Nick Garzilli
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@NickGarzilli
Founder @ChariotLiving | Strategic partnerships pioneer | Connecting cities through innovation | Investor @SwyftCities | Reimagining transport and housing
In Los Angeles, it is easier to stop housing than to build it. That has to change. We must create a culture of yes to new housing: affordable housing, market-rate housing, social housing, and shelters. You can see the full plan on my website. Here are some highlights:
BREAKING: Paul Kwan, Managing Director of @generalcatalyst's Global Resilience Team: "Capital does not equal contracts" "There's a ton of energy. There's a line out the door just to get in. It's amazing the awareness in the focus on this space, defense, industrial power, but we kind of have to not conflate that contracts & capital are different. We have a lot of capital, private capital, & public capital, but that's not the same as contracts. Capital does not equal contracts. We need to have the follow through on contracts to companies to keep the flywheel going." Say more.. "An example I give you is like NATO did a ton of work to put together this NATO innovation fund a few years ago. They raised $1 billion dollars of capital from all the nations to invest in defense tech. And my thought would've been, instead of spending a billion dollars investing, it should just bought a billion dollars of contracts that would've led to $5 or $6 billion of VC funding. Instead, a few years later, they're just winding the whole thing down and didn't have the impact. So to me. Again, we have all this private capital coming into the ecosystem, it's great, and public capital, but if we don't have the contract follow through from the DOW on these programs, then you don't get the revenues, you don't get the commercial flywheel to go build all the stuff we need to build. Hill & Valley Forum 2026 (@HillValleyForum)
Sequoia’s @shaunmmaguire says Silicon Valley is undergoing a "Copernican" shift and waking up to the fact that it revolves around a set of much larger industries, not the other way around: "In Silicon Valley, [there's] almost this Copernican principle — where people used to believe that the world revolved around the Earth, then realized that it revolves around the sun." "There's a Silicon Valley parallel where people think that all of technology, all of industry, revolves around Silicon Valley, but it's actually kind of the opposite." "Silicon Valley is Earth, and there are these much bigger forces and bodies, which include energy, the chemical industry, these giant supply chains, and the semiconductor industry, which has been around for a very long time. It was pretty advanced, and people in Silicon Valley forgot about it." "I don't like the language of other industries pivoting into AI. I actually think it's the opposite." "I think it's like Silicon Valley is waking up from its toddlerhood and realizing that there were these giant industries that we underestimated, and they're actually really freaking good at what they do. And we can all benefit by working together."
In the United States car seat laws mandating use until age 8 save 57 lives each year at the cost of about 8,000 births.
BREAKING: CALIFORNIA MASS IN-PERSON ELECTION FRAUD CRIMES CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Recordings Show Homeless Are Paid By Petitioners To FORGE Real Voters’ Signatures To Sign Ballot Petitions On Skid Row, Thousands of Times Disenfranchised Voters Say They Are OUTRAGED After Being Shown Their Signatures Are Forged Undercover in Los Angeles, James O’Keefe uncovered an election fraud pyramid scheme operating on Skid Row. In Part II of Cash for Ballots, series hidden camera footage shows petition circulators paying homeless individuals $2–$3 per form to sign ballot petitions using the names and addresses of real registered voters and forging their signatures. Circulators provided printed lists of voters, assigned identities, and directed the homeless individuals exactly what to write, monitoring them to ensure the information matched so the circulators get paid. “You only write what I tell you to write.” “Your name’s Robert.” “If you mess up, I can’t get paid.” The conduct captured appears to violate multiple California felony statutes, including Elections Code §18613 (signing another person’s name to a petition), Penal Code §470 (forgery), Elections Code §18601–18602 (paying for petition signatures), and Penal Code §470 (forging signatures). The OMG team and Cam Higby visited addresses tied to the voters' names being used. One resident said the named voter had not lived at the address for nearly a decade, yet election mail was still being delivered. “Doesn’t live here, uh I bought this house nearly 9 years ago. The only reason I know that name, is because we still get her mail.” “i always feel really weird when I get the voting ballot. Cause like, you know, obviously that’s fraudulent.” This is Part II of an ongoing investigation. The Citizen Justice League will continue to release more footage of these crimes caught on tape. @camhigby @ctznjusticelg
Leader John Thune suggests he’s open to including the SAVE America Act in Reconciliation, which would only need a simple majority “This was discussed, there is a lot of support... that's an option. If that's what it takes to get it across the finish line”
The Senate is sidestepping the SAVE America Act. During the last reconciliation, the parliamentarian stripped out a significant amount. Now the Senate is looking to play the blame game with the parliamentarian. Under reconciliation, you can’t legislate policy, meaning you CANNOT include the Save America Act. I will be a NO on reconciliation. Stop sidestepping America, @LeaderJohnThune. They’re literally trying everything they can to get out of voting for Voter ID and it is disgusting.
@RealMikeSchall Nobody loves Miami more than me but let’s focus on just making it great for the first time. The infrastructure here is weak and it should be top tier for how populated where becoming and with all the mixed used development with work, play, live it’s a no brainer!
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