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In 2014, an anti-China media group called House News, which attracted too little advertising and was losing $600,000 a month, closed down. But six months later, it relaunched itself as Stand News. It still had almost no advertising, but was suddenly cash rich, through "donations". When the media outlet wiped its website and stopped posting material, investigators found a reserve cash account containing HK$61 million (US$8 million): an extraordinary amount of spare cash for a non-profit website without a functioning business model. . APPLE DAILY PUZZLE Similarly, Stand News' former partner Apple Daily was losing more than HK$1 million a day, sometimes twice that, during this period. That means it was losing between US$1 million to US$2 million a week, month after month, year after year. But it always had vast amounts of spare cash in its bank account. Business reporters from other Hong Kong publications openly expressed puzzlement about where Apple Daily's money came from. "We cannot help wonder if its existence were a powerful propaganda machinery…" said business writers at Dimsum Daily. . ANTI-CHINA PROPAGANDA Stand News overseas director was a man named Evan Fowler, who co-founded a China-hostile website called the Hong Kong Free Press, before returning to the UK to work for a hard right group called the Henry Jackson Society. In 2017, that society was revealed by the Times of London to be taking 10,000 pounds a month (more than US$13,000), delivered by Japanese contacts, to spread negative news about China to the mainstream media, including The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Economist. . VIOLENCE, HOSTILITY AND CASH It's clear that the key to fully understanding the Hong Kong anti-China movement is cash, and it's easy to find multiple examples. Here are four more: 1) In another Hong Kong court case, a 17-year-old Hong Kong youth arrested for violent protests, revealed to a court that he maintained "a spare flat to keep his bombs in". Hong Kong is literally one of the most expensive places in the world – how can a 17-year-old afford a spare apartment? 2) At yet another court hearing, an anti-China activist called Wayland Chan talked about being given a company by Mark Simon, a former US intelligence agent, working for Apple Daily. Simon told him that the company was of covert nature and could be used to liaise with foreign organizations and collect funds. 3) One group using crowdfunding to attract large sums of money at speed called itself the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. A court heard it received HK$270 million (US$34 million) in donations between June 2019 and October 2021, and cash went to anti-China lawyers, international lobbyists, and hostile foreign organizations. Two of its trustees were directors of Stand News, and one worked with the "revolution industry", a cluster of hybrid warfare consultants which uses street protests to promote US interests. Not Hong Kong interests, US interests. 4) In yet another case, HSBC in 2019 closed the accounts of a group called Spark Alliance, which also claimed that the HK$80 million (US$10.3 million) in their account came from crowdfunding. That group presented itself as a noble foundation providing support for arrested protesters. But investigators found the account was managed by an 18-year-old involved in drug trafficking, with some cash withdrawn and spent on unrelated items. . FALSE NARRATIVE Why is the narrative you see about Hong Kong in the media so different to the truth? The western press is doing its job, which is to demonize China to manufacture consent for the US to go to war against a developing country which is daring to rise peacefully. That doesn't mean that individual western journalists are necessarily bad people. Some probably really believe that America is a wonderful country that wouldn't dream of interfering in politics outside its own borders, and that the Chinese are warlike people who will shortly invade Australia as a prelude to taking over the world. All the rest of us can do is to try to present a fairer picture of what's going on and hope the truth will spread.
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From 2014 onwards, anti-government activists and anti-China media groups found themselves awash with cash. These tens of millions of dollars were in addition to the tens of millions handed out in Hong Kong since 1994 by the National Endowment for Democracy, a US group specializing in overseas political interference "to advance US interests". The cash is also in addition to the secret sum of US$2 million set aside for the Hong Kong protests by America's Open Technology Fund, a unit of Radio Free Asia, a Washington DC "news" outlet. And it is in addition to the millions of dollars known to have been handed out to anti-China activists by Mark Simon, a one-time US intelligence officer working for Jimmy Lai's Apple Daily. TOO MUCH, TOO FAST While most crowdfunding activities are legitimate and harmless, examples in which large sums of money are moved in a highly charged political atmosphere are suspect, particularly if the money arrives very quickly, investigators said. Hong Kong journalists watched one anti-China group in the city obtain a large sum of cash at high speed using crowdfunding in August of 2019. "A new gofundme campaign created yesterday has raised over US$1.97m in two hours this morning," amazed journalists at Hong Kong's Dimsum Daily reported. This was extraordinary, not just because of the speed, but because the group was virtually unknown. Called "Freedom Hong Kong", it supported a gathering of protesters under the slogan "Alliance of United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong, sovereignty lies with the people". It presented itself as Hong Kong people calling for western nations to impose sanctions on their own community. This made no sense, but since the crowdfunding sites were in the US, police could not trace the origin of the funds. Hong Kong journalists noted that Freedom Hong Kong was registered in the United States. . STAND NEWS MONEY MYSTERY The donations money-transfer technique can be traced back a decade. In 2014, an anti-China media group called House News, which attracted too little advertising and was losing $600,000 a month, closed down. But six months later, it relaunched itself as Stand News. It still had almost no advertising, but was suddenly cash rich, through "donations". When the media outlet wiped its website and stopped posting material, investigators found a reserve cash account containing HK$61 million (US$8 million): an extraordinary amount of spare cash for a non-profit website without a functioning business model. . APPLE DAILY PUZZLE Similarly, Stand News' former partner Apple Daily was losing more than HK$1 million a day, sometimes twice that, during this period. That means it was losing between US$1 million to US$2 million a week, month after month, year after year. But it always had vast amounts of spare cash in its bank account. Business reporters from other Hong Kong publications openly expressed puzzlement about where Apple Daily's money came from. "We cannot help wonder if its existence were a powerful propaganda machinery…" said business writers at Dimsum Daily. . ANTI-CHINA PROPAGANDA Stand News overseas director was a man named Evan Fowler, who co-founded a China-hostile website called the Hong Kong Free Press, before returning to the UK to work for a hard right group called the Henry Jackson Society. In 2017, that society was revealed by the Times of London to be taking 10,000 pounds a month (more than US$13,000), delivered by Japanese contacts, to spread negative news about China to the mainstream media, including The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Economist. . VIOLENCE, HOSTILITY AND CASH It's clear that the key to fully understanding the Hong Kong anti-China movement is cash, and it's easy to find multiple examples. Here are four more: 1) In another Hong Kong court case, a 17-year-old Hong Kong youth arrested for violent protests, revealed to a court that he maintained "a spare flat to keep his bombs in". Hong Kong is literally one of the most expensive places in the world – how can a 17-year-old afford a spare apartment? 2) At yet another court hearing, an anti-China activist called Wayland Chan talked about being given a company by Mark Simon, a former US intelligence agent, working for Apple Daily. Simon told him that the company was of covert nature and could be used to liaise with foreign organizations and collect funds. 3) One group using crowdfunding to attract large sums of money at speed called itself the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. A court heard it received HK$270 million (US$34 million) in donations between June 2019 and October 2021, and cash went to anti-China lawyers, international lobbyists, and hostile foreign organizations. Two of its trustees were directors of Stand News, and one worked with the "revolution industry", a cluster of hybrid warfare consultants which uses street protests to promote US interests. Not Hong Kong interests, US interests. 4) In yet another case, HSBC in 2019 closed the accounts of a group called Spark Alliance, which also claimed that the HK$80 million (US$10.3 million) in their account came from crowdfunding. That group presented itself as a noble foundation providing support for arrested protesters. But investigators found the account was managed by an 18-year-old involved in drug trafficking, with some cash withdrawn and spent on unrelated items. . FALSE NARRATIVE Why is the narrative you see about Hong Kong in the media so different to the truth? The western press is doing its job, which is to demonize China to manufacture consent for the US to go to war against a developing country which is daring to rise peacefully. That doesn't mean that individual western journalists are necessarily bad people. Some probably really believe that America is a wonderful country that wouldn't dream of interfering in politics outside its own borders, and that the Chinese are warlike people who will shortly invade Australia as a prelude to taking over the world. All the rest of us can do is to try to present a fairer picture of what's going on and hope the truth will spread.

