Matt MacInnis

Who's gonna tell him...

@Francesco_Bia @alexolegimas @lugaricano That was a zinger

@alexolegimas @lugaricano A perfect quote by @stanine "American culture doesn't celebrate inherited wealth, nor does it frown upon inherited poverty".

Happy 4th of July everyone. I came here as a kid at 9 years old, not knowing a single word of english, lived on food stamps in section 8 housing. My parents cleaned houses while my sister and I collected cans for recycling. Our clothing was all donated and our furniture was things we found on the curb (here I am in front of our "tv set", the broken one being used as a stand for the little working b/w one). But this country gave us an opportunity--to learn, to work hard and earn something for it. "Grateful" does not begin to cover it. I owe this country and its people everything I have. Thank you America, happy 250 to the idea.

@rabois It was 100% inevitable. Build the infrastructure to steal a little bit, and they will use it to steal a lot.

As predicted….

@grahamneray As Canadian as Bob and Doug McKenzie

@stanine Wait you’re Canadian (too)???

Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians, especially Nova Scotians, especially especially Cape Bretoners! 🇨🇦

@andrew__reed s/AI/VC/;

if you treat the AI like you’re smart and it’s dumb, you get a productive assistant. if you have the AI treat you like you’re dumb and it’s smart, you get a great instructor. if you have the AI treat you like you’re smart and it’s smart, you get psychosis.

@MichaelBabich @saranormous Thank you. X hates when we do this ourselves. 😅

@stanine @saranormous Here is a YT link for those old schoolers who still prefer watching video in a proper video app ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ youtube.com/watch?v=XqSQ9O…

Founders step on every rake in the garden trying to figure out the Valley. I know, because my forehead is full of rake marks. I decided to interview some of the best investors about where the rakes are hidden in a new series called First Principles, starting with @saranormous.

I’m so excited to share this update on @Conception – We’ve generated the first early human eggs derived from stem cells. This is a big deal -- the potential to redefine fertility is real.

@scipiosai @saranormous I know you're talking about me

@saranormous @stanine wow your hair looks amazing here

Many parts of venture don’t make any sense to founders, and hanging out with the great but always surprising @stanine, being forced to explain how VC works, reminded me of that

@saranormous Topics: - Investing when every foundational assumption about software is invalid - What VCs say when you leave the room - The information trade, and "social cost" - Why the labs probably aren't going to eat your company - Advice Sarah things every founder needs to hear earlier

@saranormous What's causing such an abrupt decline in this measure? Is it really just a cultural shift towards "nice"?

the destruction of American education over the past decade is an incredible self-own competence is objective. a child can either do the math or they can’t. but in the u.s., a lot of people have reasons not to say that! parents don’t want to hear their kid is struggling. teachers don’t want scores used to manage them. districts don’t want embarrassment. progressives worry accountability will create inequity. conservatives don’t want federal authorities. so we end up with process, weak standards, and excuses to explain away bad outcomes. people object that it’s phones, covid, demographic change. ok! but we fail globally when others have phones, covid too — vietnam is much poorer than the u.s., yet performs well in international math comparisons. some countries treat math as a basic skill everyone needs to master. here, it is part of a fight about fairness, autonomy, and feelings in the age of AI — if people can’t do basic math, read closely, or think through problems, ai won’t make them more capable. it will become something they rely on without understanding. the countries that come out ahead in the global race won’t just have better technology. they’ll have people who know how to use it, question it, build on it. we need the national ability to decide something is worth doing coherently (teaching math!) the US has the money to teach math well but it has not shown the will. we are failing the next generation

@parkerconrad I wish more people got this.

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@_ch_rles Data Cloud supports Snowflake Zero Copy. There's a dedicated blog post about that very topic on the website!

@stanine Congrats, incredible launch!! Have you thought about ingesting data from Snowflake etc. into Rippling Data Cloud? Seems like it would help establish it as center of gravity faster, and enable many more use-cases.

This is the biggest product payload of my career. Data Cloud morphed from a BI platform into an insane AI data machine over the last 2.5 years.

Ten years in, Rippling is still shipping big new things. If you're an enterprise customer, this is the safest kind of company to buy from. They're energetic enough that you know you'll get the latest tech, but you also know they won't just disappear.

@bk_moore @typesfast We need to all fight that closure! Keep SMO open.

@typesfast Nice. Is Santa Monica Airport still closing in 2028? I know they planned on turning it into a park over building housing.

Wow JSX just added Santa Monica to Oakland service

Parker Conrad knows which employees are worth their AI spend and says Rippling can help you, too techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/par…

@alexisohanian @parkerconrad It's exhausting 😆

@parkerconrad 💪 relentlessly shipping

We launched Rippling Data Cloud today - an all-in-one rebuild of the modern data stack, with AI deeply integrated throughout. Why would you want an org-and-employee-centric data stack? Well, here’s how I used Rippling Data Cloud to help with token burn and cut AI slop. 1/ x.com/parkerconrad/s…

@parkerconrad 🫣 not me

One telling insight – by looking across GitHub pull request data and Claude spend – Rippling AI identified engineers with high AI spend, whose peers frequently asked them to re-do their work in code reviews 3/

Congrats to the many Ripplers who have been cranking on this for literally years... 🩷🩷

We published seven technical blog posts if you want do dive a little deeper. rippling.com/blog/introduci…