Erica Sayers

Equality Advocate | Yogi | Design Lover. Currently lead digital strategy @Arnold_Ventures Prev @UN_Women @HugeInc💡social impact via partnerships, tech & design

[MΛRC VIDΛL @marcvidal]

La Sagrada Familia no es una iglesia. Es una promesa de 140 años que hoy alguien cumplió. Gaudí murió atropellado en 1926 sin verla terminada. Sus planos originales ardieron en la Guerra Civil. Todo lo que se ha construido desde entonces ha sido reconstrucción, interpretación, fe en una idea que nadie vivió completa.

Es asombroso, viendo como es el mundo hoy, que alguien empezara algo sabiendo que no lo vería acabado. Un genio, alguien que no sé si lo sabía, pero iba a trascender.

[MΛRC VIDΛL @marcvidal]

Absolutamente increíble. Lo que hoy ha hecho Barcelona se recordará mucho tiempo. La Sagrada Familia, Gaudí y los que durante 140 años han creído en ello, lo merecían.

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://t.co/2zX5bHdhsa

[Arnold Ventures @Arnold_Ventures]

Prediction market operators want you to see a NYC bar hedging a Knicks promo and think "financial tool." But with sports betting exceeding $160 billion last year and almost none of it tied to actual hedging, the framing doesn't hold up.

AV Co-Founder @JohnArnold in @CNBC: https://t.co/DyxDoKXkO0

[Asa Craig @AsaCraig]

“IS THIS A HEDG….SPORTS BET?!”

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[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Being alive at all is the most extraordinary stroke of good luck any of us will ever experience, the physicist Alan Lightman writes: “The question is: What are we to make of the fantastically improbable fact of our existence, our moment of life?” https://t.co/RdCI2EBOOG

[Yoko Ono @yokoono]

REMEMBER LOVE #rememberlove
'Remember Love' (out-take) → https://t.co/dYukvNfzWH
'Give Peace A Chance' (out-take) → https://t.co/neimRns8ik
During the evening of 31 May and early morning of 1 June 1969, John & Yoko recorded several takes of their anthems 'Give Peace A Chance' and 'Remember Love', during their second Bed-In for Peace at the @FairmontQueenE Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Canada. Watch exclusive full-length out-takes, now on YouTube.

[Ayanokoji @layeee09]

Le vieux du quartier m’a dit : « N’oublie pas que la boussole a été inventée avant l’horloge parce que la direction est plus importante que le temps. »

[Arnold Ventures @Arnold_Ventures]

New in @washingtonpost from @ScottAHodge: When millions of dollars in sales taxes are being routed through Montana shell companies, it's not just a compliance problem. It's a signal that state tax rates have become uncompetitive.

Read more: https://t.co/0k6bWBi3KW

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

America's cultural ideal has been the self-made entrepreneur while Europe's was rooted in aristocracy, with status inherited rather than earned. Europe's inheritance laws show this divide.

Many European countries have "forced heirship" laws that require people to leave 50-75% of their estates to their children. Want to leave the majority of your wealth to charity? not allowed. Your kids are estranged from you, struggling with addiction, or irresponsible? still required to give them the money. Want your kids to avoid a life of entitlement? tough.

Incredibly, these laws look back at transfers made during your lifetime. If you have 3 children in France, you're required to bequeath them a minimum of 75% of your estate. Because French law calculates this based on your assets at death plus all lifetime gifts, giving away more than 25% of your wealth while alive means your heirs can legally sue to force charities or foundations to return the funds. This has limited the development of the nonprofit sector on the continent.

The cultural gap between an entrepreneurial society and one shaped by dynastic wealth is enormous. If you make it yourself, you tend to want your kids to do the same. If you inherit it, the primary goal is protecting the estate for the next gen.

Countries like Spain, France, and Italy legally entrench family dynasties, while America has historically sought to limit them through estate taxes. The result is not only a weaker culture of philanthropy and civil society in Europe, but also less economic dynamism.

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Mitt Romney to Harvard Business School graduates: "There's more to a country than its economy. To be a great nation, it must also be a good nation. The world needs good men. It needs good women. Good leaders. Good parents raising good children. There is no national success that could compensate for failure to be a good and noble people."