Nury Vittachi

121,115 views • 1 year ago

I got asked for my best pieces of career advice. 9 things I wish I knew when I was starting out: 1. "Swallow the Frog" This is one of the greatest "hacks" to get ahead early in your career. Observe your boss, figure out what they hate doing, learn to do it, and take it off their plate. Easy win. 2. Do the old fashioned things well. Look people in the eye, do what you say you'll do, be early, practice good posture, have a confident handshake. It sounds silly, but these things are all free and will never go out of style. 3. Work hard first and smart later. It's trendy to say that working smart is all that matters. Wrong. If you want to accomplish anything significant, you have to work hard. Work hard early—take pride in it. Then you can start to build leverage to work smart. 4. Don't do your best. Do your best is bad advice early in your career. Don't do your best, do what is necessary. Do what it takes to win. 5. Build storytelling skills. World-changing CEOs aren't the smartest in their orgs. They are exceptional at: (1) Aggregating data and (2) Communicating it simply & effectively. Data in, story out. Build that skill and you'll always be valuable. 6. Establish a reputation for figuring it out: Early on, you'll be given a lot of tasks you have no idea how to complete. There's nothing more valuable than someone who can just figure it out. Do some work, ask key questions, get it done. People will fight over you. 7. Dive through every cracked door. If someone cracks open a door that may present an opportunity, dive through it. 8. Build a personal board of advisors. The concept of “mentorship” has become too formal. Asking someone to be your mentor feels like a big commitment. Instead, build a Personal Board of Advisors. A diverse group of 5-10 people you can go to for questions, advice, or feedback. 9. Prioritize people and experience, not salary. A 10x better foundation-building experience compounds much more effectively than that extra $5K in salary. You should be compensated fairly, but not all compensation is monetary. Think long-term. Build the strongest foundation. *** The full video breaks all of these down in more detail. The rules, tips, tricks, and principles that will allow you to get ahead and stay ahead in your career. Whether you're just starting out or looking to reinvigorate your career path, these insights are crafted to help you win! Please watch and share so that more people see it! Full video here:
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I got asked for my best pieces of career advice. 9 things I wish I knew when I was starting out: 1. "Swallow the Frog" This is one of the greatest "hacks" to get ahead early in your career. Observe your boss, figure out what they hate doing, learn to do it, and take it off their plate. Easy win. 2. Do the old fashioned things well. Look people in the eye, do what you say you'll do, be early, practice good posture, have a confident handshake. It sounds silly, but these things are all free and will never go out of style. 3. Work hard first and smart later. It's trendy to say that working smart is all that matters. Wrong. If you want to accomplish anything significant, you have to work hard. Work hard early—take pride in it. Then you can start to build leverage to work smart. 4. Don't do your best. Do your best is bad advice early in your career. Don't do your best, do what is necessary. Do what it takes to win. 5. Build storytelling skills. World-changing CEOs aren't the smartest in their orgs. They are exceptional at: (1) Aggregating data and (2) Communicating it simply & effectively. Data in, story out. Build that skill and you'll always be valuable. 6. Establish a reputation for figuring it out: Early on, you'll be given a lot of tasks you have no idea how to complete. There's nothing more valuable than someone who can just figure it out. Do some work, ask key questions, get it done. People will fight over you. 7. Dive through every cracked door. If someone cracks open a door that may present an opportunity, dive through it. 8. Build a personal board of advisors. The concept of “mentorship” has become too formal. Asking someone to be your mentor feels like a big commitment. Instead, build a Personal Board of Advisors. A diverse group of 5-10 people you can go to for questions, advice, or feedback. 9. Prioritize people and experience, not salary. A 10x better foundation-building experience compounds much more effectively than that extra $5K in salary. You should be compensated fairly, but not all compensation is monetary. Think long-term. Build the strongest foundation. *** The full video breaks all of these down in more detail. The rules, tips, tricks, and principles that will allow you to get ahead and stay ahead in your career. Whether you're just starting out or looking to reinvigorate your career path, these insights are crafted to help you win! Please watch and share so that more people see it! Full video here:

Sahil Bloom

752,913 views • 2 years ago

If an AI can control 1,000 robots to perform 1 million skills in 1 billion different simulations, then it may "just work" in our real world, which is simply another point in the vast space of possible realities. This is the fundamental principle behind why simulation works so effectively for robotics. Real-world teleoperation data scales linearly with human time (< 24 hrs/robot/day). Sim data scales exponentially with compute. There are 3 big trends for simulators in the near future: 1. Massive parallelization on large clusters. Physics equations are "just" matrix math at their core. I hear GPUs are good at matrix math 🔥. One can run 100K copies of simulation on a single GPU. To put this number in perspective: 1 hour of wallclock compute time gives a robot 10 years (!!) of training experience. That's how Neo was able to learn martial arts in a blink of an eye in the Matrix Dojo. 2. Generative graphics pipeline. Traditionally, simulators require a huge amount of manual effort from artists: 3D assets, textures, scene layouts, etc. But every component in the workflow can be automated: text-to-image, text-to-3D mesh, and LLMs that write Universal Scene Description (USD) files as a coding exercise. RoboCasa is one example of a prior work. 3. End2end neural net that acts as simulator itself. This is still bluesky research and quite far from replacing a graphics pipeline, but we are seeing some exciting signs-of-life based on video gen models: Sora, Veo2, CogVideoX, Hunyuan (text-to-video); and action-driven world models: GameNGen, Oasis, Genie-2, etc. Genesis does great on (1) for certain tasks, shows good promises on (2), and could become a data generation tool for reaching (3). Its sim2real capabilities for locomotion are good, but there's still a long way to go for contact-rich, dexterous manipulation. It shows a bold vision and is on the right path to providing a virtual cradle for embodied AI. It is open-source and puts a streamlined user journey at the front and center. I had the privilege to know Zhou Xian and play a small part in his project since a year ago. Xian has been crunching code non-stop on Genesis with a very small group of core devs. He often replied to my messages at 3 am. Zhenjia Xu from our GEAR team helped with sim2real experiments in his spare time. Genesis is truly a grassroot effort with an intense focus on quality engineering. Nothing gives me more joy than seeing the simulation ecosystem bloom. Robotics should be a moonshot initiative owned by all of humanity. Congratulations.
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If an AI can control 1,000 robots to perform 1 million skills in 1 billion different simulations, then it may "just work" in our real world, which is simply another point in the vast space of possible realities. This is the fundamental principle behind why simulation works so effectively for robotics. Real-world teleoperation data scales linearly with human time (< 24 hrs/robot/day). Sim data scales exponentially with compute. There are 3 big trends for simulators in the near future: 1. Massive parallelization on large clusters. Physics equations are "just" matrix math at their core. I hear GPUs are good at matrix math 🔥. One can run 100K copies of simulation on a single GPU. To put this number in perspective: 1 hour of wallclock compute time gives a robot 10 years (!!) of training experience. That's how Neo was able to learn martial arts in a blink of an eye in the Matrix Dojo. 2. Generative graphics pipeline. Traditionally, simulators require a huge amount of manual effort from artists: 3D assets, textures, scene layouts, etc. But every component in the workflow can be automated: text-to-image, text-to-3D mesh, and LLMs that write Universal Scene Description (USD) files as a coding exercise. RoboCasa is one example of a prior work. 3. End2end neural net that acts as simulator itself. This is still bluesky research and quite far from replacing a graphics pipeline, but we are seeing some exciting signs-of-life based on video gen models: Sora, Veo2, CogVideoX, Hunyuan (text-to-video); and action-driven world models: GameNGen, Oasis, Genie-2, etc. Genesis does great on (1) for certain tasks, shows good promises on (2), and could become a data generation tool for reaching (3). Its sim2real capabilities for locomotion are good, but there's still a long way to go for contact-rich, dexterous manipulation. It shows a bold vision and is on the right path to providing a virtual cradle for embodied AI. It is open-source and puts a streamlined user journey at the front and center. I had the privilege to know Zhou Xian and play a small part in his project since a year ago. Xian has been crunching code non-stop on Genesis with a very small group of core devs. He often replied to my messages at 3 am. Zhenjia Xu from our GEAR team helped with sim2real experiments in his spare time. Genesis is truly a grassroot effort with an intense focus on quality engineering. Nothing gives me more joy than seeing the simulation ecosystem bloom. Robotics should be a moonshot initiative owned by all of humanity. Congratulations.

