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Ash Ola
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Ash Ola
@akinfermo
Software Engineer @Google. Private Pilot. Opinions my own.
San Francisco, CA Katılım Mayıs 2010
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@zach_yadegari Exactly. Even @Tesla does paid advertising now even though @elonmusk said years ago that Tesla would never do so.
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Silicon Valley wants you to think this and that’s why you are going to focus on building your product for years before hitting the market. And then once you finally do, you realize all the time was wasted and no one wants it.
Paid forms of marketing are key in all companies that aren’t inherently social and therefore do not have k-factor flywheels.
Very surprised to hear this from one of the foremost investors in Uber, because Uber relied on paid marketing via incentives!
Bill Gurley@bgurley
Paid marketing is the crudest game you can play. It’s admitting you have no creativity. And actually restricts your creativity. Fire those that want to spend more. abovethecrowd.com/2012/09/04/the…
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@auren @hthieblot This is oddly specific. Tell us the background story
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@hthieblot a table large enough to seat 12 people for a 'one-conversation' dinner, but with a built-in sensor that mutes anyone who tries to start a side chat
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You just sold your company for $ 100M.
What’s the first thing you buy?
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@ttauhou @eastdakota Conflicts of interest. The shopping comparison websites often get a cut for prioritizing certain vendors. Locally run AI agents likely won’t have this bias.
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@eastdakota don’t see how all this shit is different from price comparison websites. maybe an llm will now be looking at those instead of me, but it does not seem disruptive in any way
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I am surprised more VCs aren't talking about this. But, if you are a NYC founder with any type of liquidity event happening soon, consider relocating NOW!
CC: @ethdaly @MaxwellAbram @ChanniGreenwall @SandroChess @Bfaviero @evanbfish @jackmmcclelland
jdsupra.com/legalnews/new-…
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@nihalmehta @EniacVC @TechNYC Retroactive taxes are just theft or more for a more diplomatic term, asset seizure. Let’s call things by their real names.
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New York is about to make a massive mistake. The NY State Senate is advancing a proposal to decouple from federal QSBS (Section 1202) — the tax provision that lets startup founders exclude gains on qualifying exits. If this passes, founders would owe 10-13% in combined state and city tax on exits that are tax-free at the federal level and in nearly every other major tech state. Even worse: it's retroactive to January 1, 2025. This comes right as the federal government just expanded QSBS benefits and New Jersey moved to full conformity. New York wants to go in the opposite direction.
As a seed investor in NYC who has backed hundreds of companies, I can tell you: founders are mobile. If New York becomes one of the most punitive states for startup exits, the best founders will simply build somewhere else — and the jobs, tax revenue, and innovation will follow. NYC has built something special over the last two decades. This proposal puts it all at risk for a short-sighted revenue grab.
If you're a founder, investor, or anyone who cares about the NYC tech ecosystem — please sign the TechNYC open letter before Monday below 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
Keep building, NYC 🗽
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@litcapital @AOC This conclusion assumes that insiders will place bets but that is very unethical in and of itself.
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@AOC Prediction markets are very helpful in identifying the truth and measuring probabilities of outcomes (like your near 0% chance of becoming president in 2028)
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This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽♀️
Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.
Polymarket@Polymarket
We’re honored to announce MLB has named Polymarket as their Exclusive Prediction Market Exchange Partner. Polymarket 🤝 MLB
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Ash Ola retweetledi
Introducing the new @stitchbygoogle, Google’s vibe design platform that transforms natural language into high-fidelity designs in one seamless flow.
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Life pro tip. Not enough people talk about this. The secret to having a "fulfilling" life is doing new things. Radically doing new things. Consistently. Every day. New activities, people, goals, even something as simple as trying new foods. Life feels longer when you're a kid because every day is packed with almost infinite amount of new learning. As you get older, you've already acclimated to your environment, the new inputs stop, so your perception of time speeds up drastically. You fall into routine, which is a time accelerant. If you want to feel like you have a long infinite lifespan, like you did as a child, you MUST be having new experiences, which slows time down.
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House prices don't even need to drop to improve affordability. They just need to stop rising for incomes to catch up.
Kate Willett@katewillett
A major new study has confirmed what many of us know from reading all previous research. Socialists in NYC should care about this, bc Mayor Mamdani has filled his administration with developer hawks in hopes of delivering the Affordability Agenda. It won’t.
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@akinfermo @devahaz if 2 incomes make $350 how the f can they make a sacrifice like one parent staying at home???
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Mind-boggling:
We made it so expensive to live in SF that we have to subsidize childcare for people making 95th percentile US income.
