Ron Pragides
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Ron Pragides
@mrp
Led pre-IPO Eng teams: @Salesforce @Twitter @BigCommerce • Eager to build another great company.



moved to the Marina and can confirm it's the best neighborhood in SF





No such threat to our homeland of Iran launching a drone offensive on our West Coast, dumbasses. The nuclear threat of the psychotic, murderous Iranian regime is very real, however. Thank God we finally have a President who's doing something about it.


After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.






Happy New Year! I've just launched my coding agent orchestrator, Gas Town, for anyone crazy enough to try it. steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas…

Today, we announced our intent to acquire @BVNKFinance, expanding our end-to-end support of digital currencies with BVNK’s leading stablecoin-based payment Infrastructure. Together, we’re strengthening how fintechs, platforms and financial institutions connect traditional fiat and on-chain payments across rails, currencies, and regions.

“BVNK, which processes more than $30 billion in stablecoin payments annually, counts Visa, Citigroup and Coinbase Global among its investors. Mastercard and Coinbase were both circling BVNK last year before Coinbase called off talks to buy the London-Based firm, according to several published reports.” @WSJ @BVNKFinance @Mastercard

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."











