molson 🧠⚙️
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Founder and CEO of Viahart, a consumer products company. Founder and former CEO of Edison, a legal tech company. Doer of many things.
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Anyone got any parenting advice for me re my son (2 & 2 months)? He goes really hard. If he doesn’t get what he wants (in this case TV) he will scream nonstop. If you hold the line he will scream until he passes out and falls asleep then behavior repeats the next day.
molson 🧠⚙️16,817,518 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
The next China 🇨🇳 is: - not Mexico 🇲🇽 - not South America 🇧🇷 - not Central Asia 🇰🇿 - not Africa 🇿🇦 - not America with robots 🇺🇸 - and it is not India 🇮🇳 It is non-English speaking Southeast Asia 🇮🇩 🇻🇳 🇧🇩 🇲🇾 🇹🇭 🇰🇭 🇲🇲 🇸🇬 Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (no Philippines, no India) with Singapore as the new region’s “Hong Kong”. That is 500 million people who will power the world’s next chapter of low cost manufacturing. In this video I break down the 9 reasons why this is the case: 1. Willing governments (now is our time) 2. Willing people (traditional tiktok and no onlyfans) 3. No competition for the same workers (English verbal India and Mexican cartels) 4. Population density (Indonesia 🤯) for supply chain clustering 5. Educated populations with the right culture and the ability to level up from worker to engineer to boss (happening in Vietnam already) 6. Ports 7. Proximity to raw materials 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 8. Proximity to manufacturing knowledge 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 9. A trading hub to make it call come together China is going to blow our minds over the next 10 years but a lot of industries are going to leave that country for non-English speaking SEA, and no it won’t be automated in the developed world. This is a 10-20 year trend. The future from China to Southeast Asia, is Asian.
molson 🧠⚙️1,315,187 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
World Premiere of Amazon — Market. Power! Monopoly? This documentary will show you how Amazon uses its size and power to raise prices, for you, the consumer. The documentary follows four sellers on Amazon, two in Europe, two in the US, and their journey to survive on the platform. It begins with an explanation of Amazon's pricing policies and the complex way Amazon enforces them. Watch this foundational beginning section carefully and your mind will be blown later in the documentary when you see what goes on behind the scenes, when you click buy. This is an extremely important documentary. Amazon responds to fair criticism and it is my hope, that with your support that we can change Amazon's policies. So sellers can set their own prices. And so you can pay less when you shop online. Timestamps ---Amazon in Europe--- 1:56 How Amazon's pricing systems work 5:24 Does Amazon follow its own pricing rules? 9:26 Europe's investigations into Amazon's market power 14:00 What happens when you sell off-Amazon for less? ---Amazon in the US--- 17:28 Amazon in the USA 20:15 The Brain Flakes 20:37 Calculating the revenues of sellers on Amazon 22:56 Is Amazon a Monopoly? 24:13 How Amazon uses its marketplace to subsidize its money-losing businesses 26:01 The ads on Amazon and how they drive up prices 27:00 How sellers are forced to use Amazon's other services ---Amazon in Europe--- 28:50 Competing with Amazon to be seen in search 29:53 What data analysis says about Amazon following its own rules 32:07 European investigations into Amazon's conduct 33:57 Is it possible to sell online without Amazon? 35:20 How Europe curbed Amazon's pricing behavior ---Amazon in the US--- 37:52 Does Amazon's Basics brand copy its sellers' products? 38:41 The Everyday Sling 40:27 Does Amazon use private data to decide what products to copy? ---Amazon in Europe--- 44:46 Is Amazon a monopoly that should be broken up? 46:52 Credits 47:08 Do you have an Amazon Prime account? I'd like to thank all who made this film possible. A special thank you and respect goes out to the sellers who appeared. It takes a lot of guts and conviction to stand up to one of the world's most powerful companies. To support their businesses, please click into the replies where you will find links to their (off-Amazon!) websites, as well as links to this documentary on other video viewing platforms! Thank you and enjoy!
molson 🧠⚙️997,138 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
SHARK TANK CAN GO FUCK ITSELF I've applied 4 times and those RETARDS never put me on the show. - Video auditions, In-person auditions, Interviews - "Send us Brain Flakes to our Burbank studio for the 4th time please!" - "Sign your life away on the 40 page contract and do the background check again, k thanks!" I don't care if they sue me for revealing my audition after getting (silently) rejected for the 4th season in a row, because I am done. Who is going to watch this shit after this season when Mark Cuban leaves? C'mon. It makes no sense that they never put us on the show. I GUARANTEED THAT THE SHARKS WOULD MAKE MONEY. I HAVE MULTIPLE VIDEOS WITH MILLIONS MORE VIEWS THAN SHARK TANK EPISODES GET OUR PRODUCTS ROCK. MY SON IS RIDICULOUSLY CUTE. JUST MAYBE I KNOW HOW TO DO ENTERTAINMENT? MAYBE? Am I blackballed because I spoke to Tucker Carlson? Or is it because I'm not an Amazon ass licker? I don't know. I don't care. I'm done. Fuck yourself Shark Tank. You guys suck at business anyways.
molson 🧠⚙️509,839 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Want to make physical products? You must go to Shenzhen, China. This video explains why and will tell you why your life either must be: A. Opportunity THEN City or B. City THEN Opportunity If there is something that you want to do, you need to move to the right city for it (Opportunity THEN City) If you're stuck in a particular place, you must adapt what you do to where you live (City THEN Opportunity) This is very important life lesson. Pursuing an opportunity that your city is not ideal for will cause you a lot of hardship. If you're set on an opportunity, you gotta move to the place that gives you the best chance of achieving it eg moving to Los Angeles to become an actor or New York to do finance. If family or some other reason keeps you in a specific place, you must, sadly adapt your goals to where you live eg getting into agriculture if you live in Iowa or tech if you live in Silicon Valley. Be bold, move across the world to achieve or your goals. Or, don't, and be practical about your ambitions. Combine the two and you will be unhappy.
molson 🧠⚙️278,242 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
This is not fair Andy Jassy cc Jeff Bezos Amazon is charging my company money to answer customer questions and then directing our customers to inferior competitor products who have paid Amazon. We never signed up for Rufus ads. The customer is already on the Amazon page for Brain Flakes. We may have even already paid for an ad for them to get there. And then Amazon shows them an ad designed to answer questions that are already answered by us directly on the page they are on? And then Amazon sends them to another “brand” which is advertising on our product page. Look, I get it. Amazon is a big company with lots of people, lots of teams, and lots of AI, but you can’t keep doing this. You have to rethink your approach. The more you squeeze sellers, the higher prices will go on Amazon, because we don’t have the margins that you do (or the access to capital). This combined with Amazon’s market share and pricing policies mean that when you force us to raise prices by raising our costs, pricing across the entire ecommerce ecosystem rise. In other words, all Americans pay more when shopping online. You need to rethink these policies and the endless backdoor price increases. Thank you
molson 🧠⚙️42,844 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
![Our box supplier went bankrupt. They delivered $2500 worth of boxes today. But they’re the wrong size so we can’t use them. We told them and they said “We’re bankrupt. I just found out. We don’t even have cardboard anymore. You can keep them. Fuck [the management].”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1785803379593093227/amplify_video_thumb/1785803116043964418/img/dyJ2PrGwALdogDV-.jpg)
Our box supplier went bankrupt. They delivered $2500 worth of boxes today. But they’re the wrong size so we can’t use them. We told them and they said “We’re bankrupt. I just found out. We don’t even have cardboard anymore. You can keep them. Fuck [the management].”
molson 🧠⚙️484,119 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
People don't realize that factories in Asia and factories in the USA are totally different. I think AI is going to help the Asian factories much more than the American ones. Factories in Asia are high mix. Factories in the USA are low mix. This means that factories in the USA make significantly fewer products, whereas factories in Asia are way more flexible, mainly because of the huge differential in labor costs. The gigafactory in Austin, one of the biggest factories in the world, makes 2 products: Tesla Model Y The Cybertruck That's it. The factory in the video makes 1000s of different products every year. When you're making the same thing over and over again, maybe in a few different colors, you're much better off using normal automation which is lower error than AI and human design. But when you're making 1000s of different products, using AI to spin up product 1001 starts to kind of make sense. There is not time or logic to using traditional automation; you're better off using AI to make a fast quality control mechanism and then repair errors using your inexpensive human labor. People are viewing AI in factories like there is one type of factory, but the way factories run in high cost countries vs. low cost countries is wildly different. We're just at the beginning of what will be an epic change for not only manufacturing, but the cost and quality of the goods we consume. The real internet of things has arrived.
molson 🧠⚙️65,964 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
Two options to legally and ethically reduce tariffs paid: 1. Bonded warehouse. $20/pallet/month. Reply if sincerely interested. Deposit will be required. Customs entry required when goods are withdrawn. This delays tariff payment until you withdraw the goods (when you have the orders needed to do so). 2. Vietnam substantial transformation workshop. Reduces tariffs from 145% to 10%. Many components must be made in Vietnam. Comment if sincerely interested. For the record, I do support reindustrialization of the United States. It just needs to be done in an intelligent way, and slowly and methodically.
