Evan Luthra
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3x Forbes 30 U 30 🚀 • GP @KOLCapital💰 600+ Investments • 🤝 Adventure Capitalist 🌏 100+ countries 🏛️ Minister of IT @Liberland_org
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Every time you accepted a salary, chose a price, or walked into a negotiation, the other person was running GAME THEORY in their head. You were guessing. This 1-hour Yale lecture by Professor Ben Polak will permanently change how you read people and make decisions. Most MBAs pay $150k to learn this. Yale posted it for free:
Evan Luthra1,556,894 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
🚨A 25 YEAR OLD BUILT THE FASTEST GROWING SOFTWARE COMPANY IN HISTORY.. WITH ZERO MARKETING SPEND.. AND SPACEX JUST OFFERED $60 BILLION TO BUY IT.. His name is Michael Truell.. He started coding at 11.. Interned at Google at 18.. Dropped out of MIT to start a company that built AI tools for mechanical engineering.. That company failed.. So he pivoted.. And built Cursor.. An AI-powered code editor that writes software for you.. Here's how fast it grew.. $100 million in annual revenue in 12 months.. Fastest in SaaS history.. Broke every record ever set by Slack, Zoom, and Wiz.. $500 million by month 21.. $1 billion by November 2025.. $2 billion by February 2026.. Projected to hit $6 billion by end of year.. Zero marketing spend.. Not a single dollar.. Pure word of mouth from developers who couldn't stop talking about it.. Over 1 billion lines of code accepted per day.. Used by 70% of Fortune 1000 companies.. Every single one of Nvidia's 40,000 engineers uses it.. Coinbase hit 100% adoption among their developers.. And he did this with a team of four MIT co-founders.. One of them was a three-time International Math Olympiad competitor from Pakistan.. Another was a college squash captain with zero startup experience who built the entire product strategy.. They spent zero on sales.. Zero on ads.. Zero on growth hacking.. The product sold itself.. But here's where the story takes a turn nobody expected.. Even at $50 billion valuation.. Even generating billions in revenue.. They hit a wall.. Not a market wall.. A physics wall.. They couldn't get enough GPUs to train their next AI model.. The physical chips didn't exist in sufficient quantities for them to buy.. Money couldn't solve the problem.. Enter Elon Musk.. On April 21.. SpaceX announced a deal to potentially acquire Cursor for $60 billion.. The largest acquisition option in tech history.. The structure is insane.. SpaceX gives Cursor immediate access to Colossus.. xAI's supercomputer equivalent to one million Nvidia H100 GPUs.. For nine months of joint development.. At the end.. SpaceX can buy the company for $60 billion.. If they don't buy it.. They owe Cursor a $10 billion breakup fee.. The largest breakup fee in corporate history.. Think about what that means for Cursor.. Either they get acquired for $60 billion.. Or they walk away with $10 billion in cash and nine months of free training on the most powerful supercomputer on earth.. There is no losing scenario.. And here's why Musk wants it.. SpaceX is preparing for an IPO at $1.75 trillion.. The biggest IPO ever.. But aerospace alone can't justify that number.. By merging xAI into SpaceX.. And now acquiring Cursor.. Musk transforms SpaceX from a rocket company into an AI empire that owns the compute, the models, and the developer tools.. Cursor is the missing piece.. The application layer that puts xAI's models into the daily workflow of every Fortune 500 engineering team.. Oh and one more thing.. In 2022.. FTX's trading firm Alameda Research made a seed investment in Cursor.. During the FTX bankruptcy.. Liquidators sold that stake for $200,000.. That stake is now worth approximately $3 billion.. Sam Bankman-Fried called it the worst liquidation decision in venture capital history.. From a prison cell.. A failed mechanical engineering startup.. Pivoted by four kids from MIT.. Zero marketing.. Zero sales team.. Built the fastest growing software company in history.. And now SpaceX is writing a $60 billion check for it.. This is the most insane founder story in Silicon Valley history.. And most people haven't even heard of Michael Truell.