Jim Fan

157,343 views • 1 year ago

Anthropic and OpenAI slammed the this week on secondary transactions of their shares as both AI labs race to list. To help @jason and alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 unpack the market-moving news, investors Jenny Fielding Dave McClure and sam lessin 🏴‍☠️ joined our venture capital panel to make plain which Anthropic investing vehicles are legit, and which may be fake. The group also dug into software moats, large venture funds pressuring smaller firms, the future of LP capital, and the IPO market! 0:00 Guest introductions 1:30 Guest introductions 2:36 Anthropic voids unauthorized SPV trades 9:23 Accredited investor reform & the SEC sophisticated investor test 9:40 Quo (formerly OpenPhone) - Quo gives you a clean, modern way to handle every customer call, text, and thread all in one place. Try it free at 12:25 Naval's USVC closed-end fund as a workaround 17:23 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at and use code TWIST for 10% off! 18:30 Pro-rata rights battles: when Series A investors push seed investors out 20:18 Grasshopper Bank: Time is money. Don't waste either. Go to and get an exclusive $500 cash bonus just for opening an account. 29:55 Pilot: Focus on your product, let Pilot handle your bookkeeping. Pilot provides the most reliable accounting, CFO, and tax services for startups and small businesses. Head to and get $1,200 off your first year. 31:05 Storing wealth in stories vs. cash flows 35:01 Cerebras and Fervo Energy IPOs — meaningful liquidity? 38:36 Will SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI IPOs redistribute capital or compound it? 46:40 The $15M Series A founder who returned the money because of Claude 50:43 Should founders pivot or return capital when the world changes? 57:25 OpenAI's $6.6B tender and Shruti Gandhi's viral SF cost-of-living tweet 1:01:07 Intercom rebrands to Fin: the AI-first late-stage pivot 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇
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Anthropic and OpenAI slammed the this week on secondary transactions of their shares as both AI labs race to list. To help @jason and alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 unpack the market-moving news, investors Jenny Fielding Dave McClure and sam lessin 🏴‍☠️ joined our venture capital panel to make plain which Anthropic investing vehicles are legit, and which may be fake. The group also dug into software moats, large venture funds pressuring smaller firms, the future of LP capital, and the IPO market! 0:00 Guest introductions 1:30 Guest introductions 2:36 Anthropic voids unauthorized SPV trades 9:23 Accredited investor reform & the SEC sophisticated investor test 9:40 Quo (formerly OpenPhone) - Quo gives you a clean, modern way to handle every customer call, text, and thread all in one place. Try it free at 12:25 Naval's USVC closed-end fund as a workaround 17:23 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at and use code TWIST for 10% off! 18:30 Pro-rata rights battles: when Series A investors push seed investors out 20:18 Grasshopper Bank: Time is money. Don't waste either. Go to and get an exclusive $500 cash bonus just for opening an account. 29:55 Pilot: Focus on your product, let Pilot handle your bookkeeping. Pilot provides the most reliable accounting, CFO, and tax services for startups and small businesses. Head to and get $1,200 off your first year. 31:05 Storing wealth in stories vs. cash flows 35:01 Cerebras and Fervo Energy IPOs — meaningful liquidity? 38:36 Will SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI IPOs redistribute capital or compound it? 46:40 The $15M Series A founder who returned the money because of Claude 50:43 Should founders pivot or return capital when the world changes? 57:25 OpenAI's $6.6B tender and Shruti Gandhi's viral SF cost-of-living tweet 1:01:07 Intercom rebrands to Fin: the AI-first late-stage pivot 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇

