The issue there is running it on k8s. On bare metal or even VMs it’s not at all hard to run even at scale.

Well when all of your services are in k8s, and your service discovery is on k8s, etc, you tend to put things like Kafka into K8s.

You’re off by a couple orders of magnitude on what it takes to run Twitter.

Because your idea makes no sense, to be frank. The tax inefficiency alone would be absurd.

can you please elaboration the tax inefficiency, if possible?

If you don’t see how this strategy is tax inefficient then you have no business doing this.

Still, if you please take a moment to share how a strategy with one change per year is tax inefficient and how it can be made better, I and I would assume everyone else here would like to hear it... Thank you.

Michael J. Fox.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/12/michael-j-fox-parkinsons...

Fair and thank you I was feeling cynical this afternoon. I’ll agree his Foundation is a win. I was thinking more of companies on the focus (eg. calico) and not of funding organizations like the CF foundation (huge success story) and HHMI (great driver of scientist led science ).

The 36 corridor between Denver and Boulder was home to a ton of storage tech startups in the first dotcom boom. There’s still a street called “Tape Drive”.

yeah! I used to work at that StorageTek location, before they sold to Sun and then Oracle.

Conoco bought the land like 10 years back and demolished the old offices for a "clean energy lab" IIRC , though that never happened and now Tape Drive (and Disk Drive, on the western side of the campus) just deadend into a large empty field.

The fact that those offices are gone feels like a weird message about tech, but i don't know what it is.

The API was 10% of the company’s revenue before Musk took over. That’s a good amount of value.

The v2 API was built over the last several years. It’s not new and was announced a long time ago, well before the acquisition.

Source: led the search API at Twitter until last year.

There is one SRE left from that team. That’s it.

You need both. Without the free API you don’t have a funnel of new customers who can grow into the enterprise tiers.

They have a hell of a lot to do with each other beyond that too.

(Led the search API team at Twitter and worked on both API platforms)

Showing ads isn’t enough. You need to count as impressions to bill advertisers and convince them to trust the impression data coming from third party clients.