“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.” Abigail Adams
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Why do I raise the issues?? BECAUSE: “Women who raise these issues tend to be vilified and often become unemployable.” Evaluating the Dearth of Female Hedge Fund Managers nyti.ms/2G4xNT3 via @dealbook
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Upcoming Moonalice tour dates are here!
We’re hitting some of our favorite Bay Area rooms this fall. Come dance, sing, and share the night with us! 🌙
More details and tix > moonalice.com/tour!
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Great idea:
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.@Sweetwatermv on a Sunday afternoon! Streaming live NOW at moonalice.com, on YouTube and Facebook!
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**Moonalice • Live on the Avenue • San Anselmo • Fri Sep 11**
Caitlin Mattisson’s new poster is pure Bay Area psychedelia. It’s the visual invitation to Moonalice’s free Friday set on San Anselmo Avenue (6–8:30 pm), part of the town’s Live on the Avenue series.
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💜 Sunday 9/6 Matinee Moonalice at @sweetwatermmv. Doors noon. Music at 1.
Love, peace and happiness in the afternoon. Dancing shoes required. Woo woo.
See you in Mill Valley, CA. 🌙💃🕺
Tix: etix.com/ticket/p/97887499/m…
Even if this is only partially true or not at all. The lessons learned from Natural Child Birth must be of enormous value to Venture Capital luminaries.
So much so that Venture Capital should be about 95% Women (and the rest probably Women too).
i.e. Bad Ass VCs with no balls.
Sequoia partner Doug Leone reveals he got a root canal with no Novocaine to see if he was really a badass
"I had to get a root canal. And I had to go to a meeting right after that. I told the dentist, drill without any Novocaine.”
“My whole life, I wanted to see if I was a badass or not. Am I a fake badass that has this envelope nobody could tell, or am I really a badass on the inside?"
"He drilled and I jumped. And I told the dentist, I won't move again. And I didn't move again. I used the trick of thinking what it must be like to go to war and lose an arm or two legs. That's pain with consequences. Mine was pain with no consequences."
“It’s just nerve endings from there to my brain to my spine, f*ck it I’m not moving.”
"I had to go home and change my shirt because I was a puddle of sweat. But I didn't move. And so I love fear. It does wonders for me."
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I hope everyone will go see The Social Reckoning when it comes out October 9. I am lucky to be involved with this amazing film.
Check out the new trailer below.
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scoop: Salesforce has a $5 billion stake in Anthropic. First investment was early 2023 at $50 million. $crm
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Ivan Rodriguez holding up that ball in his hand is so iconic. The tag heard around the world.
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Byron Allen, Founder of Allen Media Group, explains how treating business like a contact sport unlocks unlimited capital:
Byron once borrowed $310 million on a Friday to acquire the Weather Channel. He paid it back in five months.
When the lender hit him with a $28 million prepayment penalty for closing too quickly, he paid that too.
His philosophy on why capital is never the real obstacle:
"Business is a contact sport. You're nothing more than economic athletes. They will see your passion. They will see your stats. And they will always want you on their team because you make them money."
The framing shift here is everything.
Byron sees founders as athletes whose performance is being evaluated by people who need them to win.
"You have unlimited amounts of capital available to you if your hustle is at the highest level."
@RealByronAllen drives the point home:
"Keep your hustle at the highest level because capital is always looking for you to get the money back and a return. There's trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars of capital looking for you. Go get it."
The takeaway: Capital is hunting for operators who can put up the stats. Hustle at the highest level, and the money will find you.
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Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, offers a sobering view: The biggest technological shift in human history is happening, and almost no one is talking about it.
Schmidt opens with a startling industry prediction:
"We believe as an industry that in the next one year the vast majority of programmers will be replaced by AI programmers. We also believe that within one year you will have graduate level mathematicians that are at the tippy top of graduate math programs."
He explains why this matters so much. Programming and math aren't just two fields among many:
"Programming plus math are the basis of sort of our whole digital world."
And the AI labs are already using AI to build better AI:
"The research groups in OpenAI and anthropic and so forth… around 10 or 20% of the code that they're developing in their research programs is being generated by the computer. That's called recursive self-improvement."
@ericschmidt then lays out the timeline most people haven't grasped:
"Within 3 to 5 years we'll have what is called general intelligence AGI which can be defined as a system that is as smart as the smartest mathematician physicist artist writer thinker politician."
He gives this belief system a name:
"I call this by the way the San Francisco consensus because everyone who believes this is in San Francisco it may be the water."
But the truly unsettling part comes next.
Once AI starts improving itself, humans become optional to the process:
"The computers are now doing self-improvement… they don't have to listen to us anymore. We call that super intelligence or ASI… computers that are smarter than the sum of humans. The San Francisco consensus is this occurs within six years."
And here's where Schmidt sounds the alarm. The conversation isn't keeping pace with the technology:
"This path is not understood in our society. There's no language for what happens with the arrival of this. This is happening faster than our human that our society, our democracy, our laws will address."
His closing thought captures why this matters:
"That's why it's underhyped. People do not understand what happens when you have intelligence at this level which is largely free."
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"‘Months if not years’ for oil prices to normalize if Iran war ends now." I've got lots of exciting developments to share with our Canadian friends in the coming days, but for now let me say thank you to @BenMulroney for having me on @TheWestBlock this morning - great to be with @globalnews as we digest the $200B war supplemental request from @DeptofWar. Email [email protected] for the latest on our forecasting for size and timing of this bill becoming law.
@VedaPartners1
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VIA greenearthorganics1
We have #farmers spraying nonselective chemicals on our food to kill insects & other plants. These chemicals kill both the target (the aphid) & other insects flying around... What do they do to us when we consume them on our food?
#organic #pesticides
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If you live in the US and have worked or are working in data annotation for platforms like Outlier, Handshake, Mercor, or others, I'd love to hear about your experience. Please drop me a line: karendhao.com/contact.
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Las Vegas Success Story: Derek Stevens 🎰👏🏼👏🏼
Derek Stevens, owner of Circa, The Golden Gate and The D, took a big gamble on remaking Downtown Las Vegas. He now has a portfolio of properties worth more than $1 billion—including the world’s largest sportsbook and Sin City’s biggest pool.
Full story: forbes.com/sites/willyakowic…
📸: Ethan Pines for Forbes
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"Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand.
Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination."
~ Nelson Mandela, at the 2000 Inaugural Laureus World Sports Awards
#WinterOlympics #SuperBowlLX