This Week in Startups

19,821 views • 3 months ago

Bill Ackman says AI is never going to replace musicians. His reasoning is a masterclass in how he actually picks companies to invest in: 1. He looks for one thing: businesses that cannot be disrupted. The test is specific. Close your eyes, imagine the stock market shuts down for a decade, and ask whether you still know that ten years from now this company will be more valuable and more profitable. Almost nothing passes. 2. Very few businesses can actually be predicted, which means most investments are really speculations. Ackman is honest about this. Predicting the future is genuinely hard. His entire job is hunting for the rare companies whose trajectory you can forecast over a very long horizon, and there are not many. 3. His answer was Universal Music Group, and the logic starts with permanence. Music is a thousands-of-years-old part of the human experience, and it will still be here thousands of years from now. That is an unusually good backdrop against which to own anything. 4. Then he stacks the advantages that cannot be copied. Universal owns roughly a third of all global recorded music, the most dominant share in the business. They are the best in the world at taking an 18-year-old with a great voice and a following online and building them into a superstar, which is why the best artists want to sign with them. And they own the library: the Beatles, the Rolling Stones. 5. Streaming turned an unpredictable business into a predictable one, which is exactly what he wants. Selling records was volatile. Streaming lets you build a model. How many people have smartphones, how many will next year, what does the global penetration curve look like, what does a family plan cost. Suddenly you can forecast the whole business. 6. The company already survived the thing that nearly killed its industry. Music peaked around 2000, and then Napster and digitization almost destroyed it. Universal led the effort to save the industry and cut an early deal with Spotify that let the whole business recover. Adopting the new technology instead of fighting it is what preserved their position. 7. The device will change, and it won't matter. Whether the music arrives through Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or eventually a chip in your head, people will still want an infinite library in their pocket. The form factor is not where the value lives. The value sits with the content owners, which means the artists and the label. 8. And this is where he lands on AI: nobody falls in love with a computer-generated track. Computers have been used to generate music for decades. It has never produced anything anyone cared about. Taylor Swift is not just the songs. She is the artist, the story, the physical presence, the live experience. Nobody is going to get excited watching a computer on a stage. 9. Instead, AI becomes a tool that makes artists better. Ackman compares it to the synthesizer, which let one person command an entire orchestra. A mild threat to a percussionist, maybe. But it may have driven even more demand for the live experience, which is precisely the part a machine cannot replicate. 10. All of it comes back to one line from Benjamin Graham. Price is what you pay, value is what you get. You can never calculate value precisely, only approximate it. So you buy at a big enough discount to your approximation that being wrong by 30% still leaves you fine. That is the margin of safety, and it is why a huge part of investing is simply not losing money. 11. And the principle generalizes far past music. McDonald's is a 1950s business, and 75 years later you can still predict roughly what it looks like. The menu adjusts to taste, but the core does not move. As Ackman puts it: the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the hamburger and fries are forever.
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Bill Ackman says AI is never going to replace musicians. His reasoning is a masterclass in how he actually picks companies to invest in: 1. He looks for one thing: businesses that cannot be disrupted. The test is specific. Close your eyes, imagine the stock market shuts down for a decade, and ask whether you still know that ten years from now this company will be more valuable and more profitable. Almost nothing passes. 2. Very few businesses can actually be predicted, which means most investments are really speculations. Ackman is honest about this. Predicting the future is genuinely hard. His entire job is hunting for the rare companies whose trajectory you can forecast over a very long horizon, and there are not many. 3. His answer was Universal Music Group, and the logic starts with permanence. Music is a thousands-of-years-old part of the human experience, and it will still be here thousands of years from now. That is an unusually good backdrop against which to own anything. 4. Then he stacks the advantages that cannot be copied. Universal owns roughly a third of all global recorded music, the most dominant share in the business. They are the best in the world at taking an 18-year-old with a great voice and a following online and building them into a superstar, which is why the best artists want to sign with them. And they own the library: the Beatles, the Rolling Stones. 5. Streaming turned an unpredictable business into a predictable one, which is exactly what he wants. Selling records was volatile. Streaming lets you build a model. How many people have smartphones, how many will next year, what does the global penetration curve look like, what does a family plan cost. Suddenly you can forecast the whole business. 6. The company already survived the thing that nearly killed its industry. Music peaked around 2000, and then Napster and digitization almost destroyed it. Universal led the effort to save the industry and cut an early deal with Spotify that let the whole business recover. Adopting the new technology instead of fighting it is what preserved their position. 7. The device will change, and it won't matter. Whether the music arrives through Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or eventually a chip in your head, people will still want an infinite library in their pocket. The form factor is not where the value lives. The value sits with the content owners, which means the artists and the label. 8. And this is where he lands on AI: nobody falls in love with a computer-generated track. Computers have been used to generate music for decades. It has never produced anything anyone cared about. Taylor Swift is not just the songs. She is the artist, the story, the physical presence, the live experience. Nobody is going to get excited watching a computer on a stage. 9. Instead, AI becomes a tool that makes artists better. Ackman compares it to the synthesizer, which let one person command an entire orchestra. A mild threat to a percussionist, maybe. But it may have driven even more demand for the live experience, which is precisely the part a machine cannot replicate. 10. All of it comes back to one line from Benjamin Graham. Price is what you pay, value is what you get. You can never calculate value precisely, only approximate it. So you buy at a big enough discount to your approximation that being wrong by 30% still leaves you fine. That is the margin of safety, and it is why a huge part of investing is simply not losing money. 11. And the principle generalizes far past music. McDonald's is a 1950s business, and 75 years later you can still predict roughly what it looks like. The menu adjusts to taste, but the core does not move. As Ackman puts it: the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the hamburger and fries are forever.

Jaynit

17,811 views • 1 month ago

PR agencies, part 1: When do you need one and who should you hire? Super common question. I've cofounded an agency and worked with at least a dozen others, and here's my answer. First, going direct as a founder doesn't mean executing every comms tactic, just as being a technical founder doesn't mean writing every line of code. If you can't keep up with all the comms work that needs to be done, you're a bottleneck and need to get help. And while you should never outsource the story and strategy, a good agency can help with crafting pitches, doing outreach, or managing a project like a launch or crisis. Finding strong writers is hard, so unless you luck out, you’re better off doing the writing yourself. Even if it’s mid, at least it’ll be mid in your voice. What are your options for PR agencies? Start with referrals from other founders. While people in the industry might want to advocate for friends or bash competitors, founders will usually give a frank assessment of their experience. Different kinds of agencies: 1) Large global agencies, eg Brunswick, Edelman, Sard 2) Boutique agencies specializing in corporate comms and special situations, eg Milltown or my former firm TrailRunner 3) Agencies specializing in tech startups, eg Outcast, Six Eastern, The Bulleit Group 4) Comms shops embedded with lobbying firms, eg Invariant or Tusk Strategies 5) Great freelancers like Cristin Culver, Cameron Langford, many others How do you choose the best agency? Look at the people on the team. Sometimes the person pitching is great but it's a different person doing the work. Always meet the "real" team and account lead. Consider: 1) How quickly are they sending you a proposal? This is the fastest and most responsive they will ever be, so use this to evaluate their operational tempo and make sure it keeps up with yours. 2) Is the proposal good? And by good, I mean: is the writing clear and precise? Are they asking the right questions? Are their ideas and their assumptions sound? Do they have a sense of aesthetic? Is what you’ve told them reflected correctly; did they know what to do with the information? 3) How badly do they want the business? Is it excitement about your mission (good) or desperation to land business (bad)? 4) Who’s recommending them? Are their former clients the kinds of companies you want to emulate: Do you respect the taste and judgment of people who like their work? If they have a logo in their marketing materials and you call the founder, does the backchannel review match the company’s representation? A lot of people will agree to an endorsement just to be nice, but their private assessment might differ. 5) Do they “get it”? Can they instinctively pick up on problems or opportunities without you telling them? 6) Do they know the players in the space? Actually know them, not relying on Google or AI or databases to look them up and find their emails? You want people on a texting basis with at least some of the influential people you want to speak to.
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PR agencies, part 1: When do you need one and who should you hire? Super common question. I've cofounded an agency and worked with at least a dozen others, and here's my answer. First, going direct as a founder doesn't mean executing every comms tactic, just as being a technical founder doesn't mean writing every line of code. If you can't keep up with all the comms work that needs to be done, you're a bottleneck and need to get help. And while you should never outsource the story and strategy, a good agency can help with crafting pitches, doing outreach, or managing a project like a launch or crisis. Finding strong writers is hard, so unless you luck out, you’re better off doing the writing yourself. Even if it’s mid, at least it’ll be mid in your voice. What are your options for PR agencies? Start with referrals from other founders. While people in the industry might want to advocate for friends or bash competitors, founders will usually give a frank assessment of their experience. Different kinds of agencies: 1) Large global agencies, eg Brunswick, Edelman, Sard 2) Boutique agencies specializing in corporate comms and special situations, eg Milltown or my former firm TrailRunner 3) Agencies specializing in tech startups, eg Outcast, Six Eastern, The Bulleit Group 4) Comms shops embedded with lobbying firms, eg Invariant or Tusk Strategies 5) Great freelancers like Cristin Culver, Cameron Langford, many others How do you choose the best agency? Look at the people on the team. Sometimes the person pitching is great but it's a different person doing the work. Always meet the "real" team and account lead. Consider: 1) How quickly are they sending you a proposal? This is the fastest and most responsive they will ever be, so use this to evaluate their operational tempo and make sure it keeps up with yours. 2) Is the proposal good? And by good, I mean: is the writing clear and precise? Are they asking the right questions? Are their ideas and their assumptions sound? Do they have a sense of aesthetic? Is what you’ve told them reflected correctly; did they know what to do with the information? 3) How badly do they want the business? Is it excitement about your mission (good) or desperation to land business (bad)? 4) Who’s recommending them? Are their former clients the kinds of companies you want to emulate: Do you respect the taste and judgment of people who like their work? If they have a logo in their marketing materials and you call the founder, does the backchannel review match the company’s representation? A lot of people will agree to an endorsement just to be nice, but their private assessment might differ. 5) Do they “get it”? Can they instinctively pick up on problems or opportunities without you telling them? 6) Do they know the players in the space? Actually know them, not relying on Google or AI or databases to look them up and find their emails? You want people on a texting basis with at least some of the influential people you want to speak to.

