Founder and GP at @blingcapital, GP @khoslaventures, Fitness junkie, formerly @YouTube @Google @Facebook

Joined April 2008
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19 Nov 2024
Excited to announce Bling Capital Fund IV: $270M to help early stage entrepreneurs find product market fit! blingcap.com/fund4/ cc @kylelui
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
If Melania wasn’t married to Trump, she’d be on every magazine cover as the most elegant, dignified First Lady in modern history. If Gwynne Shotwell didn’t work for Elon, she’d be universally celebrated as one of the greatest executives alive. The same people who worship “strong women” suddenly go blind when she stands next to the wrong man.
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
listen up, we have to vote for the man with the nazi tattoo so he can stop the man landing rockets and curing the blind from making any more money, otherwise we’ll get fascism you see how stupid you sound, yes?
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense. SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world. Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere. SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity. Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help. The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist. Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives. Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation. Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears. Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction. We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and the rest aren’t dumb enough to actually think Elon Musk has a trillion dollars in cash waiting to be taxed. They just think their followers are dumb enough to think that. And they are.
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
Fun fact: @GavinNewsom has budgeted >300% more tax dollars for a nonexistent California rail system than SpaceX raised in private capital in its entire history as a private company.
Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas while Elon Musk becomes a TRILLIONAIRE. When the federal government is for sale, the rich get richer and everyone else gets shafted. The system is rigged.
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bro immigrated from Mexico and took a $28/hr contract welding job in 2015. didn't even know what SpaceX was. they gave him $10,000 in stock and let him buy more through payroll deductions. that stake is now worth $880,000. and he's one of 4,400 employees who became millionaires on Friday. welders. technicians. cafeteria staff.
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
My whole timeline is full of millionaires complaining about a trillionaire
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
men look at the accomplishments of great men in awe. they feel proud, inspired, and want to be great as well. parasites rub their greedy little insect hands together and say "that's mine." ro khanna is a parasite.
Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American. And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars! You don't think that's worth it?
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5% of $1.2T is $60b. 8m students in BA/BS programs on average pay over $20k/yr, or ~$160b/yr for BA/BS degrees only. That tax could not cover even half of only US bachelor degree costs for just 1 year, excluding grad, ass., or trade degrees totaling another ~10m students. nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/i… bestcolleges.com/research/colle…
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
You see a trillion dollars. Gavin sees 3/4 of a mile of high speed rail.
Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas while Elon Musk becomes a TRILLIONAIRE. When the federal government is for sale, the rich get richer and everyone else gets shafted. The system is rigged.
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
I couldn’t care less about what career politicians like AOC and Bernie think about Elon becoming a trillionaire. My life is worse because of career politicians and better because of Elon Musk’s products. My Tesla doesn’t need oil changes, I can charge at my house. I’ve saved tons of money owning a Tesla. It’s fun to drive. When my home in Wyoming was being built, internet lines weren’t an option. Starlink saved the day and now I have perfect internet in the mountains. So for any journalist or politician complaining he’s now a trillionaire, I kindly tell you to piss off.
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
This aged horrifically. California politicians dunked on Elon and helped drive out SpaceX, Tesla jobs, engineers, suppliers, and the tax base. Now SpaceX is headed for a $1.75T IPO. “Message received” may be the most expensive political own-goal in California history.
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Fun history fact, SpaceX used to be headquartered in California but their leaders actively chased the company away.
F*ck Elon Musk.
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
Some legal AI companies are sponsoring athletes. Others are sponsoring actors. Spellbook is sponsoring lawyers. We’re proud to launch Spellbook’s $1m Legal Fellowship Fund. We're supporting law students who want to work at the intersection of law, systems thinking and technology. My co-founder Daniel knew he wanted to change the practice of law early, but that seemed insurmountable until we found an angel investor. We want to pay it forward to the next generation of legal innovators. Please help us spread the word! Apply here: spellbook.com/fellowship Deadline for Fall 2026: July 15.
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
Dude you have no idea, like half of my best memories were on a screen @profgalloway Growing up, my computer was an extension of me—I made lifelong friends online, found communities that I’m still part of, had the most fulfilling creative moments making music, games and software. Exploring the early Internet was one of the best things that ever happened to me. Our company Spellbook raised its seed round 100% on a screen. For some, a computer is a clunky appendage that they’re forced to use to get stuff done. For others, a computer feels like a natural extension of their reality and themselves—it feels like a home they were born into. It feels as real as real life, sometimes more real. I think a lot about this difference in attitudes towards computers—it predicts a lot about what kind of work someone will enjoy
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
Obviously when your candidate loses an election 51-49% that’s tough but a runner-up bad feeling is when a candidate you thought had strong support ends up getting 9%, makes you realize how out of touch your circle was.
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
It’s not that you’re a billionaire, it’s that you are insufferable and insincere.
I know a lot of people have reservations about voting for a billionaire. I see the ways so many billionaires lie, cheat, and steal to get whatever they can out of the system — and then do everything they can to hoard their wealth and avoid paying taxes. Screw that.
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
Ah yes, the Soviet Union. Famous for cutting taxes and protecting private property rights.
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Jun 2
How do I know the media is brainwashing people? Obama's ICE Chief received the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service for removing over 900,000 illegal aliens. Trump's ICE Chief is called a Nazi. It is the same person.....Tom Homan.... The only difference? The narrative.
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Jun 3
The highest-ranking openly gay cabinet member was selected by [checks notes]... President Trump!
Replying to @Jason
You’re empowering a homophonic administration loser
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Benjamin Ling retweeted
i realized something recently bernie sanders and AOC have damaged the fabric of america immensely but we rarely talk about it bernie/AOC have vilified successful businessmen & women. calling CEOs like elon musk, bezos, zuck evil. yes these people have shortcomings - but they are also truly self made, come from normal/humble backgrounds. with hard work they created trillions in economic value. isn’t that a fundamental part of what america is about? the land of opportunity? in the 2000s when i was in elementary school, bill gates and steve jobs were viewed as role models. our teachers taught us about how much they achieved given to society. these CEOs were actually respected and i believe this culture brought up a generation of ambitious hard working americans now, kids are being taught that working hard and becoming a billionaire is evil. we’re essentially telling them to have victim mindset and stay poor i know bernie/AOC & crew are never going to take responsibility. i can’t even tell if they realize what they’re doing
I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America. This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.
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