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One of the most elite investors and operators on the planet is @jakepaul
Today he announced that MVP is merging with PFL.
Many people saw their viewership and questioned their ability as a real promotion with a league system. This is the answer.
What a great day to be a fight sports fan!
I wonder where competition will push the top MMA talent in the long run?
Lmk what y'all think down below.
I can’t stand founders who make themselves unreachable.
Some elements of startup culture have somehow convinced people that being impossible to talk to is a sign of intelligence.
The most successful tech founders are deep in the mix right here on X.
@elonmusk, @paulg, and even @JensenHuang .
Staying visible is undefeated
Miami turns 130 today.
On July 28, 1896, 368 men crowded into The Lobby, a pool hall near the Miami River, to create a city. They cast 344 votes.
The group included 162 Black men, many of them laborers who helped build the railroad and the young settlement, alongside merchants, farmers, tradesmen and railroad workers.
Long before incorporation, the Tequesta lived along these waters.
Modern Miami took shape because a few stubborn people believed an unlikely place could become a great American city.
Julia Tuttle relentlessly pushed Henry Flagler to bring his railroad south. Mary Brickell backed the effort with her land and business savvy. Flagler laid the tracks.
The railroad arrived in April. By July, they had incorporated a city.
That is an astonishing amount of ambition packed into a few months.
Miami was a gritty startup city before anyone used the term. There was no guarantee it would work. Just heat, mosquitoes, hard work and people willing to make an enormous bet on the future.
Happy 130th birthday Miami!
@nabs_labs Really really solid point.
I see these posts all the time looking for ‘cracked’ creators to help make tech brands engaging.
It all goes back to an authentic founder voice.
A word of advice to founders and this is coming from someone (me) who’s got 1/2m subs on YouTube.
Don’t go on X if you think you are going to find “cracked” or “based” creators who want to shill your AI wrapper.
That rising talent you are looking for are out there.. but they are busy on Shopify and TikTok Shop selling real products and printing cash.
America just started acting like a venture investor.
The Commerce Department signed an LOI for a $300M award to GlobalFoundries. The money will advance silicon photonic, the technology needed to move enormous amounts of data between AI chips.
But here’s the interesting part:
In a separate agreement, the government will receive roughly 1% of GlobalFoundries.
That is a smarter model for industrial policy.
Help America build strategic capacity. Share in the upside if it works.
If taxpayers are taking the risk, taxpayers should own part of the return.
Julia Tuttle wouldn’t take no for an answer.
Mary Brickell put her land and reputation on the line.
Flagler brought the railroad.
By July they had a city.
That’s not history. That’s the Miami origin story.
Miami turns 130 today.
On July 28, 1896, 368 men crowded into The Lobby, a pool hall near the Miami River, to create a city. They cast 344 votes.
The group included 162 Black men, many of them laborers who helped build the railroad and the young settlement, alongside merchants, farmers, tradesmen and railroad workers.
Long before incorporation, the Tequesta lived along these waters.
Modern Miami took shape because a few stubborn people believed an unlikely place could become a great American city.
Julia Tuttle relentlessly pushed Henry Flagler to bring his railroad south. Mary Brickell backed the effort with her land and business savvy. Flagler laid the tracks.
The railroad arrived in April. By July, they had incorporated a city.
That is an astonishing amount of ambition packed into a few months.
Miami was a gritty startup city before anyone used the term. There was no guarantee it would work. Just heat, mosquitoes, hard work and people willing to make an enormous bet on the future.
Happy 130th birthday Miami!