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.benahorowitz.eth on how a game studio turned it's last $6 million into Slack: "Stewart calls me. He says, 'Ben, I've got $6 million left. I have no way to raise money because I've made really no progress. So I've got three choices. I can pray for rain and try... and finish it, I can shut down the company and give you your $6 million back, or we built this tool that we use in our engineering team to communicate with each other, and I could just put that out as a product.'" "I'm like, 'What? You just built some tool to talk to each other and you want to put that out as a product? And you're a consumer guy, and you want to become an enterprise software guy?'" "$6 million is not gonna make any difference in my life. If you really think it's a good idea, go ahead." Ben Horowitz Talks Honesty, Failure, and Secrets at UC Berkeley (2016)show more

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Ron Stauffer1 month ago

@bhorowitz My new life goal is to reach the point where I can say: “$6 million is not gonna make any difference in my life.”

Enormous James1 month ago

@JoshBobrowsky @bhorowitz The VC flex of 6mm being petty cash is unparalleled

Patrick Helmig1 month ago

@bhorowitz Relevant detail: Stewart came to found @Flickr with a similar story before ;)

Ehsan Azish1 month ago

@bhorowitz the tiny water bottle behind him has seen this story told a hundred times

Pat Metzdorf @ FounderWorld.io1 month ago

@bhorowitz "$6 million is not gonna make any difference in my life. If you really think it's a good idea, go ahead." yea, I say that practically daily.

andres1 month ago

@bhorowitz hahaha love this. i bet it must be a great feeling hearing this from your investor not caring about the $: if you think it's a good idea, go ahead.

Thomas Schranz 🍄1 month ago

@bhorowitz I'd love to see @stewart go at a new game again! worst case something cool comes out like w/ flickr and slack

ramsy1 month ago

@bhorowitz What a story !! $6M not gonna make any difference in my life :) that flex!

meatproxy@astrea1 month ago

@bhorowitz cafe code is the slack of today iykyk

Wombat1 month ago

@bhorowitz Fantastic story

Deva1 month ago

@bhorowitz Discord turned a $100M gamble into a $15B productivity platform, pivot works.

Mohammed1 month ago

@bhorowitz Many VCs could learn a thing or two from this…

engineeredX1 month ago

@bhorowitz Must be nice I’ve had a shotgun put to my head over 150k

Wayne Morris1 month ago

I had a VC reverse engineer this on me once. “Look, you’ve got $10m in the bank, this company is clearly struggling, so you decide. What would you with that $10m? It can be related to what’s been built or unrelated” within 12 months we went from having made a max $400k the previous 4 years, and a heavy burn, to $2m ARR and profitable. A couple of years later that ARR had 10x’d.

CircleOfSicko1 month ago

@bhorowitz Discord has a similar origin story from video game roots

Afan1 month ago

@bhorowitz Everybody chases that magical idea to change their life. But most solutions hide in plain sight, and only experimentation gets you there. Props to @stewart for grabbing the opportunity when things were tough. The breakthrough isn't something new. It's acting on what's here.

AscendCapital1 month ago

@bhorowitz But the real lesson here is investor trust giving a high-conviction founder the runway to pivot when the original idea dies is where iconic returns come from.

CDU1 month ago

@bhorowitz 6 mil’s not gonna effect me sure let’s give a try👏🏻

Simon1 month ago

@bhorowitz It was $6m back then. Cant imagine what its now

Harry Chen1 month ago

@bhorowitz @stewart should be glad that feishu/lark is from @BytedanceTalk, otherwise @SlackHQ has no competitiveness at all. like how uber losed in china

Amir1 month ago

@bhorowitz $6m is not what? dude stop flexing lol

britton is afk1 month ago

@bhorowitz Hell yeah, dude. ben is such a gangster. @bhorowitz is one of the GOATs

Joobman1 month ago

@bhorowitz To be honest I always wondered how a tool like slack could get that much wind. Now I don't.

AI Mastery Guide1 month ago

@bhorowitz Turning a failing game studio's last $6 million into Slack is wild.

Rick A.F.1 month ago

@bhorowitz Everyone once wanted to found a games studio, it always turns into a SaaS app?

