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- Knowledge workers earn tens of trillions annually - labs are orders of magnitude below this revenue target
- Anthropic's revenue has grown 10x annually: 'zero to 100 million in 2023, 100 million to a billion in 2024, billion to nine or 10 billion in 2025' - Dario
- YouTube's revenue share model (close to 50%) exists due to historical competition, while other social networks give creators effectively 0% outside token creator funds
- Members of Congress can legally engage in insider trading while handmade skateboard sales are prohibited by ethics rules
- Chinese frontier labs (Minimax, ZAI) project end-of-year ARR of $1β$1.2 billion, having roughly doubled revenue month-over-month versus last year.
- Food Play Productions generated $1.5 million revenue at peak with 12 staff and four touring vans before COVID downsizing
- Gotchies underwear brand launched January 2025, hit $40K first year revenue with 17% repurchase rate and $100+ average order value
- Alabama's prison system has killed 1,500 people since filming began, with guards selling contraband phones that inmates use to document systematic violence and murder
- Guards make $36,000 annually but earn up to $75,000 by selling drugs and phones to inmates, making corrections departments the largest drug dealing operations
- Collector Crypt generated $9 million revenue in May from Pokemon card gacha, with 10% net margins
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AI and Inequality: Nobel-Winning Economist Daron Acemoglu on How to Get AI Right
As detailed in Ω Ψ§Ψ°Ψ§ ΨΨ―Ψ« ΩΩΨ―ΩΩ ΩΨ±Ψ§Ψ·ΩΨ© Ψ§ΩΩΩΨ¨Ψ±Ψ§ΩΩΨ©Ψ, liberal democracy faces crisis because post-industrial economic changes severed business expansion from shared wage growth.
AI Agents Could Drive 10,000x More Web Activity | Former Twitter CEO
"My prediction of agents using the web 1,000x more than humans is too low; we'll see 5,000x to 10,000x growth from current levels." - Parag
#321 Ryan Holiday - The Stoic Survival Guide
As explored in Meditations, Stoicism is a personal practice of creating distance between oneself and destructive, dysregulated thoughts.
Apple Just Filed the Lawsuit That Could Destroy OpenAI
US Central Command struck approximately 140 Iranian military targets in a single night, marking the most intense aerial bombardment since the June ceasefire.
Sun Bum: Tom Rinks. The Secrets of a Master Brand Builder (2023)
"Brand design is more important than price when the average consumer has to decide between two similar products." - Guy
OpenAI Whistleblower FINALLY Speaks: βAI Has A 70% Chance Of Going Horribly Wrong!β
"There is a 70% chance that this goes horribly wrong, like human extinction" - Daniel, warning about the rapid trajectory of uncontrolled superintelligent AI development.
More Trillion Dollar IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
SpaceX successfully went public at a $1.75 trillion valuation, raising $75 billion on approximately $35 billion of forward revenue.
CEO-Led AI Gets 3X the ROI
OpenAI developed its first custom ASIC chip, "JalapeΓ±o," with Broadcom in a rapid nine-month cycle to accelerate inference.
Is DePIN Entering Its Next Growth Phase?
Backpack's tokenized SpaceX equity allows direct redemption between brokerage accounts and on-chain tokens, providing superior liquidity for market makers.
Gretchen Rubin - How Curiosity Becomes a Calling (Ep. 320)
Rubin's transition from law to writing Power, Money, Fame, Sex A User's Guide was driven by an irresistible, compulsive "tractor beam" of curiosity.
How the 1994 World Cup Transformed the Business of Football Forever
The 1994 World Cup in the US marked the beginning of an exponential commercialization curve for global football.
281. Dr. Phil Reveals The Exercise That Rewires Your Brain in Minutes
Anxiety, depression, and loneliness are at historic highs among youth, a crisis Dr. Phil McGraw addresses in We've Got Issues How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity.
Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products
During the COVID-19 pandemic, EO Products experienced a 10x surge in hand sanitizer demand followed by a challenging 50% drop in sales.
Everything is Outperforming the S&P 500 This Year (EP. 470)
"Everything is outperforming the S&P 500 this year" - Ben, as the market rally broadens beyond the Magnificent Seven.
Socialist Takeover in New York City, USAID Funded NGOs That Destabilized Governments, Tolerance Becomes Suicidal When It Isn't Returned | The Tom Bilyeu Show
The Democratic Socialists of America are successfully colonizing the Democratic Party, securing a three-for-three primary sweep in New York City.
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's $56B Plan to Take Over eBay
Ryan Cohen is bidding to acquire eBay using a 50% cash and 50% stock structure, aiming to leverage GameStop's resources and cash.
How Digital Credit Assets like STRC and SATA Differ from Bitcoin or DAT Stocks
Strive holds nearly 20,000 Bitcoin, making it the seventh-largest Bitcoin company and the fastest accumulator of the asset on a percentage basis.
Future-Proof Money on Solana | Hardhat Chad
Ore Protocol was inspired by a desire to scale the self-custody vision originally outlined in Bitcoin A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System on a high-performance DeFi network.
How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders
The gut is a highly robust organ capable of healing from sensitivities once underlying damage is resolved.
The Real Reason Elon Is A Trillionaire Has Nothing To Do With Greed β It Has To Do With Your Savings
"In just the last six years Alone, the money in your pocket has lost about a third of its value." - Tom
Inside the $1B-a-Day Stablecoin Market Maker for 1,500 Institutions, with B2C2's Cactus Raazi
B2C2 transacts roughly $1 billion per day in stablecoins, reflecting how deeply stablecoins have become the native funding instrument for institutional crypto trading.
Grace Shao on What the World Should Know About Chinese AI
Deepseek V4 delayed release by 3-4 months to re-engineer inference onto Huawei chips, signaling a shift toward a fully Chinese AI stack.
STARR Restaurants: Stephen Starr. How a Non-Foodie Built Thriving Restaurants on Gut Instinct
Steven Starr owns 9 of the 100 highest-grossing independent restaurants in the US, with 40+ restaurants pulling in nearly half a billion dollars a year in revenue.
The Biggest Pivot In AI History Is Happening Right Now | Jordi Visser
Recursive self-improvement in AI β predicted by Situational Awareness The Decade Ahead for 2027-2028 β may have effectively arrived early, with Anthropic's Fable-5 (Mythos) jailbroken within 3 days of
World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
SpaceX IPO raised $85 billion β 3x Saudi Aramco's 2019 record β with stock closing up 19% to $161, briefly making it the 4th most valuable company globally.
Your Company Doesnβt Need an AI Strategy
Satya Nadella's viral post A Frontier Without an Ecosystem Is Not Stable argues the real AI opportunity is building a learning loop where human capital and token capital compound together.
The Resurgence of Decentralized AI | Roundup
Anthropic's Fable model is inaccessible in Canada and other regions, and a team of Amazon researchers jailbroke it quickly after launch, exposing real limits of centralized AI control.
Anthropic's Fable Banned, Will Microstrategy Blow Up & Structuring A Portfolio in 2026
Jordy Alexander reduced body fat from 26% to 14% over 8 months through 15-20K daily steps, lifting 3x/week, and clean diet β not peptides alone.
And, This Is Why Reid Hoffman Doesnβt Fear Artificial Intelligence
Reid Hoffman argues current college graduate unemployment is ~95% driven by COVID overhiring and tariffs, not AI β 'if it's a percentage from AI, it's like 5%'
Why Fable's Shutdown Is a Warning for Every AI Lab: Uneasy Money
Coinbase's product management discipline was reportedly '3x' stronger than Google's, according to colleagues who worked at both companies β Porter
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