Steve Klebe
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Steve Klebe
@sklebe
Retired from Full time work. Advisor to FT Partners, x-Stripe, Google, CyberSource, Verifone, etc. Blog - https://t.co/jb5NtToQSE
Silicon Valley Katılım Mayıs 2009
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🇺🇸🇨🇦 ICYMI: The USA has I.C.E. Agents. Canada has N.I.C.E. Agents. Have a laugh from This Hour Has 22 Minutes @22_Minutes.
#AmericansinCanada #DemsAbroad #wethenorth
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@twifintech @jevgenijs At least they pivoted from "Circle was founded in 2013 with the idea of making Bitcoin easier to use for everyday payments.", but at $200 with a PE of over 250 in a commodity business this makes no sense just like using Bitcoin or Stablecoin for everyday payments makes little.
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Everyone’s got a bear case for Circle — but what if we’ve all got it wrong?
IPO at $31. Briefly hit $300. Now under $200.
@Jevgenijs makes the bull case no one else is talking about: thisweekinfintech.com/why-everyone-i…
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Thank you, @LincolnSquareHQ, for the opportunity to join The Strategy Session. It was an honor to speak with @stuartpstevens about honor, patriotism, and why Trump and Hegseth are unfit to lead.
Watch now: lincolnsquare.media/p/the-strategy…
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Call BS!
Anyone who buys this needs their head examined.
Bolt’s Ryan Breslow pins his hopes on a new app that takes on Coinbase, Zelle, and PayPal techcrunch.com/2025/04/16/bol… via @techcrunch
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@Hugh_Son you should know that this "Elon Musk’s X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal" is a complete yawn. Any company can do a deal to use Visa Direct. @KenzieSigalos
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@cartainc why is it that your pages don't automatically adapt to my phone's screen. This is 2024.
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@Lethain why is it that your OTPs take forever to never to arrive. It would appear you need to find another supplier or rewrite if home grown. Thanks. Happy New Year!
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I think we should all RT this beautiful reworking of a familiar South African tune in honor of Elon Musk.
Thank you @MarshSongs!
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AD: These former Trump voters are supporting Harris in 2024 youtu.be/6If0a2l6SWA?si… via @YouTube

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@davidmarcus You deserve each other. I watched your failed career in payments evolve and always remarked what a pompous ass you were. Thank you for confirming it.
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I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump.
Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from it.
My journey has been a gradual political 180 from where I stood in every previous election. It has been an eye-opening process of disenchantment, zero-basing lifelong beliefs, and rebuilding from there.
In 2017, a good friend enlisted me to pitch the DNC to raise $100M from Silicon Valley founders and executives. The aim was to use these funds and know-how to build a CRM and tech platform to prevent a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s inadequate, outdated 2016 campaign. We met with DNC leadership, who told us we could raise that money, but it would have to go to the general fund; a single-digit percentage would then be allocated to tech. In the wake of one of their most shocking failures, they didn’t want the help.
The next series of realizations began in 2019 while I was at Meta, right after we announced the Libra white paper. I testified before the Senate and the House and subsequently spent significant time in DC, engaging with lawmakers, cabinet members, regulators, and two White House administrations. At the time, I still believed the mainstream idea that Democrats were all about serving the People. However, I was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience, cared more about government power and control. This is my observation on balance, with many stories to back it up. I also found that more Republicans wanted to understand our project’s goals and took the time to learn about the risks of censoring payments and controlling the network. I found myself remarkably aligned with them.
Then COVID came, revealing more. While I don’t subscribe to the most malicious vaccine conspiracy theories, I do take offense at the censorship machine put in place to hide the origin of the virus from the NIH-funded Wuhan lab and all dissenting voices on vaccinations and lockdowns. At that time, I fully appreciated why Republicans value freedom of speech and preventing censorship.
This trend of spinning and manufacturing a parallel reality to serve the Dem agenda, solidified by complicit mainstream media, hit home with the Hunter Biden laptop story, the coordinated vilification of President Trump and his followers, and President Biden’s cognitive decline — depriving voters of a voice in a proper primary. These examples displayed the hubris of the current Dem leadership. You must think the American people are fools to believe the spin on these issues. I despise this elite vs. general population ideology viscerally.
This version of the Democratic Party is sidelining moderates and centrists and has adopted an increasingly leftist ideology. This drift to the left has dictated policies from which I’ve found myself estranged.
On the domestic front, there has been a total departure from the core American value system of meritocracy, an extreme and weaponized DEI agenda, an open door to massive illegal immigration, and a once-fringe narrative, now mainstream within the party, of vilifying success. This shift is also causing us to fall behind due to an anti-innovation regulatory climate, notably on crypto and soon AI — two non-linear technological breakthroughs that will likely determine tomorrow’s leading countries.
On foreign policy, the administration is exacerbating tensions with Russia through an aggressive NATO expansion narrative focused on Ukraine and prolonging an unwinnable war. This is costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, the world hundreds of thousands of lives, depleting the U.S. military arsenal and risking World War III. On Iran, this administration is continuing a misguided Obama-era plan to bring Iran closer to the West by unfreezing Trump-era sanctions, thus giving the Mollahs’ regime the ability to fund terrorism and pursue its anti-America, anti-Israel, and anti-Jewish agenda. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was also handled disastrously. We’re leaving a door open for China to invade Taiwan by coming across as weak. Most importantly to me, concerning Israel, the administration is enabling Iran to fund Hamas and Hezbollah, restraining Israel in its fight against its enemies, thus prolonging another conflict, which is costing more lives on both sides and allowing unprecedented levels of antisemitism to rise at home.
I believe we need a President who is unequivocally pro: America, the Constitution, business, Bitcoin/crypto, innovation, Israel, small government, legal immigration, free speech, meritocracy, and common sense — and anti: regulatory proliferation, illegal immigration, unjust wars, Iran’s current regime, and domestic groups that oppose American values. These issues are central to President Trump’s platform.
Naturally, I disagree with President Trump and the GOP on some issues, particularly women’s reproductive rights. While I’ve come to learn that extreme views exist in both parties, I firmly believe that women should have the unalienable right to make their own decisions on this polarizing topic. President Trump confirmed he was against a national abortion ban and supported the Supreme Court’s decision on maintaining access to mifepristone, which was reassuring and a sign that the party was moving closer to the center.
It’s impossible to close this post without mentioning President Trump’s recent assassination attempt. The courage and resolve he displayed seconds after being hit by a bullet was awe-inspiring for his followers and detractors alike. This was a man, however imperfect, who, at that moment, incarnated the American spirit in the most vivid way, starting to bring a split nation together.
Some claim that reelecting President Trump will bring our democracy to its knees. However, the alternative — having unelected individuals with this much power and no accountability run our government coupled with four more years of bad policies at home and abroad — might present a more significant threat. Neither will likely change in a Harris administration and could potentially worsen.
In this pivotal moment, confronted with the choices we have, I am endorsing and supporting a return to a Republican administration in 2025.
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BREAKING: This Kamala Harris ad from 2020 still goes hard. Retweet to ensure every American sees it. twitter.com/AdamJSmithGA/s…
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