William Griffin

I turn complex economic arguments into stories people actually watch. Making the smartest ideas in politics and finance pop off

[William Griffin @WPG803]

Every few years we get a new crisis.

It's the same loop.

I call it the Dollar Neglect Cycle 👇

Neither party fixes the dollar.
Economy goes Haywire.
Parties react without fixing the root.
Repeat.

See models:

https://t.co/wHX0bxRhv7

[Louis R Woodhill @LouisWoodhill]

@beyond_capital The Great Depression had nothing to do with "capitalism." Like all economic downturns, it was a monetary control error.

[Christian @cbwritescopy]

The United States will be the best soccer team in the world in 8 years

Every kid in the states is watching the World Cup and picking up a soccer ball after this tournament

[Just a Dude Who Invests @DudeWhoInvests]

I literally can’t get this out of my head

[William Griffin @WPG803]

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[Louis R Woodhill @LouisWoodhill]

@MankindVsModFem Today, marriage is a partnership for which the wedding vows are the partnership agreement. Partnership, which requires doing what you promised rather than what you "feel like in the moment," is more natural for men than women. It is only safe to marry a woman who honors her word.

[William Griffin @WPG803]

Every few years we get a new crisis.
It's the same loop.

I call it the Dollar Neglect Cycle 👇

Neither party fixes the dollar.
Economy goes Haywire.
Parties offer minor fixes.
Repeat.

See models:
https://t.co/wHX0bxRhv7

[William Griffin @WPG803]

@Tim_Denning mate i had no idea about half this stuff! helping trafficing victims. boss. Bro needs a movie about him. It's like a reverse McAfee kinda.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

> Be Tony Robbins
> 66 years old
> Born in North Hollywood
> Grew up with an abusive mother > Worked as a janitor > Didn’t go to college > A guy gifts his family dinner on thanksgiving > Tony realizes strangers can be kind
> Goes to a Jim Rohn seminar for $35
> Asks Jim Rohn for a job > Gets the opportunity to sell seminars for Jim Rohn > Starts selling his own Neuro-Linguistic Programming seminars > Says on TV that he can fix any problem, even help people quit smoking > His seminars look and sound like a cult > Gets people results
> Sells self-help audio tapes
> Goes hard doing infomercials
> Writes a bestselling book
> Coaches presidents and elite sportspeople
> Gets accused of touching up women in the 80s
> Proves he did nothing wrong
> Keeps selling seminars
> Runs a portfolio of businesses doing $7B
> Provides 1.1 billion meals to the needy
> Upping the goal to 100 billion meals right now
> Went undercover to bust s*x traffickers
> Lent his plane to transport victims out of dangerous locations
> Does a podcast with Alex Hormozi and reveals that Alex doesn’t know why he wants to be so f*cking rich.

And Tony is still alive in the best shape of his life.

Tony Robbins is freaking crazy.

[William Griffin @WPG803]

Check out my latest article: Why Med Spas Sleeping on BPC-157 Are Missing A High-Margin Recovery Category https://t.co/8sw5i5fomc via @LinkedIn

[Mike Alfred @mikealfred]

Guys, I hate to admit this but it’s really over this time. Unlike April 2025, March 2023, December 2022, March 2020, December 2018, September 2008, 2000-2002, summer of 1998, and October 1987, this time it’s actually really over. Completely done. Sell everything. This is the end.

[William Griffin @WPG803]

Playing from 23:57
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[William Griffin @WPG803]

@itsolelehmann https://t.co/P1UGYAoWJi

[William Griffin @WPG803]

@itsolelehmann Charleston, South Carolina.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

i don't think people realize what's happening in Chinese robotics.

this one manufacturer might be the most impressive AND most concerning company on Earth right now

let me explain...

Unitree Robotics sells a humanoid robot for $5,900.

their robot dog costs $1,600 (Boston Dynamics charges $74,500 for theirs for context).

you can literally buy these on Amazon today.

so obviously the first question is: how is that even possible?

the answer starts with a guy who couldn't pass his English exam.

