Venture Partner | ex-Google | Decoding AI • Motivational stories on innovation & resilience • Tesla/SpaceX insights 🚀

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Keeanu Reeves He was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident. His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose. His sister has leukemia. And with everything that has happened, Keanu Reeves never misses an opportunity to help people in need. When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants; One cried because he would lose his house if he did not pay $ 20,000 and on the same day Keanu deposited the necessary amount in the woman's bank account; He also donated stratospheric sums to hospitals. In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery and bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him. After winning astronomical sums for the Matrix trilogy, the actor donated more than $ 50 million to the staff who handled the costumes and special effects - the true heroes of the trilogy, as he called them. He also gave a Harley-Davidson to each of the stunt doubles. A total expense of several million dollars. And for many successful films, he has even given up 90% of his salary to allow the production to hire other stars. In 1997 some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours. Most stars when they make a charitable gesture they declare it to all the media. He has never claimed to be doing charity, he simply does it as a matter of moral principles and not to look better in the eyes of others. This man could buy everything, and instead every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought: Be a good person.
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Ben Affleck understands AI better than 99% of most AI experts on the internet. 😄
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Who said you can’t be a billionaire by being employed! Tom Mueller. SpaceX employee #1, his 0.06% stake is now worth ~1.11 billion!!
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Fareed Zakaria stood at Bard College’s commencement. He had a trigger warning. “I’m about to utter the two most provocative letters in English today. AI.” Students braced to boo. Instead, he flipped it. “I don’t want to talk about AI. I want to talk about HI. Human Intelligence.” The story: He pointed to the human brain. 3 pounds. ~20 watts. Less power than a laptop charger. AI data centers? They consume enough electricity to power entire cities. His point: humans aren’t “inferior computers.” We were never computers at all. The lesson: “A machine can write a sad poem. But it cannot weep at a funeral. It can generate a love letter. But it cannot fall in love.” Human intelligence doesn’t win on speed. Or efficiency. It wins because it’s embedded, consciousness, emotion, morality, memory, relationships, lived experience. The takeaway: Don’t ask “what’s left for humans to do?” Ask “what does AI reveal about everything humans already do, that’s irreplaceable?” Curiosity. Wisdom. Empathy. Critical thinking. These aren’t soft skills anymore. They’re the moat. Build the tech. Use the tech. But champion HI, human imagination, human inspiration, human interconnection. “Our imperfections aren’t bugs in some system’s code. They’re the cracks that let the light in.”
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World champion aerial athlete Maja Kuczyńska has stunned viewers with her extraordinary control in the air, making it look like she is “walking in the sky.” Source - Times Now
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The Trillion-Dollar Question: Is SpaceX Overvalued… or Just Misunderstood? This chart highlights something remarkable: While most trillion-dollar tech companies trade between 3x and 24x revenue, SpaceX is reportedly valued at a staggering 94x sales. At first glance, that sounds irrational. But investors aren’t buying SpaceX for today’s revenue. They’re betting on: 🛰️ Starlink becoming the world’s dominant satellite internet network. 🚀 Reusable rockets continuing to reshape the economics of space. 🌎 Global communications infrastructure independent of traditional telecom networks. 🌕 The possibility that SpaceX becomes the backbone of a future multi-planet economy. The market isn’t valuing SpaceX like a company. It’s valuing it like a platform that could redefine multiple industries simultaneously. Of course, the risks are enormous: • Negative operating margins today • Massive capital requirements • Regulatory and geopolitical uncertainty • Execution risk at unprecedented scale History is filled with examples where investors overestimated the future. It’s also filled with examples where investors underestimated transformational technologies. The real debate isn’t whether 94x sales is expensive. The debate is whether SpaceX is a rocket company… or the infrastructure layer for humanity’s next frontier. 📊 What do you think? 🔘 Wildly overvalued bubble 🔘 Fairly valued for its potential 🔘 Still undervalued despite the valuation 🔘 Too early to tell
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The next AI breakthrough might not be a better model. It might be where the model runs. As AI moves into hospitals, banks, factories, and governments, the most valuable data can't always leave the building. So instead of moving data to the AI... The AI moves to the data. The next AI race may be about control, privacy, and sovereignty, not just intelligence.
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Never Give Up, Even With Your Last Breath. Life will knock you down. It will test you with failures, heartbreak, empty bank accounts, and nights where hope feels like a distant memory. You’ll question everything. You’ll want to quit. But the difference between those who fall and those who rise isn’t talent, luck, or money. It’s the decision to keep going when every voice, including your own, screams to stop. Think about it: rockets exploding on the launch pad. Dreams collapsing in real time. Teams on the edge of bankruptcy, staring at what looks like certain defeat. Yet they showed up anyway. They pushed one more time. And on the fourth attempt, something impossible happened, they reached orbit. That’s not just a story about rockets. That’s a story about you. Every champion, every breakthrough, every “overnight success” was built on the unseen battles where they refused to surrender. The last rep in the gym. The last cold call. The last line of code. The last breath of effort when quitting would have been easier. Your greatest moment is almost always on the other side of your darkest hour. So when the weight feels crushing… When the odds look impossible… When you’re exhausted and it’s your last breath… Breathe it out as fuel. Take one more step. The comeback isn’t promised to the strong or the gifted. It’s promised to the relentless. You’re still here. That means the story isn’t over. Keep going. The launch is coming. Credit : Graham Bensinger / Kimball Musk
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Within ~5 years, probably ~5 times as many satellites as rest of world
They did it. SpaceX has now launched more satellites than the rest of humanity, combined, all time.