molson 🧠⚙️93,758 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
If you had told people in 2015 that Americans in 2025 would be migrating to Chinese language apps because the U.S. govt was banned their preferred social media platforms, you’d be called insane. Yet that is what is happening. Americans are downloading and using xiaohongshu
molson 🧠⚙️103,659 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
It’s really important for Americans to realize that this is a bigggg misconception that applies to all immigration, not just China. The people who come over the border, regardless of whether they’re Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Central American, generally are “not their best”. I use quotes because that’s something Trump said, “they don’t send their best”. And he is absolutely correct. There are exceptions, but the people who cross the border, tend to be criminals, people who can’t a get a job, the uneducated, etc. Why? The educated can get jobs in their home countries. Or can immigrate to the US legally (at least used to). If you have a criminal record in your home country, you don’t have one in the USA. If you screwed up and dropped out of high school, you can cut vegetables in the back of a restaurant. Law abiding citizens of foreign countries, no matter what you think about the greatness of America, are not thrilled to break the law and enter a country like this. This immigration for many if not most of these countries is economic. Most of these people are not coming for a better life. They are coming for the currency arbitrage. Or at least that used to be the case. From 2021 to 2024 border crossing immigrants were getting free housing and cash debit cards (look it up) in places like NYC. So that, again, brought another type of person, but, again, it was “not their best”. So, unless you’re in a country that is experiencing civil war, or maybe a total basket case, you mainly go to the US via the illegal border, not for a better life but for currency arbitrage or because you don’t have a better option in your home country which has made it tough for you to get a job for whatever reason. Okay, now let’s talk a bit more about China. For the Chinese that cross the border, life is way better in China. They speak the language. There is less crime. They’re surrounded by their family. They don’t need a car in most places. It’s the same culture and there friends are there. Life is pretty good in China, and because they’re going to work hard in the USA too, it’s probably better in China across every single socioeconomic quartile of society too (unless you have a criminal record or can’t get a job for whatever reason). So when Americans write things like “Chinese are dying to come to America”, there could be a political issue there eg on the wrong side of the communist party, but it’s mainly Americope, something we tell ourselves. It may have been true 10 years ago, but it’s no longer true. America needs to change that. We need to go back to when everyone wanted to come here, not just for money but for a better life. And this is something you should believe even if you don’t want immigration. If this keeps up, if we keep letting life decline, eventually the currency will too, and all these people who actually work quite hard will not only stop coming, but many will leave too. The replies are all going to basically be like (without saying it) “shut up white American. You don’t know” Yeah but I do know because I talk to people who people who look like me don’t talk to. In the below video (before I got good at short form videos) I had just been thrown out of a migrant detention center.
molson 🧠⚙️42,648 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
I gave a talk at the Network State conference in Singapore. Part 1 breaks down the US vs. China battle for military and economic global dominance, discussing: 1. 🇺🇸 US Strengths: military history, brand, immigration, Elon, and aircraft carriers (?) 2.🤦♂️ Cracks in the US armor: aging domestic infrastructure, afghanistan exit, Boeing, the Houthis 3. 🇯🇵 Isn't China just Japan 2.0, an empty threat? 4. 🇨🇳 Chinese Strengths: patriotism, 吃苦 (eat bitter), propaganda, population 5.💡 Is Chinese innovation real? 6. 🏭 Chinese supply chains, industrial capacity, and demographics (powerful 🤯 data, thanks to steve hsu for the STEM graduate data) By the end of this first section you'll have an opinion about whether we'll be living in a US dominant or China dominant world in 10 years. Part 2 discusses how the West (and the Network State!) can build hardware startups in a world where China dominates global manufacturing. 1. 🧧 You've got to go to China 2. 🔐 Doing what China legally cannot 3. 🚀 Western 0 to 1 innovation vs. Chinese 1 to N innovation 4. 🚜 Leveraging your country's natural strengths 5. 👨⚖️ Patents; using the global legal system as China struggles to learn it 6. 🌎 Global ex-China hardware talent 7. 💰 What these strategies have in common and why you should consider hardware (Apple, Nvidia) startups, not just software Whether or it's starting a company or predicting where this crazy world is headed, you'll learn a lot from this talk. Thank you to the moved to x.com/ns and Balaji (one of the world's greatest living thinkers and a must-follow) for giving me the opportunity to speak.
molson 🧠⚙️104,804 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
At first I thought the robots were worth ~75% a busboy, but they’re better than that. With robots moving the food and dirty dishes, the servers stay nearby and watch the tables, rarely leaving to return to the kitchen, improving service. This is the future of big restaurants. I don’t know the history of restaurant robots but as far as I can tell, this is a Chinese innovation, the type that they are supposedly incapable of creating.
molson 🧠⚙️41,757 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