[Arnold Ventures @Arnold_Ventures]

Introducing Fighting Crime 🎙️, a new Arnold Ventures podcast hosted by @CristinaQuinn.

Big questions. Real evidence. Ideas that could change how you think about crime and public safety in America.

Episode 1 is out NOW→ https://t.co/3haByQhUk2

[Erica Sayers @ericasayers]

Great profile of our incredibly inspiring leaders. Hashtag proud to be here

[Arnold Ventures @Arnold_Ventures]

“A brainy approach to big problems.”

Our Co-Founders Laura and @johnarnold were just named to @TIME’s 2026 #TIME100 Philanthropy list, recognized for their evidence-based approach to giving, from criminal justice to their newest focus: the real impact of legalized sports betting.

Read more: https://t.co/GDRUG6hQUl

[Tony Fadell @tfadell]

Spotted in the NYC subway. “Zero screen time.” An iPod Shuffle ad in 2026.

When we built the iPod, the goal was the technology disappeared and you could have your music wherever you were. 1,000 songs in your pocket.

Now we’re living through a moment where people are actively looking for ways to disconnect from the infinite feed, algos, and constant notifications. That doesn’t mean technology is bad. It means the best technology understands when to step back.

Not every problem needs another screen, another menu, or another layer of complexity. Constraints create freedom (read: @DavidEpstein new book Inside the Box). And often removing features creates a better product than adding them.

The future of technology shouldn’t just be more engagement. It should help us be more human.

[Erica Sayers @ericasayers]

.@Delta forever - lucky enough to be from a Delta family and can tell you they have an incredible customer AND employee experience. Kudos to the good work; there's no other brand where I'm more loyal 💎

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Americans tend to hate airlines. But Delta isn’t like most airlines. Through a combination of tech savvy, deft marketing, and opaque loyalty programs, a company that grew out of a Georgia crop-duster operation a century ago has made itself the most unlikely of things: a lifestyle brand. Its customers aren’t just loyal. They post their boarding passes as status symbols on TikTok. They collect Delta trading cards that can go for thousands of dollars on eBay. And they obsess in online forums over how to secure access to — then not get expelled from — its elite tiers.

They also go to great lengths to avoid flying any other airline. Delta has the world’s most successful airline loyalty program, SkyMiles, with an estimated valuation of over $31 billion. Today it’s estimated that SkyMiles members have grown to over 120 million; the 360° program is estimated to have 5,000 members.

SkyMiles members are so devoted they barely flinched when Delta did something two years ago other airlines had long wished to but couldn’t: It tweaked the formula of its loyalty program to reward travelers for how much they spent instead of how many miles they traveled. This was a significant pivot for the airline industry, but it worked.

When consultant Peter Thorp got an email announcing an increase in the qualifications for his current status, he wrote a letter to Delta, saying, “‘Look, it’s your company, you get to do what you want. However, pardon my French, but don’t fucking tell me it’s a good idea to change it in a way that it’s going to be impossible for someone like me to continue at that level of status.’” Delta never responded. Still, Thorp sees himself continuing to fly Delta.

Read Ben Ryder Howe’s report on how Delta Airlines is winning by catering to the elite: https://t.co/GKOzYz89vL

[Arnold Ventures @Arnold_Ventures]

New podcast alert! Fighting Crime with host @cristinatquinn is coming May 28. Produced by Arnold Ventures and Indio Media, Fighting Crime dives into the world of crime, policy, and economics to uncover the evidence of what actually works to improve public safety.

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Skip, splash, and snuggle through Bumpy’s first days with us.

This little hippo was rescued by the Kenya Wildlife Service over the weekend, after his mother died — likely defending her baby’s life in a territorial fight. Bumpy remained huddled by her body until help arrived.

Now, Bumpy has a family with us and a wild future ahead. Discover his story: https://t.co/qAEjrv6DMc

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

I spoke at the Future of Everything conference yesterday about how dramatically the access to, and intensity of, vices have increased over the past decade. The products have changed dramatically. The guardrails need to change too or this will not end well.
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[Years Progress @YearsProgress]

2026 is 34% complete.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

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