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benahorowitz.eth is a headline-making entrepreneur and venture capitalist who mixes big bets, bold philanthropy, and blunt public takes. With ~689k followers, he turns boardroom moves into viral threads and treats policy, policing, and product like parts of the same playbook. Expect equal parts deal-making, op-eds, and family moments.
Youāll invest $400M into a social platform but still only follow 643 people, Ben treats Twitter like a VC portfolio: make huge, decisive plays, then quietly curate who gets past the gate. Also, he leaks internal memos like a plot twist writer who refuses to write short chapters.
Co-founding and scaling Andreessen Horowitz into one of the most influential venture firms in tech, plus turning hands-on philanthropy (e.g., public safety tech in Las Vegas) into measurable results.
To build and fund technologies and teams that shape markets and public life, using capital, narrative, and operations to move industries (and sometimes policy) toward what he sees as a freer, safer, and more innovative future.
Believes in the power of entrepreneurship to solve large social problems, the primacy of freedom and pragmatic policy over ideological purity, and that bold action (and funding) accelerates progress. Values loyalty, directness, and measuring impact with data and results.
Massive network and capital, a track record of founding/scaling influential ventures (a16z), an ability to make complex bets and translate them into persuasive public narratives, and a willingness to put resources behind causes he cares about.
Can be polarizing when mixing politics with business; bluntness sometimes fuels headlines that distract from substantive work; high-profile moves invite intense scrutiny and can amplify misinterpretations or backlash.
To grow on X, lean into consistent, high-value threads: 1) regular 'deal postmortems' or 'how we think' threads that teach founders; 2) short video POVs (60, 90s) explaining big bets; 3) weekly Twitter Spaces AMAs with founders and portfolio CEOs; 4) pin a clear mission tweet and a newsletter sign-up; 5) use data-driven visuals in threads and invite community Q&A to increase retweets and replies; 6) balance policy stances with behind-the-scenes product stories to broaden appeal.
Fun fact: he publicly invested $400M into Elon Muskās Twitter bid. He and his wife have donated multimillion-dollar tech packages to the Las Vegas Metro Police to boost safety (totaling multiple millions across equipment and services). Follower stats: ~689,693 followers, follows 643, and has tweeted ~2,523 times. One top tweet amusingly shows 0 views yet tens of thousands of likes, the internet remains mysterious.
Rest in Peace to my father @horowitz39 . We love you Dad.
David Joel Horowitz was born January 10, 1939 to Phil and Blanche Horowitz in Queens, New York. David was raised in Queens along with his sister Ruth. Phil and Blanche were high school teachers and members of the American Communist Party. Their lives included secret meetings, secret identities and a secret revolutionary plan. As such, they steeped David in Marxist philosophy and world affairs. We sometimes joked that he was the āTiger Woods of Communismā as he was raised to be the Partyās next great player. He thought that was funny, because like Tiger he never had a choice in the matter. The impact of his upbringing was profound, but David's life would prove to be shaped by his own self-described irrational desire to āsave the world.ā While this impulse began as a highly abstract concept, David would spend a lifetime refining it, sharpening it, completely revising it and ultimately making it his lifeās mission.
David attended Bryant High School in Queens, NY. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1959 majoring in English. He then earned a master's degree in English literature from University of California, Berkeley.
In 1959, he instantly fell in love with and married Elissa Krauthamer. They would have four children: Jonathan Daniel, Sarah Rose, Benjamin Abraham, and Anne Deborah. In 1962, at 23 years old, David wrote and published his first book, Student, which detailed the political activities of students on the UC Berkeley campus. While at Berkeley, David became frustrated with his Shakespeare professor, so he wrote his own lecture series which he delivered and was widely attended by students all across the campus. He eventually published the series in his second book: Shakespeare: an Existential View. This superhuman confidence and ability to back it up would become thematic throughout Davidās life.
Later David and Elissa moved to London, England where David studied under Ralph Miliband and became close friends with Isaac Deutscher. Later David would write Deutscherās biography. Also while in London, in 1965 David wrote The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War, which became the book that made him a force on the new left.
In 1968, David and Elissa moved the family back to the United States and purchased a home in Berkeley, California where they would raise their four children.
In his continued mission to save the world, in 1968 David became co-editor of the new left magazine Ramparts. While at Ramparts, David developed a close friendship with Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party. As part of their work together, David helped raise money for, and assisted the Panthers with, the running of a school for poor children in Oakland. He later recommended that Newton hire his friend Betty Van Patter as bookkeeper; she was then working for Ramparts. In December 1974, Van Patter's body was found floating in San Francisco Harbor; she had been murdered by the Panthers for knowing too much.
The murder forced David to confront a truth that he had long suspected. It made clear to him that the pursuit of a marxist utopia was a false and unachievable goal. Diabolically, the goal created a religion. The religion then cloaked the movementās leaders with an invincible moral standing enabling them to commit atrocities with impunity for their own gain. He was horrified that he had been part of it and it caused him to rethink his entire life.
The decision was not easy. His family, friends, and career were all deeply tied to āthe movement.ā If he were to make this change, he would essentially need to start from scratch. So, he stayed away from politics for a while and changed to a neutral career. He became a biographer and journalist. It was a hugely risky move to change careers at 34 years old with a family of 6 in tow.
In a testament to Davidās supreme confidence, indomitable will and massive talent, he was an instant success. His first biography The Rockefellerās An American Dynasty ā written with his best friend and long time colleague Peter Collier ā was a blockbuster bestseller. Their next biography The Kennedyās An American Drama was an even bigger success becoming a number 1 New York Times bestseller.
All the while, David kept an eye on and a hand in politics. While he needed a break to sort out his life, nothing in life would deter him from his mission. In 1981, San Francisco Chronicle writer Randy Schiltz tipped David and Peter to a potential epidemic known as AIDS, which was rapidly spreading through the bath houses in San Francisco. Schiltz was concerned that the leaders in the Gay Community were intimidating the medical establishment into covering up the way it was transmitted and therefore keeping the bath houses open, which would cause it to spread out of control . Randy was too terrified to write about it himself as he did not want to be attacked by the community. David, never one to fear anything, took on the story. In 1981, he and Peter published Whitewash: Gay Leaders in California Have Obscured Vital Information About How the AIDS Disease Spreads.
The aggressive reaction to the story (references to the article still call David a āhomophobeā) reinforced Davidās suspicions. If leaders on the left were willing to sacrifice millions of gay lives to preserve their power and orthodoxy, what wouldnāt they do? The article, the experience, and the ocean of death that followed were the final straw in Davidās conversion from his Marxist roots to a leading thinker on the right. He formalized his position on March 17, 1985 when he and Peter published Lefties for Reagan in The Washington Post. David departed the left for good.
The change would cost him nearly everything ā all of his friends, coverage in the New York Times Book Review (essential for authors at the time), and countless lost earnings. He would have to start all over. But if the world needed saving from his former comrades on the left, thatās exactly what he would do. Later he would note that the right never excommunicated apostates the way he had been abandoned by the left.
He often complained that he had āthe rescue gene.ā For David, this meant nothing animated him more than someone in need of help. He would instantly leap into action, making every phone call, raising every dollar, and doing anything in his power to save that person. The realization that he had been party to the destructive force activated his rescue gene and infused him with an energy that would produce dozens of books, countless public appearances, and nearly nonstop work for the next 4 decades.
In 1996, he captured this saga in his autobiography Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey where he retraced his lifeās and political journey.
1998 proved to be a seminal year for David when he met his angel April Mullivain whom he would marry and who, along with her son John Jay, would watch over him until his passing.
In 1998, he also founded The Horowitz Freedom Center, where he recruited an inspired group of new young intellectuals to join his cause. The name āFreedom Centerā meant much more than most ever understood. While David became known for his change in views, in a sense he never changed at all. His personal style represented the place and community from which he came. Even when he wore a suit, he looked like a radical forced into it due to a court date or a wedding. More importantly, his mission to save the world centered around freedom. When David went to rescue people, it was always from oppression imposed by some person or group. Early on, he had been trained to think the rich capitalists were the oppressors. His political change came from the realization that his side was doing the oppressing. Protected by the guise of being āfor the peopleā, the Panthers took Bettyās life. The progressives left millions to die of AIDS, so they could preserve their leadership positions. His former friends on the left brutally excommunicated him from all their social relationships to reign power over him. It became clear that to fight for freedom, he had to be on the right and so the Freedom Center was born.
From the Freedom Center, he published thousands of high impact articles and books. He understood the systematic implications of seemingly benign cultural changes and used that knowledge to predict much of the future. Notably, he precisely forecast the intense campus antisemitism of 2024 in his book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America published in 2006.
In 2007, David was crushed by the passing of his beloved daughter Sarah Rose who, more than any of his other children, inherited his indomitable spirit and passion for politics. She had finally succumbed to long-time chronic degeneration from her genetic condition Turnerās Syndrome. He captured the experience in his most intimate and perhaps his best book A Cracking of the Heart in 2009.
By the twenty teens, David had long been frustrated by what he referred to as the āsoft, gentlemanlyā tactics of the Republican Party. He lamented that the Republicans were bringing a nerf gun to a nuclear war. He intimately knew the leftās tactics and desperately wanted his party to match them. His wish was granted when a new kind of candidate, Donald J. Trump, won the Republican nomination. David responded instantly with the best articulation of the Trump strategy in Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America. Later, in 2024, his son Benjamin would meet President Trump and mention David. President Trumpās face immediately lit up and he insisted that Benjamin get David on the phone immediately. Hospitalized and weak, David was still delighted to speak with the President and know that his message was heard and heeded.
