Theo van den Berg

🌍✈️☕️🍷. VC @Invenfin, prev M&A @Naspers engineer @Azoteq.

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

The amount of duct tape on our plane's wing is slightly concerning...

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

After being consistently ~20% below dam levels over the past few months vs. last year, the recent storms esp. last few days means we are now well above levels vs. last year. Cape of Storms indeed 😳💪

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

Inexplicable 🤯

[Sean Riley @SeanRileySA]

What is Amazon doing in South Africa? I can’t buy a Kindle? Have to buy through their UK site… bizarre

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

@elonmusk The injunctions aren’t about the deportations, they’re about jailing people for life without a trial.

You’d know that from even a cursory reading of the court docs

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

As a friend quipped "that car is going to hop like a kangaroo on SA roads" 😂

[Michael Jordaan @MichaelJordaan]

Useful in Joburg 😇

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

Fantastic interview with @Invenfin portfolio company @boltapp's CEO @villigm. Too many insights to mention them all, but I agree with Harry's observation towards the end "God, you Estonians, always so calm and methodical in everything you do" 😂 https://t.co/Svkv5cfcp2

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

Pinky and The Brain - genius @zapiro 👌

[Heath Mayo @HeathMayo]

This dude is a patriot. My goodness.

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

Wow. @elonmusk keeps covering himself in glory, posting a Holocaust revisionist's interview with @TuckerCarlson 🙄 to his X account and calling it ’Very interesting. Worth watching’ before deleting. 🤔 https://t.co/SOdDqhzjoe 'Free speech absolutism' has limits...

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

On form from @zapiro as usual

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

Springboks are now winning games they should have lost, mark of a real champion team 💪🏉🇿🇦

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

@geoff_ink True? Wow...

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

When raising money from investors, best not to have quirky titles such as 'chief chaos creator'. CEO is fine, really.

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

Mixing politics and Gary Larson 🫶🏻

[Rob Forbes @RobForbesDJ]

Cyril at the Government kiosk:

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

“You place the laptop on the tray table, turn the computer on and remember just how little room there is on a plane. You tuck your elbows in, and your hands dangle in front of you. You look like a T. rex about to take dictation.” Just brilliant 👌 https://t.co/AwzfAPKNLF

[Markus Villig @villigm]

Thrilled to launch Bolt's electric motorbike program in Africa. A perfect example of cutting costs and emissions simultaneously! 💰⚡️

Rolling out 300 bikes in Kenya now and already planning for thousands.

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

This guy has lost the plot.
1) Tesla 'established to fight climate change'
2) China (paragon of capitalism) Tesla's biggest market
🤔

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Babe, tell me the truth …

[Theo van den Berg @the_o]

😂

[Matt Turck @mattturck]

VCs tweeting vs VCs investing

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

This isn’t a close up of a computer chip, it’s an aerial photo of a giant steel plant in South Korea called Gwangyang Steel Works (courtesy of @DOverview).

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Pour one out for our 300,000-year reign as the smartest species on the planet. Was a great run.

[Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn]

A remarkable performance by the US not just in terms of growth, but also inflation is tamed, unemployment near 50-year low, and real wages rising. That's unprecedented.

"The Establishment" gets a lot of well-deserved criticism, but in this case, I have to acknowledge that the Fed and senior government officials did an impressive job with monetary and fiscal policy as well as other policy choices.

Kudos.