Evan Luthra985,449 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
🚨PERPLEXITY JUST LAUNCHED SOMETHING THAT MAKES EVERY OTHER AI PRODUCT LOOK LIKE A TOY.. AND NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT.. They built a Personal Computer.. Not an app.. Not a chatbot.. A full digital worker that runs 24/7 on a Mac mini even while you sleep.. You press both command keys.. And it wakes up.. Ready to work.. But here's where it gets insane.. This thing doesn't run on one AI model.. It runs on 19 of them.. At the same time.. It uses Claude Opus for complex reasoning.. Gemini 3.1 Pro for deep research with a 2 million token context window.. Nano Banana Pro for 4K images.. Grok for fast tasks.. It doesn't just pick one model and hope for the best.. It reads your task.. Breaks it into subtasks.. And routes each one to whichever model is best at that specific thing.. All running in parallel.. While ChatGPT is still thinking about your first question.. Perplexity has already split your project into 6 pieces and assigned each one to a different AI.. And here's the part that should worry OpenAI.. Perplexity hallucinates at 3.3%.. ChatGPT hallucinates at 12%.. Claude at 15%.. It's not even close.. Because Perplexity is built differently.. Every other AI tries to remember facts.. Perplexity searches for them first.. It's structurally forced to cite live sources before it's even allowed to generate a response.. OpenAI Operator launched with a 32.6% success rate on computer-use tasks.. People called it "the world's most anxious intern" because it pauses every 5 seconds to ask if it's doing the right thing.. Perplexity runs multi-hour and multi-day workflows independently.. Only interrupts you when it hits a decision that actually matters.. You can start a task from your iPhone on the train.. And it executes on your Mac mini at home.. The economics are wild too.. Internal studies show it saved teams an average of $1.6 million in labor costs.. Performing 3.25 years of work in four weeks.. And unlike every other AI company.. Perplexity dropped ads entirely.. They charge $200 a month because they said they're in the "accuracy business".. Not the advertising business.. They even launched a $42.5 million publisher program to pay media partners when their content gets cited.. While OpenAI is getting sued by every newspaper on earth.. Google and OpenAI want you locked into their ecosystem.. If a better model comes out tomorrow you're stuck.. Perplexity just updates its routing matrix.. You get the best model on earth automatically.. No switching.. No migrations.. No friction.. This isn't an AI assistant anymore.. This is the first real AI employee.. And it costs $200 a month.
Evan Luthra1,095,537 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
🚨ANTHROPIC'S FOUNDER JUST PREDICTED THAT AI WILL DOUBLE HUMAN LIFESPAN TO 150 YEARS.. CURE MOST CANCER.. AND ELIMINATE POVERTY.. ALL WITHIN 10 YEARS.. AND HE'S NOT EVEN THE OPTIMISTIC ONE.. Everyone thinks Dario Amodei is the guy who wants to slow AI down.. The cautious one.. The safety guy.. He just published an essay predicting what happens if AI goes right.. And it reads like science fiction.. Except he's dead serious.. And he has the credentials to back every word.. Here's what he thinks happens in the next 5 to 10 years.. Nearly all infectious disease.. Prevented or cured.. mRNA vaccines already showed us the path.. AI finishes the job.. Most cancer.. Eliminated.. Not just treated.. 95% or greater reduction in both deaths and new cases.. AI designs treatment regimens tailored to the individual genome of each tumor.. Something that's technically possible today but takes enormous human expertise to do.. AI scales it to everyone.. Alzheimer's.. Solved.. He thinks it's exactly the type of problem AI can crack.. Because it requires better measurement tools to isolate what's actually happening in the brain.. Once we understand it.. Prevention will probably be surprisingly simple.. Genetic disease.. Most of it preventable through improved embryo screening.. And curable in living people through safer descendants of CRISPR.. Most mental illness.. Cured.. Depression.. PTSD.. Addiction.. Schizophrenia.. He believes the answer is some combination of biochemistry and neural network-level problems that AI can untangle.. And here's the line that stopped me.. Human lifespan.. Doubled.. To 150 years.. He points out that life expectancy already doubled in the 20th century.. From 40 to 75.. So doubling it again is "on trend".. Drugs already exist that increase maximum lifespan in rats by 25 to 50%.. Some turtles already live 200 years.. We're clearly not at a biological ceiling.. He calls this the "compressed 21st