In 2024, David published America Betrayed: How a Christian Monk Created America & Why the Left Is Determined to Destroy Her. In it, he carefully explained how the Catholic Church ā through the indulgences ā had removed the freedom inherent in being accountable to God and replaced them with the oppression of being accountable to the church. He then explained how that same idea had come back into vogue in the U.S. Right up until the final moments, David fought for freedom.
In the end, David helped countless people and expended every fiber of his being pushing society towards freedom. He may not have saved the world, but he most certainly made it a better place ā especially for us. He was our super hero and we will love him forever.
Raghu Raghuram
@RaghuRaghuram
Nearly 30 years ago, I hired Raghu Raghuram to be a product manager at Netscape. While I do not remember much from those days, I keenly remember how smart he was. He was also eager to learn absolutely everything. The problem for me was that he was so smart that I did not have much to teach him about the products or technology, so I narrowed our conversations to leadership. As with everything else, he was eager to learn and quickly became the top product manager in the organization. I had a glimpse, but I honestly had no idea what a great leader he would become.
I watched from afar as he took over product leadership at VMware. That was quite a feat as the company was founded by my friend Diane Greene, who held her product people to the highest standard in the industry. Naturally, he went on to become Chief Executive Officer where he grew VMware into a platform company with over $13B in revenue and more than 300K customers in 60+ countries; shepherded industry-disrupting acquisitions such as Nicira; and deftly and uniquely steered VMware from on-premise to multi-cloud technology. As a result, he became known as the greatest infrastructure strategist in the game. Ultimately, he led the company through challenging times to the largest software exit ever in the sale to Broadcom.
He is an amazing strategist and leader, and I am proud of my small association with him.
That is why I am thrilled to announce that Raghu has joined Andreessen Horowitz to push us forward in 3 important areas with 3 significant roles:
A General Partner on our AI Infra team where his incredible infrastructure expertise will serve us well.
A General Partner on our Growth team where his comprehensive understanding of how to go to market, scale organizations, globalize, and navigate industry changes will be a huge boost for our growth companies.
A Managing Partner and my consigliere who will help me run the firm ā I could not be more excited to have a partner whose management and leadership skills exceed my own in many areas.
This is a dream come true for me and a giant step forward for Andreessen Horowitz.
It was an honor to be present @WhiteHouse to see @POTUS sign into law Americaās first crypto legislation. This is truly a historic moment.Ā
Stablecoins and crypto offer a full upgrade to the financial and payment systems. It offers an egalitarian system that doesnāt care about what color your skin is or how much you have in your bank account, or if you even have a bank account.
This is a win for all Americans. With the passage of stablecoin legislation we entrench the U.S. dollar as the default currency of the world, and are one step closer to making the U.S. the crypto capital of the world.Ā
Thank you to the cosponsors of this overwhelmingly bipartisan bill, including @SenatorHagerty, @SenatorTimScott, @gillibrandny, @SenLummis, @Sen_Alsobrooks, @RepFrenchHill, @CongressmanGT, @RepJeffries, @RitchieTorres, @RepJoshG, and so many more.Ā
Finally, thank you @realDonaldTrump for your continued leadership!
Rest in Peace to my father @horowitz39 . We love you Dad.
David Joel Horowitz was born January 10, 1939 to Phil and Blanche Horowitz in Queens, New York. David was raised in Queens along with his sister Ruth. Phil and Blanche were high school teachers and members of the American Communist Party. Their lives included secret meetings, secret identities and a secret revolutionary plan. As such, they steeped David in Marxist philosophy and world affairs. We sometimes joked that he was the āTiger Woods of Communismā as he was raised to be the Partyās next great player. He thought that was funny, because like Tiger he never had a choice in the matter. The impact of his upbringing was profound, but David's life would prove to be shaped by his own self-described irrational desire to āsave the world.ā While this impulse began as a highly abstract concept, David would spend a lifetime refining it, sharpening it, completely revising it and ultimately making it his lifeās mission.
David attended Bryant High School in Queens, NY. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1959 majoring in English. He then earned a master's degree in English literature from University of California, Berkeley.
In 1959, he instantly fell in love with and married Elissa Krauthamer. They would have four children: Jonathan Daniel, Sarah Rose, Benjamin Abraham, and Anne Deborah. In 1962, at 23 years old, David wrote and published his first book, Student, which detailed the political activities of students on the UC Berkeley campus. While at Berkeley, David became frustrated with his Shakespeare professor, so he wrote his own lecture series which he delivered and was widely attended by students all across the campus. He eventually published the series in his second book: Shakespeare: an Existential View. This superhuman confidence and ability to back it up would become thematic throughout Davidās life.
Later David and Elissa moved to London, England where David studied under Ralph Miliband and became close friends with Isaac Deutscher. Later David would write Deutscherās biography. Also while in London, in 1965 David wrote The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War, which became the book that made him a force on the new left.
In 1968, David and Elissa moved the family back to the United States and purchased a home in Berkeley, California where they would raise their four children.
In his continued mission to save the world, in 1968 David became co-editor of the new left magazine Ramparts. While at Ramparts, David developed a close friendship with Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party. As part of their work together, David helped raise money for, and assisted the Panthers with, the running of a school for poor children in Oakland. He later recommended that Newton hire his friend Betty Van Patter as bookkeeper; she was then working for Ramparts. In December 1974, Van Patter's body was found floating in San Francisco Harbor; she had been murdered by the Panthers for knowing too much.
The murder forced David to confront a truth that he had long suspected. It made clear to him that the pursuit of a marxist utopia was a false and unachievable goal. Diabolically, the goal created a religion. The religion then cloaked the movementās leaders with an invincible moral standing enabling them to commit atrocities with impunity for their own gain. He was horrified that he had been part of it and it caused him to rethink his entire life.
The decision was not easy. His family, friends, and career were all deeply tied to āthe movement.ā If he were to make this change, he would essentially need to start from scratch. So, he stayed away from politics for a while and changed to a neutral career. He became a biographer and journalist. It was a hugely risky move to change careers at 34 years old with a family of 6 in tow.
In a testament to Davidās supreme confidence, indomitable will and massive talent, he was an instant success. His first biography The Rockefellerās An American Dynasty ā written with his best friend and long time colleague Peter Collier ā was a blockbuster bestseller. Their next biography The Kennedyās An American Drama was an even bigger success becoming a number 1 New York Times bestseller.
All the while, David kept an eye on and a hand in politics. While he needed a break to sort out his life, nothing in life would deter him from his mission. In 1981, San Francisco Chronicle writer Randy Schiltz tipped David and Peter to a potential epidemic known as AIDS, which was rapidly spreading through the bath houses in San Francisco. Schiltz was concerned that the leaders in the Gay Community were intimidating the medical establishment into covering up the way it was transmitted and therefore keeping the bath houses open, which would cause it to spread out of control . Randy was too terrified to write about it himself as he did not want to be attacked by the community. David, never one to fear anything, took on the story. In 1981, he and Peter published Whitewash: Gay Leaders in California Have Obscured Vital Information About How the AIDS Disease Spreads.
The aggressive reaction to the story (references to the article still call David a āhomophobeā) reinforced Davidās suspicions. If leaders on the left were willing to sacrifice millions of gay lives to preserve their power and orthodoxy, what wouldnāt they do? The article, the experience, and the ocean of death that followed were the final straw in Davidās conversion from his Marxist roots to a leading thinker on the right. He formalized his position on March 17, 1985 when he and Peter published Lefties for Reagan in The Washington Post. David departed the left for good.
The change would cost him nearly everything ā all of his friends, coverage in the New York Times Book Review (essential for authors at the time), and countless lost earnings. He would have to start all over. But if the world needed saving from his former comrades on the left, thatās exactly what he would do. Later he would note that the right never excommunicated apostates the way he had been abandoned by the left.
He often complained that he had āthe rescue gene.ā For David, this meant nothing animated him more than someone in need of help. He would instantly leap into action, making every phone call, raising every dollar, and doing anything in his power to save that person. The realization that he had been party to the destructive force activated his rescue gene and infused him with an energy that would produce dozens of books, countless public appearances, and nearly nonstop work for the next 4 decades.
In 1996, he captured this saga in his autobiography Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey where he retraced his lifeās and political journey.
1998 proved to be a seminal year for David when he met his angel April Mullivain whom he would marry and who, along with her son John Jay, would watch over him until his passing.
In 1998, he also founded The Horowitz Freedom Center, where he recruited an inspired group of new young intellectuals to join his cause. The name āFreedom Centerā meant much more than most ever understood. While David became known for his change in views, in a sense he never changed at all. His personal style represented the place and community from which he came. Even when he wore a suit, he looked like a radical forced into it due to a court date or a wedding. More importantly, his mission to save the world centered around freedom. When David went to rescue people, it was always from oppression imposed by some person or group. Early on, he had been trained to think the rich capitalists were the oppressors. His political change came from the realization that his side was doing the oppressing. Protected by the guise of being āfor the peopleā, the Panthers took Bettyās life. The progressives left millions to die of AIDS, so they could preserve their leadership positions. His former friends on the left brutally excommunicated him from all their social relationships to reign power over him. It became clear that to fight for freedom, he had to be on the right and so the Freedom Center was born.
