Daniel Ron

Managing Partner | Scarlet, LLP

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

The fire department inspected the entire space, certified that the buildings fire sprinkler, alarm, egress and life safety were all in compliance. They still shut the business down. We had a certificate of occupancy.

Get out of Houston while you can.

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

As a landlord, my tenants can’t survive here any more. I’ve encouraged them to shut down and move to Miami or Dallas, and work in cities that want their creative energy and talent.

Shame on you @HoustonTX @whitmire_john

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

As a landlord, my tenants can’t survive here any more. I’ve encouraged them to shut down and move to Miami or Dallas, and work in cities that want their creative energy and talent.

Shame on you @HoustonTX @whitmire_john

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

One of my tenants received a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy for tonight. A fire department official showed me an email where the “higher ups” instructed them to shut down the business for tonight, regardless of any permits in place.

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

One of my tenants received a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy for tonight. A fire department official showed me an email where the “higher ups” instructed them to shut down the business for tonight, regardless of any permits in place.

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

The city of Houston hates small businesses.

Houston is a corrupt government who selectively applies laws against those who don’t “donate” to the correct officials.

If you are considering moving to Houston or starting a business here, don’t. Go where you are welcomed.

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

The city of Houston hates small businesses.

Houston is a corrupt government who selectively applies laws against those who don’t “donate” to the correct officials.

If you are considering moving to Houston or starting a business here, don’t. Go where you are welcomed.

[Alexander Ron @captainnron_]

1 homicide per day and 140,000 homeless, but the City of Houston spends its resources fighting my tenant to the death because he operates under a banquet hall occupancy instead of a bar occupancy (no one can explain the material difference)

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Beware: the @united app now has a sneaky online request for you to change your flight to one that’s less booked, and makes it look like a regular check in when it’s a total flight change. I accidentally hit “confirmed” and was placed on two later flights and then spent an hour having to reschedule to my original flights.

[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

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

This would be good everywhere

[Abelardo De La Espriella @ABDELAESPRIELLA]

Seré el Presidente de Colombia con la ayuda de Dios y el Pueblo el próximo 21 de junio; en mi plan de gobierno he planteado establecer la asociación de internet rural más grande del mundo con @SpaceX. @elonmusk ha sido líder mundial combatiendo la pobreza conectando a la gente en línea en cualquier rincón del mundo; el siglo XXI no se puede empezar a vivir sin conexión para todos los colombianos.

Le plantearé a @elonmusk una alianza de conectividad y que conozca a Colombia y lo que puede ofrecer para el desarrollo de su revolución tecnológica.

Firme por la Patria. 🫡
(A.D.L.E) 🇨🇴🐅

[Misha G. @tastybits]

Houston economy is growing at 10.6%. That’s remarkable at this size.

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

Nobody was forcing them to work there

[Finding Compounders @F_Compounders]

Alan Greenberg expected his top employees to always be reachable even if on vacation

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jeff Bezos just identified the most expensive bureaucratic failure in the American economy.

It fits in one sentence.

Bezos: “Why does it take months and months and months to get a building permit? It doesn’t make any sense.”

It doesn’t make any sense because a building code is not a judgment call.

It is an algorithm. And algorithms should be executed by machines.

Bezos: “Miami should have an AI application that reads your building permit for a new house or a new building and it should give you a yes or a no in ten seconds.”

Ten seconds. Not three months. Not six weeks. Not whenever the reviewer clears their backlog.

Bezos: “If the answer is no, it should tell you the six things you have to change to get a yes.”

No ambiguity. No interpretation. No bureaucratic delay dressed up as due diligence.

Just a deterministic feedback loop compressing months of institutional friction into a single automated decision.

We are competing against sovereign adversaries deploying gigawatt data centers and scaling physical infrastructure at a pace that does not stop to ask permission.

And we are losing ground to countries that never needed to.

The AI arms race is not only fought in data centers. It is fought in the gap between when someone decides to build something and when the government allows it.

Every month this system runs on biological speed is a month that cannot be recovered.

The governments that integrate AI into their core civic functions will trigger a wave of physical development the old world could never produce.

The ones that refuse will still be reviewing the same forms a decade from now.

While the cities that said yes are already living inside the future they built.

The bottleneck was never ambition.

It was always the man holding the rubber stamp deciding when ambition was allowed to begin.

And the stamp is just a rubber version of the algorithm that should have been running this whole time.

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

@qizler @STLChrisH That sounds really nice but it also doesn’t sound automatic

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

@qizler @STLChrisH Which systems do this automatically?

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

@scottswag @CaseyMericle DM me

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

Houston let us down

[Dolcefino Media @WayneDolcefino]

EaDo residents got the shaft at city council. Council voted 14-1 to put a shelter for the most potentially dangerous homeless. Even their own councilman Joaquin Martinez betrayed them.

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

@Austen Robot reboot

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

Before and After at the Wald Building

[Daniel Ron @tanwithdan]

Isn’t this what taxes are for?

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the administration is considering federal government partial ownership of defense corporations:

" We use Palantir, $PLTR, services, we would like a piece of Palantir."

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Arguing about the color of the bike shed is fun and low stakes while feeling like work

Whenever you find yourself doing that, always try to reframe: instead of finding the local maximum in this area, what is the global maximum and how do we get there?

[BONESAW 🕊️ @BonesawMD]

Life in your 20's