Michael Bacarella

Founder GPShopper (successful exit)
ex-Jane Street (pre-SBF)
ex-Google (pre-Sundar)
occasional shitpoaster

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

@AgustinLebron3 I say "mathematics" to disambiguate from "matha", the Jain monastery.

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

@AgustinLebron3 (I didn't care for HPMOR fwiw)

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@AgustinLebron3 I see what you did here.

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@gregisenberg could probably fit something from glengarry glen ross into here

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@ramit $18 million sounds like a big number now but in 20 years at 3% inflation that's only $10 million CHECK MATE RAMIT you can't live on that AT ALL

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

@signulll so, she showed up with three suitcases full of costumes but no food, water or drugs?

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@raulgalerad the top search term for google for years upon years was "yahoo"

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

@SiliconSalvage Your problems sound unusual but they really aren't. You're not alone. Therapists hear stories like this at least 5 times a week.

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

@DrDiGiorgio A lady who worked for the state health authority straight up told me doctors offices would go out of business if they only took Medicare patients

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

@hthieblot Did he know you flew 4 hours?

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

@finn_hulse this. having to switch to a different app just to order wingstop risks knocking you out of the zone

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

startup pitch: Vanguard, but the buttons on the web site work

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

@joshpuckett @BecomingCritter my man

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

@Danhightower I had a dream that Marc Andreesen discovered my brother accidentally included the Go distribution in a vibe coded app and he tried to blackmail us over the BSD-3 license violations.

He had hair plugs.

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

when you consistently reply to someone's email 45 seconds after they send it but they take 24 hours to reply back to that

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

me: hello, business. I would like to give you money. give me a call, thanks!

business: *never calls back*

many such cases

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

@Duderichy this is almost certainly an AI slop LinkedIn

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

@HelloVyom This is fake. A real Jane Street LinkedIn would just say "Quant Researcher" 2004-2025.

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@Brutalismus300 so true. here's mine
https://t.co/dz1U2kQZkt

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

I asked a quant at Jane Street how I can get rich trading equities. what he said floored me and I'll never forget it

him: how old are you?

me: 35

him: okay, keep buying Vanguard Target Retirement 2055 Fund

me: ...

him: Vanguard built the transition matrix. bookmark it

[Michael Bacarella @mbacarella]

I asked a quant at Jane Street how I can get rich trading equities. what he said floored me and I'll never forget it

him: how old are you?

me: 35

him: okay, keep buying Vanguard Target Retirement 2055 Fund

me: ...

him: Vanguard built the transition matrix. bookmark it