From the Freedom Center, he published thousands of high impact articles and books. He understood the systematic implications of seemingly benign cultural changes and used that knowledge to predict much of the future. Notably, he precisely forecast the intense campus antisemitism of 2024 in his book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America published in 2006.
In 2007, David was crushed by the passing of his beloved daughter Sarah Rose who, more than any of his other children, inherited his indomitable spirit and passion for politics. She had finally succumbed to long-time chronic degeneration from her genetic condition Turnerās Syndrome. He captured the experience in his most intimate and perhaps his best book A Cracking of the Heart in 2009.
By the twenty teens, David had long been frustrated by what he referred to as the āsoft, gentlemanlyā tactics of the Republican Party. He lamented that the Republicans were bringing a nerf gun to a nuclear war. He intimately knew the leftās tactics and desperately wanted his party to match them. His wish was granted when a new kind of candidate, Donald J. Trump, won the Republican nomination. David responded instantly with the best articulation of the Trump strategy in Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America. Later, in 2024, his son Benjamin would meet President Trump and mention David. President Trumpās face immediately lit up and he insisted that Benjamin get David on the phone immediately. Hospitalized and weak, David was still delighted to speak with the President and know that his message was heard and heeded.
In 2024, David published America Betrayed: How a Christian Monk Created America & Why the Left Is Determined to Destroy Her. In it, he carefully explained how the Catholic Church ā through the indulgences ā had removed the freedom inherent in being accountable to God and replaced them with the oppression of being accountable to the church. He then explained how that same idea had come back into vogue in the U.S. Right up until the final moments, David fought for freedom.
In the end, David helped countless people and expended every fiber of his being pushing society towards freedom. He may not have saved the world, but he most certainly made it a better place ā especially for us. He was our super hero and we will love him forever.
Raghu Raghuram
@RaghuRaghuram
Nearly 30 years ago, I hired Raghu Raghuram to be a product manager at Netscape. While I do not remember much from those days, I keenly remember how smart he was. He was also eager to learn absolutely everything. The problem for me was that he was so smart that I did not have much to teach him about the products or technology, so I narrowed our conversations to leadership. As with everything else, he was eager to learn and quickly became the top product manager in the organization. I had a glimpse, but I honestly had no idea what a great leader he would become.
I watched from afar as he took over product leadership at VMware. That was quite a feat as the company was founded by my friend Diane Greene, who held her product people to the highest standard in the industry. Naturally, he went on to become Chief Executive Officer where he grew VMware into a platform company with over $13B in revenue and more than 300K customers in 60+ countries; shepherded industry-disrupting acquisitions such as Nicira; and deftly and uniquely steered VMware from on-premise to multi-cloud technology. As a result, he became known as the greatest infrastructure strategist in the game. Ultimately, he led the company through challenging times to the largest software exit ever in the sale to Broadcom.
He is an amazing strategist and leader, and I am proud of my small association with him.
That is why I am thrilled to announce that Raghu has joined Andreessen Horowitz to push us forward in 3 important areas with 3 significant roles:
A General Partner on our AI Infra team where his incredible infrastructure expertise will serve us well.
A General Partner on our Growth team where his comprehensive understanding of how to go to market, scale organizations, globalize, and navigate industry changes will be a huge boost for our growth companies.
A Managing Partner and my consigliere who will help me run the firm ā I could not be more excited to have a partner whose management and leadership skills exceed my own in many areas.
This is a dream come true for me and a giant step forward for Andreessen Horowitz.
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Also, he leaks internal memos like a plot twist writer who refuses to write short chapters.","win":"Co-founding and scaling Andreessen Horowitz into one of the most influential venture firms in tech, plus turning hands-on philanthropy (e.g., public safety tech in Las Vegas) into measurable results."},"tweets":[{"bookmarked":false,"display_text_range":[0,100],"entities":{"hashtags":[],"symbols":[],"timestamps":[],"urls":[],"user_mentions":[]},"favorited":false,"lang":"en","retweeted":false,"fact_check":null,"id":"1522198624486125570","view_count":0,"bookmark_count":622,"created_at":1651755407000,"favorite_count":37587,"quote_count":568,"reply_count":765,"retweet_count":3076,"user_id_str":"16242081","conversation_id_str":"1522198624486125570","full_text":"1/First some news, we are joining Elon Muskās bid for Twitter and investing $400MM into the company.","in_reply_to_user_id_str":null,"in_reply_to_status_id_str":null,"is_quote_status":0,"is_ai":null,"ai_score":null,"source":"scraping","fetched_at":null,"edit_history_tweet_ids":null,"poll_10min_at":null,"poll_3day_at":null,"poll_count":0,"poll_complete":0},{"entities":{"hashtags":[],"media":[{"display_url":"pic.x.com/c7PG6zE60W","expanded_url":"https://x.com/bhorowitz/status/1917383970498699610/photo/1","ext_media_availability":{"status":"Available"},"features":{"large":{"faces":[]},"medium":{"faces":[]},"orig":{"faces":[]},"small":{"faces":[]}},"id_str":"1917383879905927171","indices":[273,296],"media_key":"3_1917383879905927171","media_results":{"result":{"media_key":"3_1917383879905927171"}},"media_url_https":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpvqeuPaYAMDkOt.jpg","original_info":{"focus_rects":[{"h":2258,"w":4032,"x":0,"y":766},{"h":3024,"w":3024,"x":604,"y":0},{"h":3024,"w":2653,"x":790,"y":0},{"h":3024,"w":1512,"x":1360,"y":0},{"h":3024,"w":4032,"x":0,"y":0}],"height":3024,"width":4032},"sizes":{"large":{"h":1536,"resize":"fit","w":2048},"medium":{"h":900,"resize":"fit","w":1200},"small":{"h":510,"resize":"fit","w":680},"thumb":{"h":150,"resize":"crop","w":150}},"type":"photo","url":"https://t.co/c7PG6zE60W"}],"symbols":[],"timestamps":[],"urls":[],"user_mentions":[{"id_str":"187578616","indices":[27,38],"name":"David Horowitz","screen_name":"horowitz39"}]},"extended_entities":{"media":[{"display_url":"pic.x.com/c7PG6zE60W","expanded_url":"https://x.com/bhorowitz/status/1917383970498699610/photo/1","ext_media_availability":{"status":"Available"},"features":{"large":{"faces":[]},"medium":{"faces":[]},"orig":{"faces":[]},"small":{"faces":[]}},"id_str":"1917383879905927171","indices":[273,296],"media_key":"3_1917383879905927171","media_results":{"result":{"media_key":"3_1917383879905927171"}},"media_url_https":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpvqeuPaYAMDkOt.jpg","original_info":{"focus_rects":[{"h":2258,"w":4032,"x":0,"y":766},{"h":3024,"w":3024,"x":604,"y":0},{"h":3024,"w":2653,"x":790,"y":0},{"h":3024,"w":1512,"x":1360,"y":0},{"h":3024,"w":4032,"x":0,"y":0}],"height":3024,"width":4032},"sizes":{"large":{"h":1536,"resize":"fit","w":2048},"medium":{"h":900,"resize":"fit","w":1200},"small":{"h":510,"resize":"fit","w":680},"thumb":{"h":150,"resize":"crop","w":150}},"type":"photo","url":"https://t.co/c7PG6zE60W"}]},"display_text_range":[0,272],"lang":"en","possibly_sensitive":false,"fact_check":null,"id":"1917383970498699610","view_count":1138323,"bookmark_count":927,"created_at":1745974936000,"favorite_count":8455,"quote_count":156,"reply_count":719,"retweet_count":766,"user_id_str":"16242081","conversation_id_str":"1917383970498699610","full_text":"Rest in Peace to my father @horowitz39 . We love you Dad. \n\nDavid Joel Horowitz was born January 10, 1939 to Phil and Blanche Horowitz in Queens, New York. David was raised in Queens along with his sister Ruth. Phil and Blanche were high school teachers and members of the American Communist Party. Their lives included secret meetings, secret identities and a secret revolutionary plan. As such, they steeped David in Marxist philosophy and world affairs. We sometimes joked that he was the āTiger Woods of Communismā as he was raised to be the Partyās next great player. He thought that was funny, because like Tiger he never had a choice in the matter. The impact of his upbringing was profound, but David's life would prove to be shaped by his own self-described irrational desire to āsave the world.ā While this impulse began as a highly abstract concept, David would spend a lifetime refining it, sharpening it, completely revising it and ultimately making it his lifeās mission.\n\nDavid attended Bryant High School in Queens, NY. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1959 majoring in English. He then earned a master's degree in English literature from University of California, Berkeley.\n\nIn 1959, he instantly fell in love with and married Elissa Krauthamer. They would have four children: Jonathan Daniel, Sarah Rose, Benjamin Abraham, and Anne Deborah. In 1962, at 23 years old, David wrote and published his first book, Student, which detailed the political activities of students on the UC Berkeley campus. While at Berkeley, David became frustrated with his Shakespeare professor, so he wrote his own lecture series which he delivered and was widely attended by students all across the campus. He eventually published the series in his second book: Shakespeare: an Existential View. This superhuman confidence and ability to back it up would become thematic throughout Davidās life.\n\nLater David and Elissa moved to London, England where David studied under Ralph Miliband and became close friends with Isaac Deutscher. Later David would write Deutscherās biography. Also while in London, in 1965 David wrote The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War, which became the book that made him a force on the new left.\n\nIn 1968, David and Elissa moved the family back to the United States and purchased a home in Berkeley, California where they would raise their four children.\n\nIn his continued mission to save the world, in 1968 David became co-editor of the new left magazine Ramparts. While at Ramparts, David developed a close friendship with Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party. As part of their work together, David helped raise money for, and assisted the Panthers with, the running of a school for poor children in Oakland. He later recommended that Newton hire his friend Betty Van Patter as bookkeeper; she was then working for Ramparts. In December 1974, Van Patter's body was found floating in San Francisco Harbor; she had been murdered by the Panthers for knowing too much.