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This might sound like BS, but I actually think Expensify has the most powerful AI in the expense industry -- and one of the best in _any_ industry. To help make that point, I hold out a 5-level "AI sophistication" scale, loosely modeled off of the... linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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'Anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy': Expensify's CEO tells us why the company emailed 10 million customers urging them to vote for Biden businessinsider.com/expensif… via @businessinsider
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Expensify’s CEO explains how he made the decision to tell all his customers to vote for Biden protocol.com/expensify-email…
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Before sending it we had a long discussion, designed to be as inclusive and respectful as possible. In particular, we made a #factcheck Slack room where anyone can contest a factual claim and argue for/against it, then a group of top employees votes on our official opinion.
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Words can’t express how grateful I am for this team -- every single @Expensify employee has worked tirelessly to make this day happen. Fortune favors the bold! #ExpensifyIPO $EXFY
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I am astonished how good @TheOrville is. It feels like it's going to be a silly Star Trek knockoff, but honestly it's better. Every episode in season 3 has left me thinking about it days later, unlike nearly any other show. Everyone I tell is blown away. Can't wait for season 4!
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VIDEO: Expensify CEO Urges Customers to Vote for Biden bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…
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I see why Trump cannot admit what everyone knows: our elections are safe and fair. He's tricking his followers into believing he's reducing fraud (which is small, rare, and has no effect), while suppressing votes and undermining democracy. #VoteBiden #VoteDemocracy
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Premature declaration of victory? Check. Lawsuits against Pennsylvania to stop counting mail-in ballots? Check. Baseless claims designed to undermine confidence in the vote? Check, check, and triple-check. Trump is doing everything he was feared to do, and it's not over.
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Looking to take your mind off of the current crisis by looking forward or backwards in time? Here are 5 (actually 7) book suggestions to keep you occupied while in self-quarantine: barrons.com/articles/great-e…
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Hi there, I understand that perspective. I just disagree with it. I would encourage you to engage with your employees, align your values, and then link arms to take strong stances based on those values. It's not easy, as you can see. But this world isn't going to fix itself.
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If Trump loses and refuses to leave office, this could get dicey. We need it to be a landslide in one direction or another. Vote for Biden today to ensure a peaceful transition! #votefotdemocracy
"Expensify depends on a functioning society and economy; not many expense reports get filed during a civil war." ~ @expensify Founder & CEO @dbarrett .
One of the simplest, yet compelling, arguments I've read for why a private sector company SHOULD get involved in politics.
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This is such a great point. Everyone who is breathing a sigh of relief should be asking themselves: why was this race so tight? Did you really do everything in your power to protect democracy when it needed you most?
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Just getting started!
@expensify just released this today:
12 years
130 employees
$100M in ARR
$20M in capital raised
They're one of the most capital-efficient tech cos ever, and also the smallest co to do a Super Bowl ad. They won 7 @Cannes_Lions for it! Founder & CEO @dbarrett shares their story👇
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Did you know that @expensify is powered by the longest running private #Blockchain database in the world, launching two years before #bitcoin and running continuously to today? bedrockdb.com/blockchain.htm…
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I agree! Just imagine looking back on this day and wondering: "What else could I have done? Why didn't I?"
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Efficiency: as the 10th most efficient tech company in the world, Expensify generates more revenue per employee than Intuit, PayPal, and Microsoft. Since 2018, revenue has increased 283% while headcount increased just 9% over the same period.
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For those claiming Trump isn't suppressing votes -- how can you defend trying to cancel over a *hundred thousand legitimate votes* at official polling stations, merely because they were in their car to not spread COVID? texastribune.org/2020/10/31/…
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Check out my latest article: Honor Dr. King by using $100k from Expensify.org to fight injustice linkedin.com/pulse/honor-dr-… via @LinkedIn
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Yes, being profitable really enables us to stand up for what we believe in, whereas other companies might feel too afraid.
"We discussed it within the company. We decided we were just going to make this statement for ourselves." @expensify
Founder & CEO @dbarrett #BloombergEquality
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"With revenue growth of 283% since 2018, Expensify is an obvious IPO candidate. But, it doesn’t have to hurry because it doesn’t have hundreds of millions of dollars of capital invested... With profitability in hand, it can chart its own course."
techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/th…
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A fantastic article about how individual action (reduce, recycle, reuse) is nearly meaningless to climate change, and is actually an explicit narrative promoted by the oil industry to distract and discourage from more impactful collective political action
businessinsider.com/fossil-f…
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We've set aside over $3,000,000 to fund charities that are unwinding systemic bias and racism in society, help us spend it by voting for your favorite causes here!
