In 2016 my son and I took a visit to a ⁦@Tesla⁩ showroom for a test drive for fun. Came out blown away and knew at that time this car and the company was going to be the future of the auto industry. Congrats to all my ⁦@Tesla⁩ bulls! 🤣👏🏼🎉👊

No other species on Earth has a teamwork system quite like ants.

WTF! - Welcome to Florida! 😳

Mission: Expanding the Scope and Scale of Consciousness. From my 📸 of the billboard on Times Square “This is, depending on how you read it, either the most ridiculous thing a serious company has ever put on its mission page or the most honest. We think it’s the latter.” —@a16z

Really do appreciate @taylorswift13 indulging me and earning me a gazillion cool points with my kids and grandkids. 🤟🏾🤟🏽🤟🏻🤟

This is easily the funniest thing I've watched today.

The Best of TED 2026 IMHO Community Notes is one of X's greatest advances, a breakthrough in social engineering with a distributed, scalable truth-seeking algorithm. My photo from the front row here (showing a peek into what's to come), and full video: ted.com/talks/keith_coleman_…

We initiated coverage of SpaceX; $165 price target. #1 insight: the merger with xAI nearly triples the value of the latter, allowing short term in-house compute, longer term orbital compute. Not investment advice. Do your own research. Like & repost if you want more details!

🇺🇸 Technology used for disguising has come a long way from fake mustaches and wigs. This is unsettling.

This week we get into the SpaceX IPO, Chinese robot bans, what SpaceX's Starfall project means for the rest of the industry, Blue Origin's explosion, actuators, actuators, actuators, the musical wonderland of Nevada City, Founders Fund Mafia game and your hatred for my takes on 60 Minutes. Good times. The Core Memory podcast is available everywhere. Brex and SendCutSend make it possible and are wise and glorious. Timestamps 00:00:00 – Intro 00:02:05 – The American Actuator Crisis 00:06:51 – WestMag vs. Atlas Motion Systems 00:14:21 – Uncle Sam Pays Attention 00:16:47 – Chinese Robot Ban 00:21:16 – A Robot in Every Home 00:24:29 – Are You AGI-pilled Yet? 00:27:23 – Shoutout to Micayla Sortland 00:31:01 – Blue Origin’s Explosive Launch 00:42:52 – Low Earth Orbit Drugs 00:49:42 – The Two-Trillion-Dollar Elon Bet 00:57:07 – Viral “Mafia” Game Night 01:01:23 – Ashlee Braves His Notifications 01:06:12 – Legacy Media vs. The World

NEW: Brian Singerman, fmr Founders Fund, now GPx, on why he only invests in *people* SpaceX is the reason he joined Founders Fund in 2008 "If SpaceX didn't work, Founders Fund would not exist." From Elon & SpaceX to Karp & Palantir, to Anduril, Airbnb, Stripe, & Stemcentrx, @briansin's whole framework is one question: Is this the best founder in the world at their particular thing? We get into: - What makes Founders Fund unique: a team of strong-willed, genuinely authentic individuals - Why a 3x fund loses to the S&P - How a lifetime of strategy gaming shapes how he reads founders & now GPs - Why he bets against the end of the world every time - Why he's bullish on N-of-1 human cultural artifacts in an AI world - Why Cyan Banister & Palmer Luckey are genuinely N-of-1 people Thank you to @mlevchin, @traestephens & @ScottNolan for great questions 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Brian Singerman, Co-Founder of GPx, Former Partner at Founders Fund (00:42) Founders Fund (02:09) Max Levchin's unfiltered questions (05:25) How gaming shaped his investing (06:11) Joining Founders Fund in 2008 (07:34) Silicon Valley's most fascinating characters (09:29) Lessons from Peter Thiel (11:26) Building a culture of conviction (11:59) The art of spotting A founders (13:55) Trae's biggest lesson from Peter Thiel (14:41) Is socialism a threat to America? (15:58) Why capital is leaving California (17:03) The obsession with Hawaii (20:59) The Founders Fund playbook (24:51) "If SpaceX didn't work, Founders Fund would not exist" (26:03) Why Elon is one of one (27:30) Why everyone knew Starlink would win (28:42) Inside Founders Fund's biggest bets (31:06) The Founders Fund founder archetype (33:25) Backing fund managers instead of startups (35:22) The new generation of GPs (36:34) The most authentic people in tech (41:38) Why other VCs aren't the audience (44:05) Music, Memorabilia & N-of-1 Artifacts (46:25) The story behind Brian's music studio (49:22) What's next for Brian?

“I hope you get the world champion and I love you.” With the @nyknicks up 3-1 in the @NBA Finals, Jose Alvarado’s daughters, Leah, Brookie and Nazzy, leave messages of support for their dad. 💙🧡 @AlvaradoJose15 | @GTMBB

NEW podcast episode is up! "Max Levchin, PayPal and Affirm — The Path from The Soviet Union to Building Multi-Billion Dollar Companies (Plus: Real-World Socialism vs. Capitalism)" Max Levchin (@mlevchin) is a serial entrepreneur, computer scientist, philanthropist, and active investor in more than 100 startups. He is the founder and CEO of @Affirm, the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth. Max was one of the original co-founders of PayPal, where he served as the chief technology officer until its acquisition by eBay in 2002. Please enjoy!

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽 My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ?? Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity." Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

Smart polar bear spreads its body weight to avoid falling through thin ice.

Idk who she is but I know Paul Tudor Jones when I see him!

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The average person perceives time wrong By wanting to make money quick, most people stay poor Thinking 10 years out is the fastest way to get rich

Warren Buffett on America: "We've got the best system. We've got a better system than we used to have — and we'll have [an even] better system fifty years from now."

It was great to sit down with the one and only @shaneparrish. Shane brings unique questions that caused me to think deeper. Hope you enjoy it. Also - Ted Talk just dropped also. 2-1. :) go.ted.com/billgurley