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Wealthy founders retiring into passive angel investing is a moral failure
“And they've taken, like, the route of Big Head in Silicon Valley, the HBO show, where they're just kind of, like, resting, investing, just kind of chilling out, making lifestyle decisions while writing angel checks. And that feels like a real moral failure of …”
OnlyFans, online gambling, and dating apps harm society despite feeling good
“Only fans you know, gambling, I think falls in the feels good is bad camp. This is like society has somehow managed to convince ourselves that there's some like freedom of expression or something like that that should be protected. And I agree, like freedom of…”
Authoritarian regimes hold a massive advantage by conscripting elite engineering talent
“They have a massive advantage against democratic governments because they can mandatorily conscript their most talented people into working on the society on society's greatest problems.”
Microsoft is much more willing to support US defense than other tech giants
“They, as you said, they have been much more willing than the other big tech companies to think of themselves as an American company, which is incredibly important and also be willing to work with the government on programs where, you know, there's potentially …”
Trae Stephens claims Flock Safety is the next Axon in law enforcement
“I think this is like kind of a once in a generation opportunity to build you know kind of a BMF in the law enforcement space, a la axon which is the company formerly named taser.”
Humanoid robotics mega-rounds risk repeating the self-driving car investment bust
“Going out and raising these mega rounds at massive prices. It kind of reminds me of the self driving car phenomenon where you had these companies that understandably were capital intensive and it was like, man, if it works, it's going to be great. Everybody's …”