Ron Pragides
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Led pre-IPO Eng teams: @Salesforce @Twitter @BigCommerce • Eager to build another great company.
.@POTUS on Iran: "We're not going to put up with it. We are just going forward — we're attacking them tonight. We're taking out all their capability for anything having to do with the Strait... What they're doing is being very foolish, very stupid."
“Well, you know, we were in Vietnam for 19 years. We're here for 4 months…” @realDonaldTrump @POTUS
I love sf because you can get two pieces of local pickled anchovy and tomatoes toasts for only $24 plus tax and tip
NIXON & FORD — IRAN IS AN ALLY “At the beginning of the 1970s, Nixon and Kissinger had established a ‘blank check’ policy, giving the shah a free hand to buy as many American weapons systems as he wanted, even the most technologically advanced, so long as they were not nuclear… by the mid-1970s, Iran was responsible for fully half of total American arms sales abroad… Yet despite the carpings and criticism, a consensus held sway through the Nixon and Ford administrations. Iran was an essential ally with a major security role in the Middle East” @DanielYergin #ThePrize
With this year’s Michelin star announcements, and the anointment of two more three-star restaurants, it’s official: The Bay Area is the U.S. capital of fine dining. 📝: Sara Deseran sfstandard.com/2026/07/01/off…
NIXON & FORD — IRAN IS AN ALLY “At the beginning of the 1970s, Nixon and Kissinger had established a ‘blank check’ policy, giving the shah a free hand to buy as many American weapons systems as he wanted, even the most technologically advanced, so long as they were not nuclear… by the mid-1970s, Iran was responsible for fully half of total American arms sales abroad… Yet despite the carpings and criticism, a consensus held sway through the Nixon and Ford administrations. Iran was an essential ally with a major security role in the Middle East” @DanielYergin #ThePrize
