Diana Maichin

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Elect this man!!!

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Skipping drinks with colleagues, friends, and women in your 20s & 30s to “protect your health” is quietly sabotaging your career, your social circle, and your dating life.

Learn to drink responsibly.

A few drinks build bonds that kale smoothies never will.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

When your working life rewards you, it’s easy to ratchet up the complexity: homes, cars, travel, possessions etc.

I have found that all that complexity comes at the sake of your most fleeting asset: your time. Instead of building things, all of a sudden you’re dealing with minutiae and logistics. Instead of talking mostly to engineers, you’re talking mostly to non-engineers. The building stops…the business of managing self inflicted complexity begins.

It’s worth noting that the best players in the game (Buffett, Elon) have kept their life extremely basic, almost monastic/nomadic, as success ratcheted them ever higher.

I think it’s the biggest secret hiding in plain sight:

When the world upgrades your status, downgrade your complexity.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

You should take the class. The state’s finances are a dumpster fire.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Asking for more money after demonstrating positive ROI of monies already raised is quite reasonable.

But asking for more money after wasting what you have already taken because “a little but more will fix it” is a lie.

It is 100% dystopian and malevolent.

Crooked, if you will…

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

I am America First.
I am for no new wars.
I got duped in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Libya and Syria were a disgrace.

But what Trump did in Iran is beyond incredible.

It takes the balls of a leader who has been arrested, shot at, and gives zero fucks.

Any other president would have thought about election season; Trump just did what he thought was right.

And it will have generational change.

America is back.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[DeeRod 🇺🇲🦅 @818Rod805]

@GavinNewsom

[Jaimee Michell @JaimeeUSA]

Penalties for Illegal Entry:

🇸🇬 Singapore: 6 months in prison.

🇷🇺 Russia: 2 years in labor camp

🇮🇳 India: 8 years in prison

🇵🇰 Pakistan: 10 years in prison

🇰🇵 North Korea: Death penalty

🇺🇸 USA: Free housing, healthcare, education, food, transportation, phones, cash…

🤔

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Never ending taxation and regulations are how governments create structural poverty in those they govern.

Without capital or freedom, you become a serf who is completely reliant on their largesse.

[litquidity @litcapital]

LMAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

https://t.co/m88ICasGZ1

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Your portfolio going up is a helluva drug https://t.co/FdMcuNl7Ou

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Correct

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Not enough people understand this:

You get to pick your own friends.

There are two types of people in this world. And you can identify them from any simple interaction - meeting, phone, text, etc.

One group makes you say "ugh" and have negative thoughts, be resentful for the time wasted, or just feel deflated and tired.

The other group leaves you happy and fulfilled or motivated and excited.

And to some extent, this is also true in business, considering ~80% of our business comes from ~20% of your customers.

If you smile at the world, the world smiles back.

Act accordingly.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It’s basically illegal to be a Republican at Harvard 😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla Robotaxis were unaffected by the SF power outage

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

A young founder called me the other week with what she thought was a dilemma.

Someone had offered to invest in her company.

Good terms. No strings. She could say yes today and have the money in her account by next week.

So what's the problem? The thing is, she wasn't sure she needed it yet.

She and her co-founder were still figuring things out.....testing channels, refining the product, finding their footing.

They had runway. They were making progress. And taking outside money felt like it would change something fundamental about how they operated.

She was right to hesitate. But probably not for the reasons she thought.

And most founders get this wrong about fundraising....they think it's a yes-or-no question.

Do I need capital right now? That's the wrong frame.

The real question is this: What does taking this money commit me to?

Because money isn't neutral. It comes with expectations—spoken and unspoken. It creates a burn rate. It invites opinions. It shifts your timeline from "whenever we figure this out" to "we need to show progress by the next board meeting."

Even a SAFE has gravity.

So remember, once you take the money, you can't un-take it. You've set a clock ticking.

You've given up equity that you'll never get back. You've brought someone into your journey who will be there—for better or worse—until an exit.

So before you say yes, you need to know what you're really saying yes to.

[Jason Ai. Williams @GoingParabolic]

I told my girl I was thinking about buying the new Porsche GT3 RS and she said we’ll see.

I don’t know what “she’s seeing” but here is my new GT3rs