Michael Sigal

Investor. Former Sr. VP/CTO @monster.com and founder @lcci

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Cathie Wood just explained why the establishment will never stop coming for Elon Musk.

And the reason is worse than they think.

Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”

They didn’t forget. You don’t forget thirty years of marching and petitioning and begging for the machine that saves the planet.

Someone built it. Forced every automaker on Earth to follow.

Then they turned on him the moment he delivered exactly what they asked for.

Not because he failed them. Because he made them unnecessary.

A solved problem is an existential threat to every institution built to solve it. Kills the funding. Kills the committee. Kills every career that exists to manage the crisis rather than end it.

Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”

Edison was hated too. By the people who sold candles. Every revolution looks like an attack to the people it makes obsolete.

Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”

SpaceX is not an escape. It is a forge. Build under the most brutal conditions in the solar system and every breakthrough comes home.

Most people at his level stop building and start protecting what they have.

Musk picks the hardest unsolved problem on Earth and runs straight at it.

That is not what terrifies them. What terrifies them is he does it without their funding, without their approval, without a single thing they can hold over his head.

A man you cannot buy is a man you cannot control. And a man you cannot control who keeps solving the problems you profit from is the most dangerous human alive.

They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.

Their grandchildren will live in the world he built anyway.

[Nacho Business @NachoQuixotic]

@nickshirleyy When exposing a crime is treated as a crime, you are ruled by criminals.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Larry Ellison just asked the one question no journalist on Earth can answer.

A Wall Street Journal writer told Ellison to his face that Elon Musk doesn’t know what he’s doing.

Ellison didn’t argue. Didn’t get emotional. He just asked a question.

Ellison: “This guy is landing rockets on robot drone rafts in the ocean, and you’re saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing. You ever land a rocket?”

One question. No recovery.

Ellison: “Who are you? Why should I believe you as opposed to my friend Elon?”

This is the question the entire media class has been dodging for a decade. Who are you to judge? What have you built? What have you shipped? What problem have you solved that didn’t involve a keyboard and a deadline?

Ellison: “You’re there in front of your Apple Macintosh typing up an article saying Elon’s an idiot.”

They sit behind a laptop they did not engineer. Using a network they did not build. Running on silicon they cannot explain. To tell the world that the man sending humans to space doesn’t know what he’s doing.

They have never built anything heavier than a Word document.

And they publish it with absolute certainty.

That’s the part that should disturb you. Not the criticism. The confidence behind it. The total absence of self-awareness it takes to judge disciplines you wouldn’t last a single semester in.

Musk does not operate in opinion. He operates in the physical layer of the universe where the math closes or the rocket does not come home.

His critics operate in a text editor.

He built the vehicle that carries NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. The satellite constellation delivering internet to active war zones. The EV that forced every automaker on Earth to abandon their combustion roadmap.

His loudest critics built a byline.

So why the coordinated hatred?

Because they lost the leash.

The attacks didn’t escalate because Musk got worse at engineering. They escalated because he bought X. He cracked open the algorithm. He handed the public square back to the people. And he shattered their ability to control what you’re allowed to think.

They don’t hate the engineer.

They hate that the engineer took their monopoly.

You cannot cancel a rocket. You cannot publish a hit piece on gravity. You cannot edit the laws of physics.

They own the syntax.

He owns the physics.

One of them is going to Mars.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

Here’s what appears to be happening:

1. Tucker Carlson has allegedly been conducting his own foreign policy with Iran on behalf of the United States.

2. At some point, the CIA got wind of this and informed President Trump, who may then have used Tucker as an unwitting counterintelligence asset to feed faulty information to Iran. (BASED.)

3. Following the launch of Epic Fury, Tucker’s traitorous behavior may have finally caught up with him, as DOJ reportedly prepares a criminal complaint against him based on CIA intelligence.

🇮🇷 Bonus Round: An Example of Tucker Likely Parroting Iranian Regime Propaganda 🇮🇷

4. After the operation began, Iran sent IRGC agents to carry out attacks in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but those plots were foiled.

5. Iran then told Tucker these were actually Mossad plots — a claim he pushed online and that spread like wildfire.

6. Saudi and Qatar had to publicly deny Tucker's fake news about the Mossad.

[Charles Gasparino @CGasparino]

Scoop — https://t.co/zjfCI0cHEG

[Michael Sigal @msigal]

@HalftimeReport @ScottWapnerCNBC @RobSechan @coveredcalls @BrynTalkington When is Rob Sechan going to be on the air? He recommended Ferrari (RACE) that is not doing well. Would love an update. Thanks.