Blake.ETH1 month ago

@bhorowitz betting the house on a pivot is the only way to play sometimes

TECA1 month ago

@bhorowitz From desperate pivot to enterprise standard, best $6M ever spent.

eswarpr1 month ago

@bhorowitz I similarly turned a food app into a customer service chatbot company in 2016 Pretty sure the chatbot platform is still active around the world

Fabian K1 month ago

@bhorowitz Die besten Ideen entstehen manchmal aus dem größten Druck. Stewart hatte keine Wahl und genau das hat ihn kreativ gemacht. Flexibilität ist alles im Startup-Bereich.

Zimri Rosas1 month ago

@bhorowitz I have been thinking about arrange a corporation to buy SIDOR controlling stake

UriShimron1 month ago

@bhorowitz it's -> its

Daniel Evans1 month ago

@bhorowitz One of the things I've always admired about Ben. Perspective.

Anthony Tamer1 month ago

@bhorowitz Unmatched VC mindset

MoM1 month ago

@bhorowitz

Hana Kim1 month ago

@bhorowitz For every Slack pivot there are a thousand internal tools that stayed internal tools. The skill was noticing, not the idea itself.

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voided intern

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"And so sometimes like God speaks to me, I think primarily God speaks through me through action. And I think he speaks through everyone through action. You know, we like to talk a lot, but not a lot of people like to live it out. And I make mistakes, but I want to try to live it out to the best of my ability. I think secondly, through the way of communication, I've always had a heart to make complex ideas simpler to understand because I'm not a smart guy. I have a hard time reading Shakespeare and complex literature, so I like doing that. But sometimes I'll be sitting and talking with someone, and I feel like God tells me something about the person. They're struggling with something or if they've got a physical ailment and I'll ask. And sometimes it's true. Sometimes it's not. I'm not not discouraged if it's right or wrong, but if it's right, sometimes God speaks through that way. Those are a few ways God speaks through me, but, but the intrusive thing is so beautiful because I think he can speak to everyone intrusively and it is so sweet when it happens. And it was, it was happening this morning to me in the shower, which is so sweet and beautiful, you know. I struggle a lot with what people think about me because I've always struggled with people pleasing before being a Christian. And so, you know, if I'm misunderstood or someone takes something in the way that I didn't say it, I get hurt because I'm like, oh, I didn't mean it that way. Or, you know, whatever. So I'm kind of talking to Jesus and I'm in the shower praying and I'm going, man, God, I want to be more like you. I want to be how you want me to be. I want to love you. And I want to be your son. And I just want to focus on being yours. And I don't want to care what other people think. And this, this and that. And Jesus was speaking to me about some practical things I needed to do. Like it would help you if you, you know, stopped looking at what people say online. It would help if you deleted Instagram. And it would help if you did this. And, it would help if you would just trust other people to do what they're supposed to do. So you can focus on being mine. And I'm sitting there in the shower going like, wow, this is so good. And it's so hard, but it's so good." Bryce Crawford, Minister

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"Everyone's come up to me like this past week, you know, 'how did you celebrate?' And I'm like, I didn't celebrate. My celebration was reposting everybody's videos. And then I saw these videos of kids and so many of my fans just watching the race and how it meant to them. And that, for me, made that day a thousand times bigger than it would have been if it was just a normal, normal win. Because I know that they're my ride or dies." "I've always said we win and we lose together because it's far bigger than just me in the car. I've got my whole team. I've got people that travel around the world. And I remember when I was a kid before, even, you know, when I first started racing and I never, ever thought that I would have anyone but my, my mom supporting me, you know? So over the years, as you start to see people decide to choose and come on the journey with you and you see that grow and grow and you have a community, everyone in life is going through something and battling and we all support each other. You know, it's really, it's really the most amazing thing." "I think my parents can't believe the support and love that, that we get. My mom's so proud and grateful to everybody. And I think for me to see the young kids, particularly, be excited and wearing the, wearing the red top as well, you know, it's really, really, really amazing moment." [via Super Sport TV]

