JD Ross

@justindross

Cofounded , now back to the beginning. I take the side of people who build

San Francisco
Joined August 2007

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    22 Oct 2019

    The future is built, not discovered

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  2. Feb 1
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  3. Jan 31

    UPDATE: Smarter people than me say they don’t think this is real. "BLASTP shows the protein sequences map to lots of things" and these sequences are short and "non-specific"

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  4. Jan 31

    I'm also losing it over George Soros authoring a conspiracy theory in the New York Times. It's honestly brilliant satire, if intended that way.

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  5. Jan 31

    "Facebook can post deliberately misleading or false statements by candidates for public office and others, and take no responsibility for them." - Soros on section 230 This is false. *Authors* are held accountable under law, the *platform* is not. *Facebook* can't author lies.

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  6. Jan 23

    We're living in a world where presidential candidates are allowed to just say bullshit and nobody cares - JP Morgan Chase didn’t want/need bailout money - Sec. Treasury made them take it & rescue Bear Stearns - $25B, not $416B - Paid back profitably - Prevented huge depression

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 20

    Sold my grandparent’s house via and it lived up to the hype. They are in an assisted living community, none of our family lives near the house anymore, and we sold it with ~3 hours of work from thousands of miles away. Felt like magic.

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  8. Jan 17

    Crazy thread about how Jack decided to co-found Homebound with the amazing They’re rebuilding homes faster and cheaper than anyone after natural disasters strike

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  9. Jan 15

    For my SF/NY followers... Barry’s Bootcamp treadmills top out at 12.5 mph. Eliud Kipchoge maintained a 13.1 mph average speed for two straight hours, no break.

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  10. Jan 15

    “It’s a marathon not a sprint” Have you seen a marathon winner? They sprint the whole time! That’s what you’re competing against

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  11. Jan 14

    I will pay more in property tax this year as a new owner than my next door neighbor has paid in TOTAL since they moved there in 1965. That's California's Prop 13. It's a massive wealth transfer from the young to the old, many of whom rent their homes and keep the profits

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  12. Jan 9

    Netflix + Amazon are basically investing at the same rate as Softbank's Vision Fund! Can these annual content budgets possibly be rational?

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  13. Jan 9

    Lead yourself with prioritization Lead people with empathy Lead teams with conversation Lead organizations with stories Lead the world with rhetoric

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  14. Jan 6

    The Google APM program literally rejected Instagram founder & CEO Kevin Systrom, arguably the best product creator of his generation

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  15. Jan 1

    - Discretionary spending such as infrastructure investment is often better investment than wealth transfer for achieving social goals. - A powerful state doesn’t necessarily mean a large or tyrannical state. A core purpose is to enable bottoms-up innovation

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  16. Jan 1

    State Capacity Libertarianism by is worth a quick read. - Markets are very powerful, and the State should enable and boost them - Many problems require coordination and a strong state (e.g foreign policy, space, climate change, nuclear fusion)

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  17. 6 Dec 2019

    Working on national defense technology is ethical. We've studied and debated this for thousands of years. lays out the principles, and encourages us to contribute to protecting liberal democracy

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    The Great CEO Within is published today! This is the most tactical guide to building and scaling a company I've read.

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  19. 1 Dec 2019

    US is a net oil exporter. The reason we import so much is that we arbitrage it. We import low grade heavy crude and use our best-in-world refining facilities. We export our high grade light crude to countries who can’t refine heavy. Spread is profit!

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  20. Retweeted

    This is the paradox. Do we want houses to be a form of investment? Or do we want housing to become ever more affordable? We can't have it both ways, America. I vote for the latter.

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  21. 26 Nov 2019

    Facebook: <never sells personal info, just targets ads to you> Populist: BURN IT DOWN, JAIL THE CEO! Gov’t/DMV: <literally sells your personal info to marketing agencies without permission for $50m/yr in CA alone> Populist: Give us bigger government!

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