Mark Brest

Stand for something, be a leader, believe in yourself, take the risk.

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

Unlike the Internet alone, #Bitcoin is distributed, not centralized; open, not hidden; inclusive, not exclusive; immutable, not alterable; and secure.

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

A man who fears pain more than failure will taste both.

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

"No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full."

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

@robcarpenter This is incredible work. Rob - is your full scorecard available to share? Would love to dig deeper into this as well. Thanks

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

The good times don’t last forever

And neither do the bad times

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" Napoleon Bonaparte

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

A fool prays for an easier road, a wise man prays for stronger legs.

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

Better to be a wolf that everyone hates, than a donkey that everyone rides.

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

History's biggest wealth transfers hide in plain sight:

They're called "Infrastructure Inversions"

When old technology and new technology exist simultaneously over a 10-20 year window...

Look around 👀

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

@RobinhoodApp Ilysm ♥️

[Bitcoin Archive @BitcoinArchive]

Bitcoin will never go over $100K again.
Just buy stocks at 25x earnings, and get yourself a 50 year mortgage.

Then sit back and enjoy your safe 9 to 5.

Ai is a scam anyhow, and it will never truly replace you because your company values you as a person.

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

This.

[Yishan @yishan]

My AI investment thesis is that every AI application startup is likely to be crushed by rapid expansion of the foundational model providers.

App functionality will be added to the foundational models' offerings, because the big players aren't slow incumbents (it is wrong to apply the analogy of "fast startup, slow incumbent" here), they are just big. Far more so than with any other prior new technology, there is a massive and fast-moving wave that obsoletes every new app almost as fast as it can be invented. There is almost no time to build a company and scale it.

There are two ways AI application startup founders can make money:
- Make a flash-in-the-pan app that generates a ton of cash and bank the cash (my estimate is that you have about 12-18 months cashflow generation)
- Make a good enough app that you get acquired by one of the big players for sufficient equity

The situation is highly unstable - we don't know if it's going to crash or go to the moon but both scenarios make it very unlikely that any AI application startup will independently become a generational supercompany (baseline odds are low to begin with).

The best odds are finding an application niche in a highly specialized field with extremely unique and specific data barriers, ideally ones relating to real atoms (hardware or world-related) data and not software/finance.

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

Get away from the losers.

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

I used to pray for mornings like this.

Thankful, Grateful, Blessed

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

Being poor is hard, getting rich is hard.

Being overweight is hard, getting fit is hard.

Being married is hard, being single is hard.

Every choice in life is hard.

Choose your hard, or hard will choose you instead.

[Brad Lea @TheRealBradLea]

Never bet against someone who is willing to walk alone. You’ll lose every time.

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

The more discipline you have in your life, the more freedom you will end up with.

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

@elonmusk @elonmusk @Tesla — @RobinhoodApp is not letting people vote. Look at the excuse?

[Mark Brest @MarkBrest]

Comparison is dangerous because you could end up comparing where God has you to where the devil has someone else.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 ABSOLUTE CHILLS.

Tens of thousands of people just sang all at once during worship at Charlie Kirk's memorial.

Wow.

They wanted a movement to roll over and back down - but got this instead.