Vijay Subramanian

3/3 Here’s a list of 20 such opposing/complementary forces in company building - obviously not an exhaustive list but the ones I’ve encountered most (and remembered!) that need to be managed in harmony.

@NYCMayor Yes - structural problems as continuing to increase education budgets and spending $40k per student while enrollment is down - and it’s a third of the budget. If you don’t make incremental moves in reducing spending now - you will be forced to make dramatics cuts later.

Today, alongside Speaker Menin, I continued our call for a reduction to the Passthrough Entity Tax Credit (PTET) — a tax break for some of the wealthiest New Yorkers. Our city is facing a historic fiscal deficit. The only way to balance our budget without making working people pay the price is by asking those with the most to pay their fair share. Structural problems demand structural solutions.

@ElizabAdams The free pilot experiment showed that the buses took longer and performance deteriorated - what if we just focused on better performance first and not also seek to reduce revenue into the system as a key goal.

I’m incredibly honored to be joining the Mayor’s office to improve our city’s buses for the over one million New Yorkers who depend on them everyday. We’re going to make buses fast and free!

@ClaudeDevs Having repeated issues where scheduled tasks are not firing in Cowork - it keeps skipping even when the laptop is being actively used.

Thanks to the entire Claude community for giving feedback and continuing to build with us. Read the full post-mortem here: anthropic.com/engineering/ap…

Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issues we found. All are fixed in v2.1.116+ and we’ve reset usage limits for all subscribers.

@harryh @Sen_Gounardes This seems to be his schtick now. He’s got to keep feeding the pablum that taxation is rigged in favor of the wealthy by finding seemingly plausible but deceptive examples that have no impact while the top 1% actually pay 40%+ of taxes!

@Sen_Gounardes Gold bars aren’t subject to sales tax because it’s an investment purchase not consumption. Changing this law won’t result in $600M more in tax revenue, it will just shift the transactions to other states. Be serious.

Did you know New York gives a tax break to the wealthy to buy gold bars? It costs $600M+ *annually* that we could use to pay for things New Yorkers actually need. I went to the State Capitol to hand out "gold bars" filled with almond chocolate, because this tax break is nuts.

@sarahcat21 Also weird how we ignore the hard part of SaaS isn’t the core business logic. It’s everything else around it: user roles & UX clutter, security & compliance, integrations, edge cases, adoption, change mgmt etc

I’m not short SaaS. Simply because I never want to build a CRM or an HRIS. Even with natural language. Sometimes you just want your meal delivered.

@mattturck @rabois Make the exemptions clear. And how it leads to a better system. There is no way any employer can assess who is worth $100k at the beginning of their career - not @sundarpichai , not me (even though I do look like him) or the long list of leaders who have emerged in SV.

@mattturck @rabois Can, could etc. - then change the law/policy explicitly and make it better. instead it’s a directive to take power away from an existing system to wield arbitrary exemptions.

Big Tech leaders in the US 🇺🇸 Satya Nadella, b. India 🇮🇳 Sundar Pichai, b. India 🇮🇳 Jensen Huang, b. Taiwan 🇹🇼 Lisa Su, b. Taiwan 🇹🇼 Shantanu Narayen, b. India 🇮🇳 Anil Bhusri, b. India 🇮🇳 Nikesh Arora, b. India 🇮🇳 Sanjay Mehrotra, b. India 🇮🇳 Arvind Krishna, b. India 🇮🇳 Hock Tan, b. Malaysia 🇲🇾 Safra Catz, b. Israel 🇮🇱 Sanjay Mehrotra, b. India 🇮🇳 George Kurian, b. India 🇮🇳 etc.

@SergeantSol_ @EvanMcM @signulll You realize over time that people spewing complete fabricated nonsense isn’t because they don’t know or are misinformed etc - it’s 100% unadulterated propaganda in service of an ideology. There is no debating or persuading here unfortunately.

@EvanMcM @signulll Tell me you have no idea what you’re talking about without telling me you have no idea what you’re talking about

did the administration think of the downstream effects of $100k h1b fee? let’s maybe try mapping it out, shall we? the h1b tightening (or even just the perception that h1b is a dead end) potentially nukes the intl student pipeline. right now intl tuition is a subsidy engine. full freight chinese & indian students bankroll the entire higher ed budget model. if job prospects vanish, that revenue collapses. if this happens universities cut research budgets, hire fewer postdocs, labs shrink. the us’s comparative advantage in STEM production erodes. rankings slip because rankings are basically a weighted combo of research output, funding, & prestige. that then feeds back into fewer elite applicants, further decline. then companies that depended on the churn of cheap phd labor for innovation (esp semiconductors, biotech, ai labs) lose a critical feedstock. the us historically imported brains as a growth hack.. killing h1b is essentially self sabotage.

