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Mark Bowles retweeted
"Capitalism created the possibility of the win win win. It used to be a zero sum game where somebody won, somebody else lost.
The biggest mistake people make, intellectuals in particular, they still think we're in a zero sum world. They're obsessed with some billionaires because Bernie Sanders thinks that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk somehow stole the money from the people.
They don't understand that it's this prosperity machine that's creating more, not just for those billionaires, but for everything that they're touching. They're creating value for their customers, they're creating value for their employees. Their suppliers are flourishing, their investors are seeing their capital go up. It can be reinvested and compound.
All philanthropy ultimately comes from business. That's where the profits are.
Where does all the taxes come from? It ultimately comes from business as well.
This is the engine that's lifting humanity out. The entrepreneurs are the drivers of that engine. Somebody like Elon Musk, he gets a very, very, very tiny sliver of the value that he creates for the whole world."
—@iamjohnmackey
My Conversation with John Mackey (@iamjohnmackey), co-founder of Whole Foods Market.
0:00 Fanatical Entrepreneurs: Why Work Feels Like Play
2:18 The Missionary vs. Mercenary Co-Founder Conflict
6:16 The Shirtless Hitchhiking Hippie and Johnny Rockefeller
8:12 Entrepreneur Confidence: Solving Puzzles and Cracking the Code
10:19 Flying Under the Radar: How Supermarkets Ignored Whole Foods
10:52 Venture Capitalists Are Hitchhikers With Credit Cards
14:03 Builder Entrepreneurs vs. Serial Entrepreneurs
16:31 Time Is the Only Filter I Trust
20:52 How Walmart Accidentally Fueled Whole Foods' Success
24:01 The Jaw-Drop Effect: When Customers First Walked In
27:17 Growth Through Acquisition: Building Geographic Platforms
29:19 Secret Allies: The Natural Foods Network
33:17 Mrs. Gooch's and the Revelation of Scale
34:52 Missionaries Sharing Financial Statements and Building Friendships
38:10 Never Competing Head-On With Friends
41:22 Going Public and Creating Liquidity for the Network
42:00 Continuous Learning: The Michael Dell Principle
44:10 Steve Jobs and Spotting Markets With Second-Rate Products
46:50 The Joy of Watching Team Members Become Millionaires
48:09 Capitalism: The Greatest Thing Humans Ever Invented
55:59 Cult Brands Are Built by Evangelists
58:01 Passion Is Infectious: The Reality Distortion Field
1:00:08 From Busboy to CEO: The Resume of an Entrepreneur
1:02:57 Learning From Near-Death Experiences
1:04:05 Money Means Freedom: Early Work Ethic
1:05:25 Shoe Dog as the Benchmark: Belief Is Irresistible
1:09:16 Documenting Time: Why Chronology Matters in Memoirs
1:11:14 Rockefeller, Bezos, and Musk: The Master Strategists
1:14:39 Using Doubt as Fuel: The Slow Burn of Proving People Wrong
1:20:04 Daniel Ek and Having No Ceilings
1:23:09 How His Father Shaped His Ambition
1:25:52 Firing His Father From the Board: The Hardest Decision
1:28:01 His Mother's Deathbed Wish and Lasting Regret
1:34:47 The Ceremony of Forgiveness
1:36:17 MDMA Therapy and Breathwork: Accessing Deeper Consciousness
1:38:54 The Entrepreneurial Journey as a Spiritual Journey
1:40:45 Conclusion
Includes paid partnerships.
Mark Bowles retweeted
Let’s correct the historical record right quick for this mouthy ATHEIST.
Modern science was not built by atheism.
It was built by Christian minds who believed the universe was intelligible because it was created by a rational God.
Calculus…developed by a Christian who believed God ordered the cosmos mathematically.
Classical mechanics and optics…laid down by a man who wrote more about Scripture than physics.
Electromagnetism…unified by a devout Christian who saw God’s order in equations.
Genetics…founded by a monk working in a monastery garden.
Big Bang cosmology…first proposed by a Catholic priest and physicist.
