Kit Merker @KitMerker

Software Executive and Investor, mostly focused on infra software enabling AI, cloud, data, security, and reliability. kitmerker.com Seattle, WA, USA Joined June 2011

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

2 days ago

This is an insane take. No average employee or even mid level exec would sign up for this in any business. And who can blame them? Most people don’t want the risk and want cash to pay their bills. Risk compensated employees get upside and downside and have to deliver to create value.

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

2 days ago

@RoKhanna What is the health and education for if not to support the productive creation of capital assets?

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

2 days ago

@RoKhanna Correct. Healthcare and education come from the prosperity our capital investments create. And not just the wealthy, everyone has capital to invest. Human capital, working capital, time, and effort toward productive goals.

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

3 days ago

@typesfast It’s like Connor Roy looking down on the elites from his penthouse

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

3 days ago

A trillion dollars ain’t what I used to be

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Jérémie @jeremie0117

5 days ago

Citadel: ''Unlike traditional software, where the marginal cost of serving an additional user is close to zero, AI carries a meaningful and ongoing compute cost. The economics therefore depend not simply on what the technology can do, but on whether the productivity generated is sufficient to justify the resources required to deliver it.''

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

4 days ago

@stoolpresidente They probably all go to the Super Bowl too

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

5 days ago

l’élevage du bétail

Cowgirl Revolt 🔱 @CowgirlRevolt

6 days ago

ok not to be a tweet stealer but ranch dressing is only coded as declasse because it's American. If the french made an emulsion of oil, buttermilk, garlic, dill, mustard, chives, and parsley, y'all would pay 6 dollars for a side of it

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stevemur @stevemur

6 days ago

"No evidence" the insane tax policy pushed by Olympia will send wealth or jobs elsewhere except *howard schultz *jeff bezos *rich barton *nick hanauer *bruce mccaw *closure of columbia tower club *record-high office vacancy downtown *starbucks hq, along with most key SBUX executives *irs data showing net loss in $550 million in Adjusted Gross Income for WA between 2022 and 2023 (most recent available), showing a loss of 8,291 tax filers *departure of 68,000 tax filers from King County, representing a loss of $2.19 billion in AGI, from same IRS data ('22-23) but it's definitely not happening, nothing to see here @people4pedersen @GovBobFerguson @MayorOfSeattle

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stevemur @stevemur

6 days ago

Such a great example of the outcomes of Seattle activism: - another tax on salaries over $1 million goes to a social housing authority with the goal of building affordable housing - that board spends the first several months in total dysfunction and fires its CEO - the first windfall from that tax is higher than forecast, and the board decides to buy an EXISTING building which has many tenants already in it, and just 15 open units - 10,000 applicants for the new “affordable” building - board offers to freeze rent for 2 years and eliminate utility expense for existing tenants - luxury building has sunset views of Puget Sound, is steps away from Pike Place Market and Olympic Sculpture Park and newly renovated waterfront tourist area - Seattle Times doesn’t care to let readers know that just 15 units are available for new tenants and doesn’t care to investigate whether there are any connections of existing tenants to the social housing board - meanwhile the tax on high earners shutters lots of downtown office leases… Seattle rises to highest office vacancy in the nation among big cities, Columbia Tower Club closes, etc

The Seattle Times @seattletimes

7 days ago

Seattle's first social housing building has just 150 apartments. More than 10,000 people want to live there. seattletimes.com/business/real-…

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Travis Couture @TravisSCouture

a week ago

The most embarrassing thing I’ve heard lately is people escaping Washington to go to California. That’s how you know it’s getting bad.

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stevemur @stevemur

a week ago

Which Olympia journalist will follow up with Senator Jamie Pedersen (@People4Pedersen), to ask, "Do you still see NO evidence of wealth flight from Washington State?"

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

a week ago

Covid was just prep for living on the moon

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

a week ago

I’ve said for a while that all you need to conquer space is fedex and internet and spacex gives you both!

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

a week ago

@thehoffather What a fool

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

a week ago

Let’s make this a thing!

Kit Merker @KitMerker

a week ago

No camera fridays are the new casual fridays

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

a week ago

No camera fridays are the new casual fridays

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Kit Merker @KitMerker

a week ago

@P_Remarks I think tone matters on this. I could see satya saying this with a real smirk and it’s kind of a flip sarcastic answer that could draw a laugh. But who knows.

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CM @seattleiscrazy

2 weeks ago

Look the Seattle times is FINALLY reporting what I posted last week. And I’m not a reporter lol not my job. This is how bad our Seattle newspaper is now. Docusign plans downtown Seattle move, likely leaving namesake tower | The Seattle Times seattletimes.com/business/real-…