Dan Scheinman

Accidental Angel investor (@AristaNetworks, @zoom, @cycognito, @SentinelOne, @spekitapp and more!). Believer in great founders.

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

@rossmatican Mission local is not the most unbiased outlet.

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

And all of this is cheered by the special interests (just they are quieter than the Seattle mayor). Instead of fighting to retain business and all that tax and employee revenue, CA laughs. We are bailed out constantly by landing what’s next. If we do not, we will be Illinois.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

Texas celebrates every time CA raises taxes
'17 Toyota: LA -> Dallas
'19 McKesson: SF -> Dallas
'20 Oracle: SF -> Austin
'20 CBRE: LA -> Dallas
'21 Schwab: SF -> Austin
'21 Tesla: SF -> Austin
'22 HPE: San Jose -> Houston
'24 Chevron: SF -> Houston
'26 Public Storage: LA > Dallas

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.

Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.

It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.

One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.

Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

@kane And lets not forget him whining about the spending of the people who beat him.

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

This shots are all fair. My read as one who went all in on the Mahan train is not that we don’t get it, it shows how badly we want an effective governor for CA that we were willing to make a late push with Mahan.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

All that Tech VC money to a no-name gubernatorial candidate shows that those guys still don’t get it.

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

@agarwal And thank you for bringing hope and optimism where there was not a lot!

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

We tried. Not a great day for Mahan but I do feel he will do big things in the future.

[Engineer Girlfriend @enggirlfriend]

i realized something recently

bernie sanders and AOC have damaged the fabric of america immensely but we rarely talk about it

bernie/AOC have vilified successful businessmen & women. calling CEOs like elon musk, bezos, zuck evil. yes these people have shortcomings - but they are also truly self made, come from normal/humble backgrounds. with hard work they created trillions in economic value. isn’t that a fundamental part of what america is about? the land of opportunity?

in the 2000s when i was in elementary school, bill gates and steve jobs were viewed as role models. our teachers taught us about how much they achieved + given to society. these CEOs were actually respected and i believe this culture brought up a generation of ambitious hard working americans

now, kids are being taught that working hard and becoming a billionaire is evil. we’re essentially telling them to have victim mindset and stay poor

i know bernie/AOC & crew are never going to take responsibility. i can’t even tell if they realize what they’re doing

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

@ethanagarwal @RoKhanna Indeed! Go vote today and send a message!

[Agarwal for Congress @ethanagarwal]

Election Day is tomorrow! We’ve been at the Sunnyvale CalTrain station since 6:45a, talking to voters.

Every vote counts. Every voter counts.

[Sachin Agarwal @agarwal]

Hey check it out, that’s our billboard :)

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

So much of my working life spent there. Super proud to be part of @AristaNetworks! It is really a very dense area of smart people.

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

All you had to do to make life changing wealth was to invest in ~every public company along the 237

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

Unfortunately, the Bay Area media coverage of why people are getting involved in elections is biased from the start. Everything is a trope. Rich people must want lower taxes for themselves. Not a single state dollar is ever misspent or wasted. Public sector unions represent workers. Sadly, no one focuses on the core goal: grow the state, fund critical programs like education and fix the broken stuff. My hope is that CA would look to grow its way out of the mess it is in. There is no precedent for a state taxing its way to growth.

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

I worry a lot that a bad election outcome here or there in CA will accelerate this. As a lifelong Californian, I believe that this is really bad for the state, and for the people.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Businesses are fleeing blue states to go to red states.

Biggest losers in terms of corporate headquarters are SF, LA, NYC, Chicago and SD.

Biggest winners: Dallas, Austin, Houston, Phoenix, and Nashville.

Capitalism just works better than statism. Why can’t people admit it?

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

@garrytan But in fairness, there has been progress on the Peninsula.

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

If you have a Nazi tattoo, hate on US servicemen and cheat on your wife, you too can have a friend. Let’s vote this clown out.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

I am proud of @grahamformaine for having the character to stand up against the war in Iran, against genocide, and against an unfair & lopsided economy. I am proud of him for having a vision for a new deal for our time. Excited to campaign with him June 5!

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

@SheikhMCI Amen. And CBS should have turned down the crowd noise

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

@oanaolt Thank goodness all are ok.

[Andrew Feldman @andrewdfeldman]

When I finished college, my ambition was not to build the world’s fastest chip company.

I wanted to become a professor of development economics.

I went to work in Pakistan.

The Northwest Frontier Province is about as far from Silicon Valley as you can get.

After I came back, I started a PhD program and finished my classes and qualification exams.

Then I got bored.
I thought I'd add an MBA and end up teaching at a business school.

My housemate Jim was joining a tiny startup.
They asked me to join, twice.
I said no. I had no interest in data networking.
I thought it was plumbing.

Eventually I caved and wrote their business plan.
Then I joined them. And it turned out to be an extraordinary team and a phenomenal industry.

We built chips and systems for switching and routing. We played a small role in changing the world.

We sold the company less than a year later for $280M, when that was a lot of money.

8 of those guys are still with me, more than 25 years later, at @cerebras today.

I call it the myth of LinkedIn - this idea that we all had our careers mapped from the time we left high school.

Mine wasn't a straight path.
It was a series of accidents where I fell into things I enjoyed.
Where I was curious, met people whom I liked, and learned from.

If you're 18 and someone asks you to pick a narrow lane - don't.
Go to university.
Learn how to think.
Be as broad as you can.
Follow your curiosity. Explore.
The journey will take you to amazing places.

[Dan Scheinman @dscheinm]

@ethanagarwal Home is a conference room