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Private equity. Technology. Running. Adventure. Rugby. Travel.

Cape Town, South Africa
Joined May 2009
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Michael Hodgson retweeted
Western civilization is worth defending.
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Indeed, a fatal sickness for which there is no cure. “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
The ANC's response to US sanctions, via DIRCO, essentially amounts to "go fly a kite." Koos Malan argues the party suffers from a fivefold sickness: oligarchic greed, delusional self-regard, imagined strength, ideological rigidity, and basic incompetence, and that it can't reform because it won't give up BEE, the "domestic sanctions" fuelling its own self-enrichment. f.mtr.cool/rqh5icsgue
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Michael Hodgson retweeted
I think possibly the best thing about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire is how angry it makes a bunch of losers who've never built a thing in their lives.
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What a difference a year makes.
I'm in the wrong industry
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Freedom is not free.
82 years ago today, paratroopers bound for Normandy. 🇺🇸
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For the most part, only insiders and investment banks make money at listing. MS is paid to say this.
JUST IN: Morgan Stanley expects SpaceX to reach $3.4 trillion in annual revenue by 2040
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Replying to @elonmusk
@elonmusk 2 PBHS Old Boys are swimming 66km across False Bay, a world first, to fund bursaries for 57 boys at the school. They've been in 16°C water for over 24 hours. It's the most South African thing I've seen in years. Donate, share, do anything: tis-here.netlify.app
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@LewisPugh, perhaps you know some people this would resonate with?
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Is there something wrong with @perplexity_ai today @AravSrinivas? I’m having to repeat prompts, and still getting nothing.
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The lunatics are running the asylum.
BREAKING: 🇳🇱 Netherlands House of Representatives approves 36% tax on unrealized capital gains in stocks, crypto and bonds.
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Michael Hodgson retweeted
IPO = “It’s Probably Overpriced.”
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Oh the hypocrisy.
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Those who understand economics (and human nature) aren’t communists.
It’s extremely easy to be communist in a free country, try being free in a communist country.
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Michael Hodgson retweeted
So many are outing themselves Venezuela is a Rorschach test Either you want liberty, freedom and democracy to win Or you want collectivism, corruption and communism Pay close attention
This administration is absolute trash. Thieves, looters, thugs and war mongers. Nothing more.
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RIP NYC
MAYOR MAMDANI: "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism."
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A Bok (Ox) should win it, but he’ll probably get red carded on stage, and it’ll be given to Louis.
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 🌍✨ Three Springboks have been named in the World Rugby Men's 15s Player of the Year nominees 🏆 Who is your pick to win the award?
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The most capitalist city on earth just got socialised. What a time to be alive.
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Good luck NYC. Voters get what they deserve.
JUST IN: New York Post front page after Mamdani election victory
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Dealmaking is a relationship business.
BREAKING: OpenAI has quietly hired over 100 former Wall Street bankers, including alumni from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley, to help train its AI on building financial models Codenamed “Project Mercury,” the effort pays contractors $150 an hour to write prompts and create Excel-based models for IPOs, restructurings, and M&A deals
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