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@investmattallen Any woman who agrees with this is marriage material.

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New hobby just dropped.

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@mechanical_monk This happens a lot in science! We knew that germs caused death about 40 years before we understood why.

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Tech guys are hot, actually My friend @sbaileysavoy and I were having a conversation about how tech guys are hot, actually, they just dress terribly. Skill issue. We’re trying a stylist service where, for $100, we’ll do a brief call with you to discuss your fashion philosophy,

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@loiseaulivier The risk is no one will read it.

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@pkedrosky People need sabbaticals, not retirement.

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I have never wanted to sell my Bitcoin until this very moment.

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where did we go wrong?

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@pmarca @zslayback SF: where it’s fine to sleep in the streets but not the office.

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@paulg @markessien 27/36, but it was also exceedingly boring, so I think it's in part testing your ability to do boring things.

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@TBPInvictus My neighborhood Halloween decoration contest is so competitive last year I only got 2nd place with 140 realistic black crows. I lost to giant cockroaches and a custom neon sign saying “Roach Motel.”

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@1followernodad This seems the most plausible.

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@rachdele I think yes, as long as you can take all 11 dogs with you. Is it a dog friendly office?

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“Sell painkillers, not vitamins” but the global painkiller market is ~$80B and the vitamin market ~$120B.

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@micsolana I'd wear that coat. But basically, once you're over 45 you're invisible to the world so it doesn't matter what you wear.

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@waitbutwhy The thing that limits the height of skyscrapers is elevator algorithms, not engineering.

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@shaig I thought they just gave you a term sheet as you exited Stripe.

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@bastard_brian MARRY HER. This is a deeply weird character trait that pondering could be interesting for a lifetime.

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@obscureverses No, this is perfect; it was divine intervention.

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@dgant @sbaileysavoy Hahahahaha this might be true.

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It's incredible to me that Figs had no competitors and IPOed today: sometimes no one caring about women is a business superpower.

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My very first investment and now my very first liquidity event. A big thank you to the ⁦ @openinvestco ⁩ team for taking a chance on a new VC. It’s teams like you that change the world.

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@pmarca China is world-class at industrial espionage: in 2021 the FBI was opening a China-related investigation every 12 hours. Open source is the best way to foil this.

China Has Been Waging a Decades-Long, All-Out Spy War

While the West was distracted, the Chinese government began an intelligence assault that never stopped.

foreignpolicy.com

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@thatguybg @sbaileysavoy Disagree.

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@dwarkesh_sp This is why it makes sense to have a ceremonial head of state and an operational one.

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@orthonormalist @sbaileysavoy Totally eligible, though we're putting incels and guys without girlfriends at the top of the stack.

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People who are good at ruling are not good at war, and people good at war are not good at ruling: this has been the most fundamental paradox of history and has shaped everything.

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@BaldingsWorld @sbaileysavoy Oh yeah, that's an easy one. We'd recommend something like this, but one size larger, not roll up the pants, and a brown belt.

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@micsolana I truly don’t understand as their industry dies in front of their eyes the articles just get stupider and stupider.

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@shady_vc @micsolana Wait is that real? I genuinely cannot tell if you just mocked that up and it’s satire.

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@zackkanter I love how his campaign is just going around explaining basic economics very clearly.

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@growing_daniel I love him. The last honest consumer.

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“Mom, I don’t want you to buy me toys! I want you to buy me tools, so I can make my own toys and make a mess.”

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@willobri OMG living the dream

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@micsolana Yes, you need to charge $1M to immigrants for a fake medallion, this is the only moral way to do business.

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@dieworkwear It’s awesome how much you know here: completely dazzling. I find myself suddenly interested in menswear!

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Fashion was one of the best investments I’ve made. People are nicer to you, you get to skip lines, and walk into places without being stopped. 😬 The amount of dope people I’ve met because they liked my outfit is insane. If the world is shallow, just play your cards right.

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Inflation has finally hit NYC. 99 cent pizza costs $1.50.

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I give this @zebulgar piece on @rabois ' advice on how to run a great board meeting to founders at least twice a week.

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@NateSilver538 I like how they only took away one star for their child nearly dying.

