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Ron Pragides 

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

San Francisco, CA Katılım Şubat 2010
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@Acyn en français
Ce jour-là dans l'Histoire@CeJour_Histoire

Le 3 mai 1803, Napoléon vend la Louisiane aux Américains. 2 144 000 kilomètres carrés. Du golfe du Mexique jusqu'à la frontière canadienne, du Mississippi aux Rocheuses. Un territoire plus vaste que la France, l'Espagne, l'Allemagne et l'Italie réunies. 22% de la superficie actuelle des États-Unis. Prix : 15 millions de dollars. Soit 80 millions de francs. Soit 3 cents l'acre. Les Américains étaient venus à Paris pour acheter la Nouvelle-Orléans. Napoléon leur a proposé tout le territoire d'un coup. Ses négociateurs n'en revenaient pas. Pourquoi brader un empire colonial entier ? Parce que son armée venait d'être décimée à Saint-Domingue par la révolte des esclaves et la fièvre jaune. Parce qu'une nouvelle guerre contre l'Angleterre se profilait. Et parce qu'il savait que sans flotte, la Louisiane tomberait aux mains des Britanniques. Son calcul : mieux valait vendre le territoire aux Américains que le perdre face aux Anglais. Et créer un rival de l'Angleterre de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique. Thomas Jefferson avait autorisé ses négociateurs à dépenser 10 millions de dollars maximum. Ils en ont dépensé 15. C'était une fois et demie le budget annuel de l'État fédéral. Pour financer l'achat, les États-Unis ont dû emprunter, à 6% d'intérêt, auprès d'une banque anglaise. La Barings. En une signature, les États-Unis ont doublé leur superficie. L'achat de la Louisiane est l'acte fondateur de la conquête de l'Ouest. Aujourd'hui encore, La Nouvelle-Orléans a un quartier français, des noms de rue en français, et des descendants de colons qui parlent encore la langue.

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Acyn@Acyn·
A lot of jokes from King Charles tonight. “You recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French”
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Coit Tower and the Bay Bridge side by side in the glow of a San Francisco sunrise
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Had Spirit Airlines been allowed to merge with Jet Blue, it would have given them much more resiliency.   Thanks to @SenWarren, @PeteButtigieg, and all of their friends in the Biden Administration who backed their enthusiastic opposition to the Spirit-Jet Blue merger, dozens of regional airports will now lose service and thousands of jobs will now be lost.
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🇧🇷 LATEST: Brazil's central bank bans stablecoin and crypto settlement in cross-border payments, effective October 1.
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“In December of 2025, Visa enabled direct on-chain settlement, allowing issuer and acquirer partners to settle obligations to the card network in USDC on the Solana blockchain rather than through traditional ACH rails… Mastercard is moving in the same direction. In March 2026, Mastercard launched its Crypto Partner Program — a global initiative bringing together more than 100 crypto-native companies […] payment providers, and financial institutions, with the explicit goal of connecting digital asset infrastructure to established card rails…” fintechtakes.com/articles/2026-… via @AlexH_Johnson @FintechTakes
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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US national debt surpasses size of the entire United States GDP for first time since World War II.
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The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter·
BREAKING: Berkshire Hathaway announces its cash balance is now up to a record $397 billion. The company sold a net -$8.1 billion worth of stocks last quarter, marking its 14th-consecutive net quarterly sale.
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only in SF can you go on a walk and see a 2,000lb celebrity sea lion named Chonkers
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🇰🇷 Gangnam Jajang 📍 Oakland, CA
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Thank you to everyone who joined us at Stripe Sessions this year! More than 10,000 attendees for the first time. We had a ton of fun putting everything together and are very proud to support everything that you are building.
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SF self-driving trio during rush hour: Waymo: overpriced Zoox: too far away Robotaxi: “High service demand” Anyways, I ended up taking a yellow cab instead 🚕
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BREAKING: Stripe Co-Founder & President @collision will be live on TBPN today at 11a PT
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In an Uber leaving Stripe Sessions and the app is showing a Stripe ad This is either an incredible coincidence or brilliant re-targeting/marketing
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