Ralph Langner

CEO of OTbase (@langnergroup). Weekly Common Sense OT Security webcast Tue noon ET on X, LinkedIn, and Youtube.

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

Peter Thiel: Europe will never have massive tech companies because they fear success.

"In Silicon Valley, there's this pornography of failure. You talk about all your failures, and this somehow means you're going to succeed."

"In the social democratic European societies, it's acceptable to be moderately successful, it's not acceptable to be wildly successful. If you have a successful company that's starting to grow, it will get short-circuited, and you'll sell the company. You'll never get to an enormous company if you sell it along the way."

"The single most important decision in the history of Facebook— summer of 2006. It was two years into the company. We got an acquisition offer for $1B from Yahoo to buy the company. There were three of us on the board— Mark Zuckerberg, myself, and another VC. We had a meeting to decide if we should take the $1B."

"The two of us thought it was a lot of money, we should maybe take it. Mark started the board meeting— 'this is a pro forma thing, we're just going to talk about this for 10 minutes. Obviously we're not taking it.'"

"Any super big tech company is one where you've been offered multiple times for people to buy it, and you've chosen never to sell it. You're not that afraid of success."

"In Europe, the answer is to check out sooner rather than later and go back to the decade-long vacation that people are on in Europe."

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@GadSaad The Mein Qur'an?

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@FischerKing64 Nice to read a man of culture and taste on X. Beethoven, William Butler Yeats, Salvator beer -- chapeau!

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@MyHamster_atX Praktisch so wie Oktoberfest. Deutscher geht's eigentlich gar nicht mehr.

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@ernsterjuenger Deutschland wird schon KI nutzen, nur keine eigene.

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@Cernovich would help to disclose the venue, or at least the city

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@GadSaad well said

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@ulfposh werden könnte --> wird

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@MDiener72345 Kanzlermaterial!

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@Cernovich No

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@Cernovich Germans would disagree

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@pmarca The Seventh Seal is pretty awesome though

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

If all cultures were the same, there would be multiple Americas across the globe.

But there's only one.

And it's a culture we have to defend at all costs.

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@WallStreetMav Correct.

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@moi_violet Die SPD unter Willy Brandt wollte seinerzeit "die Belastbarkeit der Wirtschaft testen". Heute testet man die Belastbarkeit der Bürger.

[Wise @trikcode]

Interesting! Anthropic spent $10B building a model so dangerous they wouldn't release it to the public.

then a private Discord group accessed it because they guessed the URL.

Cybersecurity is officially a comedy.

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

@Rothmus ...and nail it on the f'in door

[DHH @dhh]

In 2023, we spent $3,934,099 on AWS + other hosting. In 2026, our hosting + support bill is down to ~$1m/year due to the cloud exit. Even including all the hardware buying, we will already have saved ~$4m by the end of this year. And going forward, it's ~$3m/yr in savings 🤑

[Ralph Langner @langner_ralph]

I don't know about you but I think the Artemis mission was a missed opportunity