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The Housing Affordability Reality Check This chart tells a story that goes far beyond real estate. In some of the world’s most desirable cities, home prices now require 10x, 20x, even 26x annual household income. For many families, home ownership is becoming less a milestone and more a distant aspiration. Yet affordability is only one part of the equation. The bigger question is: Where can you build a great life, not just buy a cheaper house? As remote work, AI, and global talent mobility continue to reshape the workforce, more professionals are questioning the traditional path of living in the most expensive cities on earth. Many are discovering that some of the best value-for-money opportunities are emerging across Asia: 🇲🇾 Malaysia – Modern infrastructure, excellent healthcare, international schools, low cost of living, and one of the strongest quality-of-life-to-cost ratios globally. 🇹🇭 Thailand – Vibrant lifestyle, world-class food, growing digital economy, and attractive living costs outside Bangkok. 🇻🇳 Vietnam – Fast-growing economy, entrepreneurial energy, affordable housing, and rapidly improving infrastructure. 🇮🇩 Indonesia – Expanding middle class, strong economic growth, and attractive opportunities beyond Jakarta. 🇵🇭 Philippines – English-speaking workforce, lower living costs, and growing business and outsourcing ecosystems. 🇹🇼 Taiwan – Excellent healthcare, safety, public transport, and technology-driven economy with lower living costs than many Western cities. 🇰🇷 South Korea (outside Seoul) – Advanced infrastructure and high living standards with significantly better affordability than the capital. The future may not belong to those who can afford the most expensive cities. It may belong to those who can identify the locations that maximize: ✅ Opportunity ✅ Quality of Life ✅ Affordability ✅ Safety ✅ Connectivity ✅ Future Growth In an AI-powered world where work is increasingly location-independent, the smartest investment may not be buying a home in the most expensive city. It may be choosing the right place to live. If you could work from anywhere, which Asian city would you choose and why?
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J.P. Morgan SpaceX= Largest IPO Congratulations to the @spaceX team on this milestone, we were proud to serve as a lead bookrunner on the transaction.
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Elon Musk at Tesla IPO in 2010 and SpaceX IPO in 2026 Two companies that changed the future
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Looking forward to taking our exciting partnership with Nvidia to the next-level
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Huge congratulations to the @SpaceX team on a historic IPO debut. Fueling the next frontier of space and AI. 🌌 NVIDIA's partnership with SpaceX spans nearly a decade, from hand-delivering the world's first #NVIDIADGX-1 supercomputer in 2016 to the custom DGX Spark handoff at Starbase. Together, we've been pushing the boundaries of accelerated computing to help power the future of space exploration.
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That WSJ penny video puts $1T into perspective perfectly. Elon Musk is now the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s massive IPO. History made.
Elon Musk is officially the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX went public. $1 trillion is such a large number and so far beyond the human imagination that we can’t wrap our minds around it. So let’s make it possible—by stacking pennies. Read more: on.wsj.com/3QFJF6W
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“I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.” - Elon Musk This is why rockets land, companies survive near-death, and impossible things become inevitable. Persistence isn’t optional when the mission actually matters. 🚀
“I don’t ever give up” Congrats @elonmusk 🚀
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I love the incredible people of SpaceX beyond words
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Gwynne Shotwell has got to be the most impressive woman of our generation. Mad respect.
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That's a wrap on $SPCX's first day trading on the stock market.
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BREAKING: Times Square’s iconic ball has transformed into Mars to celebrate the SpaceX IPO.
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A man who worked at SpaceX for 10 years moved to the US from Mexico in 2015 and took a welding contract at SpaceX for $28 an hour. He's now a supervisor. He received $10,000 in stock plus payroll deductions to buy more, and he did exactly that. Despite achieving the American Dream, he says he isn't going to stop. He's one of 4,400 SpaceX employees who became overnight millionaires with the IPO.
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He Got Everything He Ever Wanted. It Destroyed Him. There’s a moment in every successful person’s life when the prize finally arrives and they realize, too late, they were climbing the wrong mountain. This is that moment. And it’s coming for you too, unless you stop and look up now. The Card! George Clooney finally got the card! The one he’d spent the whole film chasing. Negotiated for. Sacrificed for. Burned relationships, missed moments, told himself “after this, then I’ll slow down” for. And when it landed in his hands, nothing happened. No swell of triumph. No relief. Just a quiet, sinking realization: this was never what he wanted. He wanted it because he’d decided, years ago, that wanting it made sense. And by the time it arrived, he’d become someone else, someone who wanted a warm home. Someone to love. Someone to come back to. He thought he’d found her. He hadn’t. It was an affair, an illusion, a woman who already had the life he was missing, and he had nothing to offer but the thing he’d just won. The card didn’t fill the hole. It illuminated it. Here’s the part that should stop you mid-scroll: he didn’t fail. He won. He got exactly what he set out to get. That’s what makes it devastating, not the loss, but the arrival. Standing at the finish line and realizing the race was pointed the wrong direction the whole time. Most of us won’t get a dramatic reveal scene. No mirror, no music cue, no moment where it all clicks. The drift happens quieter than that, one deferred dinner, one skipped call, one “next year I’ll have time” at a time. And the danger isn’t that we’ll fail to reach our goals. It’s that we’ll reach them, and only then look up. So before the next sprint, the next promotion, the next milestone you’re grinding toward, ask the question now, while you can still change course: if you got this, completely, tomorrow, would it give you what you actually want? Or just prove, very expensively, what you don’t have? Chase the card if it’s really yours. But know what you’re chasing it for before it’s the only thing left in your hand.
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