Tony Franco

Nullius in Verbra!

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Buy max bitcoin

[Tony Franco @TonyFranco33]

We've improved efficiency thousands of times over the past 5,000 years, and never have people worked less while maintaining the same standard of living.

[Tony Franco @TonyFranco33]

I've listened to countless @HarryStebbings pods, and I've never disagreed more with someone than when listening to the @grok founder explaining the impacts of AI in the future.

[Tony Franco @TonyFranco33]

modern hero.

[Pavel Durov @durov]

🇲🇩 About a year ago, while I was stuck in Paris, the French intelligence services reached out to me through an intermediary, asking me to help the Moldovan government censor certain Telegram channels ahead of the presidential elections in Moldova.

After reviewing the channels flagged by French (and Moldovan) authorities, we identified a few that clearly violated our rules and removed them. The intermediary then informed me that, in exchange for this cooperation, French intelligence would “say good things” about me to the judge who had ordered my arrest in August last year.

This was unacceptable on several levels. If the agency did in fact approach the judge — it constituted an attempt to interfere in the judicial process. If it did not, and merely claimed to have done so, then it was exploiting my legal situation in France to influence political developments in Eastern Europe — a pattern we have also observed in Romania 🇷🇴

Shortly thereafter, the Telegram team received a second list of so-called “problematic” Moldovan channels. Unlike the first, nearly all of these channels were legitimate and fully compliant with our rules. Their only commonality was that they voiced political positions disliked by the French and Moldovan governments.

We refused to act on this request.

Telegram is committed to freedom of speech and will not remove content for political reasons. I will continue to expose every attempt to pressure Telegram into censoring our platform. Stay tuned. 🤝

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Honestly if this were fiction I would dismiss it as too unrealistic

[Tony Franco @TonyFranco33]

@rabois My understanding was that local investors took advantage of their buy box. Do you think they have pricing correct, or is there still a long way to go?

[Austen Allred @Austen]

I don’t say this lightly:

Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for New York City to drive down food prices by having the city run its own grocery stores is the most economically delusional thing I’ve seen in a long time.

What planet do these people live on?

[Tony Franco @TonyFranco33]

@jimihendrixlive sorry for your loss jim

[Tony Franco @TonyFranco33]

@MomsPostingLs and

[Austen Allred @Austen]

lol

[VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 @VCBrags]

*checks to see if founder was in Forbes 30 under 30*

[Sam Altman @sama]

the chatgpt launch 26 months ago was one of the craziest viral moments i'd ever seen, and we added one million users in five days.

we added one million users in the last hour.

[delian @zebulgar]

what a shot!!

first lunar sunrise captured by a commercial lunar lander

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

A bill was passed, overwhelmingly, then signed into law. It was unanimously upheld 9-0 by SCOTUS. There is a statutory deadline explicitly laid out. An executive order can’t override that. If Trump can broker a deal to bring TikTok back under non-CCP leadership, great. But the law is the law. Banning a CCP espionage and propaganda app was the obviously correct decision.

[Steph from OpenVC @StephNass]

Every VC thesis explained.

You know this is true.

[Balaji @balajis]

This is San Francisco.
It’s not a bad part of town.
It’s the Embarcadero where families walk.
And now?
It’s where howling mobs light cars on fire.
Not even as a protest.
Or for some fake cause.
But for fun.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

At my hedge fund, I pay an analyst to walk around parks in Austin, SF, and NY and ask these people who are tanning at 2pm on a Tuesday where they work.

We then short the stock.

We’re up 728% this year.

[Tony Franco @TonyFranco33]

@SahilBloom 😂😂😂

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

John Barnett didn't kill himself.

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Boomers selling their homes for $2 million after buying them in 1969 for 7 raspberries