Lulu Cheng Meservey

75,801 views • 1 year ago

👀 This Jay-Z Interview Moment Still Doesn’t Sit Right… When Jay-Z spoke on the Super Bowl decision, he downplayed everything: •Said picking Kendrick Lamar wasn’t personal •Denied there being any alliance •And leaned on his status like: “I’m Jay-Z… why would I even care?” On the surface, that sounds confident… but when you line up the timeline, the story starts to feel a lot more layered. 🧩 The “No Alliance” Narrative vs. The Moves Let’s go back to Beyoncé’s “America Has A Problem” remix. •Kendrick didn’t just feature he came in directly addressing Drake •He even referenced asking Universal Music Group for clearance before taking shots •And importantly… Jay-Z has writing credits on that same record That’s where things get interesting. Because now it’s not just: 👉 “Kendrick vs Drake” It starts to look like: 👉 multiple powerful figures connected to the same moment That doesn’t automatically prove coordination but it definitely doesn’t feel isolated either. 📀 Drake’s Verse That Aged Different Now rewind to June 2022. Drake hops on “Churchill Downs” with Jack Harlow and drops a verse that, in hindsight, feels almost predictive: “Lucky Me, People that don’t f*** with me Are linkin’ up with people that don’t f*** with me to f*** with me…” He goes deeper into: •Things becoming “transactional” •Moves feeling “promotional” instead of organic •People acting irreplaceable when they’re not At the time, it sounded like general industry frustration… But then just one month later Beyoncé dropped America Has A Problem where: 👉 Drake A non American becomes a clear topic That tight timing makes the verse feel less random and more like: 👉 he was already peeping something forming behind the scenes 🏈 The Super Bowl Foreshadowing? Fast forward to the battle era. Kendrick’s “6:16 in LA” includes a very specific detail: 👉 the sound of a football launcher Later on… That same exact sound is used in the rollout announcing him as a Super Bowl performer Now that’s where it really gets debatable. Because that leaves two possibilities: 1.🎯 Creative coincidence Just a sound choice that happened to line up later 2.🧠 Intentional foreshadowing A subtle hint that something bigger was already locked in And when you combine that with everything else the collaborations, the timing, the people involved it’s hard to ignore. 💭 My Full Perspective Individually, each moment could be explained away: •A feature here •A lyric there •A sound effect used creatively But together? It starts to form a pattern: •Strategic collaborations •Consistent messaging •Tight timing between releases •Key industry figures overlapping in the same moments Which raises the bigger question: 👉 Was Kendrick simply moving on his own… or was he being positioned within a larger play happening behind the scenes? 🤔 End of the Day… Jay-Z says there was no alliance But when you really break everything down: …it doesn’t feel completely random either. So what do you see? 👀 Coincidence… or calculated alignment?
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👀 This Jay-Z Interview Moment Still Doesn’t Sit Right… When Jay-Z spoke on the Super Bowl decision, he downplayed everything: •Said picking Kendrick Lamar wasn’t personal •Denied there being any alliance •And leaned on his status like: “I’m Jay-Z… why would I even care?” On the surface, that sounds confident… but when you line up the timeline, the story starts to feel a lot more layered. 🧩 The “No Alliance” Narrative vs. The Moves Let’s go back to Beyoncé’s “America Has A Problem” remix. •Kendrick didn’t just feature he came in directly addressing Drake •He even referenced asking Universal Music Group for clearance before taking shots •And importantly… Jay-Z has writing credits on that same record That’s where things get interesting. Because now it’s not just: 👉 “Kendrick vs Drake” It starts to look like: 👉 multiple powerful figures connected to the same moment That doesn’t automatically prove coordination but it definitely doesn’t feel isolated either. 📀 Drake’s Verse That Aged Different Now rewind to June 2022. Drake hops on “Churchill Downs” with Jack Harlow and drops a verse that, in hindsight, feels almost predictive: “Lucky Me, People that don’t f*** with me Are linkin’ up with people that don’t f*** with me to f*** with me…” He goes deeper into: •Things becoming “transactional” •Moves feeling “promotional” instead of organic •People acting irreplaceable when they’re not At the time, it sounded like general industry frustration… But then just one month later Beyoncé dropped America Has A Problem where: 👉 Drake A non American becomes a clear topic That tight timing makes the verse feel less random and more like: 👉 he was already peeping something forming behind the scenes 🏈 The Super Bowl Foreshadowing? Fast forward to the battle era. Kendrick’s “6:16 in LA” includes a very specific detail: 👉 the sound of a football launcher Later on… That same exact sound is used in the rollout announcing him as a Super Bowl performer Now that’s where it really gets debatable. Because that leaves two possibilities: 1.🎯 Creative coincidence Just a sound choice that happened to line up later 2.🧠 Intentional foreshadowing A subtle hint that something bigger was already locked in And when you combine that with everything else the collaborations, the timing, the people involved it’s hard to ignore. 💭 My Full Perspective Individually, each moment could be explained away: •A feature here •A lyric there •A sound effect used creatively But together? It starts to form a pattern: •Strategic collaborations •Consistent messaging •Tight timing between releases •Key industry figures overlapping in the same moments Which raises the bigger question: 👉 Was Kendrick simply moving on his own… or was he being positioned within a larger play happening behind the scenes? 🤔 End of the Day… Jay-Z says there was no alliance But when you really break everything down: …it doesn’t feel completely random either. So what do you see? 👀 Coincidence… or calculated alignment?