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I’ve often commented that crypto feels like they’re creating in from first principles the whole financial industry. See FDIC insurance being discovered in real time!

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“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.” Robert A. Heinlein

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@paulg @anammostarac Heat makes my mind slow down while cold seems to speed it up.

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@Suhail A 10x engineer is just someone who spends 10x the time actually doing engineering.

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Journalism is dying a slow, painful death as it has fundamentally abdicated its value proposition: telling the public what it needs to know.

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Still can't believe @PalmerLuckey built a prime. This places him only slightly above Elon Musk as the GOAT.

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@growing_daniel Only date e/acc guys so this never happens.

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First Amazon job ad, 1994

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It took NYC about 5 minutes to snap back: everyone at dinner is just complaining about the traffic now.

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@dorkweeb Makes sense. Everything I learned about the Presidency I learned from The Manchurian Candidate.

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Social Impact Capital’s portfolio.

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@Chris_arnade Things like hanging your clothes out to dry is somehow charming in Europe but sad in Mississippi.

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@quantian1 @elonmusk Bring back the rocket era!

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You cannot make everyone equally rich—but you can make everyone equally poor.

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Top 1% pays 45.8% of US income taxes. But we have even greater disparity in educational outcomes than income. Unpopular reality: a small, mostly intelligent & hardworking elite creates a large % of our economic value; most countries persecute that would-be elite and stay poor!

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@micsolana Better not tell them about salt.

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Yes, I have a lot of bad ideas. It’s part of the process of having good ideas.

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I was today years old when I learned F1 racing has large data teams and the sport is mostly about data.

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@juanbuis It's @kimmaicutler I think who calls libraries OG co-working spaces. (Perfect, except you have to be quiet so not great for meetings.)

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"When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match." René Girard

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Business models that would exist if mommy-capitalists ran the world: 1. bar/playgrounds 2. cardio that is really just putting on loud music and dancing all-out with your child for an hour 3. hybrid homeschooling

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@pmarca I wish I was as unsuccessful as Mark in business.

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@darrenmarble Katrina Lake (Stitch Fix), Whitney Wolfe (Bumble), Edita (Doundna), Heather and Trina (Figs), Helen (iRobot), Diane Green (VMwear), Sandy (Cisco), Estée Lauder, Julia Hartz (Eventbrite), Emily (Twist).

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Today is an extremely special day for women everywhere. Today in 1870, the first brokerage led by women was opened on Wall Street, Woodhull, Claflin, & Co.

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I’m officially moving to the @CityofPraxis

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@adcock_brett I think they're just entrepreneurs.

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If Peter Thiel ever asked me, "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" I'd probably answer, "How many hours to you have?" A list.

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I love this from @peterthiel . The goal of business is always enduring friendships.

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@KTmBoyle I once found the best executive assistant in the world by placing a Craigslist ad that had a set of 6 instructions in it. (e.g. "to apply, put Executive Assistant in the subject line, attach a resume, and so on.) Then I built an email filter to filter only those emails that

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Every single time a reality show contestant says, “I didn’t come here to make friends, I came here to win,” they lose. Winning is actually about making friends.

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@bryan_johnson Soon almost everyone realizes capital is not the constraint, time is the constraint.

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@maiab Because LPs don’t want VC to be a retirement job for people that are already rich.

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Jamie Dimond is forecasting a world with 40% less office demand, and I agree. But we need at least that much housing. Who is working on retrofitting office space into residential?

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@mprkhrst You can always tell the likelihood a start-up will succeed by the quality of the interns.

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@bryan_johnson I died. You shouldn't.

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“Being negative is a stupid person’s way of trying to appear smart.”

‘The smartest person in any room anywhere’: in defence of Elon Musk, by Douglas Coupland

He’s the Silicon Valley Übermensch who wants us to colonise Mars and who can wipe out billions of dollars with a single tweet. So what’s not to love?

www.theguardian.com

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When you’re young you think wine is an “adult drink” but when you’re an adult you realize there’s only one adult drink and it’s water.

