex. @Navan (built Navan expense/TripActions Liquid)

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

@sahar__alon @Etaytod @jaredzel Interested

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

@katiekirsch Definitely interested.

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

@adcock_brett Wow

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

@RecallFielder This is the Jackie way.

[נדב איל Nadav Eyal @Nadav_Eyal]

החרפה המוסרית של הפוגרומים והטרור היהודי בשטחים היא הכישלון המהדהד והמסוכן ביותר של מדינת ישראל כרגע. בקצרה: כל מה שקורה באיו"ש קורה בחסות/בדחיפת הממשלה. האחראי הוא נתניהו. ראינו אלף סרטונים. כתבנו מיליון מילים. שמענו מאות גינויים. לא רק ההיסטוריה תשפוט: יבוא יום שביהמ"ש ישפוט.

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

@sudiprokaya Simi

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

@LorenaSGonzalez @RoKhanna WOW California is doing so well with Ro. Can’t wait to get more of him

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

@paulg You don’t have to jump on the bandwagon every time you hear “Israel Bad”. Leave some of your legacy intact.

[Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ]

Anyone who has tried to help a loved one struggling with severe addiction knows — it’s long past time for a hard conversation. We need to talk about how we can compel care for those who are so deep in the throes of addiction that they can’t make a rational decision about their own well-being and are having an outsized impact on our emergency services and everyone else’s quality of life. It’s not compassionate or progressive to leave people to suffer and die on our streets — and as any former addict will tell you, there is no recovery without accountability.

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

@war24182236 @JackieFielder_ maybe you want to take a look if you’re not too busy posting about cats?

[signüll @signulll]

the most underrated hire right now is a great product person.

when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that.

i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it.

& the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start.

the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled.

before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

@adamcohenhillel I’d love to!

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

@yashar Seeing his California Crown Jewels (LA, SF..) in shambles tells you everything you need to know about his competence and judgment.

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

@grahamformaine Didn’t Iran call for our destruction every single day? Didn’t they kill 243 Marines in 2000? Seems like they had an interest in the American people even if you try to look away and pretend they didn’t.

[Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati]

🇮🇷 47 years ago, I stood at a window in Tehran as a 3-year-old boy, smelling burning tires and hearing the chants that would steal my country. I didn’t have words for what was happening. Today, I am watching smoke rise over the same city — but this time the smoke is not the end of Iran. It is, God willing, the beginning of her resurrection.

Several weeks ago I wrote in that the fever of 1979 was finally breaking. I never imagined I would wake up to see that fever confronted so directly. Israel — with the clear support of the United States — has launched a preemptive strike deep into Tehran and against the regime’s military machinery. Explosions in the capital. Military targets hit. The IRGC’s aura of invincibility, already cracked, is shattering in real time.

I do not celebrate war. No decent person does. What I celebrate — what millions of Iranians inside the country and in the diaspora have prayed for in secret for decades — is the possibility that a regime which has no right to exist may finally be forced to go.

This is the same regime that:
- Armed and cheered the October 7 massacre against Israel for no reason other than pure genocidal hatred.
- Murdered tens of thousands of its own sons and daughters who dared to walk peacefully in the streets demanding the most basic freedoms.
- Gouges out the eyes of young women for the “crime” of wearing makeup.
- Hangs teenagers from cranes for posting a tweet.
- Exports terror, poverty, and darkness to every corner it can reach including the U.S.

No nation, no people, should have to live under that. Not Israelis. Not Americans. Not Lebanese. Not Syrians. And certainly not Iranians.

I am a physician who has spent his life trying to heal bodies and a son of Iran who has spent his life mourning a stolen homeland. What we are witnessing is not aggression — it is surgery. Painful, necessary surgery to remove a tumor that has metastasized for 47 years. The tumor is the Islamic Republic that has hijacked Iran.

To the brave pilots and special operators of the Israeli Air Force and the men and women of the United States military now carrying out this mission: I pray for you with everything I have.

May God shield you from harm. May every missile find its target and every soldier return home safely to the families who love them. You are not invaders. You are the answer to the prayers of millions who have whispered “enough” in the dark since 1979. You are giving our friends the chance to breathe free air again. The entire region will owe you a peace we have not known in my lifetime.

To my fellow Iranians watching from inside the country right now, heart pounding, maybe hiding in basements or on rooftops: Hold on. The end is clearer than it has ever been. The regime’s fear is real. Their eyes — those same eyes that once stared down at us with absolute power — now show something they haven’t shown in decades: panic. The math has changed. The window of 1979 is finally closing.

To the little three-year-old boy I once was — and to every little boy and girl in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tabriz today who hears explosions instead of lullabies: This time the sounds are not the closing of a door. They are the opening of one.

The road ahead will not be easy. Transitions never are. But the direction is unmistakable. A secular, prosperous, free Iran is no longer a dream — it is becoming an inevitability.

I have lived the stolen life so that others might not have to. Today, for the first time in 47 years, I allow myself to believe that the stealing is almost over.

Thank you, Israel. Thank you, America. The Iranian people — the real Iran — will never forget.

The fever is breaking.
The dawn of 2026 is here.
And this time, the light wins.

🇮🇷❤️🇮🇱🇺🇸

[Boom 💥 @LoveCodeTrade]

$𝟱.𝟮𝟲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝟯𝟬𝟰 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀. 𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆. San Francisco doesn't track how many people any of them actually get off the streets.

We said 50+ nonprofits under the Department of Homelessness (HSH) in our last article. Readers said hundreds. We were both looking at different numbers, so we pulled the city's supplier contracts dataset to settle it.

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝟱𝟬+ 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺

The city's website lists about 60 nonprofits for homelessness services. If you just count the major HSH-contracted orgs doing shelters, navigation, and outreach, you get 50-60. The full contract ledger has 100.

The other 40 that round out the 100 hold HSH contracts but don't show up on the city's public listings.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝟯𝟬𝟰 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲

- 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀 hold contracts. The top three alone account for $1.49 billion across hundreds of contracts since FY2018.
- 𝟭𝟱𝟬+ 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗟𝗖𝘀 collect rent subsidies.
- 𝟮𝟬-𝟯𝟬 𝗳𝗼𝗿-𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 provide security, hotels, title services, and tech.

And that's just HSH. Public Health and the Human Services Agency run their own homelessness contracts on top of these 304.

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗢𝗿𝗴 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲

Every org above $1 million has an executive team, finance department, HR, compliance officer, and annual audit. We reported 50+ nonprofits under HSH alone. The real count is 100, and every additional org means more duplicated back-office spending.

𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀?

How many of these 304 contractors can tell you how many people they've weaned off taxpayer-funded assistance?

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

@Jacobsklug @openclaw @Lovable OS

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

@KevinKileyCA In General, any law enacted that collects fund for a certain goal should cease if goal is not met. No funding black holes should be accepted. No taxation without demonstrable results.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Welcome to California…
Here they will let you overdose on their streets, give you the narcan to revive yourself and then give you the supplies to kill yourself again 💀

The homeless industrial complex has corruption, fraud and waste all over it.

[Jonathan Friedman @Basez99]

Only in San Francisco is the biggest line for the @openclaw - Clawcon convention.

Say what you want about the city, that’s a cool vibe.