Cole Patterson📊
@ColePatterson
Followers
6K
Following
13K
Media
431
Statuses
2K
Pushing to production on Fridays | Building @OptiqData 👨🏽💻📊📈🇺🇸
California
Joined May 2011
A new campaign intelligence platform is arriving in California. Civiq launches on February 10.
1
7
44
#NEW: 2030 Apportionment Forecast based on 2025 Census Bureau Population Estimates (January 27, 2026). Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
92
227
1K
In 2017, Anduril got its start in a small warehouse in Orange County. Today, we're announcing our expansion into a 1.2M sq-ft facility in Long Beach, CA.
207
374
6K
4/ Solano, and @CAForever, matter because they answer three of the most important issues of our time: manufacturing, shipbuilding, and homeownership. Solano Foundry: https://t.co/pxZNgb3IUq Solano Shipyard: https://t.co/RZpIB1EfrE Solano Living:
1/ 🇺🇸 Today, @CAForever submitted detailed plans for the next great American city, an hour north of Silicon Valley, including: Solano Foundry, America’s largest manufacturing park, Solano Shipyard, our largest shipyard, and walkable neighborhoods for 400,000 Californians.
2
9
137
NEWS: Peter Thiel is in for $3 million to a group pushing against the California billionaires tax. Sergey Brin may get very involved too with big donations of his own. The next phase — the politics. With @RMac18
https://t.co/DzwQR2ZAvW
nytimes.com
More large donations from wealthy Silicon Valley figures are expected as they try to marshal opposition to a proposed ballot measure that would impose a new tax on billionaires.
34
36
336
I am profoundly heartbroken to hear of the passing of my close friend, Congressman Doug LaMalfa. Before serving together in Congress, we weren’t just colleagues in the California State Legislature, we were roommates. Doug was first and foremost a devoted husband and father,
302
253
3K
To be clear, the Billionaire Tax Act in California is not (just) an unrealized gains tax. It’s a 5% across-the-board confiscation of net worth. It applies even if one has already realized and paid taxes on the entire amount.
Taxing unrealized gains at 5% will obviously backfire. So of course California will probably go through with it...
800
2K
14K
NEWS: Larry Page and Peter Thiel are making moves to leave California by the end of the year to avoid a possible billionaires tax that could hit them where it hurts. With @RMac18 + @hknightsf. https://t.co/VyYtHPRdYQ
nytimes.com
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
688
886
6K
After rewatching Home Alone, I couldn’t stop wondering: how plausible is the oversleep that leaves Kevin behind? So I wrote a tiny paper and ran the numbers. Merry Christmas! 🎄
441
4K
22K
“We’re not hopeful at all..” Rob Lapsley, President of @CalRoundtable weighs in on likelihood Gov. Newsom & CALeg put money toward CA’s $20B federal unemployment debt. With soaring payroll costs, Lapsley warns about impacts on jobs in the state: https://t.co/ULsYEQlLGQ
18
110
327
Databricks is raising over $4 billion in Series L funding, valuing the data and AI company at $134 billion. Databricks CEO @alighodsi attributed the company’s revenue run-rate growth, which is up 55% year-over-year, to the idea that businesses are building data intelligent
1
18
137
NEW: An L.A. man who quit his job to clean city streets says the trash bags he collects sit for days despite repeated 311 calls. Juan Naula — “Clean L-A With Me” — has picked up 100,000+ lbs of trash this year as he says some residents now turn to him when the city doesn’t
109
477
3K
The optimists and pessimists both have a point, to an extent. What I keep coming back to is this chart. Western societies have profoundly buggered up the supply of critical goods and services, whilst at the same time producing a technological cornucopia. Trick is to make the
196
242
2K
On Dec. 8, NASA astronaut @JonnyKimUSA will depart the @Space_Station, heading home to conclude his eight-month mission in low Earth orbit. Learn when and where you can watch his return to Earth: https://t.co/nEwX4DaSg1
258
752
8K
California taxpayers this year are spending $1.1 million on four staff positions for the fast food council that hardly met and made no decisions this year. Officials claim work is being done, but confirm the council’s next meeting is not scheduled… https://t.co/pcGr218SRd
kcra.com
California's first-in-the-nation Fast Food Council, which was created to bargain the working conditions and wages for fast food workers across the state, has quietly been without a leader since May.
245
862
2K
There's been some confusion out there about how @CookPolitical PVI works. A PVI score of R+10, for example, means that an R candidate should expect to get ~60% in a district if Trump won 50% of the vote nationally. Read our full explainer: https://t.co/qEWB5dxAjf
23
86
498
Today, Valar Atomics became the first startup in history to split the atom. Announcing Project Nova, a series of zero power critical tests on Valar Atomics' Nova Core in collaboration with Los Alamos NCERC and NNSS. Nova went critical for the first time this morning at 11:45am.
459
1K
9K