Scientific method…formalized by Christians who believed nature was worth studying because it reflected God’s design.
These men didn’t pretend the variables were “known.”
They understood something deeper…order exists before measurement.
Intelligence precedes information.
Law implies a Lawgiver.
Probability arguments aren’t theology pretending to be math.
They’re recognition that blind chemistry does not write code, build molecular machines, or generate information systems without intelligence.
Saying “you don’t know all the variables” isn’t an argument. It’s an admission.
And that admission destroys abiogenesis, not faith.
The question isn’t whether Christians understand science.
The question is why materialists keep borrowing Christian assumptions…order, logic, intelligibility…while denying the source that makes them possible.
Science didn’t kill God.
Science was born because men believed in Him.
So let’s stop pretending disbelief is the engine of discovery. History already answered that.
Thoughts?
#SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove
Mark Bowles retweeted
WOAH 🚨 The taxpayer money laundering that’s taken place is INSANE
“The Federal Reserve has revealed that US NGOs have more in assets than the combined 2025 GDP estimates for Japan, Germany and India combined — The combined assets held by US NGOs equals $14.2 trillion of your tax money”
“India and Japan's GDP each just over $4 trillion, Germany $5 trillion, about $13.5 trillion together. Guess what? The combined assets held by US NGOs equals $14.2 trillion of your tax money and that of your children and grandchildren and great-great-great-great-great grandchildren.
Ever wonder why everything is so absolutely unaffordable today? It's not actually rocket science. Government has forgotten the fundamental reasons for which it was formed to serve and protect our civil liberties.
It has inverted the entire formula and decided that we are the ones here to serve, to work, and through our individual labors to support their desires and the behemoth of a bureaucracy that has emanated from those desires.”
Mark Bowles retweeted
Milton Friedman explains that the core difference between capitalism and socialism isn’t economics, it’s morality: free choice versus compulsory force.
Mark Bowles retweeted
A STUNNING new report shows just how broken Obamacare’s subsidy system is:
- 23 of 24 fraudulent applications were approved
- 18 ARE STILL receiving coverage
- TENS OF THOUSANDS of duplicate SSNs used
- $94 million paid for DEAD people
And Democrats want to extend this system with NO reforms.
No.
Mark Bowles retweeted
Elon Musk: “Anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect”
Elon is asked for his advice for entrepreneurs, to which he responds:
“I’m a big fan of anyone who wants to build. Anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect. That’s the main thing you should aim for: to make more than you take and be a net contributor to society.”
He compares it to the pursuit of happiness:
“If you want to create something valuable financially, you don’t pursue that. It’s best to pursue providing useful products and services. If you do that, money will come as a natural consequence of that rather than pursuing money directly. You can’t pursue happiness directly. You pursue things that lead to happiness — fulfilling work, study, friends, loved ones.”
Elon continues:
“It sounds very obvious, but generally if somebody is trying to make a company work, they should expect to grind super hard and accept that there’s a meaningful chance of failure. Then just focus on having the output be worth more than the input. Are you a value creator? That’s what really matters: making more than you take.”
Video source: @nikhilkamathcio (2025)
Mark Bowles retweeted
Maybe you’re glad Charlie Kirk is dead.
Maybe you think he was hateful and harmed your community.
I’m not going to convince you to feel sad.
But I want to show you where both sides are headed.
Because when the assassin fired, they didn’t just hit him.
They hit all of us.
Mark Bowles retweeted
“The World Has Never Seen Anyone Like
Elon Musk”
Fixing the Government, “If not Elon Musk, then who?