\n\nThe murder forced David to confront a truth that he had long suspected. It made clear to him that the pursuit of a marxist utopia was a false and unachievable goal. Diabolically, the goal created a religion. The religion then cloaked the movementās leaders with an invincible moral standing enabling them to commit atrocities with impunity for their own gain. He was horrified that he had been part of it and it caused him to rethink his entire life.\n\nThe decision was not easy. His family, friends, and career were all deeply tied to āthe movement.ā If he were to make this change, he would essentially need to start from scratch. So, he stayed away from politics for a while and changed to a neutral career. He became a biographer and journalist. It was a hugely risky move to change careers at 34 years old with a family of 6 in tow.\n\nIn a testament to Davidās supreme confidence, indomitable will and massive talent, he was an instant success. His first biography The Rockefellerās An American Dynasty ā written with his best friend and long time colleague Peter Collier ā was a blockbuster bestseller. Their next biography The Kennedyās An American Drama was an even bigger success becoming a number 1 New York Times bestseller.\n\nAll the while, David kept an eye on and a hand in politics. While he needed a break to sort out his life, nothing in life would deter him from his mission. In 1981, San Francisco Chronicle writer Randy Schiltz tipped David and Peter to a potential epidemic known as AIDS, which was rapidly spreading through the bath houses in San Francisco. Schiltz was concerned that the leaders in the Gay Community were intimidating the medical establishment into covering up the way it was transmitted and therefore keeping the bath houses open, which would cause it to spread out of control . Randy was too terrified to write about it himself as he did not want to be attacked by the community. David, never one to fear anything, took on the story. In 1981, he and Peter published Whitewash: Gay Leaders in California Have Obscured Vital Information About How the AIDS Disease Spreads.\n\nThe aggressive reaction to the story (references to the article still call David a āhomophobeā) reinforced Davidās suspicions. If leaders on the left were willing to sacrifice millions of gay lives to preserve their power and orthodoxy, what wouldnāt they do? The article, the experience, and the ocean of death that followed were the final straw in Davidās conversion from his Marxist roots to a leading thinker on the right. He formalized his position on March 17, 1985 when he and Peter published Lefties for Reagan in The Washington Post. David departed the left for good.\n\nThe change would cost him nearly everything ā all of his friends, coverage in the New York Times Book Review (essential for authors at the time), and countless lost earnings. He would have to start all over. But if the world needed saving from his former comrades on the left, thatās exactly what he would do. Later he would note that the right never excommunicated apostates the way he had been abandoned by the left.\n\nHe often complained that he had āthe rescue gene.ā For David, this meant nothing animated him more than someone in need of help. He would instantly leap into action, making every phone call, raising every dollar, and doing anything in his power to save that person. The realization that he had been party to the destructive force activated his rescue gene and infused him with an energy that would produce dozens of books, countless public appearances, and nearly nonstop work for the next 4 decades.\n\nIn 1996, he captured this saga in his autobiography Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey where he retraced his lifeās and political journey.\n\n1998 proved to be a seminal year for David when he met his angel April Mullivain whom he would marry and who, along with her son John Jay, would watch over him until his passing.\n\nIn 1998, he also founded The Horowitz Freedom Center, where he recruited an inspired group of new young intellectuals to join his cause. The name āFreedom Centerā meant much more than most ever understood. While David became known for his change in views, in a sense he never changed at all. His personal style represented the place and community from which he came. Even when he wore a suit, he looked like a radical forced into it due to a court date or a wedding. More importantly, his mission to save the world centered around freedom. When David went to rescue people, it was always from oppression imposed by some person or group. Early on, he had been trained to think the rich capitalists were the oppressors. His political change came from the realization that his side was doing the oppressing. Protected by the guise of being āfor the peopleā, the Panthers took Bettyās life. The progressives left millions to die of AIDS, so they could preserve their leadership positions. His former friends on the left brutally excommunicated him from all their social relationships to reign power over him. It became clear that to fight for freedom, he had to be on the right and so the Freedom Center was born.\n\nFrom the Freedom Center, he published thousands of high impact articles and books. He understood the systematic implications of seemingly benign cultural changes and used that knowledge to predict much of the future. Notably, he precisely forecast the intense campus antisemitism of 2024 in his book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America published in 2006.\n\nIn 2007, David was crushed by the passing of his beloved daughter Sarah Rose who, more than any of his other children, inherited his indomitable spirit and passion for politics. She had finally succumbed to long-time chronic degeneration from her genetic condition Turnerās Syndrome. He captured the experience in his most intimate and perhaps his best book A Cracking of the Heart in 2009.\n\nBy the twenty teens, David had long been frustrated by what he referred to as the āsoft, gentlemanlyā tactics of the Republican Party. He lamented that the Republicans were bringing a nerf gun to a nuclear war. He intimately knew the leftās tactics and desperately wanted his party to match them. His wish was granted when a new kind of candidate, Donald J. Trump, won the Republican nomination. David responded instantly with the best articulation of the Trump strategy in Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America. Later, in 2024, his son Benjamin would meet President Trump and mention David. President Trumpās face immediately lit up and he insisted that Benjamin get David on the phone immediately. Hospitalized and weak, David was still delighted to speak with the President and know that his message was heard and heeded.\n\nIn 2024, David published America Betrayed: How a Christian Monk Created America & Why the Left Is Determined to Destroy Her. In it, he carefully explained how the Catholic Church ā through the indulgences ā had removed the freedom inherent in being accountable to God and replaced them with the oppression of being accountable to the church. He then explained how that same idea had come back into vogue in the U.S. Right up until the final moments, David fought for freedom.\n\nIn the end, David helped countless people and expended every fiber of his being pushing society towards freedom. He may not have saved the world, but he most certainly made it a better place ā especially for us. He was our super hero and we will love him forever.","in_reply_to_user_id_str":null,"in_reply_to_status_id_str":null,"is_quote_status":0,"is_ai":null,"ai_score":null,"source":"scraping","fetched_at":1774572916817,"edit_history_tweet_ids":null,"poll_10min_at":null,"poll_3day_at":null,"poll_count":0,"poll_complete":0},{"bookmarked":false,"display_text_range":[0,277],"entities":{"hashtags":[],"symbols":[],"timestamps":[],"urls":[],"user_mentions":[]},"favorited":false,"lang":"en","retweeted":false,"fact_check":null,"id":"1844841985020248205","view_count":852491,"bookmark_count":420,"created_at":1728679579000,"favorite_count":2417,"quote_count":93,"reply_count":204,"retweet_count":186,"user_id_str":"16242081","conversation_id_str":"1844841985020248205","full_text":"āYou can hate me now, but I wonāt stop now.ā\n- Nas\n\nIt has come to my attention that Techcrunch is working on yet another piece on me. This time they seem to be curious about my donations to the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. To save everyone some time and from yet another unsubstantiated narrative, I thought Iād share how Iāve been helping the LVMPD become the most technologically advanced police department in the world.\n\nThere were several reasons why I wanted to do this project and why I wanted to do it in Las Vegas:\n\nPublic safety is incredibly important and impacts everyone. My wife Felicia grew up in a very high crime area and saw many of her friends murdered. These murders may sound like statistics to some, but they destroy families and lives. The key to making citizens, police, and suspects safer is better intelligence. If you do not have 1 on 1 confrontations between people with guns, that helps. If you donāt have high speed car chases, and you donāt have to chase people over fences and onto roofs, that makes everyone much safer. If people know that they are unlikely to get away with crimes, they are less likely to commit them.\n\nOur American Dynamism effort has been amazing in making the best technology available to the public sector, but the public sector often has trouble budgeting for strategic technology projects. By donating the technology, I am able to give LVMPD a running start.\nThe LVMPD is perhaps the best in the country as exemplified by their incredibly high murder solve rate of 92%, which is the highest in the nation. I believed further enabling the incredible officers of the LVMPD would yield great results and it has.\n\nSo what have we done so far that Techcrunch is investigating? We have been busy. There is much to investigate as there have been several areas of need.\nFirst, the LVMPD needed to solidify the basic technology of the department. Las Vegas added major events such as F1 and the Super Bowl, but didnāt correspondingly increase police funding. Specifically, they were short on computer terminals for officers, so Felicia and I donated $800,000 worth of new computer terminals.\n\nNext, Las Vegas was having difficulty retaining 911 operators. 911 is an incredibly stressful job and the attrition rate got so high that it was taking over 5 minutes to respond to emergency calls. In diagnosing the problem with Chief Mike Gennaro, we came up with a multifaceted solution. First, the LVMPD needed to fix the basic work environment. Felicia and I donated a new ice machine, a new cappuccino machine, and a new gymnasium to make a stressful job more pleasant. These new facilities were around $120,000. Next, we wanted to outfit them with the latest and greatest in emergency call technology, so we donated $400,000 to purchase technology from one of our portfolio companies, Prepared911. I am thrilled to report that attrition is way down and 911 calls are being answered in 30 seconds.