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'Drink water' Cristiano Ronaldo removes Coca-Cola bottles at start of #Euro2020 press conference

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I’m really not looking forward to the technocommunist movement: “even though we’ve failed at every other point it’s been tried in human history, usually with mass loss of life and suffering, it will really work this time when economies are distributed and planned by AI.”

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@darrenmarble I really think it's a myth that VCs "gather intel" for existing portfolio companies. Early-stage is almost never about competition and most VCs don't care: 99.9999% of companies die by shooting themselves in the foot, not competition.

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My daughter (3) has almost never eaten cake, but the only TV she watches is people making cakes. So she thinks of cakes as something you make not something you eat—the best you can do in modern parenting.

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I hate this take because is assumes I’m not a woman—I am very much a woman and would be overjoyed to work in any of the Gundo cultures. Always seriously annoying when men start speaking for you.

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My Gundo take is that great company cultures are repulsive to some and irresistible to others. They’ve got something special goin. But if you can’t recruit any women…at all…you either keep playing business with your bros or swallow your pride and get serious about the work.

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I don't think that even I realized just how much money there is in social impact investing. Our highest-performing company cleans saltwater to create potable water, the #1 most used product on Earth. Now, a new investment in the #2 most used product on earth: cement. Both

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Excited to announce SIC's investment in DTE Materials, the world's first scalable bioaggregate for green concrete building materials. Concrete is the second most used substance in the world and contributes to ~8% of global CO2 emissions. We're excited to partner with DTE to help

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@paulg There is one called Dorsia: raised a $10M seed from Index. And a slew that have failed.

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@micsolana And then they wonder why their industry died.

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People do not have "superpowers": people have skills, a work ethic, a growth mindset, and cape-styling capacity.

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I’m always so focused on metrics that I entirely underestimated the role of storytelling in business.

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@waitbutwhy I no longer have a manager. I can't be managed. (Kanye)

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@credenzaclear2 My theory is that polyamory is just a scheduling fetish.

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1) In 1990, 12 countries in Europe had a wealth tax. Today, only 3 do. According to the OECD, a wealth tax just didn't work.

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@BillAckman The worst part is about how distracting it is to her current work: no one cares; she isn't even in academia any longer.

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I will never understand destructive over constructive people: there's so much to build.

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Every single Italian that sees my daughter says “Principessa!” and she believes now she’s an Italian princess and it’s getting harder and harder for me to explain to her she’s not.

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@HarryStebbings I send them an email after 5 and drop off after 10.

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It's actually not. The best way to raise capital is to have a clear plan and execute it well, not to play signaling games. Besides, even if your signaling games work, then congrats, you've just closed the dumbest money in VC.

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Unironically the best way to raise capital is to tell VCs you don’t need any. Raising for VR is particular hard so current @EarthlingVC strategy is pushing teams to profitability asap and riding the tailwinds (2 of 8 down, 6 to go)

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Placebo is more effective than caffeine! Placebo is the best-working drug in the world.

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1] Proprietary dealflow at the Seed stage is not a thing: almost all the best companies had a hard time raising their Seed round. THREAD Jeff Bezos pitched 60 investors, and gave away 20% of Amazon for $1M.

Jeff Bezos had to take 60 meetings to raise $1 million for Amazon, giving up 20% to early investors

Amazon.com almost didn't make it out of the gate, with a young Jeff Bezos encountering a common entrepreneurial challenge: raising money. In an interview

www.geekwire.com

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@krishnanrohit Exact same thing I'm doing now but would also build cathedrals as a hobby.

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I have this very contrarian theory that most successful people are basically psychics who don't monetize as psychics. @rivatez convinced me.

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How’s this for a sense of destiny — when he was 16 years old in 1890, Churchill wrote this to a friend:

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VC has had this technology for decades.

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If you've ever blown bubbles, you know how quickly they burst. Now French researchers have concocted a type that stays intact for hundreds of days.

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I don't need companies I invest in to be perfect, but I need them to be honest. Confusion in the deck between where the company could be and where it is at (happens often) is an immediate pass. I want to invest in founders that I know can fundamentally see reality.

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MSM headline: Elon Musk’s Neuralink Causes Disabled Man to Lose at Chess