"Everyone's come up to me like this past week, you know, 'how did you celebrate?' And I'm like, I didn't celebrate. My celebration was reposting everybody's videos. And then I saw these videos of kids and so many of my fans just watching the race and how it meant to them. And that, for me, made that day a thousand times bigger than it would have been if it was just a normal, normal win. Because I know that they're my ride or dies." "I've always said we win and we lose together because it's far bigger than just me in the car. I've got my whole team. I've got people that travel around the world. And I remember when I was a kid before, even, you know, when I first started racing and I never, ever thought that I would have anyone but my, my mom supporting me, you know? So over the years, as you start to see people decide to choose and come on the journey with you and you see that grow and grow and you have a community, everyone in life is going through something and battling and we all support each other. You know, it's really, it's really the most amazing thing." "I think my parents can't believe the support and love that, that we get. My mom's so proud and grateful to everybody. And I think for me to see the young kids, particularly, be excited and wearing the, wearing the red top as well, you know, it's really, really, really amazing moment." [via Super Sport TV]

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80,131 views • 3 months ago

Antonio Brown says he gave up $30,000,000 with the Raiders to go play with Tom Brady “I go to Oakland. I get a big deal. I love Mark Davis. I love Jon Gruden. But in my mind, as a player, you're thinking like, Yo, I want to be a champion. I done everything from making the money. I done really have like $80 million in contracts just with the Steelers. So to me, it's like it's time to be a winner. I already got $40 million in the tuck. I just want to do something legendary, like just be a champion” “So I called Mark Davis, as smart a man as I am, because I'm a good guy. I could've just said, Yo, my back hurt, and got the $30 million. We played Denver on Monday night. The contract guaranteed once you play the first game as a vet. I could have gotten the $30 million. I said, No, I'mma do what's right” “Mark Davis went out on a limb, stood out on a limb for me when I was walking off from the Steelers. And I told him I need $30 million guaranteed right here in my living room, and he did it. So as an honorable man, I told him, like, Yo, I don't want to be a Raider. Save him his money. And I got a chance to play with Tom Brady at the Patriots”

Antonio Brown says he gave up $30,000,000 with the Raiders to go play with Tom Brady “I go to Oakland. I get a big deal. I love Mark Davis. I love Jon Gruden. But in my mind, as a player, you're thinking like, Yo, I want to be a champion. I done everything from making the money. I done really have like $80 million in contracts just with the Steelers. So to me, it's like it's time to be a winner. I already got $40 million in the tuck. I just want to do something legendary, like just be a champion” “So I called Mark Davis, as smart a man as I am, because I'm a good guy. I could've just said, Yo, my back hurt, and got the $30 million. We played Denver on Monday night. The contract guaranteed once you play the first game as a vet. I could have gotten the $30 million. I said, No, I'mma do what's right” “Mark Davis went out on a limb, stood out on a limb for me when I was walking off from the Steelers. And I told him I need $30 million guaranteed right here in my living room, and he did it. So as an honorable man, I told him, like, Yo, I don't want to be a Raider. Save him his money. And I got a chance to play with Tom Brady at the Patriots”

dank

475,788 views • 2 months ago

J.R. Smith says he regrets wasting $60,000 in strip clubs when he could've helped his community “I got Paul George sitting right here. I got DeMar DeRozan right here. I got Russell Westbrook sitting right here. I'm literally sitting next to all of these dudes who are LA guys” “I'm like, ‘Bro, I'm not counting your chips, but everybody else is. You make $200 million, you make $200 million, you make $175 million, you make $150 million, you make $180 million. Why don't y'all have your own gym? Why we got to go to UCLA to work out in LA every time?” “Y'all come from the exact same community. You want to inspire kids that look like you. All it takes is five of us. What bank gonna turn us down. We 'bout to build this whole thing out for our community. We're gonna build gyms, rec centers, start leagues and all that. Who's gonna stop us. We got the money. We don't have the mindset” “Our mindset, we'd rather go throw $60,000 in the club, in the strip club, than go feed 2,500 people in the hood. Think about it. I've done it. I can't sit here and be like, ‘Oh man, I'm a hypocrite.’ I've done this myself. I've thrown money in the club, literally blindly, aimlessly, drunk. And now I sit back, ‘I'm a stupid ass.’ I could have fed my whole community 10 times over with the money I was just late on the bus” “Because I'm so wrapped into me. I got that Eurocentric mindset. I need this designer jacket. I need these jeans. I need this book bag. I need to be looking like this because the vets got this thing, I'm pushing this car, I'm doing... Why? Who am I impressing. I'm not even fulfilled with me”