\n\nFinally, the LVMPD wanted to radically improve its intelligence and situational awareness. To do this we donated approximately $6.3 million dollars towards the purchase of two state-of-the-art public safety technologies from Skydio and Flock Safety, also a16z portfolio companies. These technologies have been deployed with great success in cities like San Francisco as recently described by Mayor London Breed.\n\nThe technologies put the LVMPD in a position of knowledge. For example, if someone steals a car with a baby in it, the Flock Safety system will locate and geotag the license plate, then a Skydio drone is automatically sent to monitor the situation. The camera feed from the drone will be sent to every police officerās cell phone, so that they can approach the situation with the appropriate resources leading to a recovery of the child and a safe apprehension of the suspect.\n\nThe early results of these efforts have been spectacular and will get much better as the LVMPDĀ approaches full deployment.\n\nFor the 911 emergency service, the YTD average through September 2024 for calls answered in less than 15 seconds is 95%, up from 66% for the same time period in 2023.\n\nThe general year over year crime statistics improved as follows:\n\nShootings\nDecrease of 21.40%\nYear 2023: 668\nYear 2024: 525\n\nShooting Victims\nDecrease of 24.20%\nYear 2023: 302\nYear 2024: 229\n\nHomicides (current solve rate 94%)\nDecrease of 20.79%\nYear 2023: 101\nYear 2024: 80\n\nProperty Crimes\nDecrease of 10.90%\nYear 2023: 57,126\nYear 2024: 50,874\n\nOn just the Flock Safety stand-alone implementation, the LVMPD was able to achieve the following:\n\nStolen Vehicle Alerts\nIncrease of 48%\nYear 2023: 2841\nYear 2024: 4194\n\nSuspects Arrested\nIncrease of 17%\nYear 2023: 544\nYear 2024: 639\n\nDespite whatever Techcrunch writes, the LVMPD is just getting started and we are proud to support them in making Las Vegas the safest city in America for all of its citizens.","in_reply_to_user_id_str":null,"in_reply_to_status_id_str":null,"is_quote_status":0,"is_ai":null,"ai_score":null,"source":"scraping","fetched_at":null,"edit_history_tweet_ids":null,"poll_10min_at":null,"poll_3day_at":null,"poll_count":0,"poll_complete":0},{"truncated":false,"display_text_range":[0,278],"entities":{"hashtags":[],"symbols":[],"user_mentions":[],"urls":[]},"source":"scraping","in_reply_to_status_id":null,"in_reply_to_user_id":null,"in_reply_to_screen_name":null,"user_id":16242081,"geo":null,"coordinates":null,"place":null,"contributors":null,"conversation_id":1842344079163822300,"conversation_muted":false,"favorited":false,"retweeted":false,"lang":"en","ext":{"superFollowMetadata":{"r":{"ok":{}},"ttl":-1}},"fact_check":null,"id":"1842344079163822239","view_count":1452313,"bookmark_count":null,"created_at":1728084032000,"favorite_count":2246,"quote_count":152,"reply_count":602,"retweet_count":126,"user_id_str":"16242081","conversation_id_str":"1842344079163822239","full_text":"I sent an internal email that Axios got a hold of it. Here it is. This is what it is, there is nothing else no matter how it gets characterized:\n\nPolitical Update\na16zers,\n\nI wanted to give you an update on my political activity. As I mentioned before, Felicia and I have known Vice President Harris for over 10 years and she has been a great friend to both of us during that time. Sheās also been a friend to the firm in our early days, helping with several events at my house when we built the original Cultural Leadership Fund network. As a result of our friendship, Felicia and I will be making a significant donation to entities who support the Harris Walz campaign.\n\nFrom a firm perspective, we continue to only take positions consistent with our Little Tech Agenda and how the various candidates that support or donāt support policies to build a strong startup technology industry. Although I have had several conversations with Vice President Harris and her team on their likely tech policies and am encouraged by my belief in her, they have not yet stated what their tech policy will be, so the firm will not be updating its position in that regard. As we stated earlier, the Biden Administration has been exceptionally destructive on tech policy across the industry, but especially as it relates to Crypto/Blockchain and AI. 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She continues this work helping people all over the world through her continued support of prison clemency programs like Taking Action for Good, healthcare programs at UMC, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Stanford Hospital and The Ruvo Center for Brain Health, and creative programs for disadvantaged youth like the Chloe and Maud Foundation, The Apollo Theater, Las Vegas Dance and Arts, and Where Art Can Occur among many other causes. She is President of the Paid in Full Foundation, honoring and supporting the original heroes of hip hop. Beyond that, she brings people together from all walks of life and continues to create opportunities for people who would never otherwise have them.\n\nMeanwhile, under Moritzās leadership, his venture firm never hired a single black person. When asked about hiring women, he rejected the notion saying he wouldnāt ālower the bar.ā\n\nMoritz has now decided to sic his reporter Emily Shugerman on us to imply that Felicia somehow abandoned her work, but Shugerman carefully avoided talking to any of the thousands of people Felicia has helped. The coming article is a cheap hit piece and its premise is blatantly racist. Implying that a black woman cannot make clear decisions on politics consistent with her philanthropic work is gross. Tying a specific statement that I made on technology policy ā that Bidenās tech policies regarding crypto, AI, and tax structure were worse than Trumpās proposals ā to Felicia is dishonest.\n\nWhen I asked Felicia if she wanted to reply, she simply said: āMike Moritz and Emily Shugerman can kiss the crack of my black ass.ā\n\n----\nMy name is Emily Shugerman and I am a reporter working with the SF Standard. 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We love you Dad. \n\nDavid Joel Horowitz was born January 10, 1939 to Phil and Blanche Horowitz in Queens, New York. David was raised in Queens along with his sister Ruth. Phil and Blanche were high school teachers and members of the American Communist Party. Their lives included secret meetings, secret identities and a secret revolutionary plan. As such, they steeped David in Marxist philosophy and world affairs. We sometimes joked that he was the āTiger Woods of Communismā as he was raised to be the Partyās next great player. He thought that was funny, because like Tiger he never had a choice in the matter. The impact of his upbringing was profound, but David's life would prove to be shaped by his own self-described irrational desire to āsave the world.ā While this impulse began as a highly abstract concept, David would spend a lifetime refining it, sharpening it, completely revising it and ultimately making it his lifeās mission.\n\nDavid attended Bryant High School in Queens, NY. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1959 majoring in English. He then earned a master's degree in English literature from University of California, Berkeley.\n\nIn 1959, he instantly fell in love with and married Elissa Krauthamer. They would have four children: Jonathan Daniel, Sarah Rose, Benjamin Abraham, and Anne Deborah. In 1962, at 23 years old, David wrote and published his first book, Student, which detailed the political activities of students on the UC Berkeley campus. While at Berkeley, David became frustrated with his Shakespeare professor, so he wrote his own lecture series which he delivered and was widely attended by students all across the campus. He eventually published the series in his second book: Shakespeare: an Existential View. This superhuman confidence and ability to back it up would become thematic throughout Davidās life.\n\nLater David and Elissa moved to London, England where David studied under Ralph Miliband and became close friends with Isaac Deutscher. Later David would write Deutscherās biography. Also while in London, in 1965 David wrote The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War, which became the book that made him a force on the new left.\n\nIn 1968, David and Elissa moved the family back to the United States and purchased a home in Berkeley, California where they would raise their four children.\n\nIn his continued mission to save the world, in 1968 David became co-editor of the new left magazine Ramparts. While at Ramparts, David developed a close friendship with Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party. As part of their work together, David helped raise money for, and assisted the Panthers with, the running of a school for poor children in Oakland. He later recommended that Newton hire his friend Betty Van Patter as bookkeeper; she was then working for Ramparts. In December 1974, Van Patter's body was found floating in San Francisco Harbor; she had been murdered by the Panthers for knowing too much.\n\nThe murder forced David to confront a truth that he had long suspected. It made clear to him that the pursuit of a marxist utopia was a false and unachievable goal. Diabolically, the goal created a religion. The religion then cloaked the movementās leaders with an invincible moral standing enabling them to commit atrocities with impunity for their own gain. He was horrified that he had been part of it and it caused him to rethink his entire life.\n\nThe decision was not easy. His family, friends, and career were all deeply tied to āthe movement.ā If he were to make this change, he would essentially need to start from scratch. So, he stayed away from politics for a while and changed to a neutral career. He became a biographer and journalist. It was a hugely risky move to change careers at 34 years old with a family of 6 in tow.\n\nIn a testament to Davidās supreme confidence, indomitable will and massive talent, he was an instant success. His first biography The Rockefellerās An American Dynasty ā written with his best friend and long time colleague Peter Collier ā was a blockbuster bestseller. Their next biography The Kennedyās An American Drama was an even bigger success becoming a number 1 New York Times bestseller.\n\nAll the while, David kept an eye on and a hand in politics. While he needed a break to sort out his life, nothing in life would deter him from his mission. In 1981, San Francisco Chronicle writer Randy Schiltz tipped David and Peter to a potential epidemic known as AIDS, which was rapidly spreading through the bath houses in San Francisco. Schiltz was concerned that the leaders in the Gay Community were intimidating the medical establishment into covering up the way it was transmitted and therefore keeping the bath houses open, which would cause it to spread out of control . Randy was too terrified to write about it himself as he did not want to be attacked by the community. David, never one to fear anything, took on the story. In 1981, he and Peter published Whitewash: Gay Leaders in California Have Obscured Vital Information About How the AIDS Disease Spreads.