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I interviewed the
@anduriltech
team and cut together this 42 minute video.
It covers:
- Palmer's saga at Oculus
- Where the original idea came from
- The highs and lows of early product attempts
- What's going on in Ukraine
- How a fight in the pacific changes everything
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Elon-Twitter is a distraction.
FTX is a distraction.
The only story that you should be paying attention to right now is the United States vs China situation.
Here's a primer on what's going on:
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if Twitter starts charging $8 per month, Apple is going to take $2.40 of that.
very interested to see if Elon tries to find a way around that. he’s never been hit with the Apple tax before.
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Biden will be 81 next year
Trump will be 78.
Stop saying “we need to elect someone younger” — the accelerationist choice is obvious.
Jimmy Carter.
He’ll be 100 years old and he’s still eligible because he only served one term back in 1977.
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engineering candidate sends you a pic of this wfh setup. do you hire them?
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Heartbreaking: The Best Person You Know Just Made A Terrible Point
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she’s on a $2.5 million annual run rate.
series A territory soon
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What $2 billion buys you in Las Vegas:
Largest LED structure in the world.
What $2B buys you in San Francisco:
5 suicide nets.
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i am thrilled to announce that i am joining Elon Musk as a son
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In 2013, Peter Thiel said:
“As technology advances, we should be moving around more quickly. But we're not. The Concorde is retired, our trains are slow, and post-9/11 security restrictions make door-to-door air travel slower than ever.”
9 years later:
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photo of Emmett Shear (red) and Sam Altman (yellow) from when they were in the original 2005 Y Combinator class together.
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The perfect articulation of why crypto discourse gets toxic.
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stop wildly speculating about the Sam Altman OpenAI situation
the answer is simple and obvious
time traveler. terminator situation.
100% confident about this.
have it on good authority.
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The bottom line is that the United States is ahead in artificial intelligence and wants to maintain that lead.
This will be the defining geopolitical story over the next few years.
If you'd like to know more, just watch this video:
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one of the funniest (and therefore high probability) LK-99 outcomes would be:
> the rock floats
> not a superconductor
> cool new magnet!
> remarkably cheap
> unlocks new kids toy
> fidget spinner 2.0
> goes viral
> some dropshipper banks $10m
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when you sell a teen polling app, you buy a Mercedes G Wagon.
when you sell a defense tech co, you buy a Mercedes Armadillo 8x8.
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When Biden took office in 2021, he didn't change course.
Even though Biden and Trump were painted by the media as polar opposites, on the China issue, they agreed.
It had become a bi-partisan issue, so Biden doubled down.
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Palantir earnings calls are like the Super Bowl for defense tech founders.
“They might not like my jokes or my habits. Doesn’t matter. It will protect your life.” - Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir.
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the data is clear
someone is going to release an energy drink with 600mg of caffeine in the next 5 years.
if this scaling law holds, we’ll be over 1200mg of caffeine by 2036.
the future is going to be insane 🚀
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Google launches new AI tool.
I go to check it out.
Wait a minute, this isn’t a working product, this is just a blog post.
Every time.
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🧵 THREAD: Actually successful people as Clubhouse hustler wantrepreneurs:
Lazy Elon vs HUSTLING Elon:
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He passed the CHIPS act, giving $52 Billion dollars to American semiconductor companies.
This was important because:
- New chip startups weren't getting funded.
- Big chip companies weren't investing in capex.
- America was falling behind in STEM graduates.
But he went further:
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I joined Founders Fund as an EIR today.
My goals for the year:
- Make more in-depth YouTube videos about important tech companies.
- Continue to dig into geopolitics and American defense technology.
- Learn about venture capital from the best in the business.
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ackchyually Bin Laden was good
Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous "Letter to America," in which he explained why he attacked the United States.
The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and
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want to be successful? NEVER share book recommendations. keep that alpha to yourself.
in fact, you should lie about it
trick your would-be competitors into reading meagerly-sourced pop sci while you read r̶e̶d̶a̶c̶t̶e̶d̶
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$1,400 stimulus hits.
