blossomed into a whole team, which he led. His final months were spent working with their infrastructure team on system projects like people search. Being at Twitter in the early days, Alex certainly saw the company culture grow and change.

“Twitter grew up a lot in the time I was there. It was crazy and fun in the early days, but that chaos came with some costs. In order to grow, they had to mature. That’s just how it goes.”

Alex eventually left Twitter, because he was ready for a change and likes working with early-stage companies. At that point, Twitter was around 150 people strong.

His next venture was Simple, the company reinventing personal banking, where he was the Co-Founder and CTO. He attributes the real credit for Simple toare opposed to domination, and because the state is an instrument of domination, anarchists often line up alongside imperialist forces seeking the overthrow of foreign states. Because the regime change efforts of imperialist forces are aimed exclusively at states operating outside the North Atlantic imperialist orbit, the effect is for anarchists who participate in campaigns to challenge these states to act as one of Western imperialism’s wrecking balls. While the anarchist aim is to challenge state authority, the aim of the imperialist forces that fund and provide training for the nonviolent resistance campaigns anarchists are often involved in, is to transfer control of the state from often popular and anti-colonial forces to comprador forces that are willing to facilitate the despoliation of their countries by North Atlantic banks,