JD Ross (@justindross) / X

JD Ross

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JD Ross

@justindross

I take the side of people who build. Started WithCoverage to modernize insurance. Co-founded Opendoor $OPEN

Joined August 2007

JD Ross
@justindross
Oct 21, 2022
WhatsApp had 35 engineers for 450 million users, and grew to a team of 50 for 900 million users. Twitter cutting to 2,000 employees from 7,500 is not a "skeleton staff"
JD Ross
@justindross
Dec 8, 2024
The most under-discussed story in the world is Chinese illegal fishing destroying worldwide ocean ecosystems one by one
JD Ross
@justindross
Jul 13, 2024
Paternity testing is illegal in France to "preserve family peace" this is the most French thing I've ever heard
JD Ross
@justindross
Oct 20, 2021
Google’s greatest evil is grooming brilliant 22 year olds into becoming complacent careerists instead of ambitious founders who might one day compete with them
JD Ross
@justindross
Feb 10, 2025
Another thing I've heard from a friend working in DOGE worth sharing There are great people in their department who: 1. Know exactly how to make their department more efficient 2. Have wanted to, and 3. Have been prevented with implicit or explicit career threats
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Feb 8, 2025
Replying to @mattvanswol @DOGE and @USTreasury
Nobody in Treasury management cared enough before. I do want to credit the working level people in Treasury who have wanted to do this for many years, but have been stopped by prior management. Everything at Treasury was geared towards complain minimization. People we receive
JD Ross
@justindross
Jun 11, 2020
5 years ago today, the greatest headline ever written as Jack took over from Dick C at Twitter
JD Ross
@justindross
Jul 11, 2023
The person in charge of quantum computer aesthetics deserves a raise
JD Ross
@justindross
Dec 26, 2024
Had no idea how many anon crazies on this site hated Indians, what a weird thing. Especially since Indian immigrants are pretty values aligned with traditional American values around family, hard work, pride
JD Ross
@justindross
Jul 4, 2022
Americans on Twitter: As we all know, America is broken and democracy is crumbling. In these troubled times… Our landscaping guy, an immigrant:
JD Ross
@justindross
Feb 4, 2025
A fair amount of the early DOGE work I heard about was basically people working from 8am to 2am going line item by line item through daily gov’t spend and just stopping the craziest nonsense Made me want to do a tour of duty
JD Ross
@justindross
Apr 23, 2022
Twitter is so badly run that they bought Vine and then shut it down and then TikTok became bigger than Twitter, Facebook and YouTube
JD Ross
@justindross
Jun 1, 2024
Olive Garden serves as a living reminder of how bad all American food was in the 90s until millennial hipsters upgraded everything to above European standards
JD Ross
@justindross
Jan 11, 2021
Twitter stock is down because they ensured that every country outside the US is going to severely regulate or replace them. Imagine the UK allowing an ideological San Francisco company to control the BBC. Will India be ok with Twitter having authority to de-platform Modi?
JD Ross
@justindross
Feb 3, 2021
Jeff Bezos’s letters are better than any MBA He’ll teach everything you need to know about developing high standards, and it doesn’t even take him two pages