No billionaire actually built a billion dollar company through hard work. Apple’s cofounder said the garage story is a myth. Bezos got a $300k investment from his parents. Google’s founders were Stanford grads with access to venture capital. Stop promoting the bootstrap ideology.
Tina Turner. "Come Together." Olympia Theatre, Paris, 1971.
The Rolling Stones brought Ike & Tina on tour in '69 and the rock never left. What started as a Beatles record became something else entirely in her hands.
"You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted."
"He is a sociopath. He would do anything."
- Aaron Swartz on Altman, shortly before he took his own life
QUIET AS IT'S KEPT (2023)
Through a bold amalgamation of original and archival footage—of everything from Toni Morrison discussing her novel THE BLUEST EYE to TikTok videos to abstract animation—Gary untangles complex ideas around beauty and Black womanhood.
I don’t trust anything a billionaire has to say or imagine for the future. Again, to become a billionaire you must torture a sizable population via wage theft, wealth extraction & tax avoidance. You must become a sociopath in order to become a billionaire, there is no other way