Didn’t pay for the blue check

Quietly-explosive news last week for anyone who cares about consumer privacy in digital banking and access to credit. Your help is needed! Read on:🧵1/11

Grateful - to both the founders who bet on me and The Information for including me on their list of rising VCs

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With 100% of votes counted, we can officially declare the March 5, 2024 election a HUGE SUCCESS!

Common sense Democrats have taken the helm at the SF Democratic Party, and voters passed all of the good ballot measures (and not the bad one!)
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Started learning Chinese on Duolingo while I was in Taiwan and kept going a bit longer

Too early can be just as hard as being wrong

People simply can not afford to live in San Francisco.

Workers at every income bracket are living further and further away from the office.

Remote work is a factor. But lack of housing is a problem of our own making.

We must build more housing. At all levels. Now.

A reminder of the kindness, empathy, and character of Joe Biden. Joe Biden is a good man.

CEO and Founder of Block Party, Tracy Chou (@triketora), discussed shaping a safer Internet with the growing ecosystem of privacy tools we now have available in her Keynote at #SXSW 2024.

Minneapolis Federal Reserve did a study on the city's flat & decling rents, finding that for every 100 market rate apartments built, 70 existing apartments were freed up in low income neighborhoods.
What lessons on gentrification can be extracted here.
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Voting today! I found the GrowSF voter guide very helpful. Although I didn’t align with every recommendation, I did on DCCC and judges. growsf.org/voter-guides/s…

I am the child of immigrants.

My parents immigrated from Pakistan. We started in student housing in the South Bay. But we often came to the Tenderloin to visit our favorite Pakistani restaurant, Shalimar.

The Tenderloin in turn gave my family a taste of home. As it has…

Pretty breathtaking chart

The social contract has broken in many parts of SF.

On March 5th, you have a stark choice for the 24 member Democratic County Central Committee:

1. new leadership SF Democrats for Change that is focused on getting the basics right — public safety, affordable housing, good schools
2. a…

And if you live here (SF) *PLEASE VOTE* on Tuesday GrowSF TogetherSF TogetherSF Action

And if you’re in / want to check out “Cerebral Valley,” our office (@NFX) is a registered voting location 🪩

Excited that my old boss dara khosrowshahi is joining Lightspeed’s Advisory Council. Looking forward to our founders and team learn from you as much as I did at $IAC, and bringing your perspectives from running Expedia and Uber!

Packing for a move and found the business plan from my first job in tech Citysearch in 1996. I was a junior burger, carrying the CEO Charles Conn’s bag. Loved working and learning from great folks!

⬇️ Good observation. Of course we need to reinforce Union Square's core (shopping and tourism) but we also need to draw locals with places to eat and places to live.

Common refrain from locals about Union Square now: 'there's nothing to do but buy expensive things.'

I’m late to this but the Blackberry movie is a terrific watch.