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MOTM performance. An absolute eshin
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Another game without a shot on target. For the team playing arsenal that is. Another clean sheet. We are so dope.
Founder | Author | Speaker Building @beltstripe I'm Not The Man Of Your Dreams. Your Imagination Wasn't This Great.
2/2 These states are clearly in a mode where current leaders think they are delivering a higher quality of life for taxpayers while also believing their policies are what *caused* the business success in the state. They live in a world that fails to understand where the state's success came from. It was not the current tax policy but the old ones. Thinking about 20 years of hiring college grads to Microsoft—average 150/year for 20 years, ~3,000—the lack of state income tax and relatively low tax burden were always selling points I used even if a 20 yo did not fully grasp (I moved from Mass. and definitely understood). Parents I spoke with (that was common) always understood since so many of our hires came from NY, CA, MA, Canada, etc. Ironically the state passed—over the majority vote of citizens—capital gains income tax knowing that many of the jobs that attract people to the state base compensation on equity—literally taxing the people that move to the state. The value proposition isn't there. Worse the tax structure drives acquire and sell of equity rather than hold which is the exact opposite of what makes stock-based compensation highly attractive to new hires. WA is destroying value across the board.
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Latest @TaxFoundation report is out for state tax competitiveness 2026. WA and CA are abysmal and getting worse YoY while still proposing more. In other news, this is what greeted me Thursday morning pulling out of our driveway downtown Seattle. https://t.co/ZKbZWK9EmG 1/2
2/2 These states are clearly in a mode where current leaders think they are delivering a higher quality of life for taxpayers while also believing their policies are what *caused* the business success in the state. They live in a world that fails to understand where the state's success came from. It was not the current tax policy but the old ones. Thinking about 20 years of hiring college grads to Microsoft—average 150/year for 20 years, ~3,000—the lack of state income tax and relatively low tax burden were always selling points I used even if a 20 yo did not fully grasp (I moved from Mass. and definitely understood). Parents I spoke with (that was common) always understood since so many of our hires came from NY, CA, MA, Canada, etc. Ironically the state passed—over the majority vote of citizens—capital gains income tax knowing that many of the jobs that attract people to the state base compensation on equity—literally taxing the people that move to the state. The value proposition isn't there. Worse the tax structure drives acquire and sell of equity rather than hold which is the exact opposite of what makes stock-based compensation highly attractive to new hires. WA is destroying value across the board.
They talk shit about each other nonstop, but Elon never throttles Sam’s reach on X. Sam’s still trying to buy Tesla. Peak love-hate vibes.
Co-founder & CTO @hyperbolic_labs cooking fun AI systems. Prev: OctoAI (acquired by @nvidia) building Apache TVM, PhD @ University of Washington.
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Founder | Author | Speaker Building @beltstripe I'm Not The Man Of Your Dreams. Your Imagination Wasn't This Great.