Cousin Tino ™️

13,163 views • 4 months ago

Ex-Balyasny PM Ying Hua (Ying Hua) on why automation will increase demand for hedge fund talent, the quant/fundamental convergence, & why quant is blackjack but fundamental is poker. Ying Hua (PM @ Balyasny — built & led a quantamental team covering US insurance, capital markets & fintech | ~5 yrs @ Citadel running a long/short insurance book | Equity research @ Goldman Sachs | MS in Data Science @ UC Berkeley | Now founder & CEO of Implied Implied) "One of the best-kept secrets: fundamental investors are not good at sizing. Quant funds are really good at sizing." We cover: - The only real line between quant and fundamental: historical pattern matching vs. "how is this time different" — and the alpha neither group is looking at - Why she rebuilt her process so every model updated within 2 minutes of a print - Scraping highway patrol data from 15 states to track auto insurance losses live, every single day - The Malibu wildfire: mapping burned mansions from celebrity tweets to estimate losses before any industry consultant published a number - Her automation math: data gathering ~100% automatable, processing ~80%, judgment still 100% human - AI is quant for words — next-token prediction is pattern matching, which makes this just the next automation wave after quant and indexing - The proof differentiated views pay more: insurance stocks moved 2-3% on earnings in 2010; by the time she left, 15-20% intraday - Why "hook Claude Code up to data and let it rip" fails: BloombergGPT losing to a smaller open-source model, & why horizontal models are college grads - Quant is blackjack with card counting; multi-manager investing is poker — your hand, others' perception of it, your seat, everyone's stack - Most PMs are playing the wrong game: the positioning game hiding inside "fundamental" sectors with no new money coming in - Her hiring bar at BAM: every fundamental analyst learns Python — and the one skill she says can't be trained - The only two truly meritocratic jobs: hedge fund PM & sales Highlights: (00:00) Intro (00:40) How a quantamental PM actually puts on a position (02:05) The only real line between quant and fundamental (04:45) Why quantamental lowers the burden on your brain (06:40) Scraping 15 states of highway patrol data to nowcast insurance losses (09:25) The Malibu wildfire: estimating losses from celebrity tweets (11:55) How much of fundamental investing can be automated (13:45) Quantifying intuition: when a CFO's filler words jump 8% to 20% (16:25) The contrarian case: automation expands demand for talent (18:15) Earnings vol exploded — differentiated views pay more (20:25) Why Claude Code can't run your book (23:40) Horizontal models are college grads with no domain knowledge (30:50) Why chat is the wrong interface for investors (36:20) Will AI make markets more or less efficient? (39:10) Two things every fundamental PM should do today (41:50) The moat that expands: talent, redefined (45:50) Sometimes the game is positioning, not fundamentals (48:25) Blackjack vs. poker vs. surfing: matching the game to your horizon (52:00) Should young analysts chase the hottest sector? (57:55) Munger vs. Musk: two philosophies of wealth (1:01:05) Self-awareness in investing is bimodal (1:07:05) The only two truly meritocratic jobs: hedge funds & sales (1:08:50) The one skill for every regime: reconstruct the narrative
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Ex-Balyasny PM Ying Hua (Ying Hua) on why automation will increase demand for hedge fund talent, the quant/fundamental convergence, & why quant is blackjack but fundamental is poker. Ying Hua (PM @ Balyasny — built & led a quantamental team covering US insurance, capital markets & fintech | ~5 yrs @ Citadel running a long/short insurance book | Equity research @ Goldman Sachs | MS in Data Science @ UC Berkeley | Now founder & CEO of Implied Implied) "One of the best-kept secrets: fundamental investors are not good at sizing. Quant funds are really good at sizing." We cover: - The only real line between quant and fundamental: historical pattern matching vs. "how is this time different" — and the alpha neither group is looking at - Why she rebuilt her process so every model updated within 2 minutes of a print - Scraping highway patrol data from 15 states to track auto insurance losses live, every single day - The Malibu wildfire: mapping burned mansions from celebrity tweets to estimate losses before any industry consultant published a number - Her automation math: data gathering ~100% automatable, processing ~80%, judgment still 100% human - AI is quant for words — next-token prediction is pattern matching, which makes this just the next automation wave after quant and indexing - The proof differentiated views pay more: insurance stocks moved 2-3% on earnings in 2010; by the time she left, 15-20% intraday - Why "hook Claude Code up to data and let it rip" fails: BloombergGPT losing to a smaller open-source model, & why horizontal models are college grads - Quant is blackjack with card counting; multi-manager investing is poker — your hand, others' perception of it, your seat, everyone's stack - Most PMs are playing the wrong game: the positioning game hiding inside "fundamental" sectors with no new money coming in - Her hiring bar at BAM: every fundamental analyst learns Python — and the one skill she says can't be trained - The only two truly meritocratic jobs: hedge fund PM & sales Highlights: (00:00) Intro (00:40) How a quantamental PM actually puts on a position (02:05) The only real line between quant and fundamental (04:45) Why quantamental lowers the burden on your brain (06:40) Scraping 15 states of highway patrol data to nowcast insurance losses (09:25) The Malibu wildfire: estimating losses from celebrity tweets (11:55) How much of fundamental investing can be automated (13:45) Quantifying intuition: when a CFO's filler words jump 8% to 20% (16:25) The contrarian case: automation expands demand for talent (18:15) Earnings vol exploded — differentiated views pay more (20:25) Why Claude Code can't run your book (23:40) Horizontal models are college grads with no domain knowledge (30:50) Why chat is the wrong interface for investors (36:20) Will AI make markets more or less efficient? (39:10) Two things every fundamental PM should do today (41:50) The moat that expands: talent, redefined (45:50) Sometimes the game is positioning, not fundamentals (48:25) Blackjack vs. poker vs. surfing: matching the game to your horizon (52:00) Should young analysts chase the hottest sector? (57:55) Munger vs. Musk: two philosophies of wealth (1:01:05) Self-awareness in investing is bimodal (1:07:05) The only two truly meritocratic jobs: hedge funds & sales (1:08:50) The one skill for every regime: reconstruct the narrative

Ethan Kho

244,449 views • 1 month ago

This Week Building Exit Five (Bootstrapping a B2B Media Company): 1) We debuted new branding - new logo, new colors, new font, new design, website, etc. We worked with this great company called NoBoringDesign run by Eli Rubel 🏄‍♀️ and it came out awesome. The response from our community was very positively positive. Out of all the comments and email replies the best were the handful that said something along the lines of "this brings the business to life in a new way" and "this really feels like Exit Five grew up in a good way." A few people didn't like it and that's OK too. 2) We announced the details of our in-person event - it's called Drive. September 11 - 12 in Burlington, Vermont. Tickets go on sale next week. The event will be small on purpose so we only have 150 tickets available. There's already 216 people on our waiting list, so if you want to be there go to exitfive . com / event and put your name on the list; we'll notify you ASAP when tickets go on sale. 3) I recorded a bunch of new episodes of the Exit Five podcast. This week with Adam Robinson (talking about LinkedIn and founder brand), Jenn Herman (covering Instagram for B2B), Matt and I recorded Inside Exit Five for this week, and I'm talking to Amanda Goetz later today. 4) We finalized the concept for a new Exit Five community product. This will be focused on B2B Marketing Leaders on Monday morning (a smaller group that will be application only for Directors, VPs in B2B). You'll hear more about this in June. 5) The CEO of a big successful company reached out to me directly to try and recruit me to work for his company; flattering. But his pitch was to poo poo on my "little bootstrapped thing" to go work on something "much bigger and more meaningful." I am all set for now. I'm having fun here. 6) I played some golf, did a bunch of push-ups, and coached my son's Tee Ball team. I have so much I could write about that experience and what it's taught me about B2B sales, but I'll save that for later (just kidding; if you've seen the meme you'll laugh, if not you'll think I'm serious and I'll never write something like that I promise).
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This Week Building Exit Five (Bootstrapping a B2B Media Company): 1) We debuted new branding - new logo, new colors, new font, new design, website, etc. We worked with this great company called NoBoringDesign run by Eli Rubel 🏄‍♀️ and it came out awesome. The response from our community was very positively positive. Out of all the comments and email replies the best were the handful that said something along the lines of "this brings the business to life in a new way" and "this really feels like Exit Five grew up in a good way." A few people didn't like it and that's OK too. 2) We announced the details of our in-person event - it's called Drive. September 11 - 12 in Burlington, Vermont. Tickets go on sale next week. The event will be small on purpose so we only have 150 tickets available. There's already 216 people on our waiting list, so if you want to be there go to exitfive . com / event and put your name on the list; we'll notify you ASAP when tickets go on sale. 3) I recorded a bunch of new episodes of the Exit Five podcast. This week with Adam Robinson (talking about LinkedIn and founder brand), Jenn Herman (covering Instagram for B2B), Matt and I recorded Inside Exit Five for this week, and I'm talking to Amanda Goetz later today. 4) We finalized the concept for a new Exit Five community product. This will be focused on B2B Marketing Leaders on Monday morning (a smaller group that will be application only for Directors, VPs in B2B). You'll hear more about this in June. 5) The CEO of a big successful company reached out to me directly to try and recruit me to work for his company; flattering. But his pitch was to poo poo on my "little bootstrapped thing" to go work on something "much bigger and more meaningful." I am all set for now. I'm having fun here. 6) I played some golf, did a bunch of push-ups, and coached my son's Tee Ball team. I have so much I could write about that experience and what it's taught me about B2B sales, but I'll save that for later (just kidding; if you've seen the meme you'll laugh, if not you'll think I'm serious and I'll never write something like that I promise).

