Ron Pragides
@mrp
Led pre-IPO Eng teams: @BigCommerce @Twitter @Salesforce • Eager to build another great company.
“You just added a third building… It was built five years ago.” JEROME POWELL @federalreserve
.@POTUS to Fed Chair Jerome Powell on the exorbitant cost overruns of their palace-like HQ renovation: "It looks like it's about $3.1 billion. It went up a little bit — or a lot."
Entrepreneur, VC and tech luminary @mrp sums up the whole mission succinctly 🍰
Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes & learn to see All your life You were only waiting for this moment to be free
The president says that if the Fed lowered short term rates, interest expenses for the U.S. would fall by $1 trillion per year. The U.S. spent $1.1 trillion on interest expenses in 2024, and so there's almost no way this claim is remotely true.
Since day one, GrowSF has believed the challenges San Francisco faced could be overcome with the love, devotion, and passion of the people who live here. Here is @NotionHQ's story about why they chose San Francisco. growsf.org/news/2025-07-2…
.@RobinhoodApp CEO @vladtenev on the GENIUS Act: "I believe that Crypto technology is going to power a large part of financial services as an industry in the near future — and the U.S. needs to be a leader... This stablecoin legislation is the first step in that... we're excited…
JAMIE DIMON AT BANK ONE (PRIOR TO MERGING WITH JP MORGAN): "I remember one of the great lines in the report: 'Even Hercules couldn't fix it'. It had been an amalgamation of Bank One, First Chicago, National Bank of Detroit. They had never put the companies together. So they…
This is the Eras tour for people that know what a cap table is
CLAUDE FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES @AnthropicAI
Today, AI giant @Anthropic announced the launch of Claude for Financial Services. Finance is a natural fit for AI given the reams of structured data the industry processes, and the big platforms are focusing more and more on fintech products. Anthropic has already signed…
Y’all know that bitcoin hitting $120,000 is mainly due to the dollar plummeting, right?
1 BTC = $0.12M
Marc @Benioff seen chatting next to a guest. ☁️☁️☁️
Sacha Baron Cohen seen chatting to a guest 😂😂😂
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the iconic Live Aid 1985. Here are some of the greatest performances from that day. A thread 🧵 1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody