Neil Thanedar

Executive Director – @MichiganCFN. Author – Founder & Chairman – @Labdoor. Mission – Solve the World's Biggest Problems!

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My first books are here!

I wanted to share this moment with my kids, so I waited for my boys to get home from school before opening the first box!

Bucket list moment for sure!

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I wish DOGE had been Silicon Valley style building.

Instead, we got Private Equity style cuts + debt.

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I saw the future and it's beautiful.

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We Need A Middle Class For Startups:

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We need a YC for Manufacturing.

Here's my idea for how to build one: 👇

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Bootstrapping vs. VC is such a false dichotomy.

You can always raise one round, get profitable, and then never raise again!

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New addition to @MichiganCFN stories:

Political cartoons written by me and illustrated by AI!

Takes lots of rounds to get each detail right, but way faster and more vivid than I could do by hand!

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Check out our latest @MichiganCFN investigation!

"100 Business Days + $1,690.92 for One FOIA Request"

https://t.co/h4G0maHha1

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We went down a big rabbit hole with @MichiganCFN's latest FOIA investigation!

What we found demonstrates the difficulty with filing FOIA requests in Michigan now:

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This one FOIA request would've cost us $1,690.92 and potentially 100+ business days.

It’s clear to see why important public records are rarely requested or released in Michigan.

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99.4% of all FDA-approved drugs from 2010 to 2019 were derived from NIH-funded research:

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All of this attention on USAID has really highlighted all the amazing work it does!

I bet it’ll get even stronger in the next administration.

Haters really do the best marketing!

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Left vs. Right is turning into Up vs. Down.

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I'm bringing back my "Quote Notes" series for Ken Burns' new documentary "The American Revolution".

Here are 50+ quotes and 800+ words of commentary from me on Episode 1!

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@xevekiah Why did you invent the part where the dad gets a divorce and leaves the kid?

The rest is true science but that part never happened.

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This was inspired by @pmarca's Milli Elon Metric.

Truly solving government efficiency makes me Giga Elon: https://t.co/d9lWPg3KGI

[David Senra @davidsenra]

My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape.

0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare
0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset
3:24 Psychedelics and Founders
4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness
7:18 Tech as Progress Engine
10:27 Founders Versus Managers
20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy
21:32 Why Start the Firm
24:14 Venture Barbell Theory
28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking
30:02 Religion Split Wall Street
30:41 Barbell of Banking
31:42 Allen & Company Model
33:16 Planning the VC Firm
33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons
36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo
39:03 Scaling Venture Capital
40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men
42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack
45:59 Meeting Jim Clark
48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI
54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story
56:58 Starting the Next Company
57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble
58:33 Building Mosaic Browser
59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban
1:01:28 Eternal September Shift
1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy
1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood
1:07:49 Netscape Business Model
1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism
1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern
1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story
1:14:48 Music Panic Examples
1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark
1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale
1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison
1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup
1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths
1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson
1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims
1:29:11 Bottling Innovation
1:31:44 Elon Management Code
1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud
1:37:12 Engineer First Truth
1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed
1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric
1:47:20 Starlink Side Project
1:49:10 Closing

Includes paid partnerships.

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I will solve this problem that Elon Musk couldn't solve.

It's not solved because Elon was convinced not to solve it.

DOGE would work if it was run by someone not in the Epstein Files.

[America @america]

ELON MUSK: “Our defense budget is pretty gigantic. It's a trillion dollars. The interest we owe on the debt is now higher than the defense budget. This is not sustainable. That's why we need the Department of Government Efficiency.”

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It's probably still this one: https://t.co/Z7bghtWpSp

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BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market.

In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.

These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time.

The trader seemingly made huge gains.

Unusual.

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One of the biggest insider trading cases ever:

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

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Or maybe this one: https://t.co/LB0q8hCUk3

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

This is a funny coincidence

Michael Obadal was Anduril's Senior Director before President Trump nominated him for Under Secretary of the Army

In a recent filing report, Michael disclosed up to $500K in Anduril stock he kept. Ethics experts call this "unheard of"

Surprise, 6 months later, the Army awarded Anduril a $20B contract

What's even more suspicious, Trump Jr's fund 1789 Capital is an Anduril investor at a 30B valuation

The timing is either the greatest coincidence in defense contracting history, or it isn't

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@Camp4 Man, the whole life is the whole life.

That's sustained me too through all the stresses of life.

I'd never trade my path for any other path.

Keep doing what you're doing!