@signulll @EvanMcM Oh the myth of rampant h1-b fraud. Given how expensive and painful and restrictive this program already is to apply - this isn’t where the rampant fraud is happening.

@EvanMcM yeah cutting h1b fraud is hugely important. i fucking agree with you. i am just saying adding $100k fee might not be the best way to do that…

@EvanMcM @signulll The utter nonsense is from you @EvanMcM It’s not easy to get a h1-b and it’s not flooded with bank tellers and truck drivers. It is heavily biased towards high skilled immigration in tech jobs - and is in fact capped with only 30% of applicants entering via a lottery system.

What on earth are you talking about. H1B is currently being used to fill everything from bank teller roles to truck driving roles. It’s not “how we import the world’s smartest people” and never has been. And even if it was, as long as natural born Americans with 4.0s from top universities can’t even get through a resume screen, I really don’t care if a few smart foreigners can’t get in for a while. Just utter and complete nonsense.

@jasonc_nc @DarrigoMelanie The erroneous tweet is by design as it only requires 5 minutes to verify.

@DarrigoMelanie It’s really good to understand the actual data before tweeting out misleading “stats” like this. Also do you plan to forcibly relocate a homeless person in Los Angeles to a vacant home in Appalachia?

There are 22 vacant homes for every homeless person in the U.S. Private equity firms own over 35,000 of those vacant homes. It’s not a housing shortage crisis. It’s a housing hoarding and affordability crisis.

@BernieSanders I know you badly want it to be but an election in a deep blue city between the liberals and the left has no national significance.

A good poll for Zohran. But don’t kid yourself. The billionaires will spend endlessly to defeat him. This is an election of national significance. Either we develop a strong progressive working class movement, or we end up with Oligarchy & authoritarianism. Stand with Mamdani.

@freak_iero_ Because it’s not the actual wage earned - do 2 mins of research before posting, oh wait - you don’t actually care about the truth as you are just baiting, got it.

WDYM $7.25 IS THE MINIMUM WAGE FOR THE USA??? how do y'all survive

@RoKhanna Literally not true but you believe what is convenient to believe

This poll highlights the fundamental disconnect between the old guard of the Democratic Party and our grassroots base. It's time for new blood.

@mdb2 I had no idea wanting Americans to afford a good life is a patented idea of a few. This idea in particular is as cheap as a penny. It’s how you make it happen that matters.

Won’t endorse Mamdani but has no problem stealing his talking points

@chamath There is absolutely no evidence a “grand bargain” is required nor that it will beat an intricate system that has been negotiated and iterated on over decades. This is all retrofitting a dumb decision with even dumber reasoning to make it look more sophisticated.

My current best view: Trump lets tariff reactions play out for a few weeks. Sees the trend of capitulations and is emboldened to keep going. He fields offers from everyone. Negotiates with no one. Then brings everyone to MaL in a month or two and puts an offer on the table: Bretton Woods 2.0. It’s simpler and more effective to have one Grand Bargain than negotiate piecemeal with 80 countries+. I am focused on figuring out what terms matter most for the MaL Accords. I have a few in mind which are obvious and would kingmake the US. I don’t buy this whole “end of US hegemony”. This is the moment to go for the jugular and establish world order around America.

@rabois @paulg What is your self-interest? Are you long US and USD?

@paulg he doesn’t. and he is protecting his self interest.

The easiest way out for Trump would be to claim that he never really meant to apply all the tariffs, and that they were just a way to make everyone come to him and offer favors in return for exemptions.

@cameron Reveal your financial positions. Is it long US or USD?

For 50 years our country has sold out Main Street in favor of Wall Street. Past Presidents have relentlessly pursued globalization deindustrialization policies that favored Capital and decimated the American middle class. Time for change. Tariffs are going to reset bad trade relationships, build back the middle class, and Make America Great Again. If it requires short term pain in the form of a market selloff for long term nation-saving gain, then I'm ok with it.

@packyM Yes, and he will treat ailments with bloodletting

If the tariffs work when 90%+ of smart people think they’re really stupid, would that make Trump one of the greatest economic geniuses in world history?

@chamath How do we know your incentives are aligned with what you say - that you are long US and the dollar versus you could be shorting the US market right now profiting off this chaos?

Good thing this mouthpiece of Globalist rhetoric is literally ALWAYS wrong. PS - Your cover just convinced me this will work.