Peter Mantas

Serial entrepreneur - startup ecosystem influencer - mentor, coach, teacher, leader & CEO - #UCBerkeley, #UArizona, #MITEF, #azcommerce, #startupzones

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@SecDuffy: 53% of Commercial Driver's Licenses issued to foreigners in New York were issued illegally.

We gave them FOUR MONTHS to comply with the law. They refused, so we had no choice but to pull funding — and if they still refuse, we can pull their ability to issue CDLs.

[Peter Mantas @pamantas]

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: 👉This Week's Articles https://t.co/SKRIFmzf0i via @LinkedIn

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: This Week's Articles :
- Developing Your Own Mentor Program in an Emerging Tech Hub
- Why Optics Valley Is the Heart of America’s Laser Supply Chain
#OpticsValleyTech
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Check out my latest article: 👉 America First ENERGY Revolution via FUSION https://t.co/Grl36Z0Rk8 via @LinkedIn

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Check out my latest article: No Sand Hill Road - Just $1T Optics Valley Tech https://t.co/U3iJVIJwuy via @LinkedIn

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Check out my latest article: Knowing Too Much is the Biggest Risk as a Startup Founder https://t.co/c56yDzQ06X via @LinkedIn

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Joe Rogan: "We just got through three years of 'you have to have a vaccine passport in order to get food,' right? And now all of a sudden, it's racist to say that you want voter ID."

[Peter Mantas @pamantas]

Listening Our Way Back to Each Other - A World Drowning in Noise, Assumptions, and Hate https://t.co/6XHEfjYIpy via @LinkedIn

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Startup Zones is hosting June 28 - Startup - Mentorship and Networking [Arrive Any Time]. Make sure to attend it tomorrow. https://t.co/2LpfJNB3JX

[Startup Zones @startupzones]

Tribal leadership and community leadership - The Good and the Bad, as explained by the exceptional book Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, Halee Fischer-Wright, and John King, has become a guide for improving organizational culture.

[Startup Zones @startupzones]

Scarcity Trap - Reputation Jacking - One of the most damaging remnants of a scarcity mindset is when collaborators tear down those who may know more than they do in an attempt to gain or retain control. Real leadership doesn’t fear brilliance—it cultivates it. #startup

[Startup Zones @startupzones]

In Honor of the Fallen: Greece and the United States of America - Let us remember them on this and every day. Let us honor their stories. Let us never forget that our freedoms were paid for in their courage and blood. May their memory be eternal.
#memorialday #liberty #freedom

[Office of Congressman Abe Hamadeh @RepAbeHamadeh]

Congressman Hamadeh's staff commemorated Memorial Day with Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers and the Sandy Coor VFW Post 1433 at Resthaven Park Cemetery.

Post 1433's motto is, "We honor the dead by helping the living."

This beautiful sentiment resonates deeply not only on Memorial Day but every day.

[Peter Mantas @pamantas]

I echo The President's sentiment! We owe them everything! Let's never forget their and their families' sacrifice.

[Peter Mantas @pamantas]

In Honor of the Fallen: Greece and the United States of America - Across oceans and centuries, from Thermopylae's rugged mountains to Normandy's beaches, from the Greek War of Independence to the American Revolution, brave men and women have stood in defense of something greater than themselves—freedom. Across millennia, oceans, and mountains, they have impacted the same liberties and freedom we take for granted today.

In Greece, countless heroes resisted occupation, tyranny, and fascism. They fought for their homeland (and indirectly for all of us) and the idea that liberty is worth any sacrifice. From the revolutionaries of 1821 to the resistance fighters of WWII, their courage echoes through generations.

In the United States, soldiers, civil rights leaders, and everyday citizens have given their lives to uphold the ideals of our republic, justice, and human dignity. From Bunker Hill to the Civil War, from Omaha Beach to the deserts of the Middle East, their sacrifice has shaped the very meaning of liberty. Let us remember them on this and every day.

Let us honor their stories. Let us never forget that our freedoms were paid for in their courage and blood. May their memory be eternal. May our actions be worthy of their sacrifice. #memorialday #liberty #freedom #tucson #startupzones #orovalley #arizona #startup

[Peter Mantas @pamantas]

I echo this sentiment!
Great post @CynicalPublius!

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Here's what Democrats do not get.

The United States of America is the most charitable and giving nation to ever exist. Whether it's our money, our time, our products or the blood of our young men and women, the USA has always done more for the world than itself, because it's the right thing to do.

And what do we get for it? We get vilified. We become the subject of scorn and mockery. We go trillions in debt while the countries we defend pay next to nothing. We run enormous trade imbalances. We watch our industries fade away offshore while we get fentanyl addiction in return. We have our ostensible allies and enemies alike working against us. We see the countries like the UK that we spilled our blood defending descending into fascistic quagmires of Orwellian speech laws. We see Western Europe--the place we fought to save--eagerly committing cultural suicide.

We are the benevolent, rich great uncle who gives away all and is always there for the extended family, but never hears the words "thank you" and instead is constantly badgered with demands for more, more, more, as if he is being selfish.

After a while, the great uncle says "ENOUGH!!!" and decides he will take care of himself first and foremost, because that's the rational thing to do in the face of such ingratitude and such incessant and unreasonable demands on his now-dwindling fortune.

That's what Democrats do not understand about America and Americans in 2025.

So when they wonder how we can be so "heartless" to cut off citizen taxpayer-funded "free" healthcare to illegal aliens and then boot them out of the country without a second thought, what I wrote above is the reason why.

We are righteously fed up.

No more.