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I'm here for the freedom of speech

[nights @knights299]

@kith3r Vhoydiana, Advise:Met her at groove. She responds after 2 days.seems interesting, but bad a texter. Sometimes she just posts statuses and doesn’t respond to me.She never rejected me, but she wasn’t direct.I think she’s a bad texter cuz when I met her she was all over me

[nights @knights299]

@WolffHVLines Wine + Mathematics is actually a good combo I'm not sure about the rest

[Blyduma⭐️⭐️ @YellowArmy_7]

You will forever be goated SuperSport United💙

[Depressed Mathematician @retiremeplease]

sad story

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

Sam Altman dropped out of Stanford as a freshman, came back a decade later to teach one course in the fall of 2014, gave the entire thing away to the internet for free, and ended up training a generation of founders who never paid him a cent.

Most people know him now as the CEO of OpenAI. Back then he was running Y Combinator, the accelerator that had already funded Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe.

He had a question almost nobody in his world was asking. Why was the most valuable knowledge in Silicon Valley locked inside a building in Mountain View that only a few hundred founders a year ever walked into?

So he built a class at Stanford and numbered it CS183B.

Then he did the part that changed everything. He filmed every lecture, posted it under Creative Commons, and put the readings and assignments online for anyone on Earth to take.

The signups tell you how starved people were for this. The class hit more than 5,000 registrations in the first three hours.

Twenty lectures. A thousand minutes of content. And the lineup was not professors.

Peter Thiel taught business strategy and why monopolies actually win. Marc Andreessen and Ron Conway taught how to raise money. Dustin Moskovitz, who co-founded Facebook, opened by explaining why you probably should not start a startup at all. Paul Graham taught how to have ideas. Reid Hoffman, Marissa Mayer, the people who built the companies were the ones teaching.

The lessons inside it ran against everything ambitious people are told.

Altman's core argument was that the idea, the product, the team, and the execution all matter, but most founders obsess over the wrong one. They polish the pitch and ignore whether anyone actually wants the thing.

The most repeated line in the whole course was "do things that don't scale." Talk to your first users one by one. Recruit them by hand. The instinct to automate too early kills more startups than bad code ever does.

Thiel's lecture flipped the standard advice on competition. Competition is for losers. You do not want to be slightly better in a crowded market. You want to own something so completely that there is no second place.

Moskovitz spent his entire talk trying to talk people out of it. He walked through the stress, the odds, the years of grind, and said only do this if you cannot imagine doing anything else.

That honesty is exactly why it spread.

It did not sell a dream. It handed people the real thing, including the parts that hurt, and let them decide for themselves.

The numbers are quiet but staggering. The lectures have averaged around 150,000 views each, across more than a decade, with no marketing budget and no paywall.

Altman could have charged for it. He could have kept it inside YC as a recruiting edge. Instead he gave away the most concentrated startup education on the planet and let it compound in strangers he would never meet.

The man who now runs the most important AI company in the world taught the most important startup class in the world for one semester.

And the only price of admission was being willing to watch.

[Mathieu @miniapeur]

You need to start teaching them young!

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

African names be like

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

me this month:

[Mr Bat @linda_mot]

I forgot that Twitter people can argue with someone who is a qualified professional in a specific subject matter. I write software for a living and I'm saying Capitec has the most simple and user friendly app out of all banks and folks are telling me to go fly a kite. Okay

[nights @knights299]

@Gugu_Noggy Doc, UKZN still offering Financial Mathematics(honours level) ? Actually torn between Pure Mathematics and Applied Mathematics honours 🙂I just want to be employable but at the same time I like abstract mathematics and I wanna end up like you

[piano princess @tswelomosenyi]

how did senegal fumble the lead in three minutes?😭

[I.am.Glen.🇿🇦🇵🇹🇧🇷 @GlenK2914]

Belgium what a comeback!!!👏🏽😭🇧🇪😤

[nights @knights299]

@GlenK2914 I'm so mad because I placed a bet on Senegal

[Hunadi M @HunadiFlorah]

“I did 4 years of university without ChatGPT” is the new “I used to walk 10km to school”

[Ntate Makhasane @DonaldMakhasane]

I fear South Africans when they are angry 🥺

[PHAṰHUTSHEDZO🇿🇦 @TheeAlphaBro]

All Shoprite has to do is to give them free rice and the protest will be over... 😭

[VusiMbuzi @VusiMbuzi]

if you focused on your engineering degree this much you would have graduated 2 years ago. Now you are an ancestor at university.