Pre-seed founder: “We just got a check from the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, are you interested in investing now?”
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For decades, the United States and China had a mutually beneficial partnership.
The US was a hub of innovation and deep technical expertise. China had a billion people to throw and any labor intensive problem.
But now, a new wave of trade restrictions is changing everything.
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But specific graphics cards are just one piece of the puzzle. There's a whole supply chain.
TSMC makes the actual chips inside the cards.
ASML makes the machines used at TSMC.
ASML needs companies like TRUMPF to supply mirrors and other parts.
So Biden restricted all of this.
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This all really started heating up in 2019 when Trump blocked Huawei. Backdoors in 5G towers would have given China the ability to monitor global internet traffic.
Trump was notorious for getting "tough on China", but here's the weird thing.
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The U.S. is cutting off access to GPUs which are essential to training artificial intelligence.
AI is a classic "dual-use" technology. AI powers social media ad placement, but it can also be used in military weapons.
The new rules set a hard cap on what China can import.
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The deeper you go into this story, the more you'll realize what a big deal this is. Tensions have never been this high, but fortunately, it's not quite boiling over yet.
Biden and Xi Jinping were still able to meet in person face-to-face to discuss things.
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In September, Biden restricted the sale of Nvidia A100s and H100.
They have lots of memory and bandwidth. Great for training larger models.
Every AI engineer is trying to get their hands on these right now.
You can even use them to make custom AI models like this:
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The latest bans cut China off from the semiconductor supply chain, so now China has to figure out how to make everything by themselves.
They are already working on it with their own versions of TSMC and ASML (SMIC and SMEE), but it's hard to say exactly how long it will take.
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HIT-PIECE INCOMING!
What to do when a journalist emails you and they are clearly writing a hit piece.
These pics show what “the good ending” looks like. A true flawless victory.
🧵 Thread of 10 anti-hit strategies, mostly stolen from
@micsolana
and
@lulumeservey
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if you’re in SF and see a bumper sticker of an American flag with a thin orange line, it’s referencing the fact that the good folks at Y Combinator are saving the city!
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I love my Tesla, but no one talks about the hidden costs.
Just this year I’ve spent over $10,000 on diesel fuel for my electric generator.
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if I were U.S. President, I would immediately replace Air Force 1 with the SR-71 Blackbird. at Mach 3, you can be anywhere in a few hours.
imagine the statement you could make as a world leader.
any important geopolitical event and boom, you're on-site the SAME day it happens.
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Here's what you need to know about the Arm IPO:
- They've shipped over a quarter TRILLION chips
- They have 99% market share in mobile
- 96% gross margins (26% operating margins)
- Aiming for ~65B market cap
For the full history of the company, just watch this video:
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there’s an alternate timeline where Greta gets the Thiel Fellowship and has already built like 10 nuclear reactors by now.
what a waste of a young person who’s clearly insanely passionate but deeply misguided.
.
@GretaThunberg
chanting “Crush Zionism”, i.e. calling for genocide of Jews in Israel 🇮🇱
She's more of a “genocide activist” than “climate activist”
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Garry has the shallowest depth of field of anyone in tech.
this has to be like f/0.7
NASA probably used this lens to film the moon.
Stanley Kubrick probably used this lens to film with only candlelight
no one in tech dare challenge him
he is the final boss of zoom calls
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LK-99 Replication Vlog (August 3rd, 2023)
Insane that
@andrewmccalip
@zebulgar
& team pulled this off so quickly.
Clearly yields need to improve dramatically for more testing (you'll see them attempt a heating test in the video).
Excited for more experimentation here!
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🚩🚩🚩
The Elon + Twitter situation just got a lot more complicated.
See, Elon is an investor in Stripe…
Let me explain how Elon buying Twitter is actually about one-click checkout in this 65 tweet thread.
