The Canton network is interesting - it's like Dropbox for banks. The token doesn't transmit value, it secures the agreement between two bank ledgers. It's SWIFT-like for domestic value, not just messaging, but it requires everyone to trust others are good for the assets.
Congrats to all my former SpaceX colleagues
The years we toiled, and built, and worked until 10pm all led to this big day
For SpaceX, the journey is just beginning. The company is more dominate then ever and I see a path to a $10T market cap
Here is a photo from 2013 before my first day with my Mom and Dad. Its amazing to think back on this moment, because at the time I had no inkling what would happen next.
All I thought was that I needed to go build rockets and send people to space because it seemed cool, valuable and impactful for humanity.
This selection criteria is good advice for life for young people. Work on things that matter, that you are passionate about and that fill you with energy. Then give it your all, and yourself the gift of optimism.
SpaceX President @Gwynne_Shotwell on how she and @elonmusk split up their roles:
"When Elon asked me to be President in 2008, we made very clear what is my job jar and what is his job jar."
"We gotta be clear: everybody reports to Elon."
"I focus on the day-to-day of business operations, and he focuses on high-level strategy as well as super deep dive on the technical."
Via @CNBC
Most people look at @elonmusk and see money.
I see a man who refused to accept the limits of what everyone else thought was possible.
He didn’t spend his life chasing comfort.
He spent it chasing the future.
While others were looking at the ground, he was looking at the stars.
He reminds every kid in America that the biggest dreams are often the ones worth chasing.
Dream bigger.
Work harder.
Ignore the doubters.
The future belongs to the people willing to build it!
To that I incredible resume, I would just add one thing.
I believe that when he purchased twitter (now "X") that he virtually saved free speech in America and possibly around the world. If you remember that before he bought Twitter, at that time, all of social media and mainstream media was in a cabal with the Democrats and leftists and globalists around the world to censor anything of the information being revealed about the COVID mandates and the whole "lab leak" origin as well as continually censoring Republicans, Trump and anyone on the right regarding the weaponization of the DOJ, the open border policies, the lie of the J6 "insurrection" and much, more. All of the "conspiracy theories" which have turned out to be true.
Then he freely (that means without being paid) gave of his time to put together a DOGE team to highlight the massive fraud, waste and malfeasance going on in the government's spending of our tax dollars.
Elon is way beyond a brilliant engineer, entrepreneur, and businessman. He is an American hero and an American treasure.
@playmatejaylene I love this guy. I bought some SpaceX just to show support for him. Didn't really expect a profit because that wasn't my motive.
Just wanted to let Elon Musk know that people love him, appreciate him, and want him to do well.
🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk speaks from Starbase as SpaceX goes public, with the largest IPO EVER
"If people had told me this was going to happen [years ago], I would be like, man, you must be smoking some REALLY good crack because I think this company is going to fail!" 🤣
"I gave SpaceX less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all, to be clear. In fact, I told people this: I said, 'look, we're probably going to fail, but, you know, we should give it a try because if we don't, if if there's not a new company that enters space, we will never be a truly spacefaring civilization.'" 💯
@elonmusk $SPCX
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Here is a Bloomberg column on the discussions at the Shangri-La Dialogue last month.
The column notes Japan is the "most trusted major power in 10 Southeast Asian nations,(1/2)