Alex Rampell

@arampell

Silicon Valley entrepreneur (cofounder@ TrialPay, Yub, Affirm, Point, TXN), investor (General Partner @a16z), husband, father and sarcast (one who is sarcastic)

Palo Alto, CA

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Joined October 2010

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Alex Rampell
@arampell
Feb 22, 2021
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts” -Richard Feynman (1966) feynman.com/science/what-i…
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Alex Rampell
@arampell
Nov 5
100%, also see Mike Bloomberg. Money (at best) gets you reach. It’s the whole basis of advertising. It cannot make people buy a bad product. If you take out money from politics, you get fame in politics, since they have free reach. Citizens United was correctly decided.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
@Noahpinion
Nov 5
Every time socialists lose an election it's because "billionaires bought it". Meanwhile Elon is out there spending hundreds of millions of dollars and getting zero results. Money doesn't buy elections.
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Alex Rampell
@arampell
Nov 5
Looks like the wealth tax passed after all
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Alex Rampell
@arampell
Nov 5
“Show me the man, I’ll find you the crime” -Lavrentiy Beria
Jeff Stein
@jstein_sun
Nov 5
NEWS: Ds review 181-page dossier from ex-Warren/Sanders staffers ID’ing hundreds of executives & corporations to target Envisions “resignations of major CEOs, hauling people in, material restitution” Tech giants, crypto, sports gambling, gas & more washingtonsun.com/congress/democ…
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Alex Rampell
@arampell
Nov 5
Very proud of my son @cappucher for working for months (with his AI collaborator) to, for the first time ever, prove the asymptotic for E.P. Stein numbers (in the put-or-take-a-square game) And thanks to @skominers for advice and counsel along the way!
arxiv.org
An Asymptotic for E. P. Stein Numbers
Epstein's put-or-take-a-square game is an impartial combinatorial game in which a player may, in each turn, add or subtract the largest square not exceeding the current integer. We study E. P....
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