Stephen Estes
@stephenestes1
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my agency weaponizes comms & accelerates growth for disruptive technology co’s | on a quest to build a technological orchard | liberty or death, always
Austin, TX
Joined May 2021
Every day you don’t pursue your dreams is one less day in the future you’ll have to experience them
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My AI investment thesis is that every AI application startup is likely to be crushed by rapid expansion of the foundational model providers. App functionality will be added to the foundational models' offerings, because the big players aren't slow incumbents (it is wrong to
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I don’t understand why tech X turned on Marc Andreessen. He mildly trolled the Pope. And? What am I missing?
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The most advanced civilizations (K3-K4) will likely look simple, because their complexity will be invisible.
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Elon Musk: People always talked about eliminating poverty. Optimus will actually do it. “People often talk about eliminating poverty, giving everyone amazing medical care. Well, there's actually only one way to do that, and that's with the Optimus robot. With humanoid robots,
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The most important things I've learned about urban design and architecture in two images:
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If you insert enough socialism in capitalism but keep calling it capitalism, people get fed up with the problems socialism causes but blame capitalism and then turn socialist.
Peter Thiel: If you graduated in 1970 with no student debt, compare that to the millennial experience: too many people go to college, they don’t learn anything, and they end up with incredibly burdensome debt. Student debt is a version of this generational conflict that I’ve
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1/ Bloomberry crated a very intersting analysis of AI and the job market. Here is the tl;dr version. - Job-postings fell around 8% in 2025 vs 2024 — giving the baseline for comparison - Roles grounded in creative “execution” (e.g., 3D artists −33 %, photographers −28 %,
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Nobody will win the AI race. It’s a race to abundance, and abundance cannot be hoarded. That said, keep racing.
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We value life too much to accept its decay: that's why we fight aging — and that's why we're going to defeat it. That's all.
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Airbnb founder Brian Chesky on how to interview and reference check new hires Brian’s first piece of advice comes from Steve Jobs: “Start with the results and work backwards to the people. Most people start with resumes. They start with brands — ‘Oh, this person worked at
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Ben Horowitz literally explains how he differentiates between mediocre CEOs & great CEOs.
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@RolandForTexas You are a taker, not a maker. All you’ve done your whole life is take from the makers of the world. The zero-sum mindset you have is at the root of so much evil. Once you realize that civilization is not zero-sum and that it is about making far more than one consumes, then it
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The video of the "female" humanoid walking yesterday was not believed by many people. It seem to have passed some form of "turning test" for human gait. Here is two videos proving it was actually a real robot.
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easy decision to fire these folks these folks have a union, so they can simply let their representatives handle their concerns! bringing a mob of folks to confront HR with cameras rolling?! So entitled, so dumb.
The most brutally awkward thing you'll see today: Condé Nast staffers confront head of HR Stan Duncan over layoffs outside his 34th-floor office. Four of the employees featured in this exclusive video from the confrontation were then fired for "extreme misconduct." The whole
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We don’t get much time on this rock. Chase the hardest challenge you possibly can. Do the thing that truly moves your needle and pushes humanity forward. Do it with the highest quality people you possibly can. This is the game.
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I’m all-in on the AI race with China because it forces progress. But both sides are delusional if they think either will win, and they’ll somehow be able to “hoard” abundance. By definition abundance cannot be hoarded. And self-recursive AI means the second best will always catch
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People keep saying “AI art is theft” because models were trained on images from the internet. Let’s talk about that calmly, without noise or hate. 🎨 First, AI models don’t copy artworks. They don’t store or retrieve existing images. They learn patterns, the way colors blend,
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