Charles Fitzgerald

Platform ecosystems, angel investing, strategy consulting, color (and off-color) commentary, boat rocking. Dinosaur scourge. Furthest South: 67⁰ 43’ 05s

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Until the post-Twitter landscape resolves, my primary online hangout is https://t.co/tuawEtcTsB. You can subscribe to get my blog posts and the short-form observations that traditionally would have all been here.

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@aviel Did they ever? 😜

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@minty_hawk @loganb Hard to disagree with the credal nation statement

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@minty_hawk @loganb It also borrows from a recent Gorsuch speech, but we’ll take it…

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Platformonomics TGIF #128: May 29, 2026

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Platformonomics TGIF #127: May 22, 2026

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@trengriffin 😢

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@skaushik100 @minty_hawk “Good public schools” made me laugh. Slipped in there amongst a bunch of new spending programs. Why is fixing Seattle Schools not the absolute top priority for Dems? Best solution for most social ails, yet it is the problem no one wants to acknowledge.

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@skaushik100 @minty_hawk Seattle has had a great couple of decades as a rising city, but a lot of tailwinds turning into headwinds. We are at risk of becoming Cleveland. Yet policymakers seem oblivious.

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Platformonomics TGIF #126: May 8, 2026

* Never Take a Dependency on Elon Musk: Anthropic Edition
* Private Equity in Action: "We're 'AI Winners', Really"
* The Necessity of Billionaires
* Quick(er) Hits: Data center land use issues are fake

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@skaushik100 Forward looking economic prospects are deteriorating. What is Seattle’s next act? Driving away people/companies and ceasing to attract new people destroys the magical agglomeration built over last three decades. Prosperity is fragile…

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Platformonomics TGIF #125: May 1, 2026

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@doppenhe @aviel Hot take: bring a flashlight to lunch as they’re going to struggle to keep the lights on…

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@aviel @doppenhe I was just grabbing link 😜

It is yet another distraction from all the incompetence, fraud, self-dealing, lack of basic financial controls, etc.

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Is $133 billion a lot? For a quarter of CAPEX spend?

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Follow the CAPEX: Q1 2026 Scoreboard (link below)

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Follow the CAPEX: Q1 2026 Scoreboard (link below)