J.R. Smith says he regrets wasting $60,000 in strip clubs when he could've helped his community “I got Paul George sitting right here. I got DeMar DeRozan right here. I got Russell Westbrook sitting right here. I'm literally sitting next to all of these dudes who are LA guys” “I'm like, ‘Bro, I'm not counting your chips, but everybody else is. You make $200 million, you make $200 million, you make $175 million, you make $150 million, you make $180 million. Why don't y'all have your own gym? Why we got to go to UCLA to work out in LA every time?” “Y'all come from the exact same community. You want to inspire kids that look like you. All it takes is five of us. What bank gonna turn us down. We 'bout to build this whole thing out for our community. We're gonna build gyms, rec centers, start leagues and all that. Who's gonna stop us. We got the money. We don't have the mindset” “Our mindset, we'd rather go throw $60,000 in the club, in the strip club, than go feed 2,500 people in the hood. Think about it. I've done it. I can't sit here and be like, ‘Oh man, I'm a hypocrite.’ I've done this myself. I've thrown money in the club, literally blindly, aimlessly, drunk. And now I sit back, ‘I'm a stupid ass.’ I could have fed my whole community 10 times over with the money I was just late on the bus” “Because I'm so wrapped into me. I got that Eurocentric mindset. I need this designer jacket. I need these jeans. I need this book bag. I need to be looking like this because the vets got this thing, I'm pushing this car, I'm doing... Why? Who am I impressing. I'm not even fulfilled with me”

dank

2,271,234 views • 2 months ago

.Naval: There was a story that I read about Elon Musk that really affected me, which was when he was talking to Bill Gates, and Bill Gates had just taken out some huge short on Tesla. It was like a billion dollar short or something. And, Elon was like, “Why would you do that? Why would you short Tesla?” And Bill goes, “Well, you know, I talked to my financial advisors and I looked at the math and there’s no way it’s overvalued. And so I’m going to make money on the short.” And Elon goes, “What do you care about making money? I thought you were into electric cars and climate change and saving the world. What are you doing trying to save a few bucks and betting against Tesla?”. And he just walked away in disgust. And I think he never talked to Bill Gates after that. And that’s when I realized, like, Elon’s a purist. He means what he says. The money is a tool for him to get what he’s trying to do. And so I take him at face value, which is the crazy thing, because a lot of people who set these audacious goals to inspire people, you kind of know they don’t really mean it. Elon, I take at face value. So I really do think he intends to get to Mars. I don’t think he’s joking about that. And I think he means to get there within a defined window of time. And I don’t think it’s just like an inspirational, faraway goal. I think he’s very, very concretely going to do whatever it takes. Because Elon doesn’t want to go down in history as the electric car guy or even the guy who saved America guy. He wants to go down as a guy who got humanity to the stars. Again, I’ll give him more credit than that. I don’t even think he wants to go down as the “I got humanity to the stars” guy. He’s just like, “I want to get to the stars, and so I have to make it happen in this lifetime. The only way that I get to experience the science fiction world in my head is if I get to the stars.” And so that’s so inspirational. I think that drives everything. So I think the government was just a thing that got in his way.