\n\nThe aggressive reaction to the story (references to the article still call David a āhomophobeā) reinforced Davidās suspicions. If leaders on the left were willing to sacrifice millions of gay lives to preserve their power and orthodoxy, what wouldnāt they do? The article, the experience, and the ocean of death that followed were the final straw in Davidās conversion from his Marxist roots to a leading thinker on the right. He formalized his position on March 17, 1985 when he and Peter published Lefties for Reagan in The Washington Post. David departed the left for good.\n\nThe change would cost him nearly everything ā all of his friends, coverage in the New York Times Book Review (essential for authors at the time), and countless lost earnings. He would have to start all over. But if the world needed saving from his former comrades on the left, thatās exactly what he would do. Later he would note that the right never excommunicated apostates the way he had been abandoned by the left.\n\nHe often complained that he had āthe rescue gene.ā For David, this meant nothing animated him more than someone in need of help. He would instantly leap into action, making every phone call, raising every dollar, and doing anything in his power to save that person. The realization that he had been party to the destructive force activated his rescue gene and infused him with an energy that would produce dozens of books, countless public appearances, and nearly nonstop work for the next 4 decades.\n\nIn 1996, he captured this saga in his autobiography Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey where he retraced his lifeās and political journey.\n\n1998 proved to be a seminal year for David when he met his angel April Mullivain whom he would marry and who, along with her son John Jay, would watch over him until his passing.\n\nIn 1998, he also founded The Horowitz Freedom Center, where he recruited an inspired group of new young intellectuals to join his cause. The name āFreedom Centerā meant much more than most ever understood. While David became known for his change in views, in a sense he never changed at all. His personal style represented the place and community from which he came. Even when he wore a suit, he looked like a radical forced into it due to a court date or a wedding. More importantly, his mission to save the world centered around freedom. When David went to rescue people, it was always from oppression imposed by some person or group. Early on, he had been trained to think the rich capitalists were the oppressors. His political change came from the realization that his side was doing the oppressing. Protected by the guise of being āfor the peopleā, the Panthers took Bettyās life. The progressives left millions to die of AIDS, so they could preserve their leadership positions. His former friends on the left brutally excommunicated him from all their social relationships to reign power over him. It became clear that to fight for freedom, he had to be on the right and so the Freedom Center was born.\n\nFrom the Freedom Center, he published thousands of high impact articles and books. He understood the systematic implications of seemingly benign cultural changes and used that knowledge to predict much of the future. Notably, he precisely forecast the intense campus antisemitism of 2024 in his book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America published in 2006.\n\nIn 2007, David was crushed by the passing of his beloved daughter Sarah Rose who, more than any of his other children, inherited his indomitable spirit and passion for politics. She had finally succumbed to long-time chronic degeneration from her genetic condition Turnerās Syndrome. He captured the experience in his most intimate and perhaps his best book A Cracking of the Heart in 2009.\n\nBy the twenty teens, David had long been frustrated by what he referred to as the āsoft, gentlemanlyā tactics of the Republican Party. He lamented that the Republicans were bringing a nerf gun to a nuclear war. He intimately knew the leftās tactics and desperately wanted his party to match them. His wish was granted when a new kind of candidate, Donald J. Trump, won the Republican nomination. David responded instantly with the best articulation of the Trump strategy in Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America. Later, in 2024, his son Benjamin would meet President Trump and mention David. President Trumpās face immediately lit up and he insisted that Benjamin get David on the phone immediately. Hospitalized and weak, David was still delighted to speak with the President and know that his message was heard and heeded.\n\nIn 2024, David published America Betrayed: How a Christian Monk Created America & Why the Left Is Determined to Destroy Her. In it, he carefully explained how the Catholic Church ā through the indulgences ā had removed the freedom inherent in being accountable to God and replaced them with the oppression of being accountable to the church. He then explained how that same idea had come back into vogue in the U.S. Right up until the final moments, David fought for freedom.\n\nIn the end, David helped countless people and expended every fiber of his being pushing society towards freedom. He may not have saved the world, but he most certainly made it a better place ā especially for us. 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Here it is. This is what it is, there is nothing else no matter how it gets characterized:\n\nPolitical Update\na16zers,\n\nI wanted to give you an update on my political activity. As I mentioned before, Felicia and I have known Vice President Harris for over 10 years and she has been a great friend to both of us during that time. Sheās also been a friend to the firm in our early days, helping with several events at my house when we built the original Cultural Leadership Fund network. As a result of our friendship, Felicia and I will be making a significant donation to entities who support the Harris Walz campaign.\n\nFrom a firm perspective, we continue to only take positions consistent with our Little Tech Agenda and how the various candidates that support or donāt support policies to build a strong startup technology industry. Although I have had several conversations with Vice President Harris and her team on their likely tech policies and am encouraged by my belief in her, they have not yet stated what their tech policy will be, so the firm will not be updating its position in that regard. As we stated earlier, the Biden Administration has been exceptionally destructive on tech policy across the industry, but especially as it relates to Crypto/Blockchain and AI. 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This time they seem to be curious about my donations to the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. To save everyone some time and from yet another unsubstantiated narrative, I thought Iād share how Iāve been helping the LVMPD become the most technologically advanced police department in the world.\n\nThere were several reasons why I wanted to do this project and why I wanted to do it in Las Vegas:\n\nPublic safety is incredibly important and impacts everyone. My wife Felicia grew up in a very high crime area and saw many of her friends murdered. These murders may sound like statistics to some, but they destroy families and lives. The key to making citizens, police, and suspects safer is better intelligence. If you do not have 1 on 1 confrontations between people with guns, that helps. If you donāt have high speed car chases, and you donāt have to chase people over fences and onto roofs, that makes everyone much safer. If people know that they are unlikely to get away with crimes, they are less likely to commit them.\n\nOur American Dynamism effort has been amazing in making the best technology available to the public sector, but the public sector often has trouble budgeting for strategic technology projects. By donating the technology, I am able to give LVMPD a running start.\nThe LVMPD is perhaps the best in the country as exemplified by their incredibly high murder solve rate of 92%, which is the highest in the nation. I believed further enabling the incredible officers of the LVMPD would yield great results and it has.\n\nSo what have we done so far that Techcrunch is investigating? We have been busy. There is much to investigate as there have been several areas of need.\nFirst, the LVMPD needed to solidify the basic technology of the department. Las Vegas added major events such as F1 and the Super Bowl, but didnāt correspondingly increase police funding. Specifically, they were short on computer terminals for officers, so Felicia and I donated $800,000 worth of new computer terminals.\n\nNext, Las Vegas was having difficulty retaining 911 operators. 911 is an incredibly stressful job and the attrition rate got so high that it was taking over 5 minutes to respond to emergency calls. In diagnosing the problem with Chief Mike Gennaro, we came up with a multifaceted solution. First, the LVMPD needed to fix the basic work environment. Felicia and I donated a new ice machine, a new cappuccino machine, and a new gymnasium to make a stressful job more pleasant. These new facilities were around $120,000. Next, we wanted to outfit them with the latest and greatest in emergency call technology, so we donated $400,000 to purchase technology from one of our portfolio companies, Prepared911. 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Use concise visuals/infographics for high-shareability, and test paid boosts for threads that include a clear CTA (email signup, checklist download, or event registration)."