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Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp (formerly 37signals), NYT Best-selling author of REWORK and REMOTE, and Le Mans class-winning racing driver.

Chicago, USA
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Joined April 2008
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    4 Nov 2015

    RECONSIDER : (had to cancel my appearance, but you still deserve the talk!)

    584 retweets 829 likes
  2. 5 hours ago

    Here’s Trump retweeting the news of the $1.25M Thiel donated after assault accusations. This stuff matters a lot.

    ": Peter Thiel chooses now to give $1.25mil in support of Trump "
    22 retweets 40 likes
  3. 6 hours ago

    Q: Why won't more women, muslims, Mexicans apply to Y Combinator? A: It's a pipeline problem. Literally. Thiel is standing on the pipeline!

    54 retweets 166 likes
  4. Oct 15

    Fuck you, Peter Thiel. I swear on my mother's grave I'll never take money from you or your fund.

    157 retweets 582 likes
  5. 9 hours ago

    Shame on Y Combinator.

    324 retweets 419 likes
  6. Oct 15

    Journalism is about shining a light on what the most powerful factions do in the dark.

    423 retweets 407 likes
  7. 10 hours ago

    And who said Twitter couldn't move hearts and minds! 👏

    her tweets have been the thing that have come the closets to convincing me my principle may be wrong.
    10 retweets 62 likes
  8. 16 hours ago

    "Some people ask, 'Well, where do you draw the line?' Right here! This guy right here is the line!!" —Louis CK

    15 retweets 65 likes
  9. 14 hours ago

    I went and commented on why the YC/Thiel debate is an ethical problem rather than a political one:

    24 retweets 81 likes
  10. 13 hours ago

    To support diversity, democracy, and pluralism, we will continue to work with the guy trying to destroy all three.

    43 retweets 109 likes
  11. 12 hours ago

    YC takes "anything can be solved with another layer of indirection" seriously

    12 retweets 69 likes
  12. 14 hours ago

    That is quite the moral needle to thread.

    hm.
    20 retweets 56 likes
  13. 12 hours ago

    Project Include cuts ties with YCombinator over the latter's continued support and association with Peter Thiel.

    35 retweets 79 likes
  14. 20 hours ago

    Listening to , creator of and founder of on Podcast

    6 retweets 32 likes
  15. 19 hours ago

    Officials: Mass surveillance is legal. Courts: No. Even post-2013, "bulk collection" violated human rights (ECHR).

    2,053 retweets 2,149 likes
  16. 21 hours ago

    Why are CEOs often the last to discover something? Why don't people tell you everything you need to know?

    , , and 2 others
    15 retweets 31 likes
  17. 19 hours ago

    Law is important, but often disregarded by governments. If rights are to be guaranteed, we must enforce them through more reliable means.

    in all seriousness, do you think it ends? Or will go on in more covert channels regardless.
    925 retweets 1,667 likes
  18. 21 hours ago

    The closest thing this country has to voter fraud is the persistent effort to keep black people from voting.

    “Voter Fraud” is a dog whistle that means “brown people are voting” which makes it dumb to refute by pointing out actual fraud doesn’t exist
    1,158 retweets 1,704 likes
  19. 24 hours ago

    Actually, he invited me to speak my mind. The venture capital rant was not exactly pre-announced 😄.

    39 likes
  20. 24 hours ago

    A throwback to easier times, when invited me to critique venture capital at Startup School in 2008.

    18 retweets 114 likes
  21. Jun 27

    *giant meteor hurtling towards earth* If we destroy it, we are no better than the meteor itself. let's hear what the meteor has to say

    5,646 retweets 9,215 likes

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