Christopher Ivey

Co-Founder/President of Jump 450 - acquired by Omnicom. If you're strong, be a protector. If you're smart, be a humble influencer. Opinions are my own. ⚡️

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Dans le manifeste "techno-optimiste" de Marc Andreessen, il y a une phrase qui m'a marqué :

"Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas."

Nos ennemis ne sont pas des mauvaises personnes. Ce sont des mauvaises idées.

Prenons Jancovici. L'homme est brillant, sincère, travailleur. Il ne se lève pas le matin en se disant qu'il va nuire à l'humanité. Mais l'idée qu'il porte la décroissance, le rationnement, la frugalité érigée en horizon civilisationnel est une idée profondément destructrice. Elle prend des esprits brillants et les transforme en commissaires politiques d'un futur appauvri.

Et le plus fascinant, c'est ce que cette idée fait aux gens qui l'adoptent.

Dans mon entourage, une grosse partie de mes amis est sur cette ligne décroissantiste, avec tout le package qui va avec. L'argent c'est mal mais ils en veulent. Il faut moins prendre l'avion mais ils rêvent de voyager partout. Il faut consommer moins mais ils ne renoncent à rien de ce qu'ils aiment vraiment.

Et tous ont un point commun : ils sont déprimés. L'un d'eux m'a même confié qu'il était sous antidépresseurs.

Ce n'est pas un hasard. C'est mécanique.

Quand tu crois que ton désir de vivre, de créer, de t'élever est moralement suspect tu te détruis de l'intérieur. Tu passes ta vie à t'excuser d'exister. Tu vis dans la dissonance permanente entre ce que ton corps veut (plus, mieux, plus loin) et ce que ton idéologie t'ordonne (moins, sobre, immobile).

D'où ma théorie :

Quand on pense quelque chose de fondamentalement faux décroissance, communisme, extrémisme religieux (de tout ordre) ce n'est qu'une question de temps avant que ça devienne vraiment destructeur.

D'abord pour soi. Puis pour les autres.

Les mauvaises idées tuent. Lentement chez ceux qui y croient, brutalement chez ceux qui les subissent.

C'est pour ça que la bataille des idées n'est pas un luxe d'intellectuel. C'est la bataille la plus importante de notre époque.

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@sweatystartup 🤣🤣 based

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@SecScottBessent This is due to Biden telling India to buy Russian oil after he enacted sanctions for Ukraine. If Russian truly couldn’t sell oil to major players, reduced supply would have spiked prices and caused a recession, which he didn’t want going into election season.

Optics>Policy

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@RealJamesWoods Let him win. His failures will be a point of reference against AOC/other democratic socialists in the next Presidential election.

In the mean time, I’d feel bad for NYC if they didn’t bring this upon themselves as a progressive stronghold.

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@sweatystartup Great point and exercise. Agreed!

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@elonmusk I’ve met RP and he had heavily influenced my political views at one point, but he’s completely wrong here. America needs to be a shinng beacon of democracy and capitalism around the world. Our foreign aid creates the incentives for many other countries to align with us.

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@elonmusk Congreats, Elon! And to all Americans that will benefit from your participation optimizing our government.

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@jk_rowling LFG!!!!

[Balaji @balajis]

Hardware is hard.

That’s why Elon is by far the greatest founder of all time.

Remember — countless startups die just while trying to put stationary beige boxes on desktops. Very smart people get crushed by supply chain disruptions, or China tariffs, or lockdowns, or shipping interruptions, or regulatory delays.

Not Elon. He didn’t just survive financial crisis and coronavirus. He managed to build physical things in America while fighting the state and the laws of nature at the same time.

Somehow he managed to simultaneously build not just a car company but a rocket company. Those don’t just have “moving parts”, they are a moving whole.

The difficulty level here is insane. Hardware is completely different from software. One recall, just one serious bug, can destroy your company. If you are charging $50 for something that costs $40, and you need to recall and replace a million units, you’re usually dead.

So just one of these companies — just Tesla, or just SpaceX — would be an incredible accomplishment for anyone. Even a very intelligent and hardworking person would have to live an incredibly boring, disciplined, focused life to possibly maintain the extremely low error rate needed to profitably ship such complex products.

Not Elon. He did SpaceX and Tesla while having N children by K women. While also cofounding OpenAI and Neuralink and Boring Company. While fighting and defeating countless journalists, politicians, haters, and short sellers. And of course while buying Twitter, posting all the time, and building a following larger than almost any politician.

The better you are, the better you understand how much better Elon is. If you’re good at math you appreciate Ramanujan’s greatness. If you’re good at basketball you respect how amazing Michael Jordan was. Elon is like that, for tech. Everyone in tech understands the sport we’re playing, and he really is the greatest of all time.

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@reserveprotocol Global recognition and trust

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@thejustinwelsh If you love your friends, you would support however they live their life and not be disappointed when they don’t buy your products*

Friendship should not require becoming your customer.

Your post really is such a toxic view to share.

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[Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers]

NYC spends $38k per pupil and most kids don’t learn at grade level and 100k a year drop out. There are similar stories across the country. This should be the focus of American education policy debate not the nuances of admissions policies at elite schools.

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@arjunsethi81 @elonmusk why are you banning this from Twitter? I support your mission of free speech. This doesn’t seem in line with that. It comes across as you caving to political pressure, which is not what anyone wants for you or the platform.

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@StanfordGSB @johndoerr @stanforddoerr Climate change is ultimately a consumer problem, which means this is about economies (states) and consumption behaviors (people)

States are only able to shift the problems. Ex. EV’s increase energy production emissions.

People need to change by popularizing less consumption.

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@sweatystartup Ha, this is true. Living it and loving it. Moved to fixed incomes this Sep @ about 6%.

Also, brings up the correlating point that low interest led to more risk taking, which has facilitated a significant amount of capital market bets that created new and innovated products 🙏

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@POTUS And you've depleted our emergency oil reserves to levels not seen in 40 years to do it!

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@sweatystartup I’m a successful entpreneur/business owner and say this all of the time. Great message and point. W-2 is an excellent path for most people. The sacrifices business owners make can sometimes be terribly damaging to their life.

[Christopher Ivey @chrisrivey]

@paulg Haha this is amazing.