.Naval: There was a story that I read about Elon Musk that really affected me, which was when he was talking to Bill Gates, and Bill Gates had just taken out some huge short on Tesla. It was like a billion dollar short or something. And, Elon was like, “Why would you do that? Why would you short Tesla?” And Bill goes, “Well, you know, I talked to my financial advisors and I looked at the math and there’s no way it’s overvalued. And so I’m going to make money on the short.” And Elon goes, “What do you care about making money? I thought you were into electric cars and climate change and saving the world. What are you doing trying to save a few bucks and betting against Tesla?”. And he just walked away in disgust. And I think he never talked to Bill Gates after that. And that’s when I realized, like, Elon’s a purist. He means what he says. The money is a tool for him to get what he’s trying to do. And so I take him at face value, which is the crazy thing, because a lot of people who set these audacious goals to inspire people, you kind of know they don’t really mean it. Elon, I take at face value. So I really do think he intends to get to Mars. I don’t think he’s joking about that. And I think he means to get there within a defined window of time. And I don’t think it’s just like an inspirational, faraway goal. I think he’s very, very concretely going to do whatever it takes. Because Elon doesn’t want to go down in history as the electric car guy or even the guy who saved America guy. He wants to go down as a guy who got humanity to the stars. Again, I’ll give him more credit than that. I don’t even think he wants to go down as the “I got humanity to the stars” guy. He’s just like, “I want to get to the stars, and so I have to make it happen in this lifetime. The only way that I get to experience the science fiction world in my head is if I get to the stars.” And so that’s so inspirational. I think that drives everything. So I think the government was just a thing that got in his way.

Arjun Khemani

2,736,630 views • 1 year ago

Old footage sitting in your camera roll could now be reconstructable as a 3D scene. World Labs co-founders Ben Mildenhall and Fei-Fei Li on how Atlas got there: Ben: "In a casual sense... I took three photos of this object, or six photos of this room. I look at the photos, I can understand in my mind how those piece together. I can fill in the gaps and get it." "But there's never really been any reconciliation between those data-driven priors and the brute force dense reconstruction, which is much more akin to scientific or medical imaging... When we say dense, we really mean dense." "This room, I want like 100, 200, 300 photos to capture it. And what we're trying to do is bring that down to like three. We're saying like 50, 100x reduction." "At that scale it completely flips that calculus on its head of what type of captures you reconstruct. You can go back to existing imagery you have. You can go to stuff you find on the internet and even build scenes out of that. You can go to casual videos and unearth a lot of footage that in the past we would never have treated as reconstructable, and bring it to life as 3D." "This is something we've been playing around with a lot with Atlas. Taking old clips. I've taken a bunch of my own old captures that never worked before and put them through the system and seen a reconstruction for the first time." Fei-Fei: "The Stanford demo is underappreciated. Anywhere between 3 to 25 images, you can reconstruct that entire Stanford quad... Everything you see is generated, but according to the laws of reconstruction. And this is really magical." Ben Mildenhall Fei-Fei Li

Old footage sitting in your camera roll could now be reconstructable as a 3D scene. World Labs co-founders Ben Mildenhall and Fei-Fei Li on how Atlas got there: Ben: "In a casual sense... I took three photos of this object, or six photos of this room. I look at the photos, I can understand in my mind how those piece together. I can fill in the gaps and get it." "But there's never really been any reconciliation between those data-driven priors and the brute force dense reconstruction, which is much more akin to scientific or medical imaging... When we say dense, we really mean dense." "This room, I want like 100, 200, 300 photos to capture it. And what we're trying to do is bring that down to like three. We're saying like 50, 100x reduction." "At that scale it completely flips that calculus on its head of what type of captures you reconstruct. You can go back to existing imagery you have. You can go to stuff you find on the internet and even build scenes out of that. You can go to casual videos and unearth a lot of footage that in the past we would never have treated as reconstructable, and bring it to life as 3D." "This is something we've been playing around with a lot with Atlas. Taking old clips. I've taken a bunch of my own old captures that never worked before and put them through the system and seen a reconstruction for the first time." Fei-Fei: "The Stanford demo is underappreciated. Anywhere between 3 to 25 images, you can reconstruct that entire Stanford quad... Everything you see is generated, but according to the laws of reconstruction. And this is really magical." Ben Mildenhall Fei-Fei Li