Dave Gerhardt

28,640 views • 2 years ago

Official Announcement: PDAO Airdrop Now LIVE! We are excited to announce that the PDAO airdrop is now officially open! You can now claim your $PDAO tokens and be part of a movement that’s here to disrupt the status quo of the Solana ecosystem! Airdrop: CA: Ds9FdU48nD34dgtfeSLtqvc5L9LoPig7cwb7kcxbmoon The Origin of PDAO: Born from the Struggles of Solana’s PVP PDAO was created as a direct response to the PVP (Player vs. Player) behavior that has plagued the Solana blockchain for far too long. These malicious actions, often driven by centralized forces who control the market, have led to unfair manipulation, exploitation, and widespread losses for the true community members. For years, these centralized platforms like Pumpfun have created artificial hype, draining resources from the community with their unjust practices, only to profit off the backs of honest users. The rise of these manipulative entities has created an urgent need for a decentralized solution. PDAO was born to challenge this monopoly and to create a fairer, transparent ecosystem where the community has control, not a centralized few. Why We Reject Pumpfun and Centralization？ At PDAO, we firmly reject the centralized, exploitative systems like Pumpfun that continue to poison the Solana ecosystem. Pumpfun has been nothing but a leech on the Solana blockchain, creating artificial hype, inflating token values, and enriching a few while leaving the majority of users in financial turmoil. This behavior is unsustainable, unfair, and ultimately damaging to the ecosystem we all love. We believe in a community-driven future, one where decentralization reigns supreme, and users control their own destinies. PDAO represents this vision, a movement towards true decentralization, transparency, and fair opportunity for all. PDAO Airdrop Targeting the Following Communities: PDAO is offering a generous airdrop to key communities that have been instrumental in the Solana ecosystem, as well as to those who have been hurt by centralized platforms like Pumpfun. The airdrop is available for the following active users: 1. Users active on Solana between 1/13 - 2/13 2. Solana Saga 2 phone holders 3. Pumpfun traders who’ve been impacted by manipulative practices 4.Moonpump zealy, galxe task users Solana community members who believe in decentralization and fair opportunities PDAO Tokenomics: Fair and Community-Centered The $PDAO token is not just another meme token; it’s a tool for empowerment. Our tokenomics are designed to ensure long-term sustainability and fair distribution, rewarding those who truly believe in our mission. Here’s the breakdown: 🔹 40% – Airdropped to 5 million active Solana addresses 🔹 20% – Staking Rewards (1-month lockup, 42 days linear release) 🔹 20% – Treasury Funds (3-month lockup, 90 days linear release) 🔹 20% – Liquidity Pools & Burns (Added to Raydium liquidity pool and burned) PDAO’s Vision for the Future: Building Solana’s True Future Our vision goes far beyond just distributing tokens. PDAO aims to build a new paradigm for the Solana blockchain—one based on community empowerment, fair distribution, and true decentralization. We will continue to focus on creating value for the users, not a small group of centralized players. We are committed to: Driving true decentralization in Solana’s ecosystem. Supporting a transparent, community-governed ecosystem where every member has a voice. Rewarding early supporters and active community members who help shape our ecosystem. Encouraging innovation in the Solana space by bringing together developers, creators, and entrepreneurs who believe in a decentralized future. As we grow, PDAO will continue to evolve, introducing new features, platforms, and rewards that align with our mission. We are just getting started, and the future is bright for those who join us in this movement. Join the Revolution: Claim Your Airdrop Now! It’s time to stand up against the centralized exploitation of platforms like Pumpfun. Join PDAO in our mission to reclaim Solana’s ecosystem, restore fairness, and create a transparent and decentralized future. The revolution has started—and we want YOU to be a part of it! Together, We Will Build a Better Future for Solana Let’s rise above the chaos, embrace decentralization, and work together to build the future of Solana. PDAO is your opportunity to be part of something bigger, something that will transform the ecosystem into what it was always meant to be—a truly decentralized and community-driven platform. It’s time to join the movement. 🌍🚀
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Official Announcement: PDAO Airdrop Now LIVE! We are excited to announce that the PDAO airdrop is now officially open! You can now claim your $PDAO tokens and be part of a movement that’s here to disrupt the status quo of the Solana ecosystem! Airdrop: CA: Ds9FdU48nD34dgtfeSLtqvc5L9LoPig7cwb7kcxbmoon The Origin of PDAO: Born from the Struggles of Solana’s PVP PDAO was created as a direct response to the PVP (Player vs. Player) behavior that has plagued the Solana blockchain for far too long. These malicious actions, often driven by centralized forces who control the market, have led to unfair manipulation, exploitation, and widespread losses for the true community members. For years, these centralized platforms like Pumpfun have created artificial hype, draining resources from the community with their unjust practices, only to profit off the backs of honest users. The rise of these manipulative entities has created an urgent need for a decentralized solution. PDAO was born to challenge this monopoly and to create a fairer, transparent ecosystem where the community has control, not a centralized few. Why We Reject Pumpfun and Centralization？ At PDAO, we firmly reject the centralized, exploitative systems like Pumpfun that continue to poison the Solana ecosystem. Pumpfun has been nothing but a leech on the Solana blockchain, creating artificial hype, inflating token values, and enriching a few while leaving the majority of users in financial turmoil. This behavior is unsustainable, unfair, and ultimately damaging to the ecosystem we all love. We believe in a community-driven future, one where decentralization reigns supreme, and users control their own destinies. PDAO represents this vision, a movement towards true decentralization, transparency, and fair opportunity for all. PDAO Airdrop Targeting the Following Communities: PDAO is offering a generous airdrop to key communities that have been instrumental in the Solana ecosystem, as well as to those who have been hurt by centralized platforms like Pumpfun. The airdrop is available for the following active users: 1. Users active on Solana between 1/13 - 2/13 2. Solana Saga 2 phone holders 3. Pumpfun traders who’ve been impacted by manipulative practices 4.Moonpump zealy, galxe task users Solana community members who believe in decentralization and fair opportunities PDAO Tokenomics: Fair and Community-Centered The $PDAO token is not just another meme token; it’s a tool for empowerment. Our tokenomics are designed to ensure long-term sustainability and fair distribution, rewarding those who truly believe in our mission. Here’s the breakdown: 🔹 40% – Airdropped to 5 million active Solana addresses 🔹 20% – Staking Rewards (1-month lockup, 42 days linear release) 🔹 20% – Treasury Funds (3-month lockup, 90 days linear release) 🔹 20% – Liquidity Pools & Burns (Added to Raydium liquidity pool and burned) PDAO’s Vision for the Future: Building Solana’s True Future Our vision goes far beyond just distributing tokens. PDAO aims to build a new paradigm for the Solana blockchain—one based on community empowerment, fair distribution, and true decentralization. We will continue to focus on creating value for the users, not a small group of centralized players. We are committed to: Driving true decentralization in Solana’s ecosystem. Supporting a transparent, community-governed ecosystem where every member has a voice. Rewarding early supporters and active community members who help shape our ecosystem. Encouraging innovation in the Solana space by bringing together developers, creators, and entrepreneurs who believe in a decentralized future. As we grow, PDAO will continue to evolve, introducing new features, platforms, and rewards that align with our mission. We are just getting started, and the future is bright for those who join us in this movement. Join the Revolution: Claim Your Airdrop Now! It’s time to stand up against the centralized exploitation of platforms like Pumpfun. Join PDAO in our mission to reclaim Solana’s ecosystem, restore fairness, and create a transparent and decentralized future. The revolution has started—and we want YOU to be a part of it! Together, We Will Build a Better Future for Solana Let’s rise above the chaos, embrace decentralization, and work together to build the future of Solana. PDAO is your opportunity to be part of something bigger, something that will transform the ecosystem into what it was always meant to be—a truly decentralized and community-driven platform. It’s time to join the movement. 🌍🚀

