Love California, working on making it better. Founder & former CEO @usekojo, angel investor, board @orascomdevelop. Formerly @8vc, @oxfordunion president
Joined December 2012
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Jun 2
It's crazy that booking travel still requires opening 15 different tabs.
I want one place that remembers all my preferences where I can easily book flights, hotels, plan itineraries, and optimize points.
Now it's finally here! @OdessiaTravel @FDavidsonT
Jun 2
Meet Odessia.
She plans and books entire trips in one conversation.
Apparently, she's the goddess of travel.
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Maria Davidson retweeted
May 28
At the interaction of hospitality and technology, @FDavidsonT with his new startup.
May 27
I've spent my entire adult life thinking about travel. Built Sonder from the ground up as a college student to a $600M a year business in under 10 years.
For the last six months I've been obsessing over how AI will change travel. TLDR: it will change everything.
I've put together a stellar team and next week we're launching a preview of what we've built.
It's been a game changer for early testers.
Comment below for early access.
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May 27
How we travel is about to change
May 27
I've spent my entire adult life thinking about travel. Built Sonder from the ground up as a college student to a $600M a year business in under 10 years.
For the last six months I've been obsessing over how AI will change travel. TLDR: it will change everything.
I've put together a stellar team and next week we're launching a preview of what we've built.
It's been a game changer for early testers.
Comment below for early access.
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May 8
SF spends $102k a year per homeless person.
It spends $20k a year per resident.
SF spends more per homeless person than the 10 largest US cities combined spend per resident.
May 6
5 of the 10 cities that spend the most per homeless person are in California.
SF alone spends more per homeless person than NY and Portland combined.
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May 6
5 of the 10 cities that spend the most per homeless person are in California.
SF alone spends more per homeless person than NY and Portland combined.
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Apr 29
College tuition has grown 4× faster than wages since 1980.
The cost of public college tuition is up 1,351%.
Median weekly earnings are up just 342%.
Apr 27
College tuition has increased 914% since 1983, per CNBC.
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Apr 24
Only 4 states have fully funded public pension liabilities in the US.
Tennessee is doing the best at 104%.
Illinois is doing the worst at only 52%.
Where will the money to pay these promised pensions come from?
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Apr 23
Where did all the money go?
7/10 states that spend the most per capita lost people to other states since 2020.
10/10 states that spend the least gained people from other states.
Wrote an op-ed for @thehill on where the money is actually going
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Apr 23
If the increased spending hasn’t led residents to stay, something isn’t adding up.
Link to the article: thehill.com/opinion/finance/…
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Apr 21
This fake account is impersonating me.
Please block and report if you have a moment - x.com/MariaDav1dson
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Apr 20
Where does the money go?
The US spends 50% more per person on healthcare than Switzerland, the next highest spending country.
But life expectancy is 5 years shorter.
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Apr 19
Over the last decade, California's state spending grew 48%, inflation adjusted.
Population grew 0.4%.
Only 25% of 8th graders hit the math proficiency level.
Homelessness increased ~20% since 2019 despite us spending $37bn.
We can do better!
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Maria Davidson retweeted
Apr 16
Maria Davidson saw that construction projects were still ordering hundreds of billions in materials through phone calls, emails, and texts — and paying the price in delays, waste and chaos.
So she found a way to connect field crews, back offices, and distributors in one platform — and grew it from $0 to more than $5 billion in annual materials orders in just five years.
Davidson credits Kojo’s success to approaching construction with a true beginner’s mindset, asking why processes evolved the way they did before trying to “fix” them.
Her advice: when you tackle a legacy industry, combine deep curiosity with empathy — understand the reasons behind broken workflows, then design software that respects real-world constraints while making people’s work meaningfully easier.
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Apr 16
Where does the money go?
California spends 2x more per inmate than the cost of Stanford tuition.
And 4x more than Texas spends per inmate.
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Apr 16
What @paulscherer and @eigenhq are building is inspiring. In a world that can be isolating, we all need a mutual friend.
Pumped to be part of the journey and can't wait to be friends with momo!
Apr 16
I’m honored to share that @eigenhq has raised $15M from @Benchmark to build a mutual friend that’ll help us belong and grow, together.
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