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SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell: “I love working for Elon Musk.” “He’s funny— he’s hilarious actually.” “He focuses on things that I would never have thought were important.” “One is— beautiful spaces.” “This is one of the most beautiful factories I have ever seen.” Via TIME
Jawwwn28,156,141 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s secret to staying physically fit enough to run Palantir: “Copy the Norwegians.” “Run like a snail—run at the pace you walk at, get a band, stay in Zone 1.” “Do that as much as possible and over a long period of time, you will transform your health.”
Jawwwn3,241,561 görüntüleme • 16 gün önce
.Elon Musk: “We are in the singularity.” “I think we’ll hit AGI in 2026.” “You’re at the top of the rollercoaster about to go down.” “Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement. It won’t matter.” “I don’t just have courtside seats— I’m on the court. It still blows my mind multiple times a week.” Via Peter H. Diamandis, MD
Jawwwn24,886,368 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
.Palmer Luckey: American companies don't actually have engineers anymore. "American companies have been hollowed out." "We're not teaching engineers how to be engineers anymore." "We're not teaching designers how to actually design things to be manufactured." "We're teaching them how to be high-level design shops that put together a design package, that gets sent to the real engineers in China—and they actually figure out how to do the work." "People are turning into architecture astronauts." "They pick components, and they put them in a nominal layout." "But the real work of—how am I actually going to put this together? How am I going to build a manufacturing line to make this? How am I going to need to figure out how to do the one, two, three, four, five different revisions of this board to pass radio emissions and interference standards? That's all done in China. So they are the real engineers." Via Hoover Institution
Jawwwn1,085,686 görüntüleme • 11 gün önce
Peter Thiel on why he chose to live in Miami over other cities: “Austin’s a government town, a college town, and a wannabe hipster San Francisco town— 3 strikes and you’re out.” “From 5th grade since 1977 I lived in California. I’m just a sucker for the weather.” Via Joe Rogan
Jawwwn3,439,266 görüntüleme • 29 gün önce
Peter Thiel says that when he invested in Elon Musk’s SpaceX in 2008, people emailed him, glad they didn’t invest in Founders Fund — because “anyone investing in something as crazy as rockets shouldn’t be in venture capital.” “Great investments may look crazy but really not be.”
Jawwwn1,337,255 görüntüleme • 14 gün önce
.Palmer Luckey: "Patents are Chinese instruction manuals" and we need to reinvent the US patent system: "Stop patenting everything." "The Founding Fathers never predicted a world where you'd have a globalized economy, and the entire patent office could be downloaded every single morning, ripped off, and then used to fight a war against you." " We need to really fundamentally revisit the patent system." "I think we need to massively expand the national security patent process. You can obtain a classified patent. You can get a patent on something that you are not allowed to disclose to anyone, but you still maintain the exclusivity on those rights." " We need to massively expand that program." Via Hoover Institution
Jawwwn851,285 görüntüleme • 11 gün önce
,Palmer Luckey on Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸, and raising venture capital: "People say, 'It's so difficult to get a warm intro to people.'" "Marc Andreessen has a really good point on this." "He says, 'You know the reason that I want a warm intro for anybody that I'm going to invest in? Because if you can't get anyone in my network—if you can't get any of the 10,000 people with my phone number to say a nice word about you, and you can't track down anyone dumb enough to connect you with me—why would I talk to you? That's part of the test.'" "I was a 19-year-old kid working a minimum wage job with no college degree, living in a 19-foot camper trailer—and Peter Thiel gave me a million dollars when nobody else would to start Oculus." Via Hoover Institution
Jawwwn826,411 görüntüleme • 11 gün önce
.Elon Musk explains how xAI’s mission and SpaceX’s mission are intertwined: “xAI’s mission is to understand the universe. What things are necessary? You have to be curious, and you have to exist.” “You want to increase the amount of intelligence in the universe, and the probable lifespan of intelligence.” “As a corollary— humanity also continuing to expand because if you’re curious, and trying to understand the universe, one thing you’re trying to understand is— where will humanity go?” “Understanding the universe means you care about propagating into the future.” Via John Collison and Dwarkesh Patel
Jawwwn1,084,598 görüntüleme • 14 gün önce
“Elon Musk is probably doing more for America than any other American.” “He's single-handedly bringing manufacturing back to America.” “He's revived defense tech.” “SpaceX is in some ways the most important defense contractor in America.” “What he's doing with Starlink is amazing for the world.” “He's creating all these blue collar manufacturing jobs. “He's done more than any living human to de-carbonize the world.” “And if you’re upset about data centers on Earth—here you go!” Gavin Baker with Patrick OShaughnessy on Invest Like the Best
Jawwwn883,385 görüntüleme • 14 gün önce
Peter Thiel on fraud and USAID: “Something like Palantir ends up being a constraint on government action.” “A lot of abuses, the most extreme overreach happens where people thought there would be no accountability ever inside the government.” “There probably were a lot of deep state excesses that happen where, if Palantir had been used, there would have been more of a record of what people were doing.” “The people at NSA believed whatever power the software gave them, it also limited their power because there would be more accountability.” “Something like this is what Oliver North was charged with in the 1980s, that he engaged in fraud because he had mischaracterized various payments. If we want to be aggressive, so many of the people working at USAID could be charged with fraud like Oliver North was charged with fraud.” Via The Rubin Report
Jawwwn12,223,063 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
Peter Thiel says 4 of the 6 PayPal founders built bombs as kids: “I wasn’t one of the bomb builders.” “It was one of those strange late-night conversations. People were like, ‘So what did you do in high school?’ ‘I built a bomb.’ ‘I built one too.’” “There’s something very extreme about the people who tend to found businesses. It’s a crazy thing to start a company.” “But once you start it, you don’t want to make being too crazy a virtue—because that can also destroy it.”
Jawwwn560,701 görüntüleme • 13 gün önce
.Palmer Luckey says Anduril’s first prototype, a firefighting tank, now sits under a tarp because political reasons shut it down: “It could carry several tons of fire retardant and be used to protect critical infrastructure.” “We built two fully working prototypes.” “There were really strong unions that didn’t want robots to automate their jobs.” “The governor was told if they funded this and procured it, the union would oppose him in the upcoming election.”
Jawwwn359,999 görüntüleme • 9 gün önce
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Zohran Mamdani and NYC: “We’re about to probably have a complete disaster. I was born in New York. “If you asked, ‘do these things actually work?’ Everyone’s like, ‘of course I’m not going to vote for that.’ Instead they ask, ‘does it work in theory?’
Jawwwn10,550,308 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
Peter Thiel on what aliens would mean for our military technology: “It’s not that they might be demons or angels—they must be demons or angels.” “If you have faster than light travel, if you have warp drive (what you need to cover interstellar distances) what that means for military technology is that you can send weapons at warp speed, and they will hit you before you ever see them coming.” “There is no defense against a warp speed weapon. You could take over the whole universe before anybody could see you coming.” With Joe Rogan
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