PDAO || PlayerDAO

12,365 views • 1 year ago

Stripe is worth $159 billion now. Like Bezos and Buffett, the Collison 'way of building a business' will create trillions in value and is worth studying. 800-word post on: 1. Craft & Beauty 2. Humility 3. Hiring 4. Culture 5. Decisions 1. On craft & beauty, You can work on something you're not proud of for 2 years. You can't do it for 30. Beauty has a practical function most people miss. When we go to a city or building that's beautiful, there's generosity in that construction. You never meet the architect, but it's a gift they've bestowed on us. Products are no different. And craft has another function that might matter even more: it's the single best way to attract extraordinary people. The best people consider themselves craftspeople, and above almost all else, they want to work alongside other craftspeople. Put bluntly: really good people don't enjoy working on shitty things. 2. On founder humility, Think carefully about what's cool and what's high status, and then make sure not to do that. Once you're succeeding, the real danger begins. Success breeds complacency. Other people are studying what you built and looking to replicate it. You can always be a month away from losing your business. The antidote is simple but uncomfortable: stay close to reality. Every week at Stripe's leadership meeting, they hear directly from a customer. It's not an A-plus scorecard every time. That's the point. It prevents you from getting delusional. And when you see a smart person holding a view that's different from your own, rather than figuring out how they're wrong, try to figure out how they're right. 3. On hiring, Think like a value investor. You're not looking for the best resume. You're looking for human capital the market has significantly underpriced. It took Patrick and John a full year to get to four people. No group will ever shape your company more than your early hires. When hiring anyone, ask: will I like the 50 people they hire? Prioritize rate of learning over everything. Over a decade, fast learners obliterate credentialed hires. It's not even close. For senior hires, one question: can they get you where you need to be in four years, in two? 4. On culture, Stripe's moat isn't technology or process or perks. It's that the people there genuinely care about solving the problems they say they're solving. That's rarer than it sounds. Care for the customer's problem, executed with craft and rigor. A culture that prizes small details and careful abstraction. And an operating rhythm that keeps it honest: micro pessimism, macro optimism. Everything is terrible today. Total conviction it'll be fantastic in two years. That tension is what keeps generational companies from getting comfortable. 5. On decisions, Make twice as many decisions at half the precision. That's almost always better than the alternative. You'll never have perfect information and you don't need it. Make the call, move forward, course correct if you're wrong. You pay a far larger price for paralysis than for mistakes. For co-founder disputes, one simple rule: whoever cares more carries the decision. Deeper conviction wins. These ideas have shaped how we build Gamma and 1000s of others. Patrick Collison John Collison
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Stripe is worth $159 billion now. Like Bezos and Buffett, the Collison 'way of building a business' will create trillions in value and is worth studying. 800-word post on: 1. Craft & Beauty 2. Humility 3. Hiring 4. Culture 5. Decisions 1. On craft & beauty, You can work on something you're not proud of for 2 years. You can't do it for 30. Beauty has a practical function most people miss. When we go to a city or building that's beautiful, there's generosity in that construction. You never meet the architect, but it's a gift they've bestowed on us. Products are no different. And craft has another function that might matter even more: it's the single best way to attract extraordinary people. The best people consider themselves craftspeople, and above almost all else, they want to work alongside other craftspeople. Put bluntly: really good people don't enjoy working on shitty things. 2. On founder humility, Think carefully about what's cool and what's high status, and then make sure not to do that. Once you're succeeding, the real danger begins. Success breeds complacency. Other people are studying what you built and looking to replicate it. You can always be a month away from losing your business. The antidote is simple but uncomfortable: stay close to reality. Every week at Stripe's leadership meeting, they hear directly from a customer. It's not an A-plus scorecard every time. That's the point. It prevents you from getting delusional. And when you see a smart person holding a view that's different from your own, rather than figuring out how they're wrong, try to figure out how they're right. 3. On hiring, Think like a value investor. You're not looking for the best resume. You're looking for human capital the market has significantly underpriced. It took Patrick and John a full year to get to four people. No group will ever shape your company more than your early hires. When hiring anyone, ask: will I like the 50 people they hire? Prioritize rate of learning over everything. Over a decade, fast learners obliterate credentialed hires. It's not even close. For senior hires, one question: can they get you where you need to be in four years, in two? 4. On culture, Stripe's moat isn't technology or process or perks. It's that the people there genuinely care about solving the problems they say they're solving. That's rarer than it sounds. Care for the customer's problem, executed with craft and rigor. A culture that prizes small details and careful abstraction. And an operating rhythm that keeps it honest: micro pessimism, macro optimism. Everything is terrible today. Total conviction it'll be fantastic in two years. That tension is what keeps generational companies from getting comfortable. 5. On decisions, Make twice as many decisions at half the precision. That's almost always better than the alternative. You'll never have perfect information and you don't need it. Make the call, move forward, course correct if you're wrong. You pay a far larger price for paralysis than for mistakes. For co-founder disputes, one simple rule: whoever cares more carries the decision. Deeper conviction wins. These ideas have shaped how we build Gamma and 1000s of others. Patrick Collison John Collison

Grant Lee

1,108,078 views • 5 months ago