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Great catch! Can you find 149,388 more? Nobody says election fraud is impossible or doesn't happen at all. Clearly, people get arrested for this. The experts/press merely say that it is so rare as to be statistically irrelevant, and has no credible effect on the election.
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FYI, just consulted with corporate counsel and got the :+1: -- we're updating our docs! Again, this feels like a total no-brainer, I'm not sure who would be opposed to this... or why.
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So true. Startups are great, don't get me wrong. Silicon Valley is our back yard and home field advantage. But there are actually very few startups in the world: focusing on that subset misses the 100x larger SMB opportunity. @abracarioca @TechCrunch
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Proof that New Expensify's freelance contributor program is one of the largest and most sophisticated OSS projects in the world: OpenAI used 1488 of our real Upwork jobs to build the authoritative measure of AI coding capabilities. #freelance #OpenSource
Today we’re launching SWE-Lancer—a new, more realistic benchmark to evaluate the coding performance of AI models. SWE-Lancer includes over 1,400 freelance software engineering tasks from Upwork, valued at $1 million USD total in real-world payouts. openai.com/index/swe-lancer/
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Want some more context on that infamous email I wrote to 10 million users? Curious why we think it's so important for you to vote for Biden that we feel it's worth taking a stand? Want an explanation of why we think Trump is a threat to democracy? community.expensify.com/disc…
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"Domestic terror is not a protected class; hate is not protected speech."
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Hi there, to clarify the email is from me (CEO of Expensify), not from some other organization. No contact information was shared with anyone.
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The Republican senators who acquitted Trump aren't just cowards, they're idiots: they just made the 2022 and 2024 elections about Trump, which splits the Republican party while uniting Democrats. This was their chance to get off the burning rollercoaster, but they just buckled in
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Thank you @businessinsider for the invitation to do this op-ed!
Expensify CEO: I stand by my decision to email 10 million customers urging them to vote for Biden — here's why (by @dbarrett)
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I'm on pager right now, actually. Thankfully last night was quiet. Hopefully rysyslog won't blow up tonight! #PagerBlues
We chatted with @expensify CEO @dbarrett on his roots in game development and how his idea to create a private label food stamps card for housing insecure individuals in San Francisco eventually grew into the company we know today as Expensify.
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Wow, Trump making baseless claims that our elections aren't fair and accurate? Who could have imagined it? Oh, that's right, literally everybody in the world who *isn't* a part of his dystopian cult of active reality deniers. nytimes.com/2020/11/06/us/po…
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Values matter:
"That influx has been driven by people who are “actually attracted to the ideals” of Expensify, “We claim to have these values and we claim to stand up for these values... and that’s an important thing just for the morale and the confidence of the employee base.”
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A sneak peek behind the curtain showing how employees advance inside @expensify without the normal toxicity and constraints of a classic hierarchy. Thanks @meliarobin! businessinsider.com/how-empl… via @businessinsider
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"I choose to take this moment as a challenge to double down on the things that matter, and remember that this world is ours -- and will be whatever we make it to be. And I am determined to leave a better world for Hazel than how I found it. I hope you are too." #RoeVsWade
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It's so horrifying that it can seem like it doesn't need to be said. But obviously there is no defense for murdering children and gunning down a music festival. This isn't religion, it's not even war, it's just terror, and needs to be stopped.
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Wow, what happened to @basecamp? It was the original "lifestyle company" that valued employee experience over growth, but this anti-social screed world.hey.com/jason/changes-… makes it sound like maybe they didn't get either. 1/3
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Hey fellow #CEO, take a moment to talk to your team about the #TulsaMassacre. No, it's not your job, and yes you are probably unqualified to speak with any authority on it and that makes you feel uncomfortable. But be a leader and try. nytimes.com/interactive/2021…
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I'm very excited to offer a sneak peak of Expensify.cash, our new open-source financial chat app! Sign up now to get on the waitlist, and add your GitHub handle to get to the front of the list. Need extra holiday cash? React Native jobs available! upwork.com/search/jobs/?q=Ex…
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What's already happened seemed impossible, but it can get worse if we don't stop it. Bush toxically linked religion, patriotism, and racism. Trump weaponized it. How will the next Republican president innovate on Trump's success? Sheer incompetence is all that saved us this time.
People got so pissed off over this at the time. Where are they all now? Ready to admit @dbarrett was right?
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It's easy to get depressed whenever you turn on the news and see the latest setback. But it's important to keep it all in context: in aggregate, the trends are shockingly consistent and positive. Good work humanity, keep it up!
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This is why Trump will not and cannot concede until Jan 6th: Republicans need an enraged base to win both Senate runoff elections in Georgia on Jan 5th, and nothing enrages them more than baselessly denying that the vote was fair and Trump lost.