a16z

48,823 views • 23 days ago

Joe Rogan explains how Floyd Mayweather went broke: "Imagine making $750 million and you're 49. You're broke." Joe: "Do you see all the stuff that's going on with Floyd?" Tony: "Yeah. I can't wrap my head around it. I don't understand how someone makes that much money and doesn't pay taxes or whatever." Joe: "Yeah. Well, I could tell you how.. you run out of money. You know, you spend so much money on things." Tony: "Do you think he has a business manager?" Joe: "Maybe he wasn't looking out for his best interest" Tony: "I mean, you got to put somebody in charge of that amount of money." Joe: "You would think $750 million would last you a while. He's not even 50." Joe: "Put some away. But the thing is, it's like that lifestyle. His lifestyle was all about showing you his wealth. He's 49. Imagine making $750 million and you're 49. You're broke." Joe: "That's crazy. But Tyson talks openly about how he spent hundreds of millions of dollars, just went through it. You know, if you're living that life where you're just wearing diamonds everywhere and you're buying crazy watches, and you know, Floyd does these things. You ever seen the way he'll go into a hotel room when he's traveling and he talks about the watches that he brought, and so he opens up suitcases with millions of dollars in watches? He just opens suitcases. You ever seen these?" Tony: "No." Joe: "Find them because they're kind of hilarious." Tony: "He's just trying to figure out which one he wants to wear. He brings them all with him." Joe: "Yeah. He's just showing off. He's showing off that he's got two suitcases filled with diamond-encrusted Patek Philippes and the most high-end watches. Look at this. Do you have the clip?" Joe: "Here it is. Look. Play, put some volume on this. Look at this." Floyd: "People are always in my business, worried about what I'm doing, what Floyd is doing, what Floyd ain't doing, what I do got, what I don't got. Just know I'mma stay in my lane. I ain't going to [__] with nobody. And I don't want nobody [__] with me. If I go on vacation, my fault. When I go on paycation for 30 days, I take 30 watches with me." Floyd: "But you know what? What's crazy is this: if we add 10 more days, I take 10 more watches. But then I say, 'Fuck it. If I want to bring out the one and only, then I bring out the watch that cost $18 million.'" Floyd: "Matter of fact, you know what I'm going to do for you [__] haters today? I'm going to go [__] off $50,000 cuz I ain't got [__] else to do. Money made all [__] day." Joe Rogan: "That's the problem. So that you can only do for so long. So if you have one $18 million watch, like, okay, let's not get crazy. Let's not get crazy. You wanted to get it, you got it. You have $750 million. You have one $18 million watch. You can't have 18 watches that cost millions of dollars, because you're going to need more. You're going to keep wanting to buy more. You're going to run out of money. How many Rolls-Royces do you have? Okay. Each one of those is a half a million dollars. You have four or five of them. How many Ferraris? You got 10 Ferraris. Okay. what? Some of those Ferraris are almost a million dollars. You have 10 almost a million dollar cars. Okay. So, just in watches and cars alone, we're looking at 50, 60 million. And then you have to make 120 plus to actually have 60."

Joe Rogan explains how Floyd Mayweather went broke: "Imagine making $750 million and you're 49. You're broke." Joe: "Do you see all the stuff that's going on with Floyd?" Tony: "Yeah. I can't wrap my head around it. I don't understand how someone makes that much money and doesn't pay taxes or whatever." Joe: "Yeah. Well, I could tell you how.. you run out of money. You know, you spend so much money on things." Tony: "Do you think he has a business manager?" Joe: "Maybe he wasn't looking out for his best interest" Tony: "I mean, you got to put somebody in charge of that amount of money." Joe: "You would think $750 million would last you a while. He's not even 50." Joe: "Put some away. But the thing is, it's like that lifestyle. His lifestyle was all about showing you his wealth. He's 49. Imagine making $750 million and you're 49. You're broke." Joe: "That's crazy. But Tyson talks openly about how he spent hundreds of millions of dollars, just went through it. You know, if you're living that life where you're just wearing diamonds everywhere and you're buying crazy watches, and you know, Floyd does these things. You ever seen the way he'll go into a hotel room when he's traveling and he talks about the watches that he brought, and so he opens up suitcases with millions of dollars in watches? He just opens suitcases. You ever seen these?" Tony: "No." Joe: "Find them because they're kind of hilarious." Tony: "He's just trying to figure out which one he wants to wear. He brings them all with him." Joe: "Yeah. He's just showing off. He's showing off that he's got two suitcases filled with diamond-encrusted Patek Philippes and the most high-end watches. Look at this. Do you have the clip?" Joe: "Here it is. Look. Play, put some volume on this. Look at this." Floyd: "People are always in my business, worried about what I'm doing, what Floyd is doing, what Floyd ain't doing, what I do got, what I don't got. Just know I'mma stay in my lane. I ain't going to [] with nobody. And I don't want nobody [] with me. If I go on vacation, my fault. When I go on paycation for 30 days, I take 30 watches with me." Floyd: "But you know what? What's crazy is this: if we add 10 more days, I take 10 more watches. But then I say, 'Fuck it. If I want to bring out the one and only, then I bring out the watch that cost $18 million.'" Floyd: "Matter of fact, you know what I'm going to do for you [] haters today? I'm going to go [] off $50,000 cuz I ain't got [] else to do. Money made all [] day." Joe Rogan: "That's the problem. So that you can only do for so long. So if you have one $18 million watch, like, okay, let's not get crazy. Let's not get crazy. You wanted to get it, you got it. You have $750 million. You have one $18 million watch. You can't have 18 watches that cost millions of dollars, because you're going to need more. You're going to keep wanting to buy more. You're going to run out of money. How many Rolls-Royces do you have? Okay. Each one of those is a half a million dollars. You have four or five of them. How many Ferraris? You got 10 Ferraris. Okay. what? Some of those Ferraris are almost a million dollars. You have 10 almost a million dollar cars. Okay. So, just in watches and cars alone, we're looking at 50, 60 million. And then you have to make 120 plus to actually have 60."

