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Following interesting people and companies.

[/Rob/ @tengoavocado]

@elonmusk there's an Apollo LM sitting in the Smithsonian, just strap it to falcon heavy on max settings and yeet it w/ 4 crazy people to the moon and call it #fArtimesIII @SecDuffy it's probably the cheapest alternative take 📝

[Kmele 🖐 @kmele]

"The soft bigotry of low expectations."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Let’s make Starfleet Academy real!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tonight was a clear victory … for memes

[Not Robert Griffin @Pseudo_RGIII]

“Why no Florida State?”

Selection Committee:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@satyanadella Now they will have to use Teams!

[Tesla @Tesla]

First Cybertruck built at Giga Texas! 🤠

[/Rob/ @tengoavocado]

@QuinnyPig Your logic is undeniable

[Soren Iverson @soren_iverson]

Taco Bell + ChatGPT = Text to order

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

"Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls.... We are now 11 years into the largest epidemic of teen mental illness on record... Most girls are suffering, and nearly a third have seriously considered suicide... There is one giant, obvious, international, and gendered cause: Social media"

Persuasive @JonHaidt

[Soren Iverson @soren_iverson]

Uber Hotbox option

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

The hottest new programming language is English

[/Rob/ @tengoavocado]

@BostonDynamics But does it blend? 🤔

[/Rob/ @tengoavocado]

@live_munro @CES Fantastic!

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Yesterday we met with all of our portfolio company founders to discuss the current downturn, what caused it, and how to survive it. We’ve decided to make the recording public. You can watch it here:

https://t.co/CgmniWYCU8

[/Rob/ @tengoavocado]

@sarahluisa__ 👀

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

Our Q1 results are in:

102M nights booked
$1.5B revenue (70% Y/Y)
$(19)M net loss
$229M Adjusted EBITDA
$1.2B free cash flow

2 years ago, our business dropped 80%, our IPO was put on hold, and some didn’t think we’d make it at all.

Here’s how we turned Airbnb around:

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Student debt is mostly held by the richer half of the US population. Serious question: would it do more good if instead of giving money to people with student debt, you gave money to people without it?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Rainmaker1973 An amazing example of what implanted electrodes can do, even when there are only a few large wires

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Since I’ve been asked a lot:

Buy stock in several companies that make products & services that *you* believe in.

Only sell if you think their products & services are trending worse. Don’t panic when the market does.

This will serve you well in the long-term.