1/ The world is influence, it's always been about influence, pitched battles in which armies go to war with machines death and destruction about nothing more than influence, controlling the land to influence it
Sam Bankman-Fried is the greatest investor of all time
Cursor just got bought by SpaceX today. SBF invested $200k into Cursor in 2022
He also invested in:
2021- Anthropic: $500M โ ~$75B
2022- Robinhood: $648M โ ~$5B
2022- Genesis Digital: ~$1.15B โ ~$3B
2022- SpaceX exposure: ~$100M โ ~$10B
That means if he weren't in jail today and still owned all this equity, he'd be worth ~$100 billion
But because he got a greedy and put customer funds into crypto, he had to divest from all those positions at cost
He'd be top 20 richest people in the world. Now he's just trying not to drop the bar of soap
In 2023, FTX sold its 5% stake in Cursor for $200k as part of its bankruptcy proceedings.
Today, that stake would be worth over $3,000,000,000 after SpaceX $SPCX acquired the startup for $60 billion.
In the AI gold rush, Jensen Huang is selling the picks and shovels. Nvidia's chips power AI companies around the world, helping the company become the first to surpass a $5 trillion market capitalization in late 2025.
Read more about how he and others made the #ForbesIconoclast50 list: https://t.co/npegh7oECw
๐ธ: Joe Pugliese/August
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