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some things aren't meant to be seen

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@shukshln 50 petabytes of logs reviewed after the fact. the industry's main safety tool right now is basically a very expensive rearview mirror

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@Pixel_Neuron lol and his own investors wanted the exit. saying no to yahoo was easy, saying no to thiel and breyer at 22 is the wild part

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At 22, Mark Zuckerberg turned down $1 billion in cash.

Yahoo's internal numbers later showed they were ready to go as high as $1.62 billion. He never asked for the extra.

February 4, 2004: he launches Facebook from a Harvard dorm room. He drops out that year to build it full time.

2006: Yahoo puts $1 billion on the table. He's 22. Facebook is two years old.

His own investors wanted the exit. Peter Thiel and Accel's Jim Breyer both favored selling. A billion split across the team was life-changing money on the table.

He barely engaged with it. Weekend negotiations went on without him, because his girlfriend was in town and his phone was off. Microsoft couldn't get him on an 8am call because he wouldn't be awake.

For months it looked reckless. The offer was real. He walked anyway.

In 2008, at 23, he became the youngest self-made billionaire in history. Today Meta reaches more than 3.6 billion people a day and he's worth 246.7 billion dollars.

He didn't get rich by taking the safe billion. He got rich by not even picking up the phone.

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@shukshln right, the fourth launch only mattered because there was money for it. most founders don't run out of ideas, they run out of attempts

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2008 was brutal.

Elon Musk watched three Falcon 1 rockets fail in a row, in 2006, 2007, and August 2008. Tesla was weeks from running out of cash. His marriage to Justine ended the same year.

He had about $30 million left and two dying companies. Put it all into one, the other dies for sure. Split it, and both might die.

He split it.

SpaceX had just enough money left for one more launch attempt. On September 28, 2008, the fourth Falcon 1 flight finally reached orbit. There wasn't a fifth attempt budgeted if that one had failed too.

Tesla's funding round closed at 6pm on December 24, 2008, hours before payroll would have bounced.

Both lived.

June 12, 2026: SpaceX went public at $135 a share. Musk's net worth, about $813 billion the day before, crossed $1 trillion by the close. First trillionaire in history.

He didn't get paid for playing it safe. He got paid for refusing to.

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@kursormaxx same sequence, different timing, different result. turns out biology had latency requirements before we did

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@Pixel_Neuron the richest man in history recording "prosperity always returns" on the exact bottom day is the best accidental market call ever made

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@Pixel_Neuron The entire trillion-dollar outcome sat on those two narrow windows. Most people would have killed one company to save the other. He didn’t.

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In February 2020, Bill Ackman spent $27 million hedging his portfolio against a crash nobody else was pricing in yet.

Ten days later that position was worth $2.6 billion. A 100x return, confirmed by Forbes, while the S&P was in freefall and most funds were bleeding out.

It almost didn't happen. On March 13, the market's biggest one day rally of the crisis, the hedge lost $800 million in a single session. For a few hours it looked like the trade was about to unwind itself.

He wasn't holding stock puts. He was holding credit default swaps on corporate bond indexes, $27 million in premium controlling almost $71 billion in notional exposure. He wasn't betting stocks would fall. He was betting companies would struggle to borrow.

By March 18 he'd sold half the position and put the proceeds straight into new stock, including a fresh stake in Starbucks.

Pershing Square now manages over $13 billion. He says 23 of his 26 active bets since founding the fund have been what he calls home runs.

Not every trade worked. Target lost him money. So did JCPenney. He brings both up himself, unprompted.

$27 million into $2.6 billion, with an $800 million hole in the middle of it. That's not a hedge. That's seeing the room before anyone else does, and having the stomach to sit through the part where it looks wrong.

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@Pixel_Neuron what's the first task you'd hand an agent with its own phone? mine is anything with a "call us to cancel" button

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@Pixel_Neuron would you have taken the trade at 1.5x the fund if someone told you the max loss was 4%? most people say yes. almost nobody actually sizes like that

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@Pixel_Neuron Same point. Cleaner line. You can keep it))

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In 1990 Rupert Murdoch's News Corp owed more than $8 billion to banks around the world.

His Sky satellite network had lost 95 million pounds in its first year alone, on top of 122 million pounds just to launch it.

146 banks across the globe had to agree to freeze the debt to keep the company alive. One bank holding a loan worth about $16 million nearly blocked the entire deal in December 1990.

The freeze finally went through in February 1991, buying Murdoch three years.

He didn't sell off pieces of the empire to survive. He merged Sky with his only rival, British Satellite Broadcasting, ending a bidding war that was bleeding both companies dry.

Around that same time, Murdoch described his own business philosophy on camera: free enterprise means risks and rewards. Some people go broke. Some people get rich.

He almost went broke. He got rich instead.

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@Pixel_Neuron 146 banks said yes. One $16M loan said no. The smallest check in the room had the power to kill the whole deal.

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Hey @grok
What number comes next? 2, 5, 11, 20, 32, ? What's your answer?

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@Pixel_Neuron Some people don't leave an inheritance. They leave one final power move.

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Its AMAZY 👀
Hey @grok How is this possible?

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@Pixel_Neuron @grok ok fine, 999 takes more than one stick. i'm going with 9116 and blaming grok

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Hey @grok Make A larger number than 946. What’s your answer?

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@GeezerBunny2 @grok roy actually explained the move, which already puts him ahead of half the replies

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@yachty_k2k2 @grok 976 works if the stick can slide that way. this thread has more answers than the puzzle has sticks