@jhope30203 @Jasielinvests "U.S. Venture capital hasn't been able to outperform European VC for the past 20 years. The Thiel Andreessen generation of VC took one of the greatest engines of economic growth and American ingenuity, and turned it into an old world rent extraction scheme.".

RT @gilduran76: Writing about the billionaire obsession with escape and "sovereignty". it's hard not to view Epstein Island as a Network S….

We love the idea of creating jobs and building infrastructure, but why does that require you to make your own cities with their own laws outside of American accountability mechanisms?. What is it you plan to do that makes you want to exist outside the laws of the country?.

If you think this is a far flung statement (it's not) you have to explain why some of the biggest network state proponents were meeting with Epstein and inviting him to their VC parties.

Whooooa. He's right. If you're a "network state" proponent, it seems very difficult to distinguish your project from Epstein's island. What about the U.S. Constitution do you hate so badly?.

RT @Will_DeCotiis:

RT @credistick: What does it mean if you see VCs and their portfolio company founders arguing about politics?. It may be more of a positive….

RT @hnshah: Clarity doesn’t come from alignment. Alignment comes from clarity. And clarity comes from saying the hard part out loud, first.

RT @SignalRank: 12 funds raised more than 50%+ of all US VC $ in H1 2025 according to @PitchBook

RT @credistick: What's the cost of lazy due dilligence in venture capital? . Somewhere between 6 to 20% of returns, according to this paper….

RT @SilvermanJacob: Bill Ackman to Joi Ito (who took millions from Epstein) in Aug. 2019: "I don’t want to see her forced into a position w….

RT @goodside: Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text:

RT @DelJohnsonVC: So we end up having a system where universities give VC managers money which those VC managers then use to deploy a varie….

RT @DelJohnsonVC: @SilvermanJacob So I once again ask university systems, why are you investing in managers and networks whose goal is to w….

I do not miss. I just do not miss. The universities were complicit in their own unraveling because they refused to believe that the venture capitalists university investors gave money to, absolutely hated universities and were on a mission to dismantle university systems.

RT @Techmeme: PitchBook: 27 VC-backed companies went public in the US in the first half of 2025, the smallest number in at least 10 years,….

RT @loomdoop: @oelayat I really like Del Johnson.

That was quick. Guess once you have the direct line. .

RT @LaconiaCapital: The venture landscape is shifting upstream, 90% of VC $ now sit in mega funds, while seed funding gets squeezed. With 8….

RT @Chris_arnade: @tracewoodgrains When I was in 6th grade, I transferred from Catholic school to the public system middle school. It was i….