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I just keep thinking "This is bad, but imagine how much worse it would be if Biden's lead were smaller." Take a moment today to thank a Biden voter for protecting democracy against this very real threat. True patriots defend democracy even if they lose.
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This was an absolutely incredible production by our own Joanie Wang and Puneet Lath. So good!!!
Check out "Representation," the first episode of our brand new series, LONG ASS TABLE TALKS, where we sit down with @TrevorNoah. bit.ly/3lylpS5. #LATtalks
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Great case study on how we use StackOverflow internally. It's been a lifesafer.
resources.stackoverflow.co/t… via @stackoverflow
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I think the slogan for upcoming elections should be:
"Republicans want to take your vote. Vote Democrat, while you still can."
Let's make defending your right to vote Democrats' primary pillar, as much as gun rights are to Rupublicans.
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Trying to explain the multi-generational compounding effects of institutional racism to a Bumble date is just a weird new reality.
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"We’re not asking you to storm the beaches of Iwo Jima; we’re asking you to walk into a damn CVS."
nytimes.com/2021/05/06/opini…
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Sign this petition to bring this abandoned railroad for kids at the Oregon zoo back to life!
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Trump is a terror cult, not a political party.
"Political compromise, and ultimately, reconciliation, starts with recognition. But real-world politics cannot follow those who become believers in their alternate realities. A different strategy is needed."
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I love everything about my Tesla 3, but omg the AWD handling in deep snow is incredible. I haven't had that much fun driving in years.
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“Their basic argument is this was a conspiracy so vast and so successful that there’s no evidence of it. ... Now if that’s true, I really want to know who the people are who pulled this off. We need to hire them at the C.I.A.”
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Expensify to donate about $3 million to lessen gender pay gap sfchronicle.com/business/art…
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"In 2022 alone, we collectively paid over $1.2M to our 125 open source contributors and we’re just getting started" businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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Simple answer: yes. I think the Democrats need to make defending democracy itself their core, supreme issue. If Republicans are the pro-life party, Democrats need to be the pro-democracy party. The preservation and promotion of democracy needs to be #1.
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Check out we.are.expensify.com to apply!
"We saw lots of applicants specifically mentioning - 'I am applying for this reason.' It's more important to do something to stand up for democracy that to quibble about the effects." @expensify's @dbarrett #BloombergEquality
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I'm worried that Biden isn't talking enough about election security -- not against nonexistent fraud, but against wholesale attack by an entire political party. A vote for Democrat needs to be a vote for Democracy. The wildfire Trump started needs to be contained; who else will?
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I wrote up some thoughts for some co-workers, but thought I'd share here too. tl;dr - I think we're seeing science undermine anthropocentrism just like it did heliocentrism long ago. The past few years show the risk of toxic masculinity; I fear the rise of toxic humanity.
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Better late than never: "Other hot spots are now vaccinating more new people each day than they have since mid-May. Last week alone, LA registered a 114 percent increase in uptake, while AR increased by 96 percent, AL by 65 percent and MO by 49 percent." news.yahoo.com/us-hits-biden…
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In their defense, at @expensify it was just another Wednesday too: a boring inauguration free from widespread violence was a great victory. I just wish they had helped us win it.
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Refusing the vaccine is like Russian roulette. But it's not just statistical suicide for you, it risks you spreading it to others who can't get the vaccine yet -- notably, everybody under 12. So it's not pointing the gun at just you, but at your kids too.
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I worry the "blue wave" will squander its new power. I wish Democrats fought FOR democracy as hard as Republicans fight AGAINST reproductive rights. With democracy, we can solve everything else. Without it, all is lost. The Democrat party needs to be the party of democracy.
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Democracy is still under attack:
“The typical response by a losing party in a functioning democracy is that they alter their platform to make it more appealing, Here the response is to try to keep people from voting. It’s dangerously antidemocratic.”
nytimes.com/2021/02/27/us/re…
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WhatsApp + Splitwise = Expensify.cash (now open for early access)
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Hold your celebrations, Trump isn't even close to done with baselessly disputing the vote is accurate. This isn't about accuracy; he's abusing the full power of the presidency to ignore enough legitimate votes to change the election. And it might work. cnbc.com/2020/11/09/barr-aut…
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And people say that systemic bias doesn't exist in the society. A literal domestic terrorist suspect claiming some unspecified organic food religion based on non-existent science is getting preferential treatment?
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LEADERS ARE VISIONARIES WITH A POORLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF FEAR AND NO CONCEPT OF THE ODDS AGAINST THEM. — Robert Jarvik
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Cloud infrastructure is a load of crap. Bare metal is without question faster, cheaper, more reliable, easier to manage, and better in every way. We run every important function on bare metal hardware, and only use cloud when it doesn't matter.
