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Matt Ocko
@mattocko
VC (co-founder @DCVC w/ @Zackbogue). Technologist. Husband-ist. Dad-ist. Friend-ist. @[email protected]; ♥≠endorse; Backing an abundant Star Trek future
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    Matt Ocko
    @mattocko
    Sep 7, 2020
    Massive CA blackouts - easily prevented by having not retired & canceled GigaWatts of critical, clean, baseload nuclear power Ordinary Cal citizens suffer b/c “Hard Green” politicians are as anti-science & doctrinaire (about anti-nuclear) as are the Evangelicals they often mock
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    Matt Ocko
    @mattocko
    Oct 7, 2023
    I am donating $100,000 to this organization that supports the Arab and Jewish Israeli heroic first responders working side by side to save their fellow citizens lives. I will match up to another $100k. Tweet your donation.
    Saving Lives in Israel with United Hatzalah
    From israelrescue.org
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    Matt Ocko
    @mattocko
    May 16, 2020
    As #COVID19 cases & deaths explode in Nebraska @ nursing homes & meatpacking plants, Governor silences reporting #s As cases refuse to drop, Gov of GA releases case graph with *days in random order* to fake a decline Government by grunting morons who lie badly kills Americans
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    Matt Ocko
    @mattocko
    Apr 5, 2023
    Bob Lee was a friend to me & multiple people in my firm. My heart goes out to his loved ones. Chesa Boudin, & the criminal-loving city council that enabled him & a lawless SF for years, have Bob’s literal blood on their hands. Take action. Cc @garrytan @sampullara
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    Jake Shields
    @jakeshieldsajj
    Apr 5, 2023
    Replying to @jakeshieldsajj
    I didn’t want to be the one to leak the name but now it’s out Bob Lee is an extremely high profile tech guy so hopefully this will at least bring attention to these problems
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    Matt Ocko
    @mattocko
    Jan 29, 2025
    Congrats to the relentless @boomsupersonic team & CEO @bscholl for the first privately-funded supersonic civilian aircraft in US history When @zackbogue & I invested day one (& kept investing), we hoped for this vindication for the team. Supersonic Air Force-One, here we come 👊🇺🇸
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    Matt Ocko
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    Jul 12, 2020
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    Matt Ocko
    @mattocko
    Jan 22, 2020
    This is true - & in direct opposition to the PE model A great VC outcome will make the first 500 employees materially wealthier than the VCs that funded them A great PE outcome often results in unemployment & bankruptcy of thousands, &/or destruction of a co & it’s community
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    Balaji
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    Jan 22, 2020
    Venture capitalists are perhaps the only elites in the world that are highly incentivized to make newcomers much richer than them.
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    Matt Ocko
    @mattocko
    Feb 18, 2020
    I’m starting my day w/ a $25K grant to the #WhiteHelmets & the suffering people of Idlib & Syria Please join me - 1M children risk freezing to death, & food, supplies/meds, blankets & ambulances (refugees are being bombed even as they freeze) are urgently needed Cc @OzKaterji
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    Matt Ocko
    @mattocko
    Mar 13, 2023
    Replying to @kimmaicutler @blader and 2 others
    I was one of the people — & know many others — urgently “working behind the scenes”, & fair to say without the publicity & sense of urgency that each of @garrytan, David, Jason, & many others created, the powers that be may very well have stayed asleep and f’ed the country
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    Matt Ocko
    @mattocko
    Jan 26, 2020
    1/ So a planeload of an unknown mix of currently healthy & potentially sick people w/ a virus w/ asymptomatic airborne transmission & delayed incubation are going to be shipped on an 14hr flight breathing same air — to SF to potentially expose local airport & healthcare staff 😳
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    Matt Ocko
    @mattocko
    Dec 7, 2023
    👇unambiguous evidence that TikTok is "digital fentanyl" - tuned by the PRC - to make Americans misinformed, divided, depressed, & hateful When US citizens need mutual goodwill and belief in our values & a just future more than ever, TikTok is poison
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    Select Committee on China
    @ChinaSelect
    Dec 7, 2023
    Does anyone really believe the Chinese Communist Party doesn’t interfere with the spread of information on @tiktok_us? It’s convenient that content related to Tibet, Tiananmen Square, and Uyghurs spreads on Instagram but not TikTok.
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    Matt Ocko
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    May 30, 2020
    Are my Canadian friends, like me, gently amused that the NASA/SpaceX launch endlessly refers to the astronaut team as... ...”Bob and Doug”? 😉
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    Matt Ocko
    @mattocko
    Apr 8, 2020
    1. The real story is that Hangouts is so awful that *Google employees* were using @zoom_us at large scale 2. The other story is about why Google is trumpeting this - see #1 🙄 3. Customers need to differentiate real security issues from desperate competitors throwing shade… 😑
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    mat honan ☀️
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    Apr 8, 2020
    Scoop from @PranavDixit: Google Bans Zoom Software From Employee Computers, Citing Security Vulnerabilities buzzfeednews.com/article/pranav…
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    Matt Ocko
    @mattocko
    Oct 22, 2023
    👇 like @Stanford @Penn @UCBerkeley and countless others right now, admins nodding approvingly at genocidal mobs marching on campus as a sign of “diversity” Suddenly defenders of “free speech” openly calling for the murder of Jews when they’d cancel and expel for anything else
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