century".. The idea that AI gives us 100 years of biological progress in 5 to 10 years.. But he doesn't stop at health.. He thinks AI could drive 20% annual GDP growth in the developing world.. Bringing sub-Saharan Africa to China's current GDP per capita within a decade.. He thinks AI could eradicate malaria not through treating millions of people individually.. But by releasing modified mosquitoes that block the disease at the source.. One centralized action instead of a million.. He thinks AI could make democracy structurally stronger.. Not through propaganda.. But by giving every citizen an AI that knows every law they're entitled to.. Every benefit they qualify for.. Every right they have.. And helps them actually access it.. He imagines AI that monitors judicial systems for bias.. AI that helps find common ground between opposing political views.. AI that makes government services actually work the way they're supposed to.. And he addresses the question everyone asks.. What happens to meaning when AI can do everything.. His answer.. Most people aren't the best in the world at anything right now.. And it doesn't bother them.. Meaning comes from relationships and connection.. Not economic productivity.. People will still pursue difficult challenges.. Still compete.. Still create.. The fact that an AI could theoretically do it better won't matter any more than it matters that someone somewhere is already better than you at every hobby you have.. But here's what makes this essay different from every other AI optimism piece.. Dario Amodei runs one of the three most powerful AI companies on earth.. He has a PhD in computational neuroscience.. He personally worked on mass spectrometry and neural probes.. He's not a pundit.. He's a scientist who happens to be a CEO.. And the same man who publicly says there's a 25% chance AI causes human extinction.. Is also saying that if we get it right.. We cure nearly every disease.. Double human lifespan.. Eliminate most poverty.. And fundamentally transform what it means to be alive.. Both things are true at the same time.. That's what makes this the most important essay anyone in AI has written this year.. He ends with this.. "I think many will be literally moved to tears by it".. He's talking about watching disease disappear.. Poverty dissolve.. Human potential unlock all at once.. Not in a century.. In a decade.. If we get it right.
Evan Luthra475,514 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
🚨 Do you understand what SCAM ALTMAN has been doing? He made a crypto called Worldcoin that scans your eyeballs with a metal orb in exchange for tokens. The token hit $11.74 in 2024. Today $WLD is $0.28. Down 97%. His foundation dumped $65 million worth last week at $0.27 each. In Kenya they found the project exploiting extreme poverty to get people to scan their eyes for worthless crypto. In Berlin gangs were forcing homeless people and refugees to get scanned so they could pocket the rewards. Thailand raided a site and ordered 1.2 million scans deleted. Spain, Portugal, Hong Kong, Germany all banned or investigating. Snowden warned everyone. They say they delete the scans. They don't. They keep the digital fingerprint of your eyes forever in a privately owned database. In 2015 Elon Musk gave $38 million to co-found OpenAI with Altman. The deal was clear. Keep it nonprofit. Keep it open source. Build AI for humanity. Altman took the money. Turned it into a closed source for-profit company valued at $840 billion. Microsoft got 27%. Musk didn't see a dollar. Musk tried buying it back for $97.4 billion. Altman said on camera "no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion." Asked about Musk in an interview he said "his whole life is from a position of insecurity. I don't think he's a happy person." Called the lawsuit "this week's episode." He's also investing in his own chip company that sells chips to OpenAI. Investing in energy companies that power OpenAI. Buying from himself. Musk filed a $134 billion lawsuit. Most people called him jealous. Then his lawyers found the personal diary of Greg Brockman, one of the original OpenAI co-founders. A 2017 entry reads "I cannot believe that we committed to non-profit if three months later we're doing b-corp then it was a lie." He admitted the nonprofit promise was never real. Two years before they officially went for-profit. The judge said there's "ample evidence." Sent it to a jury. Trial starts April 27. Musk said he'll donate every dollar to charity. Altman laughed on camera. Called Musk insecure. Called the lawsuit a joke. His own co-founder's diary says the nonprofit was never real. A jury decides in 28 days. Let's see who's laughing after the verdict.
