I love companies. Government and companies are not the same, and shouldn't be run the same. Americans should want our country run in a lawful and compassionate manner. - ThreadSky

reidhoffman.bsky.social • 84 days ago

I love companies. Government and companies are not the same, and shouldn't be run the same.

Americans should want our country run in a lawful and compassionate manner.

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reidhoffman.bsky.social•84 days ago

Testing out video on this platform!

tenteisai.bsky.social•84 days ago

Works good

ubuntu4all.bsky.social•84 days ago

Glad you’re here Reid. Looking forward to reading your posts. Welcome to Bluesky!

joe.sprk.team•84 days ago

@sprk.so is building its own dedicated video app on AT protocol, check us out Reid!

fakeconsultant.bsky.social•84 days ago

Not bad

Here's a laugh back at you

oatmilk-enjoyer.bsky.social•84 days ago

Hi Reid, is there a quorum of Lawful Good* billionaires who can outspend the Chaotic Evil* billionaires? Thanks! (*DnD alignment references)

mshollyross.bsky.social•84 days ago

You nailed it!

wokeinsc.bsky.social•84 days ago

Looks great! Thanks for using your $$ for good!

avlgal.bsky.social•83 days ago

I like it! Looks good!

dave-the-wave.bsky.social•84 days ago

Not the greatest but anything beats contributing to engagement on Xitter

itsmevicki.bsky.social•83 days ago

Governments aren't creating widgets. They are governing PEOPLE.

luvanya.bsky.social•83 days ago

Exactly!

wallawalla-99.bsky.social•84 days ago

Thank you for joining us.

We need all the billionaires we can get here, because a large number of your friends are trying to kill us.

bullbearjeff.bsky.social•83 days ago

Thank you Mr Hoffman 🙏

boboinparadise.bsky.social•83 days ago

Maybe even our companies, too

buddee.bsky.social•83 days ago

Really admire you Reid! Please keep doing what you're doing, and thank you.

hazydayz.bsky.social•83 days ago

Good Businessmen understand that investing in your employees makes for a better company because they will invest more in said company. If Elon really gave a shit HED be expanding aid. He wants autogenocide.

mary-colinchisholm.bsky.social•83 days ago

Efficiency is good practice. In business the goal is profit, efficiency is in service to that. In government the goal is to efficiently secure and provide for, the public good.

mary-colinchisholm.bsky.social•84 days ago

lotsa pro forma preambles eg 'while of course there is waste-" But no data on what, if any waste there actually is, why or how much. Gov agencies constantly study, report, audit their performance - can't we find data? Musk counts on the default assumption; sigh, gov is so wasteful! is it tho?

phillip-rees.bsky.social•84 days ago

Every time I hear a discussion of efficiency I want to jump in with "What about effectiveness." In addition to failing to improve efficiency DOGE is making government ineffective. This is by design.

sirrahynot1.bsky.social•84 days ago

Nails it. Laws and lives demand more care than quarterly earnings. America deserves leaders who get the difference.

truthseekercg.bsky.social•83 days ago

That’s great Reid

Why did you push Harris to fire Lina Khan in exchange for donating to her campaign?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/26/two-billionaire-harris-donors-hope-she-will-fire-ftc-chair-lina-khan.html

potter4ever.bsky.social•83 days ago

always self interested first. billionaires shouldn't exist.

extropian.bsky.social•83 days ago

Very well said.

miguelcarvalho.xyz•83 days ago

A lot of companies are crucial for our society but are just "bad businesses". Those are usual the ones that make me grateful for being European. I know that in some parts of the world, those companies would just not exist because they are not profitable, although very much necessary!

luvanya.bsky.social•83 days ago

Very well said! The government is NOT a business and should not be the same. 👏🏾🎉

king-of-gelato.bsky.social•83 days ago

But they Institute of Museeum and Liberry Services shud be run liek a bizness!

fakeconsultant.bsky.social•84 days ago

Well, you know...what's lawful sometimes just depends on how well you can manipulate the laws...

atraceofstace.bsky.social•83 days ago

Government is a service, not a business

mikemcintosh.bsky.social•84 days ago

You can never convince MAGA base voters of this. Republicans have been using the, "Run like a business", line since Trump was just a family shame.

mayday2025.bsky.social•84 days ago

All Americans who aren’t brainwormed should probably become anarchists. At least for now.

potter4ever.bsky.social•83 days ago

well stated and much appreciated, but . . .
We've never had a class of billionaires as entitled, childish, narcissistic, and prone to fantasy as the current crop.

billionaires shouldn't exist.

killerpomodoro.bsky.social•84 days ago

I completely agree, but then I think that companies should be run in a lawful and compassionate manner as well.

z3maira.bsky.social•84 days ago

I do! My government was formed "for the people" not for he profit.

tracymckibben.bsky.social•83 days ago

Couldn’t agree more. Government was never intended to run like a company. With government sometimes you do things where there is no profit or without a focus on the bottom line. Companies operate differently. For important reasons.

paul.bz•83 days ago

Great to have you here.

twentyninedollars.bsky.social•83 days ago

Well said Hoffman.

Nevertheless, Musk will back over you and me in his idiot Cyberturkey as he dashes off a dadjoke meme on broken Twitter about boobs or chewing gum or minor forcible felonies on the poors.

briannelsonnow.bsky.social•57 days ago

Weird you'd post Stephen asking directly whether we should trust what Elon is doing, then all your hems and haws to stall, complimenting Elon's fake goal while avoiding the specific question. You know Musk isn't out to improve efficiency. Are you scared of him? Feels like your AI let you down.

coyote108.bsky.social•84 days ago

Agreed. Trump and Musk are a National sabotage effort for the benefit of foreign autocrats.

fakeconsultant.bsky.social•84 days ago

How this wasn't game over for trump the first time is just mystery number 1647 about his time in office

coyote108.bsky.social•84 days ago

Republicans respects only strength and resolve. The GOP’s appetite does not diminish when fed it only grows. The GOP will remain a long term strategic threat…

fakeconsultant.bsky.social•84 days ago

How many trump supporters are Republicans, and is MAGA a GOP team player?

If MAGA is a racism cult (and it pretty much is), trump locking up with people who ain't white should have been a problem; for some reason, it's not

Side question: how does "money GOP" deal with MAGA as it gets crazier?

coyote108.bsky.social•84 days ago

Rather than encourage, we need to keep GOP and MAGA at bay. Of course, we need to remain open to re-engagement in the future, if they re-adhered to the rule of law again. But, going forward it would be a mistake to let go of our deterrence or rebuild strategic dependency on Republicans.

fakeconsultant.bsky.social•84 days ago

Feel like the best you could hope for from that group of voters is that they stop voting out of disgust

Encouraging nonaligned voters to show up would be an outcome that is more realistically reachable

roabrams.bsky.social•84 days ago

Compassion and empathy are truly so important. Thank you

nancyspantsbelt.bsky.social•83 days ago

#KoupKlutzKlan must go! Tired of pretending the Dollar Gen tech billionaire Bond villain administrative coup is legitimate government.👹

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