},"created":1774573736034,"type":"the entrepreneur","id":"dallasaptgp"},{"user":{"id":"1367301","name":"Cory Levy","description":"entrepreneur and early stage investor | Z Fellows @zfellows","followers_count":64932,"friends_count":3608,"statuses_count":7372,"profile_image_url_https":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2000127039148531712/t23WS1WQ_normal.jpg","screen_name":"cory","location":"San Francisco, CA","entities":{"description":{"urls":[]},"url":{"urls":[{"display_url":"zfellows.com","expanded_url":"http://zfellows.com","indices":[0,23],"url":"https://t.co/W6LqoJ2vRH"}]}}},"details":{"type":"The Entrepreneur","description":"Cory Levy is an entrepreneur, early-stage investor, and founder of Z Fellows who spots and cultivates young talent. He mixes viral storytelling with practical recruiting and investing playbooks, championing founders who hustle early and often.","purpose":"To democratize access to startup opportunity by finding, supporting, and amplifying talented young foundersāturning early obsession into world-class careers and companies.","beliefs":"Meritocracy and early obsession matter most; practical experience beats pedigree; building networks and giving bold opportunities to young talent creates outsized returns; hustle paired with mentorship scales impact.","facts":"Fun fact: At 12 he cold-emailed the world #1 tennis player's mother to set up a play dateāand it worked. Cory runs Z Fellows, has ~64.9k followers, ~7,372 tweets, and has driven multiple high-visibility viral threads (one tweet reached ~6.7M views).","strength":"Scouts talent like a bloodhound, creates highly shareable, actionable content, builds communities that convert into hires and startups, and combines credibility as both founder and investor.","weakness":"Can lean into contrarian takes that polarize, risks overvaluing youthful hustle at the expense of nuance, and occasionally comes off like a relentless recruiter/twitter-curator rather than a deep thinker.","recommendation":"On X: run a signature thread series (e.g., '13ā18 Obsessions') that highlights alumni journeys; pin a clear 'How Z Fellows works' thread; host regular Spaces with alumni founders; use short video clips from interviews for higher engagement; amplify hiring posts with targeted quote-retweets and one-click CTAs for founders and talent.","roast":"You cold-emailed a tennis star's mom at 12 and got a play dateāso your negotiation skills were peak dealmaking before you even knew what a term sheet was. Meanwhile, you still treat every reply like a pipeline candidate and every DM like a VC meeting.","win":"Built Z Fellows from idea to a recognized pipeline for young founders and investors, plus authored viral threads that drove massive awareness (one post reaching millions), turning attention into real hires, startups, and investments."},"created":1774573570377,"type":"the entrepreneur","id":"cory"},{"user":{"id":"1107000909559676928","name":"Chris Ramsey | SMB and R.E.","description":"Tech founder sharing business and real estateā¦Contractor Garages/Self Storage/Industrial 2m+sqft Creative financing, RE Development, https://t.co/NqqoAn9dNm","followers_count":35288,"friends_count":1398,"statuses_count":17916,"profile_image_url_https":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1682078594015657995/Qg9_Z2S__normal.jpg","screen_name":"ChrisRamsey60","location":"Newsletter / Consulting š ","entities":{"description":{"urls":[{"display_url":"RamseyCapitalholdings.com","expanded_url":"http://RamseyCapitalholdings.com","indices":[133,156],"url":"https://t.co/NqqoAn9dNm"}]},"url":{"urls":[{"display_url":"linktr.ee/chrisramsey","expanded_url":"https://linktr.ee/chrisramsey","indices":[0,23],"url":"https://t.co/2RuUIDRhk4"}]}}},"details":{"type":"The Entrepreneur","description":"Tech founder-turned-real-estate operator who turns industrial spaces, contractor garages and self-storage into scalable businesses. A high-energy tweeter who blends hard-nosed deal talk with everyday, laugh-out-loud moments about family, trucks and moving day disasters. Practical, bold, and refreshingly blunt.","purpose":"Build generational wealth while creating useful physical and financial infrastructure ā from creative-financed industrial portfolios to community-minded projects (yes, family compounds too). Educate and inspire other founders and operators by sharing real, tactical playbooks from the trenches.","beliefs":"Family and community matter; hustle paired with creativity wins deals; transparency and practical experience beat theory; money is a tool to build lasting assets and real-world value rather than just flexing.","facts":"Fun fact: Owner of ~$100M in industrial real estate and 2M+ sqft of space (contractor garages, self-storage, industrial). Has ~35K followers, follows ~1.4K, and has tweeted ~17.9K times ā so yes, youāll see him in your feed.","strength":"Exceptional deal-making instincts, hands-on operational knowledge, high social engagement, relatable storytelling, and the credibility of real asset wins that back up his commentary.","weakness":"Can be polarizing and blunt ā hot takes and constant posting sometimes read as scattershot or performative; occasionally trades nuance for viral punchlines, which can alienate expert audiences.","roast":"You own a nine-figure-ish industrial portfolio but still accepts 'beer and pizza' as moving day compensation ā congrats, billionaire, your negotiation skills apparently stop at the stoop.","win":"Built a sizable, cash-flowing industrial portfolio (2M+ sqft / ~$100M) while turning practical deal-making and creative financing into a visible, engaged brand.","recommendation":"Double down on case-study content: post short threads breaking down deals (numbers, structure, lessons), tour videos of properties (before/after + captions), and payment/exit diagrams. Host regular X Spaces AMAs, pin a lead-generating tweet (newsletter or deal checklist), collab with brokers/investors for cross-pollination, and turn your viral personality tweets into themed series (e.g., 'Moving Nightmares' or 'Deal of the Month') to convert laughs into long-term followers and leads."},"created":1774573359906,"type":"the entrepreneur","id":"chrisramsey60"},{"user":{"id":"268402684","name":"Bob Knakal | NYC Investment Sales","description":"Investment Sales Pro in NYC Real Estate & Development. Writer of Concrete Thoughts for @CommObserver. Rangers season ticket holder. 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Equal parts dealmaker, storyteller and Rangers season-ticket holder.","purpose":"To reshape how New York real estate deals get done by combining decades of client-first relationship work with modern techāhelping owners, investors and partners find better outcomes faster while preserving the human touch that closes transactions.","beliefs":"Values long-term relationships, gratitude and accountability; believes experience and hustle matter but that innovation (including AI) can and should amplify, not replace, trusted expertise. Trust, transparency and practical problem-solving guide every engagement.","facts":"Fun fact: Bob still keeps the same cell number from his early career and roots his perspective in the map room. He writes \"Concrete Thoughts\" for Commercial Observer, launched BKRealEstateAdv (and the Knakal Affiliate Program), is chairman at BKRealEstateAdv, and is a devoted Rangers season-ticket holder with a soft spot for rare whiskies (1964 Bowmore vs 1951 Macallanāserious decisions).","strength":"Deep institutional credibility and a massive network built since 1984; excellent storyteller and communicator; ability to blend old-school relationships with new tools; trusted brand voice in NYC investment sales that drives deal flow and referrals.","weakness":"Can lean nostalgic and long-form (inviting long reply threads), sometimes favoring relationship-driven deals over scaling systems; occasional susceptibility to public debate given a candid voiceāinvites lots of replies and opinionated engagement.","roast":"Youāre the guy who insists the map room is sacred while simultaneously hiring an AI COOābasically telling the future, āIāll keep the charm, you do the heavy lifting.ā Also, your old headshot deserves a museum ticket next to the Rangers schedule.","win":"Built a decades-long, market-defining reputation in NYC investment sales and recently launched BKRealEstateAdv (plus the Knakal Affiliate Program) while maintaining a 44K+ follower platform and a regular column in Commercial Observer.","recommendation":"To grow on X: 1) Post concise, regular deal-case threads with maps, before/after numbers and a clear lessonāthese become evergreen content. 2) Use short video clips or Spaces to explain market moves and host Q&As (people buy authenticity). 3) Pin a clear CTA to join your KAP/newsletter and repurpose \"Concrete Thoughts\" into snackable posts. 4) Share data-driven AI insights from BKREA to differentiate from pure-opinion feeds. 5) Amplify through affiliates and collaborate with journalists/influencers for cross-promotion. 6) Keep gratitude visibleāshort \"thank you\" notes and client wins humanize the brand and boost engagement."},"created":1774573134662,"type":"the entrepreneur","id":"bobknakal"},{"user":{"id":"14598116","name":"Ben South","description":"building @variantui ⢠past: vp @postmates, founder @sonar (acq) and @bold (acq)","followers_count":40548,"friends_count":1152,"statuses_count":11133,"profile_image_url_https":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1998569313058635776/9SQRyLRG_normal.jpg","screen_name":"bnj","location":"sf","entities":{"description":{"urls":[]},"url":{"urls":[{"display_url":"bensouth.com","expanded_url":"http://bensouth.com","indices":[0,23],"url":"https://t.co/p240Up9ntR"}]}}},"details":{"type":"The Entrepreneur","description":"Ben South is a product-first founder and maker building Variant UI, with leadership experience as VP at Postmates and two acquired startups (Sonar, Bold). He shares high-energy product drops, design obsessions, and blunt startup takes to an engaged audience of ~40.5K followers. His timeline reads like a makerās mixtapeāhalf demo reel, half comedy routine.","purpose":"To build delightful, design-forward tools that let creators and teams capture and remix visual vibe quickly, while teaching and inspiring the next generation of fearless founders to ship boldly.","beliefs":"Ships-first, iterate-fast mindset; design and aesthetics matter as much as metrics; transparency and curiosity win over secrecy; creators scale through delightful tooling and honest product storytelling.","facts":"Fun fact: Ben has tweeted 11,133 times and counts ~40,548 followers. His top tweets include a Porsche 959 prototype left with keys inside (2,151,198 views) and the Style Dropper launch (3,413,071 views) ā clearly he can make both cars and product launches go viral.","strength":"Relentless builder with sharp product instincts, a designerās eye, and proven exits. He commands attentionāhis tweets regularly earn million-plus views and high engagementāand knows how to translate curiosity into usable tools.","weakness":"Can tweet so much that signal gets buried in noise; blunt takes sometimes polarize rather than convert. As a fast mover, he may prioritize launches over long-form storytelling that sustains long-term community growth.","recommendation":"Run short maker-threads that break product decisions into digestible steps; pin regular āwhat I shipped this weekā updates with GIF/video demos; leverage Spaces or AMAs to turn viral posts into repeatable engagement; amplify customer showcases and design remixes using Style Dropper; cross-promote a newsletter or product waitlist from top-performing tweets to capture followers into owned channels.","roast":"Ben treats every side project like a limited-edition Porsche: gorgeous, hyped, and occasionally left with the keys in the ignition while he tweets about itāengine revs, audience gasps, slightly nervous parking attendant.","win":"Multiple founder exits (Sonar, Bold), a VP role at Postmates, and viral product launches like Style Dropper that proved he can build tools people actually want ā and make the internet pay attention while doing it."