Tony Jacob | FindaClip.com

694,037 views • 2 months ago

Rory McIlroy was asked ahead of The Open if he agrees with the idea that “Trackman Golfers” don’t do well at Opens: “No, I wouldn't totally agree with that. I think that TrackMan or any launch monitor, it's a very useful tool. I think you can get too into the numbers, which then can be detrimental. I think, yeah, TrackMan can be very useful. It can be -- I think it can actually help you with the feel of your golf swing at times. “If you see a certain number on TrackMan, it gives you a feeling of what you need to do, so if you can sort of match up the number you see on the screen with a feel that you have in your golf swing, I actually think you can become more feel-based. “I use TrackMan a lot in season because I feel like it's hard to work on technical positions when you're just trying to manage your pattern through the course of the season. I use TrackMan where it's like, okay, my path's getting a little to the right, I've just got to feel like I swing more left. Or my face angle is getting a bit left and I've got to feel like I hold it a bit more square through impact, whatever it is. “To me, I actually feel like it's a great tool to use when your swing gets off a bit and you can sort of train your feels back into where they need to be.” Rory McIlroy The Open LKD

Rory McIlroy was asked ahead of The Open if he agrees with the idea that “Trackman Golfers” don’t do well at Opens: “No, I wouldn't totally agree with that. I think that TrackMan or any launch monitor, it's a very useful tool. I think you can get too into the numbers, which then can be detrimental. I think, yeah, TrackMan can be very useful. It can be -- I think it can actually help you with the feel of your golf swing at times. “If you see a certain number on TrackMan, it gives you a feeling of what you need to do, so if you can sort of match up the number you see on the screen with a feel that you have in your golf swing, I actually think you can become more feel-based. “I use TrackMan a lot in season because I feel like it's hard to work on technical positions when you're just trying to manage your pattern through the course of the season. I use TrackMan where it's like, okay, my path's getting a little to the right, I've just got to feel like I swing more left. Or my face angle is getting a bit left and I've got to feel like I hold it a bit more square through impact, whatever it is. “To me, I actually feel like it's a great tool to use when your swing gets off a bit and you can sort of train your feels back into where they need to be.” Rory McIlroy The Open LKD

Flushing It

807,055 views • 2 months ago

Maye Musk on her challenges: “I didn't want to talk about my challenges or any struggles, but Elon, Kimball, and Tosca separately said, 'Be sure you talk about your struggles because we lived through it.' When you can just afford to put a roof over your head if it's rent controlled, you don't have to go to the movies, you don't have to go out for dinner, you can eat very economically and healthy, and you don't have to go to a gym because you can't afford it, so you can just walk around or run aroun. And so, you can do without your privileges, but you're moving ahead. In other words, you're leaving a bad situation. I don't move because moving is fun. Moving is hell. Every section of it goes wrong. Anyone, even if you move next door, it goes wrong. I moved cities and countries, and I don't recommend it, but for each time it was either to improve my life or to get away from a bad situation, and then the thing is, you just want to survive. You just have to survive, and then eventually you thrive. So now I'm thriving. I'm here.”

