Jack

[Jack @jack123613]

@JavierHermosa21 @LeadingEdgeTLE @farrmacro @grok Institutional investors around the world use MSTR and IBIT for short-term hedging strategies, not long-term holdings. If you want to hold long-term, buy spot Bitcoin instead of complex financial products.

[Jack @jack123613]

@JavierHermosa21 @LeadingEdgeTLE @farrmacro @grok President Trump will use tariff negotiations to get the EU to relax regulations, as the Trump family's crypto company also wants to expand into the European crypto market. This is in both the national interest of the United States and the personal interest of President Trump.

[Jack @jack123613]

@JavierHermosa21 @LeadingEdgeTLE @farrmacro @grok KYC for European crypto exchanges is very simple, even simpler than opening an account at a stock exchange.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Brian Armstrong explains how he built Coinbase on nights and weekends while working at Airbnb

Brian first advises those who are currently employed to not build your project on company hours or on your company laptop:

“If you build it on company time or on the company hardware, the company probably owns the IP.”

Then he describes his schedule for working on Coinbase while still working full-time at Airbnb.

“I would often work [at Airbnb] until 7pm. I’d come home, eat dinner, and then I would work from 8pm to midnight. I would do that maybe 3-4 days a week on weekdays. And then on the weekend I’d work Sunday afternoon for 7-8 hours.”

Brian did this consistently for about a year and a half until Coinbase was far enough along for him to get seed funding from Y Combinator.

“It sucked. I mean I was tired after the full day of work [at Airbnb]. But this is where determination comes in… At that moment in time, I was in my late 20s, and I was like, ‘I really want to try to build something important in the world.’”

When asked how he maintained friendships during this time, Brian replies:

“I was pretty intense about it. I would say I sacrificed friendships for it. It’s not like I was just never responding to people, but I’ve seen this happen to various people. They get to a certain point in their life. Sometimes they turn a certain age where they thought they would have more done by then or maybe someone in their family passes away and they’re like, Oh my god, time is finite. It’s precious. And something happens where they’re like, ‘I’m going to get this done, no matter the cost.’”

Brian tells those out there who might be in a similar situation:

“Go hard at it. Finish your book. Launch your thing. Just start doing stuff - and even if you don’t know what to do, just do anything, because action will produce information and it’ll help you get to the right thing.”

Video source: @StevenBartlett (2022)

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

“The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner.”

— Naval Ravikant

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

ELON: I NEED SUFFICIENT CONTROL OVER TESLA TO AVOID BEING OUSTED BY ACTIVISTS

“Sufficient voting control such that I cannot be ousted by activist investors is what matters to me.

Let's not have this whole thing be a discussion of my alleged pay.

It's not a money thing.

It's a reasonable control thing over the future of the company.

Especially if we're building millions, potentially billions of humanoid robots.

I can't be sitting there, and one day get tossed out for political reasons by activists.

That would be unacceptable.

That's all that matters.”

Source: Qatar Economic Forum, May 2025

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“As long as you are learning and you keep iterating fast and cutting your losses quickly, then when you find the right thing — you have to be optimistic and compound into it.”

- @naval

[Rob Mohr @R_Mohr]

Time is our most valuable resource. This makes focus/ attention so critical.

As @hubermanlab puts it—

“I personally believe that our ability to attend is the hallmark of building a great life.”

More on attention and how to restore your ability to focus in Monday’s episode.

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

"I think that the most important investment you can make is in yourself."

— Warren Buffett

[philosophy for life @philosophy_life]

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

― Marcus Aurelius

[Malvin @ManOfFocus_]

Normalize this by the age 20-35.

• Wake up at 6 Am.
• 6-8 hrs of deep work.
• Cook your own food.
• Keep your life private.
• Spend 1 hr in the gym.
• Mind your own business.

I promise you'll go far in life.

[Malvin @ManOfFocus_]

There has to be a time in your life where you have;

- no girlfriend
- no side chics
- no sneaky links
- Almost no friends
Just you and your grind.

That phase is when men are made.

[Jack @jack123613]

@KobeissiLetter If you are a long-term value investor and you believe in the long-term U.S. economy, you don't need any currency hedging instruments. Warren Buffett holds over $300 billion in short-term U.S. Treasuries.