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The New York Times expect us to learn all their crazy wordcel shibboleths but won't read a single O'Reilly book.
Incredibly disrespectful to our culture.
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customizable AI art is going to be so powerful.
this custom model was trained on a 3090 in 45 minutes using just 20 photos of me.
what a time to be alive!
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I genuinely love both VR and Zuck's plan to build it.
But I think Meta is making some really basic unforced errors that are hurting adoption.
Yes, it's going to take years to solve key hardware issues, but they could easily fix the problems mentioned below:
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On 9/11 America suffered.
But on 9/12, America went to work.
In Langley, the CIA began hunting Bin Laden using every tool they had.
But in Silicon Valley, engineers were about to start building entirely new tools to help get the job done.
This is the story of Palantir:
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if you say “i took a non traditional path to venture” you better tell me some Tiger King level shenanigans you were up to before and not like “i took weird classes at stanford”
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Mark my words, “National Interest” investing will be the biggest VC trend over the next decade.
The results at Founders Fund are impossible to ignore:
Palantir (2003 incubation) - $33B
SpaceX (2008 investment) - $150B
Anduril (2017 incubation) - $8B
Watch this space 👀🇺🇸
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Congrats to Palmer Luckey, the Anduril guy.
My favorite Palmer quote:
Impossible to overstate the importance of this win. Please spread the word. Anduril is proving that with the right team and business model, a seven-year-old company can go toe-to-toe with players that have been around for 70+.
The real winner? The United States of America.
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Apple Vision Pros are basically half price on eBay right now.
Insane depreciation.
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GUNDO DEEP DIVE VIDEO
Tons of hard tech startups are building in El Segundo. This video covers:
- Map of hard tech companies
- Brief history lesson
- Interviews with
@ADoricko
@ScottNolan
@ashleevance
@mrexits
@isaiah_p_taylor
@zanemountcastle
@cameron62s
&
@soren_ma
- 🧵👇
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the firing of
@PalmerLuckey
has to be one of the biggest blunders in tech history.
literally can’t think of a dumber move
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@attention_by
it’s just an incredible amount of precision engineering effort. TSMC and ASML are both total moonshots that barely succeeded.
tons of trade secrets and hard learned lessons that aren’t easy to copy overnight.
China isn’t *that* far behind, they do make 7nm (but not at scale).
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you guys realize that we’re on track to finally solve nearly every big tech idea this decade right?
☑️ virtual reality
☑️ artificial intelligence
☑️ self driving cars
☑️ nuclear fusion
☑️ spacex starship
humanity deserves a pat on the back
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Everyone is focusing on Google's vulnerability in search, but they've been making tactical errors for years.
People are now calling for Sundar Pichai to step down.
They say Google needs a "wartime CEO"
Let's walk through one of the biggest mistakes in Google's history:
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I am extremely close to buying a 1997 Nissan Atlas Fire Truck.
My 2 year old son will vote with me, so we have a 2/3rds majority.
It’s only $13,000.
Should I do it?
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Replacing Siri with ChatGPT via an iOS shortcut has been such a huge productivity upgrade. Highly recommended!
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HADRIAN DEEP DIVE DOCUMENTARY
It covers:
- Competition with China
- The massive $117 million Series B
- Why America must win space race 2.0
- How to combine manufacturing & software talent
- Why an Australian is fixing American manufacturing
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Can these climate activists build something just once?
They don’t even have to build a nuclear power plant or something hard. Just a single solar array or windmill.
No one is stopping them from building solutions here lol
🚨
#BREAKING
: Climate activist has attack and thrown soup at the famous Mona Lisa painting in the Louvre Museum, Paris
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Forbes 30 under 30 is in crisis.
With so many previous winners now in prison, the award is starting to look like a scarlet letter.
But they can turn it around.
PUT RAHUL ON THE COVER THIS YEAR!
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AI guys will literally go to the ends of the earth to find more training tokens.
Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000
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imagine getting ratio’d by a car
@jasonpjason
Jason, we take these types of comments seriously. Our car entered the intersection on a green light, & the cars ahead were backed up so we chose to appropriately yield prior to the crosswalk, ensuring you & others could safely cross. When pedestrian traffic passed, we proceeded.
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AMERICAN AUTOBAHN
I’m no longer asking.
Ban speed limits in America. Do it now.
A base C5 Corvette can hit 175 mph flat out.
We don’t need to build high speed rail.
We can literally just tear down the speed limit signs and people will get around twice as fast.
Easy.
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AI art, two years apart, same prompt:
“smurf army marching on mordor”
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imagine the enterprise saas required to effectively manage a dyson sphere. 🤑
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my youtube channel is getting twice as many views per day as CNN+ lol
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imagine if Oppenheimer had worked on enterprise SaaS instead:
we could have built Oracle in the 60s
Salesforce in the 80s
Snowflake during the dot com boom
potentially trillions of enterprise value pulled forward 🤤
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Insane that Monaco exists:
✅ on the Mediterranean
✅ no personal income tax
✅ no capital gains tax
✅ tons of successful entrepreneurs
✅ looks like this:
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While everyone was complaining about random Elon tweets, Tesla’s co-founder & CTO quietly left to go solve a battery recycling problem most people aren’t even aware of yet.
Full JB Straubel deep dive:
Intro here:
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how can it be “completed” if there are no fucking train tracks on it????
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I just asked Siri “what is an LLM” and it gave me this.
Honestly explains everything.
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Kanye created his parler account the same day he acquired the company.
new record for least due diligence.
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made the midnight pilgrimage
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In the future, everyone in the world will get a chance to be CEO of Boeing for 15 minutes.
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This means your take home pay is effectively ZERO if you work an 8 hour minimum wage shift, but commute from SF to Menlo Park in a Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport (10 mpg)
One gallon of gas (Menlo Park) above the federal hourly minimum wage.
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Google is flagging OpenAI signup emails as “dangerous”.
To be clear, these emails *are* dangerous.
They represent a huge threat to Google’s business model!
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Biden - Lawyer
RFK - Lawyer
Ron DeSantis - Lawyer
Vivek Ramaswamy - Lawyer
Mike Pence - Lawyer
Chris Christie - Lawyer
Asa Hutchinson - Lawyer
There's one candidate that stands out though!
Will Hurd - Computer Science Degree
He would be the first programmer president!
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As someone who sells products that directly compete with cigarettes, let me tell you: cigarettes are a lot worse than Facebook.
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Expensive shit that's worth every single penny:
•Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier
•Virginia-Class Submarine
•MQ-9 Reaper
•F-22 Raptor
•Patriot Missile Battery
•Palantir Gotham
•Starshield Satellites
•ALTIUS-700 Drones
What am I missing?
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Okay funny meme, but now that you’re here go read the full story:
Florida Has High Speed Rail and California Never Will
the high speed brightline train now connects miami and orlando, but california still has not laid a single mile of rail. what's the difference between these two projects?
by
@river_is_nice
In 2008, California voters
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just heard someone refer to their dumb bro friend as having a “small context window” lol
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Mainstream Media Headline:
“Elon Musk’s Neuralink fails to help quadriplegic man walk.”
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Comma AI is still my number one consumer electronics recommendation. Insane value for the money. Everyone who doesn’t have a Tesla should buy one.
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Boeing 747 catches fire mid air and the stock goes up?
So exploding planes are priced in???
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Genuinely so hilarious that those fake mobile game developers are now running ads that acknowledge the fact that everyone thinks they’re fake.
You’d think someone would just make the actual game by now!
The reviews are hilarious, leaving them below in thread.
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4 years ago the press was calling Moderna “the next Theranos”.
Today, Moderna just got their COVID-19 vaccine approved.
Truly incredible story. Watch my deep dive here:
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lol a defense tech CEO just told me they wanted to work with founders fund because “FF term sheets basically come printed on DoD letterhead”
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