Ian Landsman

@ianlandsman.com

Bootstrapper, software developer, poker player. Founded 2005: HelpSpot Founded 2014: LaraJobs (@larajobs.com) Founded 2025: Outro (@outro.fm) CoHost: Mostly Technical Podcast (@mostlytechnical.com) Artsy photos: https://www.instagram.com/ianlandsman/

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.Children hug Mayor Mamdani.

I spent a fair amount of time in and around Catholics and the Catholic church in my life and I've never heard anyone call the Pope a "very liberal person" before 🤣

They don’t know how war works and they don’t know how negotiations work—but they do know how grift works. Our oligarchs will make money, Putin will make money, and that’s the only "victory" they care about. As a war this is obviously a defeat for the US—had the US won it would be dictating terms.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

JD Vance: "The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement. And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the US. So, we go back to the US having not come to an agreement ... they have chosen not to accept our terms"