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Austin, TX
Joined April 2019
Who likes to know things here? You can literally learn something new every day.
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“You deserve the chance to bet on yourself, whether you are right or wrong.” @markpinc, Luminary LP and founder of @zynga sat down with @bencasnocha to discuss founder mode and what it takes to hold your conviction when your board and team disagree. The hardest test can come when the people closest to the company don’t yet see what you see. Watch the full conversation: youtu.be/iRragsleHmA
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Marc Andreessen reveals why housing, health care, and education keep getting more expensive while everything else gets cheaper "There's basically three components to the American dream. A house near great job opportunities, great health care for you and your family, and sending your kids to good schools" "If you disaggregate the economy over the last 25 years, everything that technology touches basically collapses in price. Television sets, computer games, anything with electronics in it. But if you chart housing, education, and health care, the prices of those things are skyrocketing" "The government restricts supply, zoning laws and university certifications. And then the government responds to the political pressure caused by the rising prices by subsidizing demand. And of course, if you subsidize demand and a fixed supply, you get skyrocketing prices"
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Glad to see SmashNotes being revived! It was so early for its time. Now seems prime.
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It's kind of amazing that Grok understood my question as worded.
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Why Your Past Failures Are Your Greatest Assets
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk31 Oct 2021
Replying to @DrEliDavid
If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.
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Why is it harder to make a website in 2021 than it was in 1996?
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If there is a climate emergency, build nuclear reactors. Otherwise I can’t take you seriously.
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Political correctness is an anti-rational meme.
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Cancel culture brings high school politics to the adult world.
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Nate Silver
@NateSilver53819 Jul 2021
If 95% of a population is fully vaccinated and vaccines reduce hospitalizations by 90%, you'd expect ~2/3 of hospitalizations to be among vaccinated people.
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Today is the best time ever to start a company. You might fail, you might succeed, it’s a crazy ride either way, and you’ll learn and grow more than at any job.
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VCs have the weirdest jargon for meetings. “more time on the backend” “hard stop” wtf is a “fire drill” bitch I’ll kill u
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6) The flip side is also true. There are some (not a lot) VCs whom I really respect. Many of these ppl passed on my company & that's ok! The key thing is they treated me w respect - as a human being. These are the ppl I recommend. VCs say no a lot. But how you say no is key.
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Now that so many people seem to care about viewpoint discrimination in academia, let's talk about it. It's common, unethical, intellectually dishonest, & betrays the whole purpose of a university. And it almost always runs one way: against those seen as not 'progressive.' 🧵1/
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The VC world needs more believers, not more capital. Especially on the early stage.
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Did you know that it’s actually possible for you to say, “I don’t know enough about this to have an opinion”
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If it was enjoyable all the time, they’d call it funtrepreneurship.
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