Eli Gregory

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[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

@DamiDefi Would be curious if there are parallels to this analysis and the same analysis performed against Tesla at IPO

[Siaxares 🇮🇷 سیاکسارِس @siaxares]

As an Iranian who stayed connected through Starlink during the blackout and chaos of the war, and now reunited with my compatriots online, I want to wholeheartedly confirm what President Trump has long understood and continues to show he knows:

"The Iranian people want to be free. They have lived in a world that you know NOTHING about."

(Trump said this during the height of the war)

For 47 years, my people have endured systematic torture, rape, murder, humiliation, anxiety, suppression, and grief under the Islamic Republic. It’s been a long, grinding suffering — punctuated by brutal spikes like the January protests, mass executions, and the recent war. The world has no idea of the scale or depth of these horrors. Only when this evil regime finally falls will the full truth pour out — in quality and quantity that will shock humanity.

We have now reached a point where almost no cost is too great if it rids us of this regime. Because the cost of it staying in power is infinitely higher.

Trump himself said it: he knows what we have gone through. But he is saying now that he is in no hurry to reach a deal. That’s fine — but he knows better than anyone that now is the time to act to finish this regime once and for all. Like he just said in the attached video about the Iran negotiations, it’s time to finish the job.

If you’re reading this and you can’t understand how any Iranian could feel relief at strong action — even if it means no quick deal or more pressure on the regime — I envy you. You have never lived what we have lived. You have never watched your people, friends, family, and loved ones get tortured, raped, or killed almost daily and over half a century. You have never seen an entire nation slowly but brutally suffocated like this.

We tried every alternative imaginable: massive protests, dissent, peaceful reform, negotiations — everything. None of it worked. The regime’s answer has always been bullets, gallows, and more terror.

Now, in these critical hours of ceasefire talks and negotiations, I write this with a heavy heart from inside Iran:

Whatever happens next — if there is still an Iran left to save and this regime is gone — the Iranian people will be happy with the result. No matter the cost. Because the cost of the regime remaining is higher, and for many of us, death itself is preferable to another day under this nightmare.

This is the true sentiment of the majority of Iranians — the voice of a people who often have no internet, no platform, and no way to be heard.

The world will soon understand why we say:
Anything to be free. Anything to end this evil.

#IranMassacre‌
#IranRevolution2026‌
#KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

@Miles_Brundage

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

You need to grow up in Iran. Go to school under Islamic law, experienced get beaten up for showing your hair, go to prison for speaking up receiving lashes where fear is part of your daily education, then you will understand my feelings in front of this Mosque in Hamburg.

This Blue Mosque and more the 50 more across Germany were built by the regime of Iran under the protection of your laws, your tolerance, your tax system, and your religious freedom.

And what did Europe get in return? A new generation taught that the West is evil while Hamas, Hezbollah, and the IRGC are somehow “resistance.”

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

@elonmusk Chill

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

@Jason Star Wars owes you nothing

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

@cathrynlavery RIP markdown is supposed to be human readable 💀💀

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

@greg16676935420 Eyebrows 🤨

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

@DavidPerlov @bryan_johnson It costs money and my boss would beg to differ

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

@bryan_johnson On one hand I’m stoked so many people can experience what us programmers have felt for years; on the other hand you’re able to do hard things, learn to code, bro.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

A leaked internal survey confirms how many Iranians inside Iran oppose the regime.

it isn’t just 90%, as I told Konstanin on @triggerpod, it’s 92%

The survey was conducted by the Iranian Students’ Polling Agency in November 2025, commissioned by the presidential office under Pezeshkian.

The survey was intended only for internal use, but the findings—revealing that 92% were dissatisfied with the ruling system—were leaked by Rouydad24

The head of presidential communications later confirmed the ISPA’s findings.

The greatest support for this dictatorship, it turns out, is found amongst those who don’t have to live under it.

https://t.co/4WMmslsoFE

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

This isn’t just a $META issue. It’s increasingly an issue for all of Tech. Because even within Tech, there is an emerging divide between AI-superpowered engineer/PM/sales folks and everyone else.

And we know how that will end: Smaller orgs, bigger payoffs but then the riches distributed across even fewer players that it is today. And everyone sees it coming. Hence the rot from the outside and, now, the inside.

To my peers and to the super entrepreneurs who are far more successful than me:

This is why elites in tech that “have made it” are increasingly the ones that EVERYONE hates. We’ve not distinguished the difference between luck and skill that got us here. We don’t act as stewards in the broadest sense of the term. We aren’t bringing society along like other generations of super successful business people have. We don’t pay it forward in any meaningful way - although we have clever ways to make it look like we do. Mostly, people see us hording all the gains.

Modern technology companies have essentially created a new form of indentured servitude for the educated masses where SBC was used to pay you an incredible living wage so you don’t go work “for the other guy”. But what does it mean to make $500k/yr if you still leak 55% to taxes then your landlord takes the next 25% for rent?? You still can’t buy a house in SV. These folks are on an eternal hamster wheel. It turns out it’s not much different than being in middle America making $55k.

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

@anothercohen It’s too shallow & you can’t lie down - a six person sauna is perfectly sized 👌

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

Trade off spacemaxxing for spaceminning

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

#artemis does anyone else know that a nasa astronaut’s salary is between $84K-$150K annually? you can be selected to serve the USA in space and never afford to buy a house in the Bay Area. what a wild time we live in. @grok check my numbers please?

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

Maybe if they were a poly thruple of astronauts could they maybe buy a house but they’d probably compromise on location and sq ft

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

@clairevo @bcherny I was hand holding all day, it was rough!

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

@bryan_johnson Maybe try saunarelaxx

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

@Ronycoder 1 hour != 2 hours but, heard

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

Was wrong.

[Eli Gregory @EliGregory]

I remember when #Google’s motto was “don’t be evil” and I believed them. Today I’m all for the proliferation of AI and @sama appears to be a guy who can shepherd the industry down the path of integrity. All said- we’ve been burned before and this time the stakes seem higher.