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Faith & CultureThe Real Minimum Wage Is Zero: McDonald’s Rolls Out Automation
by Rod D. MartinDecember 29, 2022 During the dishonest #FightFor15 campaign, I warned my liberal...
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Tag: Unions
Janus: A Body Blow to the Unions (and Thus the Democrats)
by Rod D. Martin June 27, 2018 Today’s Supreme Court ruling in Janus is a body blow to the...
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Americans Are Voting with Their Feet for Economic Freedom
According to interstate migration patterns, people tend to prefer lower taxes and less...
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London’s Uber Ban Sends it Back to the Dark Ages
by Iain Murray September 28, 2017 When I lived in London in the 1990s, I had to use pricey Black...
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Fight For 15 Is Another Tool For Big Businesses To Kill Competition
But by making both production more expensive for everyone, you undermine what would have been a...
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Unions Are the Worst Labor Day Deal
by Gary M. Galles September 4, 2017 Every Labor Day, unions repeat assertions of advancing the...
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The Failure of Public Schooling in One Chart
by Daniel J. Mitchell January 13, 2017 While I have great fondness for some of the visuals I’ve...
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Fight For $15 Produces a Wave of Job-Replacing Kiosks
by Rod D. Martin December 5, 2016 Just as I’ve warned you — over and over — the...
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The Rod Martin Report – September 24, 2016
The Rod Martin Report Cruz Endorses Trump! Trump’s Surge Black and Foreign Leaders Trash...
Read MoreThe Oracle of Delphi: GM’s Pension Disaster And What It Means for Social Security
by Rod D. Martin October 24, 2005 Delphi’s bankruptcy filing — a result of mounting, unsustainable pension costs incurred decades ago — was grim news for its creditors, its stockholders, and its tens of...
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About Rod Martin
Rod D. Martin is a technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author and conservative activist from Destin, Florida.
Praise for Rod Martin
Peter ThielPayPal, Founders Fund, Facebook, PalantirRod is one of our nation’s leading minds. He’s smart, original, and very committed—a combination that one rarely finds.
Rod Martin and [former Howard Dean campaign manager] Joe Trippi are America’s two foremost experts on online politics.
Rod Martin is a Reaganite-Thatcherite conservative…[and] a man who has spent much of his life ministering to and working for the benefit of others. I know Rod as an advocate for freedom, a leader who understands the real changes we need in Washington, and who has the drive and ability to make those changes happen.
Rod Martin is the kind of dynamic leader who has the knowledge, ability and experience to lead us successfully into the 21st Century. His vision for America is compelling.
Rod Martin literally wrote the book on excellence. Humble yet brilliant, a man of love and compassion, with penetrating clarity he illuminates the world around us, and we are both stirred and enlightened.
Rod Martin is a born leader and an outstanding political mind. Anyone who takes him on is going to have a serious fight on their hands.
Rod Martin is a man of uncommon vision and character. Ever since I first worked alongside Rod in the early days of PayPal, I’ve been struck by his powerful vision for the future. Rod understands the intersection of technology, politics and culture in a way that few others do.
Rod Martin wears with uncommon grace an uncanny ability to link his vigorous faith to the practical challenges of both the business world and the political arena. Yet the respect he shows for others carries a warmth and modesty that are both too rare among those who are strong advocates of feisty positions.
America badly needs more leaders who really get the future. We need more Rod Martins.
Rod Martin is a modern day philosopher-statesman. He is a capitalist intellectual, a conservative iconoclast, a gentle adversary and a kind prophet. He inspires us towards a fresh national vision built upon the original founding principles.
Rod Martin is not only effective and efficient, but he is also perceptive, wise and gracious. He gets things done. He is a great friend and a great ally.
Rod is one of the sharpest, most gracious men I know, and one of the most gifted political thinkers today. His ability to analyze issues and communicate thoughtful insights on them have earned him the respect of people across the political spectrum.
I am proud to have been Rod Martin’s friend for a quarter century, and I can tell you that he is one of the finest men and most outstanding leaders in our church and in our country today. He has a knack for turning everything he touches to success.
Rod Martin is a cornucopian entrepreneur and eutropic thinker whose influence radiates through an array of companies, institutions, movements and churches. A renaissance American, he is also a prolific friend of freedom and faith around the globe.
If Rod Martin represents the next generation of leaders, America has nothing to worry about.
A leader and a servant, in public life and in private, Rod Martin strides at the top of his profession, and has nowhere to go but up. He is in the truest sense of the word ‘outstanding’.
Rod Martin is undoubtedly one of the most accomplished thought leaders today. He is a wonderful mentor, a humble role model, and a deep inspiration for the next generation of scientific innovators and entrepreneurs.
Rod’s achievements pale beside his character and his brilliance. He sees what others can’t. He leads when others won’t.
Rod Martin is one of America’s finest young minds.