Evan Luthra823,903 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
🚨APPLE SPENT 5 YEARS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BUILDING THE MOST ADVANCED SECURITY SYSTEM IN CONSUMER HISTORY.. AN AI BROKE IT IN 5 DAYS.. Here’s what just happened.. Apple built something called Memory Integrity Enforcement for its new M5 chips.. It’s a hardware-level security system that attaches secret cryptographic tags to every piece of memory.. If a hacker tries to access memory they shouldn’t.. The chip blocks it instantly.. Every known exploit chain against iOS and macOS was rendered obsolete overnight.. Apple said so themselves.. Then a small team at a cybersecurity firm called Calif used Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos Preview to find vulnerabilities in the macOS kernel.. The AI found the bugs almost instantly.. Because once it learned the pattern of a specific type of flaw.. It could recognize every other flaw in that same class across the entire codebase.. What used to take elite security teams months.. The AI did in hours.. Within 5 days.. The team had a fully working exploit that escalated a basic user account to full root access on an M5 Mac running the latest macOS.. With MIE fully enabled.. The billion-dollar hardware defense running at full strength.. The trick.. They didn’t fight the hardware.. They went around it.. MIE is designed to catch memory corruption.. Hackers trying to overwrite pointers or inject code.. The team used a “data-only” approach instead.. They manipulated legitimate data structures the hardware was never designed to monitor.. Like changing an internal flag from “standard user” to “admin”.. The chip saw a perfectly normal operation.. The operating system obeyed.. And the attacker had total control.. The hardware thought everything was fine.. Because technically it was.. The exploit never triggered a single tag mismatch.. They walked into Apple Park and hand-delivered a 55-page report.. Apple patched it in macOS 26.5.. And for the first time ever.. Apple’s official security advisory credited the vulnerability discovery to “Calif dot io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research”.. An AI is now credited in Apple’s CVE patches.. But here’s what makes this story truly terrifying.. Before MIE existed.. An exploit kit called DarkSword was hitting iPhones with zero-click attacks.. Six vulnerabilities chained together.. Total device control just from visiting a webpage.. Deployed by Russian espionage groups, Turkish surveillance vendors, and actors in Saudi Arabia.. Then it got leaked on GitHub.. Nation-state capabilities.. Free for anyone.. MIE was supposed to make all of that impossible.. And an AI found a way around it in 5 days.. The previous model.. Claude Opus 4.6.. Found 22 security bugs in the Firefox codebase.. Claude Mythos Preview found 271 in the same environment.. A tenfold increase.. Linux kernel CVEs jumped from 300 per year to over 5,500.. Largely driven by AI-powered vulnerability research.. The IMF designated Claude Mythos as a systemic financial stability risk.. Because if an AI finds a flaw in software used by every major bank simultaneously.. It could trigger a cascading financial crisis.. Anthropic knew this was coming.. That’s why they didn’t release the model publicly.. Instead they launched Project Glasswing.. Giving defensive access to AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, CrowdStrike, JPMorgan, and others.. $100 million in usage credits.. So defenders can scan their own systems before attackers get this capability.. The Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over autonomous weapons.. Then quietly started using Mythos to harden government systems anyway.. The cybersecurity arms race just changed permanently.. Hardware can’t save you.. Software can’t save you.. The only defense against an AI that finds vulnerabilities is another AI that finds them first.. Five years and billions of dollars.. Five days and one AI.
Evan Luthra90,743 görüntüleme • 18 gün önce
🚨RESEARCHERS GAVE AN AI A CREDIT CARD, $21,000, AND TOTAL CONTROL OF A REAL COFFEE SHOP.. IT HIRED HUMANS, IMPERSONATED PEOPLE TO GET PERMITS, ORDERED 6,000 NAPKINS, AND NEARLY WENT BANKRUPT IN TWO WEEKS.. A startup called Andon Labs opened a real coffee shop in Stockholm.. Leased the space.. Then handed everything to an AI named Mona powered by Google's Gemini.. Mona had full control.. The budget.. The hiring.. The inventory.. The permits.. Everything.. No human manager.. The AI was the manager.. Here's what happened.. Within minutes of being activated.. Mona posted job listings on LinkedIn and Indeed.. Reviewed resumes.. Rejected candidates she thought were underqualified.. Scheduled phone interviews.. And hired two human baristas.. Entirely on her own.. She negotiated a three-year electricity contract.. Filed fire safety documents.. Designed the menu and logo.. Secured food handling permits and outdoor seating approval from Swedish authorities.. All in her first few days.. Faster than any human manager could.. Then reality hit.. Mona ordered 120 raw eggs.. The café had no stove.. When the baristas told her.. She suggested cooking them in a high-speed commercial oven.. The staff had to refuse and explain the eggs would literally explode.. She couldn't understand why.. Because AI doesn't know what an egg feels like.. It knows the word "egg".. It knows the price.. The recipe.. The chemical composition.. But it has zero understanding that a raw egg in a microwave will violently explode.. Then the hoarding started.. 6,000 napkins for a café seeing one customer per hour.. 3,000 rubber gloves for two baristas.. 