I LOVE YOU @jalenbrunson1 , @joshhart , @KarlTowns ,@ OG, @mikal_bridges , & the whole @nyknicks TEAM! BEST TEAM EVER. YOU ARE LEGENDS. PURE BLISS!! BUYING ALL THE GEAR!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I am healed from 1999, my childhood is repaired!

Congrats to @adamgluck !!!! Looking forward to seeing them build a champion (like the @nyknicks )

I am truly so angry at the @nba; truly I cannot see how to remain a fan after 30 years if this is how they ref Wemby. The on court product will degrade. How can they let him get away with that blatant flagrant foul on Brunson (and on the Hart 3) and meanwhile Brunson's remains?

Karpathy to Anthropic is either KD to Warriors or Jordan to Wizards, and we won't know for 18 months!

Award this to some of the VCs and tech bros cosplaying in defense tech? jk jk

The 50 year overnight success is BACK -- Oracle announces a $300B deal with OpenAI. Old is New, baby! What it means for Big Tech, defense primes, and the AI race? The STEAM Zone crew breaks it down

today i ran an experiment that exposed what i believe to be one of the biggest threats to america right now i attempted to raise funding for a manufacturing company from silicon valley VCs and from PE funds the VC gave me 5 minutes on zoom and said this was "more of a PE deal" because it was "too capital intensive", and they had no comps to benchmark it to, so they left to hop on another zoom and give an AI saas company a $50M pre seed the PE fund had no one to answer. i tried two others same thing. finally got a hold of the fourth which said they "don't fund r&d" and "we buy ebitda", and suggested i talk to VCs about de-risking the tech first so i call back the VC and ask "what about tesla or spacex?" and they said "those aren't replicable, you're not elon" while funding the 47th AI email assistant this is the reality: america is being priced out of its own industrial future while companies get stuck in the valley of death between VC and PE this is why 50% of our founders don't care anymore about building hard tech / manufacturing, because VCs want guilt free 100x returns from the saas casino, and pe wants existing cash flows if we want to support reindustrialization and domestic manufacturing, we need investors who understand the middle ground exists, and real tech can enable massive empires otherwise the factories of tomorrow won't be american, they'll be chinese. but at least we'll have another b2b saas platform with a 40x revenue multiple

I go where @GaruthAcharya tells me to!

Just saying buzz words is meaningless! Expertise, details matter!

@BenRJacobson is steaming about the moment of change... closing thoughts from this week's STEAM zone:

IPO pops are utter failures of pricing by investment bankers masked in language that is robbing founders and equity holders on behalf of middlemen. @figma should have direct listed.

Vibes and good intentions only get so far- the nitty gritty work is hard!

What a way to end @reindsummit with a @CocaCola truck delivering to @GM.

Come talk to me about the US Marine Innovation Unit!

We the people must demand public works that WORK on a reasonable timeline. No excuse can justify this.

Real ones still have their Penance Hall socks

Are you really in defense tech if you didn’t watch the SASC committee hearing on Defense innovation and Acquisition reform. armed-services.senate.gov/he…

Great to listen to @JoshuaSteinman on Spaces!

Are you in defense tech if you didn’t spend your Saturday night reading the latest draft the of the NDAA?

The Right Stuff - Greatest movie ever. Or 2nd place- Lawerence of Arabia. And 3rd - Without Limits