Due to poor program design, families making 96th %ile income get NO support and choose 0/1 kids because they can't afford more.
And I get it!
The San Francisco Standard@sfstandard
SF families earning between $310,000 and $400,000 say they occupy a specific, uncomfortable middle ground: too rich for child-care subsidies, yet too squeezed to have another kid. 📝: @stbearman sfstandard.com/2026/03/15/wea…
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@_vision2020_ @pitdesi @devahaz I have one kid and live in the Bay Area. I plan to have more kids, God willing. Kids require personal sacrifices. $100k-$150k after tax is ~$70-90k. Might as well stay home and save on childcare costs.
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@akinfermo @pitdesi @devahaz It is clear you don’t have kids. The total household income is 350k, so if one person quits that is probably taking off $100-$150k whereas a nanny will cost them $50-70k. 3 kids in the Bay Area without free help will cause both mental and mental physical strain.
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@yacineMTB @PaulSkallas If you have millions, you could apply for an investor green card (EB-5) or a trump card.
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@PaulSkallas why do you think they prefer to hire them so much in the states. americans can just leave.the AI labs can't hold on to them because they are retired.
but if you are on h1b it doesn't matter how much millions you have. your kid will get taken out of school & you'll be deported
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H1B is deep 4HL.
You don't get fired, you get sent back to a dystopian third world society of pain and no opportunities.
kush.exe@kuxh101
saw this guy in the metro. got a call from his manager and immediately opened his laptop, sat on the floor, and started finishing his work.
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@cryptopunk7213 @awilkinson 5 offers in 72hrs means you gave it away. Never understood people crowing about “sold it in a week”.
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i mean this story is insane.
man used chatgpt to sell his house in 5 DAYS. got 5 offers in 72 hours. no real estate agents. saved so much money doing it too. he used AI to:
> price the house (researched neighboring properties for sale)
> wrote up the legal contracts (saving him $500/hr lawyers)
> best part: MARKETED the fucking property for him (usually you pay estate agents for their network of buyers - ChatGPT did all of this)
i honestly thought sales people would be hard for AI to replace (you need to know people) but apparently not
Dexerto@Dexerto
Florida man sold his house in just 5 days after letting ChatGPT handle the entire process instead of a real estate agent The AI handled pricing, marketing, showings, and even helped draft the contract
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@akinfermo @devahaz If you get an au pair you need to pay for their food and housing… and that costs a lot in SF
And most au pairs aren’t allowed to do kids <2
And very few nannies will take on 3 kids
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San Francisco has a $16B budget for a county of ~800k people, the richest in the USA by far and higher per capita than Copenhagen or Tokyo.
Deficits are purely a result of incompetence and graft.
💥Susan Dyer Reynolds🗞️@SusanDReynolds
VOICE OF SAN FRANCISCO EXCLUSIVE: You know that “Healthcare Mandate” fee you pay on your restaurant bill? Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors plan to raid $200 million of it to cover the city’s ballooning deficit. thevoicesf.org/san-francisco-…
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@nathanguergis @paulg Dang… LVMH bought Rimowa too? I guess they’re going after all the large independent luxury brands.
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Brands I love: Lego, Leuchtturm, Oxford University Press, Pentel, Schöffel, Aqualung, Paradores, Staedtler, Birkenstock, Braun, Knoll, Patagonia, Herman Miller, Iittala, L.A. Burdick, Artemide, Aman, Thames & Hudson, Yeti, Rimowa, L.L.Bean, Timbuk2, Eschenbach, Ridge, Maui Jim.
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@mylordcod @sfstandard @stbearman Private school is a luxury, not a necessity. While you’re at it, stop voting for communists that are intent on enshitifying public schools.
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@akinfermo @sfstandard @stbearman If you only make this without other assets it's hard to pay the 180k private school tuition three kids would require of your class
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SF families earning between $310,000 and $400,000 say they occupy a specific, uncomfortable middle ground: too rich for child-care subsidies, yet too squeezed to have another kid.
📝: @stbearman sfstandard.com/2026/03/15/wea…
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@RHAlexander @pitdesi @devahaz Nanny doesn’t need an extra room. I think my overarching point is that having kids requires personal sacrifices. That said, housing availability and affordability in SF are shitty and there are too many freeloaders.
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@pitdesi @RealGautamAtri Those families can afford more kids. I think the unspoken issue is that it feels unfair that many other families are getting childcare subsidies.
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@RealGautamAtri if you make $350k, you take home $230k.
3 young kids childcare is $108k (fully paid by SF if you make less)
I get it.
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