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Huge thanks to our quickly growing open source community for supercharging our engineering team in 2021; next year is going to be even better. Check out @ExpensifyOSS to get paid to help build the new Expensify!
It's been a wild first year for New Expensify and our Open Source project! We wanted to take a moment to celebrate this amazing collaborative effort and share some fun facts!
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Haha, sorry for the mixup!
@dbarrett I got accused of being a "deep-state pedo" by a Q supporter thinking I was you, so please RT this matching I'm doing for Fair Fight to make up for it :D
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This means their official corporate position is that they are selectively political, but systemic injustice's eroding effect on democracy as a whole officially doesn't "relate to our business" -- which is a powerful restatement of the systemic nature of injustice itself. 3/3
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Hi Chris, can you help me understand why you feel the National Popular Vote is unconstitutional?
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Well done @patagonia, you lead by inspiring example. Our LT share structure has a similar goal, to guarantee permanent employee control despite being public, to stay focused on Living Rich, Having Fun, and Saving the World. Same same but different. nytimes.com/2022/09/14/clima…
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Hi sorry for the confusion. Re: civil war, we are fine if Trump wins, or loses by a landslide. But if it's a narrow loss and he refuses to leave (claiming fraud), it's a Constitutional crisis that could lead to civil war. It's unlikely, but so catastrophic we need to avoid it.
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Again, I don't think CEOs are in general bad people. But I do think CEOs are in general cowards, because most people are cowards and CEOs are no different. But don't give up hope on them, we just need to inspire them to act. They have power, we need to encourage them to use it.
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Like everyone, we've been thinking a lot about and investing in AI -- here's a quick peek of what's going on at Expensify behind the scenes, and a framework to understand how every large legacy player like us will gradually embrace the change (if at all): use.expensify.com/blog/expen…
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Anyone know any good Minecraft developers? I've got a personal project I'd love your help with: top dollar to build me and my daughter a mod that runs on a Mojang hosted Realm playable on PE. Let's add a penguin first then make a super rad dragon. Thanks! upwork.com/jobs/~016479df0fb…
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to clarify, it's not a personal message, the message was constructed by the entire company. Second, it's not a customer list, it's our newsletter, which has always been used for long-form content like this, and has an unsubscribe link at the bottom.
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It's a little known fact that @2chainz had an early prototype of the #AppleVisionPro in our Expensify This #SuperBowl music video (piped.video/watch?v=bU3fit1M…). I can't believe nobody noticed.
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I think what makes me the proudest to be an American is our ability to be honest about our mistakes. #JuneTeenth2021
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I think this article mistakes Trump's motives for running: it doesn't matter if he wins, he just wants to stay relevant. By saying he'll run in 2024, he buys himself 4 more years of political relevance. And if/when he loses again, he'll claim fraud again.
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This was a ton of fun, thanks for the invite!
I was blown away by @dbarrett emailing 10,000,000 @expensify users to vote for Joe Biden. So I asked him to tell me all about it.
We covered a lot of ground in what’s become one of my favorite episodes, check it out 👇🏽
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Wow, this is the saddest article on the total collapse of Trump's followers. Everyone want him gone, even his die-hard fans. Trump is officially the biggest loser in US history. I hope others learn to avoid his toxic, humiliating footprints.
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Well said:
“I ran for president because I believe we’re in a battle for the soul of this nation,” Biden said before signing the actions. “And the simple truth is, our soul will be troubled as long as systemic racism is allowed to persist.”
cnbc.com/2021/01/26/biden-to…
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Man I love PDX airport. First check in online, then use your Expensify Card when parking to skip the paper ticket, now TSA PreCheck doesn't even need to see the boarding pass just give them your ID, then skip the receipt when leaving. Paperless!
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The Electoral College Is Close. The Popular Vote Isn’t. nyti.ms/2U1NrGW
“Why, when somebody has won millions more votes than their opponent, are we still deliberating over 10,000 votes here, 5,000 votes there?”
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We need to waive social-distancing requirements for businesses that verify vaccination status at the door: 25% of tables for unvaccinated people, 75% for vaccinated. We need to create an immediate benefit for getting vaccinated.
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One SMB employee is worth 5x an enterprise employee because there's so little competition for them -- everyone is so distracted on the "big guys" that they're missing the larger, better opportunity.
. @expensify CEO @dbarrett was told to pitch his product to Fortune 500 companies but chose medium-sized businesses instead without spending a dime to acquire them. Catch our latest #CIBCInnovationEconomy podcast episode: bit.ly/3ndcpQm
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