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Joined December 2007
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Dear @Bonobos: You haven't paid @squarespace for the site you use to block visitors from outside the US. Maybe just stop doing that? codecookread.com/dont-block-…
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Response to API feedback at #makewithnotion: “Noted.” Not: let’s see if X is here from our API or developer relations team. Not: here’s how to file a feature request or here’s our roadmap. Very strange.
Yegor is someone we really want to welcome with open arms. It's a tragedy that he's worried about being able to stay and contribute. We can and should do better.
I’ve never shared my immigration story—until now
I lost the H1-B lottery in 2017 and was 'kicked out' of the US
I crawled my way back in 2022 after getting into Stanford, Harvard, MIT, etc.
I hope Trump allows me and other AI talent to stay this time
My journey to America:
- 2007: Dropped out of 8th grade in Spain. Taught myself coding and built a B2B ecommerce business that hit $500K revenue to pay for my mom's cancer treatments
- 2010: Lost my mom at 18. With no high school degree, European universities shut their doors
- 2011: America stepped in.🦅🇺🇸 I aced the SAT, got a GED, skipped 5 years of school, and moved to the US to enroll in college
- 2016: Graduated college Summa Cum Laude & a Olympic Weightlifting National Champion. I was living the American Dream
- 2017: Worked at DHL in Miami (Americas HQ), leveraging my fluency in 4 languages. They sponsored my H1-B—but I lost the lottery
- 2018: DHL relocated me to Global HQ in Germany
- 2021: Applied to Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Penn, and Dartmouth... thinking I'd be lucky to get an offer from one of them. I got into *all* of them
- 2022: I moved back to the US to start at Stanford
America owes me nothing, but I owe America everything
@elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @VivekGRamaswamy
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Congratulations @[email protected] on 30 years of @[email protected]. What an accomplishment! My favorite Rhode Island product by far, even more so than coffee syrup. Great work, Rich and team. barebones.com/