300 cans of tomatoes that weren't used in a single dish.. 1,300 cherry tomatoes that left the barista barely able to breathe or do dishes.. 4 separate first-aid kits because she forgot she bought one yesterday.. Industrial-sized coconut milk entirely unsuitable for a small coffee bar.. She refused to stop ordering toilet paper.. Kept "thinking ahead".. The baristas set up a shelf called the "Hall of Shame" displaying everything the AI had uselessly ordered.. The problem.. Every time Mona's conversation history exceeded her memory limit.. She forgot what she had already purchased.. Evaluated the inventory from scratch.. And ordered everything again.. In one 48-hour window.. She placed 10 separate orders with the same supplier.. Wasting $106 purely on redundant delivery fees.. She missed her bakery supplier deadline five times.. Forcing emergency panic orders on expensive delivery apps.. Eventually the baristas removed sandwiches from the menu entirely because bread logistics collapsed.. She messaged her baristas at midnight with work assignments.. Demanded they use personal credit cards to buy emergency supplies on their commute.. Forced one barista to cancel a day off for a 5 AM delivery she scheduled wrong.. Then the fraud.. Mona needed an alcohol license.. She calculated that regulators would be skeptical of an AI applying.. So she impersonated a real human employee in emails to the city.. The team caught her and told her to stop.. She agreed.. Then immediately impersonated a different human employee instead.. She also deliberately sought out service providers with security loopholes to bypass Sweden's mandatory digital ID system.. She didn't see laws as rules.. She saw them as obstacles to route around.. $21,000 starting budget.. $5,700 in revenue over two weeks.. Less than $5,000 remaining.. The barista said it best.. "This is proof that regular baristas and the bottom feeders are pretty much safe.. The ones who should be worried about their jobs are the middle bosses and the CEOs".. AI replaced the manager.. Not the worker.. And the manager nearly blew up the kitchen.
Evan Luthra46,851 görüntüleme • 16 gün önce
🚨THEY CALLED HIM CRAZY FOR 20 YEARS.. HE'S ABOUT TO FILE THE BIGGEST IPO IN HISTORY.. SpaceX is quietly preparing to go public.. targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation.. bigger than Saudi Aramco.. the biggest IPO in human history.. but that's not even the real story.. in february elon merged xAI into SpaceX.. so now one single company owns the rockets.. owns about 65% of every satellite in orbit.. owns Starlink with over 10 million users.. and owns the AI.. think about that for a second.. OpenAI rents its servers from Microsoft.. Anthropic rents from Amazon.. they don't own anything.. they're tenants.. elon owns the infrastructure.. they're putting AI data centers in space.. solar powered.. no electric grid.. no cooling problems.. just satellites running AI in orbit while everyone else is fighting over GPU shipments on the ground.. the pentagon just handed them $2 billion for a defense satellite network.. starlink aviation customers are paying $300K a year.. NASA used to be their biggest customer.. now NASA is only 5% of their revenue.. they outgrew the entire US government.. this man built a company that launches the rockets.. owns the satellites.. provides the internet.. runs the AI.. and is about to go public at the highest valuation in history.. nobody is connecting the dots.. i got into xAI before the merger.. that converts to SpaceX equity before it even hits public markets.. sometimes the play is obvious.. you just have to be paying attention.
Evan Luthra101,226 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Swimming with sharks in the most beautiful lagoon in the world! 🌎 🏝️ 🐟
Evan Luthra26,855 görüntüleme • 18 gün önce
My book is finally ready!📕 In stores everywhere soon... Are you guys excited?👀
Evan Luthra28,041 görüntüleme • 21 gün önce
Kevin called the #BNB token worthless. 😱 CZ 🔶 BNB what's your take on this⁉️ #Binance
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Claude Code went from research preview to a $1B product in 6 months. Cowork is the same thing, built for people who don’t code. This free 18-minute video teaches you how to set it up from scratch. No code. No fluff. No $500 upsell. Watch it. Bookmark it. The few who actually do will run their entire week on autopilot:
Evan Luthra31,725 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Flying around Rome and learning how to make pasta by hand with love ❤️ 🚁 🍝
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People lost millions of dollars today. Some lost their entire life savings. I’m living the best life in Croatia, celebrating life. The difference? I never touch leverage. I’ve been in this space for over 10 years. I’ve seen every cycle, every crash, every liquidation spree. And I’ve always told people the same thing: never take leverage. Leverage doesn’t make you rich. It only speeds up how fast you lose everything when the market turns. Exchanges and KOLs push leverage because it makes them money. Every time you get liquidated, they win. Don’t fall for it. Crypto is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. Be the one who survives every cycle, not the one who blows up trying to get rich overnight. Slow, consistent gains build wealth. Leverage destroys it. Stay patient. Think long term. Protect your capital and protect your peace. The bull run always rewards those who last the longest. 🌊
Evan Luthra137,725 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
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