PETE KELLY

Mobile Telecom, Wallet, Banking & Bitcoin Pioneer. Expanding Financial Access since ‘05 CBO Maya Labs, Previous: VP BD @Abra/Boom/Obopay/Opera/Verizon

[Auren Hoffman @auren]

always remember that most people are nice

[dnap @dnapway]

David Friedberg says the greatest lie of the 20th century was putting all your net worth in your home

"When you do that, then the only way to keep Americans wealthy and to keep the middle class stable is to keep the price of homes going up, because that’s the only asset."

“So if you want your net worth to go up every year, they need to have policies that drive the price of homes up every year. That ultimately leads to a point where we're at today where young people can’t afford those super expensive homes."

“Back in the day, 30, 40 years ago, you got a good job, you could buy a home. Today, because we made everyone put all of their net worth in their home and we had to keep home prices going up, people got screwed."

“So these are the fundamental issues, the mistakes that were made over the last couple of decades that lead to this great socialist wave that’s underway right now.”

[PETE KELLY @PeteKelly]

@LynAldenContact It was a fun read !

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

#OTD in 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon - and the world was never the same.

When America commits to greatness, nothing is out of reach.

[a16z @a16z]

.@pmarca on founders almost always being too early, not too late:

"We almost never see a qualified founder fail because they're too late to market. It's almost always because they're too early to market."

"The iPad was like this breakthrough product in 2009... well, there was this thing called the Newton twenty years earlier. It was the iPad twenty years earlier, and it was like virtually the same thing, and the world just wasn't ready yet."

"I think that's the permanent curse of the entrepreneur."

YC Startup School 2016, with @qasar

[PETE KELLY @PeteKelly]

Tune into this excellent interview with @billbar on the AllinCrypto Podcast. Bill has a real gift for taking big, complex topics — longevity, finance resets, Bitcoin, AI, and the future of wealth — and breaking them down into clear, digestible insights that actually make sense.
Highly recommend throwing it on. It’ll make the miles fly by while giving you plenty to think about. 🔥
#Bitcoin #AI #Longevity

[ALLINCRYPTO @RealAllinCrypto]

We sit down with @billbar, Founder & CEO of @AbraGlobal for a powerful discussion on Bitcoin, AI, AGI, stablecoins, the late-stage debt cycle, longevity, and why crypto may become the ownership layer for the next financial reset. https://t.co/FoPKeqqgl8

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Jensen Huang: "I am the embodiment of the American dream."

"America provides tailwind, not headwind. As an immigrant, you come here by choice. You witness a miracle."

[Token Metrics @tokenmetricsinc]

"Looking back at 2007, before the global financial crisis, it was amazing to see mobile money and digital payment infrastructure catch on so early in Africa."

From Natalie Brunell, a featured speaker in this clip:

Stablecoins now move more value across Africa than traditional remittances.

When local currencies weaken, USDT dominance spikes and signals where crypto flows will move next.

(via @natbrunell)

[PETE KELLY @PeteKelly]

@JoshuaBarzon Good people , great work ethic

[Mark W. Yusko - Two Point One Quadrillion @MarkYusko]

Happy Ferris Bueller Day! ⚾️ 🎤

[PETE KELLY @PeteKelly]

@natecavanaugh @Special This is fantastic and inspiring. Congratulations! We’re lucky to have you.

[Elad Gil @eladgil]

The events of the last 6 months in technology are arguable amongst the most important in human history

The tools now increasingly exist for recursive self improvement of models & agents

We are likely in very early lift off & exponential

Largely unnoticed outside of tech

[PETE KELLY @PeteKelly]

@DavidSacks @DavidSacks I agree and think @bgurley framed it perfectly with his industrial age comparison

[PETE KELLY @PeteKelly]

@davidmarcus It’s very impressive! I hope they work toward cross border p2p

[a16z @a16z]

.@pmarca on the Current Thing: "Everybody has to have an opinion on the Current Thing. It's the most important thing in the world.

And then 24 hours later it's like it never happened because something else has become the Current Thing."

"As long as the internet is the medium of choice, we're going to live in a world in which this is the cycle now. It's like a 24, 36-hour news cycle."

"The role of mainstream media for the rest of our life is just going to be to follow the internet viral posts."

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

The world doesn’t realize this yet but AI will finally make philosophy a highly marketable skill

[OC Scanner 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 @OC_Scanner]

BREAKING 🚨🚨

#SanDiego / #California

Watch as the Integrity Capsule and Artemis II crew splash in the Pacific Ocean off the San Diego coastline, completing a historic mission around the far side of the moon

[PETE KELLY @PeteKelly]

Incredible

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

NASA Artemis passing close to the Moon

[PETE KELLY @PeteKelly]

@jack Fantastic

[jack @jack]

is the future value of "open source" code anymore? i believe it's shifting to data, provenance, protocols, evals, and weights. in that order.