Maye Musk on her challenges: “I didn't want to talk about my challenges or any struggles, but Elon, Kimball, and Tosca separately said, 'Be sure you talk about your struggles because we lived through it.' When you can just afford to put a roof over your head if it's rent controlled, you don't have to go to the movies, you don't have to go out for dinner, you can eat very economically and healthy, and you don't have to go to a gym because you can't afford it, so you can just walk around or run aroun. And so, you can do without your privileges, but you're moving ahead. In other words, you're leaving a bad situation. I don't move because moving is fun. Moving is hell. Every section of it goes wrong. Anyone, even if you move next door, it goes wrong. I moved cities and countries, and I don't recommend it, but for each time it was either to improve my life or to get away from a bad situation, and then the thing is, you just want to survive. You just have to survive, and then eventually you thrive. So now I'm thriving. I'm here.”

Eva Fo𝕏 🦊 Claudius Nero's Legion

34,317 views • 5 months ago

How Jason Calacanis Got Claw-Pilled: An AI Agent Prompted Itself to Build Him a CRM in Seconds “ The moment I became Claw-pilled, I was like, ‘Hey, I want to build my network, I know these 20 people in Japan, I had dinner with them during my recent trip, I want to know who they know, so check out LinkedIn and other things, and who they're associated with, and make me a mind map of it, and then the next trip I want to meet with the next circle of those connections.’” “It's like, ‘Okay, I got the results,’ and it said, ‘Where do you want me to put them?’” “I was like, ‘Well, where can you put them?’” “And it said, ‘I can put it in a Google sheet, I can put it in a Notion table, I can put it here, I could give you a PDF, I could give you a CSV file, or I could write you a CRM.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, sure, make me a CRM system…’ and it made a CRM system.” “I think maybe 1/1000 people working with AI have had that experience. Maybe it's 1/10,000, where your agent says, ‘I'll make you bespoke software.’ The context is so good because the memory's getting better. When did that happen?” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: “I think it happened with Opus 4.5. That was the inflection point when models started being amazingly good at orchestration, and reasoning, and tool calls.” “The models started becoming very good at handling the context, so the context window no longer became a problem, and that made it suddenly so good at doing very long orchestration tasks.” —------------------------------------------ Our episode is sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange - a modern marketplace and exchange for building the future. It all happens at the NYSE 🏛 -

How Jason Calacanis Got Claw-Pilled: An AI Agent Prompted Itself to Build Him a CRM in Seconds “ The moment I became Claw-pilled, I was like, ‘Hey, I want to build my network, I know these 20 people in Japan, I had dinner with them during my recent trip, I want to know who they know, so check out LinkedIn and other things, and who they're associated with, and make me a mind map of it, and then the next trip I want to meet with the next circle of those connections.’” “It's like, ‘Okay, I got the results,’ and it said, ‘Where do you want me to put them?’” “I was like, ‘Well, where can you put them?’” “And it said, ‘I can put it in a Google sheet, I can put it in a Notion table, I can put it here, I could give you a PDF, I could give you a CSV file, or I could write you a CRM.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, sure, make me a CRM system…’ and it made a CRM system.” “I think maybe 1/1000 people working with AI have had that experience. Maybe it's 1/10,000, where your agent says, ‘I'll make you bespoke software.’ The context is so good because the memory's getting better. When did that happen?” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: “I think it happened with Opus 4.5. That was the inflection point when models started being amazingly good at orchestration, and reasoning, and tool calls.” “The models started becoming very good at handling the context, so the context window no longer became a problem, and that made it suddenly so good at doing very long orchestration tasks.” —------------------------------------------ Our episode is sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange - a modern marketplace and exchange for building the future. It all happens at the NYSE 🏛 -

The All-In Podcast

171,016 views • 6 months ago