David Barton

Co-founder & CEO @optifyonline

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@chrismichel @om If this is true I’m calling shotgun!

[Colin James Nagy @CJN]

Love @Vitsoe ads

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@bgurley Front door window cling

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@bgurley @LorenaSGonzalez #AB5 destroying small businesses like my wife’s fitness studio. How exceptions to #AB5 are granted is disturbing. cc @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris you can do better than this flawed law pushed through via special interest $. Terrible law.

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@wolfejosh Based upon how fast his get dirty this is pretty much already every one of my sons onsie’s.

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@AlexCatsoulis @marklovas @AlexCatsoulis #AB5 has wreaked havoc on many ICs that got stuck in the corssfire. Left them begging @LorenaSGonzalez for exceptions. This is incredibly political. Going after a few companies has destroyed small businesses like my wife’s and many others.

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@AlexCatsoulis @LorenaSGonzalez AB5 crushed my wife’s fitness studio (small business that gave 15 well paid ICs a place to work when they wanted) and that was before coronavirus. Lorena talks in platitudes and panders to big union donors while crushing independent biz.

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

Hey @Lorena - During the lowest unemployment in your lifetime, millions of drivers voluntarily opted into this wage opportunity. Did they ask you to "fix" a problem? Or, are you solving a problem for your union donors, here they are for all to see, $ talks https://t.co/IjuvAyjBh7

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@LorenaSGonzalez @bgurley AB5 did serious damage to my wife’s fitness studio. None of her ICs wanted it. This stupid law has citizens begging @LorenaAD80 for exemptions over and over for a law that came out of left field. @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris run way from it. #AB5 creates more problems than it solves.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship takes flight

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@om So true! What a missed opportunity for a few questions about their basic business models which are becoming as important to our futures as water and electricity...and basically totally unregulated.

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@acontinuouslean Bezos definitely best dressed. Interestingly he was much easier to google image from today’s event than Sundar

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@CJN Next level Rodney Mullen

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@dhh ClassPass is a leech on the fitness industry that loses money while driving local business under. And that’s before the current crisis. Not the best example to get your App Store point across.

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@awwitskevin @uurf @joshk So does https://t.co/6uHX2bMhAC

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

Good read ⁦@om⁩ “...algorithms are programmed to intensify engagement—and as a result, they only reinforce opinions that are on the extremes—for those extremes elicit responses, which feed the algorithms and they, in turn, amplify the extreme views.” https://t.co/lW7ffcx3TE

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The simplest test of good ethics is how would you feel about any act if an intelligent but unfriendly reporter were to put it in tomorrow’s paper for everyone to see. If it passes that test it’s ok—if you have to think about it, it probably isn’t.

—Warren Buffett (2001)

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@moizali 1. = Jeff Bezos, Marc Lore, Katrina Lake, Tiffany Masterson

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@RedHourBen My favorite movie. Didn’t realize he did all those other greats as well. RIP

[David Barton @DaveABarton]

@paulg It seems another way to look at it might be “a checks and balances system (group) would do a better job than Zuck at running Facebook”. It got bigger and more important to society to risk one “leader” managing it. Zuck proves that every day. He can’t get his arms around it.