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Replay of IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi’s conversation with Fortune’s Jeff John Roberts.
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Conspiracy theory, CIA wants him gone, cant have the most powerful AI company headed by a Asian man with close ties to China.
All this getting out right after elections too means someone was holding it back.
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This is f*cking insane. Billionaire Mark Cuban on the next job wave:
"Software is dead because everything's gonna be customized to your unique utilization. Who's gonna do it for them..."
That's the biggest hiring opportunity of the decade, and most people are going to miss it.
They'll keep using AI like a better Google while a small group learns to make it do the actual work.
The gap starts with one thing: knowing what your tools can do.
I made a step-by-step guide to every Claude feature most people never touch.
You can find it below, don't forget to bookmark this, you'll come back to it.
In 2020, nine traders from a small village outside London made $660 million in a single afternoon.
One of them was 22 years old. He made over $100 million.
The day was April 20. Oil had never in history traded below zero. That afternoon, it fell to minus $37 a barrel.
The traders weren't from Goldman Sachs or a giant hedge fund. They worked out of a tiny firm in Essex called Vega Capital, whose website just said "under construction." They were led by a former trading pit veteran whose nickname was "Cuddles."
They were friends. They drove Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, went on holiday to Marbella, and supported West Ham together.
In the video below, the Bloomberg reporters who tracked them down explain what happened.
"I think they made as much money in one day as Apple makes from its international sales in one day."
At 2:08 pm, oil went negative. They had bet on it falling, and every contract paid them on both sides of the trade.
"I can't think of another example where you enter a trade and you get paid on both sides."
Thousands of ordinary investors in a Chinese oil fund lost everything that same day.
And in the final half hour before the price was set, nine guys from Essex were the biggest sellers in the entire market, bigger than the world's largest banks, BP and Shell.
They've been sued in the US for market manipulation and investigated by UK regulators. They say they did nothing wrong.
Was it the greatest trade in history, or did nine friends from Essex push the price of oil below zero?