Sam Cronin

@tkexpress11 @speedrun Awesome! Welcome! And bear in mind there are phenomenally strong founders who served in non-elite combat units too!

last night we hosted 20 elite founders for dinner w/ a16z @speedrun Talpiot, 8200, Unit 49, Unit 81, Sayeret Matkal, Special Forces combat, etc even more bullish on Israeli startup scene

@lessin A study abroad year in Tehran sounds great

Hah - well, if the 'university students in the USA' don't take a beat and think about the implications of this note of support... not exactly sure what it will take. WILD

@halletecco I’ll add to the in list: clear proposition for customer economic ROI, plan to prove it, timeline for customer to feel the $$$ impact

@ESYudkowsky This is mindbendingly phenomenal! And somehow, you managed to get ChatGPT to drop acid

ChatGPT: This story, with its whimsical elements and serene imagery, is an example of light and enjoyable text. [Fin.]

@shaunmmaguire 🎉🎉🎉 Apartment hunting?!

I 💙 TLV In 🇮🇱 for a few days. Reach out!

@AnisaKadri Did you seriously write a headline that "Thousands march", a subheading that "Tens of thousands of people have marched", and content that "100,000 took part"?! No wonder Brits don't trust BBC anymore, you're a tabloid

@shaunmmaguire 100%. Yes it’s great that he was suspended - and that is a difference - but this never should have happened, we’re better than this crap

This is unacceptable. It may feel good in the short term but it’s wrong and damaging in the long run. The soldier has been suspended—which is one of the many differences between the IDF and Hamas. But we need to control our worst instincts.

@midlandsound There was a ceasefire on October 6th, Hamas broke that, now they deal with the consequences. And thank you for your help with that - when you were in Israel you spent money, which was taxed, and most of our taxes go to the Ministry of Defence. Much appreciated

@midlandsound Given that before Midland you went by Apt Pupil - you were literally inspired by Nazism - it’s unsurprising that you’re on the wrong side of history. That you have never said “return the hostages” speaks volumes. Ironic since Hamas would literally lynch you for your personal life

@erlichya #science

@samdblond “I’m Jewish. Trust of this kind is a luxury history has long since proven out my family can’t afford.” TRUTH.

I’m not apologizing for my correct assertion that parroting the propaganda of a literal terrorist organization dedicated, in its own charter, to the eradication of Jews is antisemitic. But I would like to parse these claims as thoughtfully as I can, because the situation is complex, and emotionally fraught, and I do think it is important to approach this all as soberly as possible. Nobody knows the exact number of causalities — not me, not Paul, and not the experts he just cited, dishonestly implying their current figures have been proven out (the link supports no such claim). In any case, while I’m generally not a fan of blindly trusting the experts, let’s assume the raw numbers here presented are correct. The shocking figures of a side-by-side dead baby count, itself a grisly emotional tactic designed to frighten you from reason, intentionally omits every single piece of crucial context to service Paul’s anti-Israel point: a) Israelis were just the victim of a terrorist attack where more Jews were murdered than any day since the holocaust, b) the terrorist organization responsible for the attack uses Palestinian children as human shields, c) they also use teenage “soldiers” to fight, and d) civilians fleeing Gaza at the behest of Israel, many of them children, are presently being murdered by Hamas. All of these deaths are included in the figures Paul shared. The only possible intention of posting these numbers without this crucial context is to dishonestly frame the Israeli people as bloodthirsty murderers of the very sort we all just watched, in real time, march into the homes of sleeping families and slaughter them like animals. Where is Paul’s outrage towards Hamas, or anyone calling for the extermination of Jews? Again, Hamas wrote this explicitly genocidal intent into their charter. I don’t think anyone should be forced to speak, as Paul has implied. But of course Paul *is* speaking. He just wasn’t speaking on October 7th. While I do believe Paul’s post is antisemitic, I don’t believe Paul is an antisemite. I don’t know him. Our elite institutions are, at this point quite obviously, biased against the existence of Israel, and many people unfortunately receive such propaganda passively. Earlier today Paul implored his followers to “trust the experts.” I’m Jewish. Trust of this kind is a luxury history has long since proven out my family can’t afford. Nonetheless, I do wish him well.

@Bouazizalex 100%

Incoming huge aliyah wave in the next few months/years

@shaunmmaguire 🎉🎉🎉

Dear Israeli founder community, my wife and I will be spending next summer in Tel Aviv. We’d go sooner but she’s pregnant. It will be time to build.

@zebulgar Delian you’re a champ and a voice of normality and rationale in amongst this chaotic hole that is X. Thanks

imagine saddam hussein said he wanted to repeat 9/11 at least three or four times and there were university students protesting saying we should have a cease-fire and give saddam time to stock up and attack again that would be complete lunacy right? wouldn't happen, right?? lol

@koshadillz Amazing. We need more. Keep doing these

Here is me interviewing a cute French lady about israel ✡️🇮🇱🇫🇷! Speechless! Ig: instagram.com/reel/CzCPrCFuv… TT: tiktok.com/t/ZT8B4PnNR/ FB m.facebook.com/story.php?stor… YT: youtube.com/shorts/pF1Aylf…

@msuster Experiences like these are the reason I made aliyah. Never looked back

Read below if you want the 5 second gist But watch just 40 seconds if you want to understand the casual racism we have put up with our entire lives. Me: in college as a waiter … “what’s wrong?” T to the manager Him: I got a table full of Jews

@YoniFreedhoff Come here, we have hummus (and rockets, but the hummus 🤤)

What's exceedingly clear is that Jews are not welcome anywhere on earth but Israel. My rage is incandescent. Not just with the world, but also for kidding myself into thinking things weren't as they are. So many people I used to consider allies and friends are dead to me forever.

@shaunmmaguire Same. I got tired of asking this question so I moved to Israel 11 y ago

I view the world through an extremely cynical lens With every single person I meet, the first thing through my brain is: “would they want to kill me if they knew I was Jewish?” Every. Single. Person. This is a loop I cannot turn off

@ericbahn Worked out pretty well for him! 😜

@samuelcro Most famous example!

Someday there will be a VC fund that emerges where all the GPs are ex-tech journalists. I can see that really working.

@nikillinit Can we add to that each time a seed stage startup says their business model is selling data to pharma?

going forward I will now be taking a shot anytime the phrase "telemedicine is here to stay" is uttered