[🇺🇸 Kyle Bass 🇹🇼 @Jkylebass]

This is what regime change looks like. Just imagine how Iran 🇮🇷 will prosper when the Ayatollah and his Mullahs crumble. It’s happening now. 🇺🇸

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

This is absolutely insane:

Venezuela's stock market is now up +73% since President Maduro was captured.

Since December 23rd, as President Trump ramped up pressure on Maduro's government, Venezuela's stock market is up +148%.

Venezuela's stock market is skyrocketing.

[The Long Investor @TheLongInvest]

When you are hot, double down and make hay.

Nothing will distract us from our strategy.

We have determined that the retail investor has a max holding period of 3 months and then they will sell and give up.

This is when we accumulate, impatient selling provides liquidity.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: White House aides, after working to persuade the president to temper his public criticism of Elon Musk to avoid escalation, scheduled a call Friday with Elon to broker a peace. https://t.co/2wkOYA3A3i

[Michael Sigal @msigal]

https://t.co/JhXOZPPZPk

[Elex Michaelson @Elex_Michaelson]

EXCLUSIVE: @jpmorgan CEO Jamie Dimon visits the Palisades for the first time since fire destroyed the branch.

Dimon says CA badly needs to make rebuilding easier.

"I'd change the name from red tape to blue tape because it's the Democrats who seem to want more regulations."

[Emilchess @EmilSutovsky]

Exceptional video widely released last week.

Candid talk with Bobby on the eve of the Match with Spassky is what makes it all special.

Btw, I wonder if Hans conciously imitates Fischer's way of speaking or it just happened that they sound very much alike?

https://t.co/IcKAqIHV7R

[Michael Sigal @msigal]

@EmilSutovsky All good points. Nevertheless, to me getting more and more enjoyable as time goes by. I was sick and tired of watching long memorized computer lines in top level classical chess. The creativity in Freestyle chess is much more enjoyable, at least to me. Tal would be thrilled!

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"I am sometimes taken aback by how people can have a miserable day or get angry because they feel cheated by a bad meal, cold coffee, a social rebuff or a rude reception. We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance of occurrence of monstrous proportions. Imagine a speck of dust next to a planet a billion times the size of earth. The speck of dust represents the odds in favor of your being born; the huge planet would be the odds against it. So stop sweating the small stuff. Don’t be like the ingrate who got a castle as a present and worried about the mildew in the bathroom. Stop looking at the gift horse in the mouth – remember you are a Black Swan." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[Charles Gasparino @CGasparino]

BREAKING: There are some Wall Street traders (not a lot, but a few) who believe Trump is poised to cut a deal with China pretty quickly. Their logic: The Chinese economy is (if the reports are accurate) weak to crashing. It's resorting increasingly to currency manipulation to weaken the yuan in order to keep its massive trade surplus. It needs access to US markets. Meanwhile, Trump wants @BlackRock to buy CK Hutchison, and he really wants the US to control @tiktok_us. As I have reported, both were throttled by the trade mess, and both need approval from President Xi. Trump also wants access to China in a more advantageous way for US companies. Progress on the China front and you get a 5% rally in markets, they believe. For the record, stuff like this is always easier said than done, but I'm just a simple country reporter. Story developing

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

To state the obvious, it does not help our country’s and our president’s negotiating position to be trying to strike deals while our market is collapsing.

Whoever is recommending that idea to President @realDonaldTrump should be fired now.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

🚨 Breaking: Iran's 🇮🇷 IRGC Quds Force commander Gen. Esmail Qaani is confirmed safe in Israel 🇮🇱

It can now be revealed that he was an Israeli asset, providing intelligence that led to elimination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and Hezbollah leaders Nasrallah and Safieddine.

[International Chess Federation @FIDE_chess]

🎉♟FIDE launches first digital museum dedicated to chess history!

A first-of-its-kind digital museum dedicated to chess provides global access to FIDE’s archive, offering researchers and chess fans a curated look into the game’s evolution.

As part of its 2024 centenary celebrations, FIDE has unveiled an online museum tracing chess history from ancient times to modern tournaments. The Open Chess Museum endorsed by FIDE aims to become the world’s largest repository of chess artifacts, showcasing valuable items from every corner of the world and every era of chess history.

For the first time, a full historical record of chess is freely available online—featuring rare, never-before-seen materials ranging from hand-annotated scoresheets to championship medals and personal artifacts of top players. The project also aims to highlight lesser-known facts and stories from the game’s past.

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/I05RX5FFck

#ChessMuseum #ChessHistory #Chess

[Aaron Levie @levie]

The value of unstructured data in the enterprise is going to explode now that we can have AI Agents operate on all of our information to automate work. Excited for Box to be partnering with NVIDIA make this go even faster.