- The man launches over 90% of the world's tonnage into outer space each year
- He owns the first new car company to start from scratch and obtain profitability in over a hundred years
- He has pioneered full self-driving
- He employs over 100,000 people
- He launches a rocket into orbit every 2 1/2 days
- SpaceX has created access to low cost broadband internet to anywhere in the world because we are very spoiled in the west (Most of the world does not have cable that runs to their homes like we do in the west)
- He has literally reduced the cost of going into space x10 compared to what the federal government was doing with NASA showing extreme efficiency (And he did so as a private in the private sector, which no one thought was possible before)
- SpaceX is the highest valued company in the US and maybe even the world at 350 billion
- He started X AI only a year ago, and it's already valued at $78 billion and is the most advanced AI in the world connecting more Nvidia GPUs than anyone previously thought possible (Again, doing something that no one previously thought possible and he did all of this in about a sixth of a time that it took any of the magnificent seven or leading tech AI companies. So again, extreme efficiency)
- He single-handedly saved free speech in the west by buying Twitter, and X is valued at 44 billion
- He cut 80% of the X workforce and increased gross margins by 4x in profitability. Profitability by 2.5x (And yes, we all know that revenue declined because he stood for free speech. So he lost advertising dollars, but he saved free speech. So thanks)
- This doesn't even touch Neuralink, which is valued at 8 billion
- The boring company, which is valued at 7 billion
- Tesla robots or the Hyperloop at Neuralink
- He's literally working to cure blindness, paralysis and working to allow communication with people who were previously unable to communicate
- He's solving traffic congestion and reimagining our transportation, making that again, more efficient
And while he's doing all of this, he's literally
Volunteering like 20 hours a day to help the American people.
The world has never seen anyone like
Elon Musk.
I genuinely feel bad for those who are not intelligent enough to appreciate Elon Musk and what he's doing for society because accomplishing just one of the things that he's accomplished in a lifetime would far exceed everyone else on the face of this earth. And since it's so easy, why don't you do it all?
So again, if not Elon, then who?”
Mark Bowles retweeted
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has admitted that people who received Covid mRNA “vaccines” are at risk of suffering from a deadly blood clot for up to 15 years after they received their last injection.
The shocking admission was revealed in a new peer-reviewed study published in the prestigious International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science.
slaynews.com/news/fda-admits…
DOGE needs DOJE
(DOJ Eviceration)
Both depend on the other long-term.
I’m as excited for one as much as the other.
@elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy @PamBondi @realDonaldTrump
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Mark Bowles retweeted
ELON: THE PROBABILITY OF MECHAZILLA CATCHING STARSHIP IS ABOVE ZERO
“It'll weigh about 250 tons.
We'll make that lighter over time.
So, you got a couple of hundred tons plummeting more than half the speed of sound.
So, this thing is still coming in really fast.
Pretty much down in a downward direction.
So then, they light the engines, so it's got to slow itself down very fast and correct any errors.
Whatever the X-Y error is when the engines land, it's got to take out that X-Y error and then drop the velocity to basically zero, come in between the arms.
The arms will be wide, and as it's coming in, the arms will close, go flush against the side of the vehicle, and the vehicle will be descending through the arms.
And those tiny little, you can barely see them, the little knobs, those kinds of lifting lugs will touch the top of the arms, and then it will hopefully not shear off and crumple.
Success is one of the possible outcomes.
The probability is uncertain, but it is above zero.”
Source: @elonmusk, @Erdayastronaut, May 2022
Mark Bowles retweeted
San Diego’s ranks no. 5 for venture capital funding, per @cartainc
Trailing behind only:
SF
NY
Boston
Los Angeles
San Diego has a thriving tech, life science, and consumer scene.
#LongSanDiego
Mark Bowles retweeted
It was such an honor hosting @EricTopol at Truvian this week. He participated in a new clinical study and ran his own sample on our benchtop #bloodtesting instrument, walking away with his complete wellness panel including 34 test results in <30 minutes.
Mark Bowles retweeted
Interceptor 006 has successfully prevented around 3,000,000 kg of trash (and counting) from reaching the Caribbean Sea in the last five months.
As the end of the flooding season in Guatemala approaches, we continue to capture and extract trash with every rainstorm.
Mark Bowles retweeted
We're on a mission to disrupt blood testing to meet the needs of today's world.🌍 Our commitment to accessibility, convenience, & transparency is delivering the change patients & providers deserve. Excited to showcase at #HLTH2023 the #bloodtest solution we've been working on.🩸
