Real Developments, CFA

@nejatian running away to another country to do more unpermitted construction

Kids that grow up in homes owned by their parents have better life outcomes. Homeownership matters. If you live in Toronto, come help us tilt the world towards homeowners. Hard. Value. Fun. Not remote. projects.opendoor.com/toronto-hiring/

@GarrettLord Dm me. I have a ton

Handshake is buying your company's real codebases, salesforce exports, internal databases, ERP dumps. We anonymize everything. The stuff that's not on the internet is what we need. We're buying across ~100 tools. If your company has messy operational data sitting around, we want it. DM me or g@joinhandshake.com for a quote

@arakharazian they clearly don't understand the central limit theorem.

Why was it necessary to diminish the importance of your kid’s lemonade stand. DREAM BIG

@datingbyblaine Sounds like a doll not an actual human. Sad

Dating criteria I hear often from wealthy matchmaking clients: • Thin, pretty, natural look (e.g. no obvious facial fillers) • Fit, healthy relationship with food & gym • Has an actual career (specifics rarely important) • Warm, playful, feminine energy • No extreme political views

@nejatian how much tech talent is needed til you actually permit your renovations?

The quality of technical talent coming into Opendoor these days is just exceptional. Folks who are on my all time hit list are all saying yes.

@1337u53r @nejatian All that tech and they still don’t permit any of their renovations.

Opendoor just hired Eyal Klein as their new VP - Head of Data and ML. How does @nejatian do it! Eyal's background is nothing short of impressive. Shopify, Meta, Citadel Securities, McKinsey and the fricking Israeli Military Intelligence! 🤯 $OPEN

@VoteTrevorLee Wait til people learn about MLK.

SLC has a street named after him.

@brian_scanlan @threadreaderapp

The wildest one: we gave Claude a read-only Rails production console via MCP. Claude can now execute arbitrary Ruby against production data - feature flag checks, business logic validation, cache state inspection etc.

We've been building an internal Claude Code plugin system at Intercom with 13 plugins, 100+ skills, and hooks that turn Claude into a full-stack engineering platform. Lots done, more to do. Here's a thread of some highlights.

@nejatian And a red tag...for no permits

Opendoor's aim is to be the most pro-American family tech company. That's why every Opendoor home will come with an American flag and a flag pole.

@oost_marcel @tryramp Full accounting.

🚨𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙀 𝙒𝙀 𝙂𝙊! A few days after buying Billhop for Europe, @tryramp is now buying Juno to go deeper into travel. And not just employee travel. Juno was founded by Sam Felsenthal, Devon Tivona, and Kate Porter. Sam and Devon previously built and sold Pana, a guest travel platform acquired by Coupa in 2021. Since founding Juno in December 2024, they have already proven the platform can scale with leading companies and work in close partnership with TMCs. Ramp is building for the messy spend categories most finance teams still handle outside the core stack: candidates, contractors, customers, guests. That’s what makes this interesting. This isn’t just another acquisition. It’s Ramp getting closer to becoming the operating system for company spend. Cards. Bill pay. Procurement. Travel. And now even non-employee travel logistics. The bigger picture: Ramp isn’t only expanding geographically anymore. It’s also expanding into every workflow where money moves inside a business. Another week, another M&A move from Ramp. Who do you think is next?

@nejatian @bhalligan principle: ignore laws that prevent Open from making $$$

In our chat @bhalligan asked me to talk about my principles. We talked about the top two, but I thought I should share with you the top 5. Here they are: nejatian.com/principles I only write down principles where I think I am meaningfully different than other folks. I write these down to remind myself of the key lessons I need to apply. I find it helpful to always keep these in my personal context window.

@bhalligan @Opendoor @nejatian and yet they still don't permit any of their projects

At @Opendoor’s company-wide hackathon, a home renovation project manager – someone who had never written a line of code in his life – built software that automated away his entire job. He's now a manager of that software. It’s a proof point for Kaz @nejatian’s imperative to “default to AI.”

@romanhelmetguy Et tu, Claude?

Warning: Do not adopt any new code editors this month. Beware the IDEs of March.

When hardly anyone was standing up for religious liberty during the COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Thomas Massie was.

@_MAGA_NEWS_ He’ll be gone in a week

🚨 JUST IN: In a bombshell announcement, senior IRGC commander and Supreme Leader advisor Mohsen Rezaee just declared, "The end of the war is in our hands." War will NOT end anytime soon and he dropped two impossible demands that could drag the conflict into years of chaos. Rezaee's jaw-dropping conditions for even considering peace: 1- Full US compensation for every single damage, loss, and destruction caused by American and Israeli strikes since February 28 – potentially hundreds of billions in reparations. 2- Complete and total US military withdrawal from the entire Persian Gulf – effectively forcing the US Navy out of one of the world's most strategic waterways, including bases that have been there for decades.

WHO IS BLAKE MOORE? How a Utah Republican Helped Hand Dems a House Seat hannity.com/media-room/moo…

In an economy where real personal income growth is this weak, an oil price shock will lead to declining demand for other goods and services oil price shocks are not inflationary

Just called Thomas Massie. Phone rings. Thomas answers. Me: hey what are you doing? Massie: I’m at Kroger. Call you back in 10. lol, he’s knows the grocery prices. Do you think Trump has been to a grocery store to do his own grocery shopping in the past 30 years? Nope.

@dangreenoh So you’re going to place mortgages on homes with tons of unpermitted construction?? Awesome

Opendoor is getting attention for offering mortgage rates that look "below market" and I want to talk about it. This isn't some magic trick. It's actually pretty basic. Here's how we do it: Opendoor mortgage rates aren't marked up. The end. See, when people talk about "market rates" for mortgages, they telling you about the rates they see online from their lender, or from Mortgage News Daily, or some other source. Remember: those rates include 350 basis points of markup on average, based on self-reported data to the Mortgage Bankers Association. 350 basis points is not nothing. As a rough rule of thumb, every 100 basis points markup raises a consumer's mortgage rate by 0.25 percentage points. So, let's all acknowledge that "market rates" in mortgage reflect 350 basis points of markup, which raises a customer's mortgage rate by roughly 0.875. Opendoor changed that. Our mortgage rates are what happens when you take that markup out. It's like what E*TRADE did for stocks. In the 1980s, the market price of a stock was whatever its price was plus whatever your broker charged. It's why every broker had a different price. Today, the price of a stock is the same everywhere. So if Opendoor's mortgage rates look "below market" to you, they're actually not. This is just the first time you're seeing mortgage rates without a massive markup. More here: opendoor.com/articles/why-m…

@EricLDaugh What they won’t tell you: the deficit has gone up $2.5 trillion since the BBB. secure.thomasmassie.com/donate