Wang Xingxing grew up in Zhejiang province.

for his master's thesis, he decided to build a quadruped robot.

budget: about $3,000.

for context, $3,000 for this kinda robot is nothing.

off-the-shelf servo motors alone would've eaten that twice over.

so Wang did the only thing he could: he designed and machined every single component himself.

motors, joints, controllers, the frame. all of it.

the resulting robot was janky and imperfect. but it worked.

and the video went viral globally.

after graduating he joined DJI. but he quit after two months, and this is 2016, when DJI was arguably the hottest hardware company in China.

walking away from that with no money to start a robotics company is a... specific kind of stubborn.

he launches Unitree with $280K from a single angel investor.

tiny office in Hangzhou. 50 square meters.

but the money runs out fast. he can't make payroll for three years.

the company almost dies in 2017.

but emergency government funding arrives with days to spare.

he survives, barely, and keeps building.

this is where it gets really fascinating IMO.

this founding constraint, building everything yourself because you literally cannot afford to buy parts, never went away.

even after funding rounds started landing.
even after revenue kicked in.

it just became the company's permanent DNA.

Unitree now manufactures 90%+ of its core components in-house.

motors, reducers, controllers, encoders, LiDAR, etc

the founder's $3,000 robot thesis ended up being an architectural decision that turned out to be structurally superior.

think about what that means in practice.

Boston Dynamics needs a better motor?

they negotiate with a supplier, wait on lead times, qualify the part.

but when Unitree needs one, they design theirs internally and have a new version in production within weeks.

that gap compounds every cycle.

Unitree shipped three separate humanoid platforms in 18 months.

Figure AI has shipped one.

Tesla has shipped zero commercially.

the results are getting hard to dismiss.

23,700 robot dogs shipped in 2024 (roughly 70% of the entire global market).

7,000+ humanoids deployed.

over 600 industrial sites running their quadrupeds.

$140M+ revenue, profitable every year since 2020.

for perspective:

no Western humanoid competitor is profitable. not one.

OK. now here's where the "most concerning" part of this starts...

if you watched the DJI story unfold, you already recognize the shape.

affordable Chinese hardware quietly saturates global markets.

years later, the national security questions arrive, after the install base is already massive.

drones, then EVs, then AI. now robots.

Unitree is running this exact playbook in real time.

in April 2025, researchers found an undocumented backdoor in their Go1 robot.

a remote tunnel letting anyone control the robot and stream its camera feed.

default password: pi/123. 1,919 vulnerable units exposed globally.

including machines at MIT, Princeton, and Carnegie Mellon.

but it gets worse.

every Unitree robot shares the same hardcoded encryption key.

encrypt the word "unitree" and you get root access to any of them.

one compromised robot can spread to every Unitree robot in Bluetooth range automatically. a literal robot botnet.

the G1 quietly transmits sensor data to Chinese servers every five minutes.

audio, video, GPS, LiDAR spatial mapping, with no notification, no consent, no opt-out.

PLA footage has shown Go2 robots with mounted weapons.

Ukrainian forces literally deployed weaponized units on the actual frontline.

and every member of the bipartisan House China Committee signed a letter calling for Unitree's military company designation.

Wang signed a 2022 pledge alongside Boston Dynamics not to weaponize robots.

but pledges don't survive contact with shipping hardware to open markets.

and under China's 2025 rules restricting military-related speech, Unitree couldn't publicly confirm PLA use even if they wanted to.

50,000+ of these robots are now deployed globally.

some at institutions that probably should've asked harder questions before connecting them to their networks.

the security stuff is real and people should know about it.

but i also think it's important not to let that overshadow what's actually been built here.

a 35-year-old who failed his English exam created a robotics company that's outshipping and outpricing every Western competitor while being the only profitable humanoid maker on Earth.

most impressive and most concerning company in the world right now.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

a lot of people seemed to like this visualization of finance agents

it's one of the things that inevitable to me

finance will be 99% agents soon

and crypto was never made for humans to begin with

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Another peptides episode with updates on SS-31, MOTC, GHK-U, Pinealon etc coming soon but in the meantime, this will get you acquainted with some classics: BPC157, GH secretion promoting peptides, Melano, etc, Thymosin alpha etc. Perhaps a series in order. https://t.co/zcvNyX9DeK

[William Griffin @WPG803]

“Modern man is in a terrible predicament. He is helplessly enamored with the beauty of what the old world built, yet despises the beliefs that inspired them to build it.”

—Jeremey Wayne Tate

[William Griffin @WPG803]

This video describes the eclectic ness of the president, my article coming out soon similarly talks about the tired and muddled thinking using the left-right spectrum..
https://t.co/FpjJ5kfihF

[William Griffin @WPG803]

You're not a pharmacy.

So why are you managing cold storage, expiration dates, and vendor invoices like one?

There's a way to offer comprehensive peptide solutions without becoming a logistics company.

👉 https://t.co/Kv2ltGNKoF