},"created":1774573103909,"type":"the entrepreneur","id":"bnj"},{"user":{"id":"4468111","name":"Siqi Chen","description":"šļø Love to build (@runwayco @sandboxvr @zynga) people love\nšø Investor @amplitude_hq @mercury @owner @elevenlabsio @meetgamma @sfcompute @turingcom++","followers_count":166695,"friends_count":4077,"statuses_count":8711,"profile_image_url_https":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1600585199800111106/zIdLh9UL_normal.jpg","screen_name":"blader","location":"ššš","entities":{"description":{"urls":[]},"url":{"urls":[{"display_url":"runway.com","expanded_url":"https://runway.com","indices":[0,23],"url":"https://t.co/ItLCpdaQxi"}]}}},"details":{"type":"The Entrepreneur","description":"Siqi Chen is a builder-investor who ships beloved products (Runway, SandboxVR, Zynga) and backs the next wave of startups. Candid, bold, and unafraid to mix personal moments with sharp takes, she commands a large, engaged audience. She builds things people loveāand then helps others build them too.","purpose":"To create transformative products and companies, accelerate founders with capital and mentorship, and use her platform to move culture and technology forward while protecting what matters most to her family.","beliefs":"Pragmatic optimism: progress comes from building fast and iterating; honesty matters (even when it stings); investments should create real user value; family and human moments ground ambition. She also believes influence carries responsibility, whether in startups or politics.","facts":"Fun fact: she once donated the max to Obama and scored a photo ā and had him talk about her toe-shoes on the stump. Sheās built at Runway, SandboxVR, and Zynga, and invests in companies like Amplitude, Mercury, ElevenLabs and more.","strength":"Relentless builderās instincts, deep founder network, credibility as both operator and investor, high emotional honesty that builds trust, and an ability to turn personal stories into powerful engagement.","weakness":"High visibility makes every pivot (political or personal) polarizing; candidness can attract toxic replies and distract from product narratives; tendency to burn bright across many fronts can spread focus thin.","roast":"You flip political parties with the same speed you flip term sheets ā honestly, at this point even your portfolio is asking if it should cast a ballot. At least your tweets have more drama than most startup launch days.","win":"Built beloved products at top startups and parlayed that credibility into a high-profile investing career with a six-figure-strong audience; on the personal side, navigated a terrifying family health crisis and rallied massive community support.","recommendation":"On X, lean into a predictable content rhythm: 1) short, sharp product/industry takes; 2) weekly founder-investor posts (mini case studies or lessons learned); 3) honest personal check-ins that humanize your brand. Use threads to unpack investments, host Spaces for VC AMA sessions, pin a defining tweet that explains your POV, and avoid getting pulled into performative pile-onsārespond thoughtfully or donāt engage. Cross-post short videos and repurpose tweet threads into newsletter posts to deepen connection and convert followers into long-term supporters."},"created":1774573065162,"type":"the entrepreneur","id":"blader"},{"user":{"id":"811350","name":"Alexis Ohanian š½","description":"Business Dad: @SevenSevenSix ā»ļø @776Foundation\nOwner ššæāāļø@athlos š¦ @ChelseaFCW ā³ @weareLAGC\nā½ļø @weareangelcity š @lovblosangeles","followers_count":618721,"friends_count":7845,"statuses_count":131052,"profile_image_url_https":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1748556327041863680/IIcVTocV_normal.jpg","screen_name":"alexisohanian","location":"Florida","entities":{"description":{"urls":[]},"url":{"urls":[{"display_url":"sevensevensix.com","expanded_url":"http://sevensevensix.com","indices":[0,23],"url":"https://t.co/JpPebfdpd4"}]}}},"details":{"type":"The Entrepreneur","description":"Serial builder and proud business dadācoāfounder of Reddit and founder of SevenSevenSix who mixes venture chops with unapologetic family vibes. Owner/investor in multiple sports teams and community projects, his timeline swings from startup strategy to sideline selfies. He shows up equal parts founder, advocate, and dad.","purpose":"To create and scale platforms that bring people togetherāturning ideas into companies, customers into communities, and cultural moments into lasting change while protecting space for family and fairness.","beliefs":"Community-first products, entrepreneurship as a public good, transparency and accountability, equal opportunity (including equal pay and womenās rights), and that sport and culture are powerful tools to unite people.","facts":"Fun fact: heās tweeted over 131,000 times and once proudly declared himself āOlympiaās personal umbrella holder.ā Top tweets range from heartfelt tributes (hello, Serena) to razor-sharp marketing callouts and dad momentsāplus he owns stakes in several sports teams.","strength":"Exceptional network and platform-building skills, media-savvy storytelling, ability to mobilize attention and resources, and a warm, relatable personal brand that connects startups, sports fans, and families.","weakness":"Juggling many ventures and causes can spread focus thin; high visibility makes him an easy target for criticism and can make nuanced positions look polarized; sometimes personal life and public advocacy blur into performative optics.","roast":"You built one of the internetās biggest communities and now your most viral role is being Olympiaās personal umbrella holderācongrats, you went from ācoāfounder of Redditā to āchief curator of adorable dad content.ā","win":"Coāfounding Reddit and turning it into a global, culture-shaping community while parlaying that credibility into successful venture efforts (SevenSevenSix) and sports investments.","recommendation":"On X, lean into short, authentic video ā behindātheāscenes with founders, athletes, and family. Run a weekly thread series (Founder Fridays or Sideline Sundays), host regular Spaces with crossover guests (athletes Ć founders), pin a signature manifesto or best thread, and amplify top-performing posts with targeted boosts. Engage replies within 24 hours and invite community-driven content (AMA prompts, fan questions, co-created moments) to turn followers into active participants."},"created":1774572512343,"type":"the entrepreneur","id":"alexisohanian"},{"user":{"id":"15123571","name":"Val Sopi","description":"ā indiestrapper\nš» founder https://t.co/3NIrS23t0w\nš podcasting @bootsaas\nš notes on https://t.co/cOjZkgObei\nš° exited a few SaaS\nš¾ bullish on AI\nš here to make friends","followers_count":4433,"friends_count":1220,"statuses_count":31294,"profile_image_url_https":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2001137178714198022/m1p5tPCr_normal.jpg","screen_name":"valsopi","location":"š","entities":{"description":{"urls":[{"display_url":"Blogmaker.app","expanded_url":"http://Blogmaker.app","indices":[26,49],"url":"https://t.co/3NIrS23t0w"},{"display_url":"valsopi.com","expanded_url":"http://valsopi.com","indices":[84,107],"url":"https://t.co/cOjZkgObei"}]},"url":{"urls":[{"display_url":"Blogmaker.app","expanded_url":"http://Blogmaker.app","indices":[0,23],"url":"https://t.co/3NIrS23t0w"}]}}},"details":{"type":"The Entrepreneur","description":"Val Sopi is an indie-builder and repeat founder who ships products, podcasts about bootstrapped SaaS, and famously tweets the messy, glorious metrics behind his startups. Heās bullish on AI, generous with notes and experiments, and here to make friends ā while building sustainable value for his family. Expect candid growth numbers, product launches, and thoughtful curiosity about developer trade-offs.","purpose":"To create repeatable, sustainable SaaS businesses and share the playbook openly so other indie builders can learn, copy, and iterate faster ā turning solo hustle into family security and a community of fellow makers.","beliefs":"Believes in transparency (public metrics matter), shipping over perfection, community-driven growth, and thoughtful curiosity about trade-offs (e.g., pragmatic tech like jQuery vs modern stacks). Values independence, financial prudence, and honest experimentation with new tools like AI.","facts":"Fun facts: Val has exited multiple SaaS companies, is the founder behind blogstatic, hosts the BootsSaaS podcast, and has tweeted over 31,000 times ā so yes, he remembers every product launch and spreadsheet cell he's ever made public.","strength":"Comfortable sharing real metrics and lessons, which builds credibility; serial founder experience (exits) means practical know-how; skilled at launching (Product Hunt) and community-building via podcasting and thoughtful tweets.","weakness":"Can be overly candid which sometimes invites noisy debate or trolls; high tweet volume risks diluting signal; occasional impatience for growth can lead to chasing quick wins (tools/subscriptions) instead of doubling down on core funnels.","roast":"Val's Twitter is like his SaaS dashboards: impressively full of data, slightly addicted to hitting publish, and always one bold experiment away from making the rest of us think we should immediately buy a $29/month plan āfor science.ā","win":"Built and exited multiple SaaS businesses, and recently grew a new product to $20K ARR publicly while transparently sharing the journey ā a proven track record that combines exits with active, healthy growth.","recommendation":"Turn your transparency into content gold: convert replies and launch threads into evergreen tweetstorms that break down playbooks (MRR ā ARR growth, pricing tests, churn moves). Pin a āGrowth Playbookā thread, reuse podcast clips as short videos, host regular Spaces with builders who bought/used your products, and use clear CTAs to capture email from X (Twitter) for deeper funnels. Engage developer audiences with thoughtful polls and follow-ups to high-traffic tweets (like your jQuery thread) to drive reply chains that amplify reach."},"created":1774572079781,"type":"the entrepreneur","id":"valsopi"},{"user":{"id":"1531917656093249537","name":"Rob O'Rourke","description":"Building sales funnels. $3m+ in personal sales. 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One of his threads reached over 4.26M views, and he turns real-life micro-lessons (yes, like paying someone $130 to move a treadmill) into high-impact business advice.","strength":"Relentless consistency and clarity: converts complex business topics into bite-sized, actionable threads; massive social proof and credibility from real revenue; strong ability to teach repeatable frameworks that scale.","weakness":"Can occasionally sound formulaic or transactional ā the ādo-this-repeat-thatā cadence risks feeling templated to long-time followers. As a solopreneur, there's also a ceiling to bandwidth and a tendency to prioritize tactics over deeper community cultivation.","recommendation":"Turn your best-performing threads into short video clips and pinned multi-format guides; run a recurring X Space or AMAs to deepen relationships, and create a signature weekly thread series (same day/time) with a simple CTA to a micro-offer or newsletter. 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