Marco Zappacosta

None of this settles what caused what. But culture now enters the growth accounting as a measured series rather than a residual - and measured, it's big. Paper: st-andrews.ac.uk/~wwwecon/repec…

@TimDraper @thumbtack Thanks for believing in us from the start!! Conviction, and the willingness to act independently, is surpassingly hard to come by and serves as a real catalyst for nascent efforts!

Marco Zappacosta (@mlz) went to school with my daughter Jesse. His dad is Pierluigi Zappacosta, the founder of Logitech, so Marco grew up watching what it looks like to build something from scratch. When he pitched me @thumbtack, I made him an offer almost on the spot because of the quiet confidence he wields. You can feel it in a room when someone genuinely sees a problem that shouldn't exist and has the energy and the intelligence to make it right. His insight was simple: there was no real marketplace connecting the millions of plumbers, cleaners, movers, and contractors who power homes and offices with the people who actually need them. Every other marketplace was either too narrow or too broken. He fixed that. The company has redefined how homeowners and landlords do home improvement and repair.. The company is still private, still growing revenues, still processing over millions of customer service requests a year across millions of registered users. That quiet confidence in the pitch room showed up in how he ran the company too. It looks like a great success.

Why do you think we can't get anything done man look at this dogshit.

Californians will really do anything except abolish the Prop 13 to properly tax some of the most valuable and immobile wealth in existence (land)

@mattyglesias Kevin Kelly had a great essay on this topic reflecting on the 10 year anniversary of the Netscape IPO wired.com/2005/08/tech/?…

“Produce is war”

For the U.S. to prosper & lower the cost of living, we gotta make it easier to build the things we need — housing, clean energy, child care centers, transit & so much more. The vetocracy needs to end. We’re doing that work in California. We need to take it national.

@raytingsystems @thumbtack Send me an email at marco@thumbtack.com with the details

The best resistance is delivering results on the issues our residents care most about. sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/1…

@typesfast You probably have it but if not a worthy addition to your coffee table. Photos of cargo ships in the bay

Instant buy

It's done. Thank you @GavinNewsom for signing SB 79! California can and will build the future!

“The greatest regret I have is underestimating the value of long term compounding. Capital, friendships, projects, places, all get better with decades. It is entirely what life is about. a few very good things for a long time.” - Will Manidis

New newsletter: HOW THE HOUSING MARKET FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BECAME A 'TOTAL DISASTER' In 1991, the median age of first-time homebuyers was 28. Now it’s 38. This is the hardest time for young people (defined, generously, up to 40) to buy their first home in modern history. The vanishing dream of 20- and 30-something homeownership isn't just an economic phenomenon. It's becoming a political centerpiece. Housing affordability is for voters under 40 what protecting Social Security is for voters over 65. The cities, states, and national parties that figure out how to talk about and ultimately solve this mess to restore housing affordability to Americans under 40 will have a major advantage in the next few years.

The Gentle Singularity blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-sin…

A clean CEQA exemption for infill housing just passed the Assembly Appropriations committee *on consent.* We have a lot more work to do, but things are looking up in California!

SB 79 (Wiener) and AB 609 (Wicks) both passed their final house of origin policy committee today. These bills are huge. If they pass, California will become a much more dynamic and affordable state, where entrepreneurs can build the future and anyone can afford to call home.

@km @patk Obviously the South African

@patk @mlz so is elon mlz or me in this analogy

Spoke to @km and talked about various issues, including the topics we discussed at dinner with @mlz earlier this year. Immense potential for collaboration in the areas of dining, fun, and technology too. // Why do pols post this meaningless stuff.

Thousands, and then millions, of American small businesses, including many iconic brands, will go bankrupt this year if the tariff policies on China don’t change. 🧵

It's exciting to see the public-intellectual drumbeat around "Abundance" manifest in this year's crop of California housing bills. They're far more ambitious--and promising--than anything I've seen previously. 🧵/17

7. Booking a one-time house cleaner for my home through the Thumbtack integration based on my budget ChatGPT Operator came back to me with four highly rated options within my price range