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RT @foundertribune: "The Challenge of the Future" by Peter Thiel https://t.co/NmtuszPzmF
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RT @foundertribune: "The Challenge of the Future" by Peter Thiel https://t.co/NmtuszPzmF
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"Most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more. Without technological change, if China doubles its energy production over the next two decades, it will also double its air pollution. If every one of India’s hundreds of millions of households were to live the way Americans already do—using only today’s tools—the result would be environmentally catastrophic. Spreading old ways to create wealth around the world will result in devastation, not riches. In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable... Today our challenge is to both imagine and create the new technologies that can make the 21st century more peaceful and prosperous than the 20th."
- Peter Thiel
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"Most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more. Without technological change, if China doubles its energy production over the next two decades, it will also double its air pollution. If every one of India’s hundreds of millions of households were to live the way Americans already do—using only today’s tools—the result would be environmentally catastrophic. Spreading old ways to create wealth around the world will result in devastation, not riches. In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable... Today our challenge is to both imagine and create the new technologies that can make the 21st century more peaceful and prosperous than the 20th."
- Peter Thiel
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Palantir $PLTR is stacking new all-time-highs. Cheering for the visionary investors who saw the potential early on🙌
That said, the short-term risk/reward is getting really unfavorable right now. A fantastic business, but an ugly valuation. https://t.co/6BpzroiRAp
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Palantir $PLTR is stacking new all-time-highs. Cheering for the visionary investors who saw the potential early on🙌
That said, the short-term risk/reward is getting really unfavorable right now. A fantastic business, but an ugly valuation. https://t.co/6BpzroiRAp
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RT @InsiderRadar: 3 weeks ago, we reported on an insider purchase of $ENPH while the stock was at its 52-week low.
Since then, the stock has risen 22% (and is up 8% today).
Looks like the CEO may have bought the dip at the perfect time. https://t.co/cHoMWa9hAJ
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RT @InsiderRadar: 3 weeks ago, we reported on an insider purchase of $ENPH while the stock was at its 52-week low.
Since then, the stock has risen 22% (and is up 8% today).
Looks like the CEO may have bought the dip at the perfect time. https://t.co/cHoMWa9hAJ
🚨 New CEO Insider Purchase
The CEO of $ENPH has reported the purchase of ~$300K of the company's stock.
This is the second insider purchase he has reported in the last week tweet
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Last year, we saw Senator Markwayne Mullin buy stock in Axon Enterprises.
It's a major government contractor, that develops electroshock weapons.
Mullin sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The stock has now risen 180% since his purchase. https://t.co/WBeIO7HaGQ
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Last year, we saw Senator Markwayne Mullin buy stock in Axon Enterprises.
It's a major government contractor, that develops electroshock weapons.
Mullin sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The stock has now risen 180% since his purchase. https://t.co/WBeIO7HaGQ
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RT @garrytan: Never pitch the kitchen sink
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RT @garrytan: Never pitch the kitchen sink
Peter Thiel on a common red flag he sees in startup pitches
“There’s a pattern recognition where if I see a presentation that says, ‘We have this great idea and we’re going to make money in one of these 5 ways: A, B, C, D, or E.’… That’s always sort of alarming and not very inspiring.”
Thiel continues:
“It’s always much better if people say we’re just going to make money doing A. It suggests you’ve actually thought it through and you think it’s going to actually work. Whereas when you list A through E, that sounds like a superset and you have more things going on, but the reality is that you often haven’t really thought through them very carefully.”
Thiel generalizes this insight:
“I think whenever people come up with a list of options or choices like this, that’s often a version of being lazy and not thinking really hard about what actually might work.”
Video source: @Wharton (2014) tweet
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Marc Andreessen explains why the “curse of the entrepreneur” is being too early
“My experience is the great founders almost always feel like they’re too late, and you’re almost always too early.”
The reason is because the idea seems obvious to the founder:
“You’ve got some idea in your head, and as far as you’re concerned, the world should already work this way, which is why you’re pursuing it. And so it’s a little inexplicable as to why it hasn’t happened to it… It must be just about to happen and I must be too late.”
This is how Marc felt at Netscape when he co-authored the first widely used web browser. But in reality, Marc explains, founders are almost always too early:
“We almost never see a qualified founder fail because they were too late to market. It’s almost always because they’re too early to market. And I don’t say that critically. When we screw up investments, I think that’s often the reason as well.”
It usually turns out that the world just wasn’t ready yet. Marc points out that when Apple launched the Newton in 1989, it was basically the same thing as the iPad. The world just wasn’t ready yet, and the required technologies weren’t in place (e.g. mobile broadband, high-resolution screens, battery technology, etc.).
“It convinced people for 20 years that tablet computing would never work. And then they did it again with the iPad, and it worked. I think that’s the permanent curse of the entrepreneur.”
In a previous YC talk, Marc told founders that if what you’re working on was the hot thing 3-4 years ago, you’re probably right on time because the infrastructure and consumer behavior has now caught up.
Video source: @ycombinator (2016)
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Marc Andreessen explains why the “curse of the entrepreneur” is being too early
“My experience is the great founders almost always feel like they’re too late, and you’re almost always too early.”
The reason is because the idea seems obvious to the founder:
“You’ve got some idea in your head, and as far as you’re concerned, the world should already work this way, which is why you’re pursuing it. And so it’s a little inexplicable as to why it hasn’t happened to it… It must be just about to happen and I must be too late.”
This is how Marc felt at Netscape when he co-authored the first widely used web browser. But in reality, Marc explains, founders are almost always too early:
“We almost never see a qualified founder fail because they were too late to market. It’s almost always because they’re too early to market. And I don’t say that critically. When we screw up investments, I think that’s often the reason as well.”
It usually turns out that the world just wasn’t ready yet. Marc points out that when Apple launched the Newton in 1989, it was basically the same thing as the iPad. The world just wasn’t ready yet, and the required technologies weren’t in place (e.g. mobile broadband, high-resolution screens, battery technology, etc.).
“It convinced people for 20 years that tablet computing would never work. And then they did it again with the iPad, and it worked. I think that’s the permanent curse of the entrepreneur.”
In a previous YC talk, Marc told founders that if what you’re working on was the hot thing 3-4 years ago, you’re probably right on time because the infrastructure and consumer behavior has now caught up.
Video source: @ycombinator (2016)
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Langdon on Aritzia $ATZ CN
Thesis: Aritzia’s thoughtful growth strategy and investments in talent position it for continued success in U.S. and international markets.
(Extract from their Q3 letter) https://t.co/Yhnxbap8ZX
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Langdon on Aritzia $ATZ CN
Thesis: Aritzia’s thoughtful growth strategy and investments in talent position it for continued success in U.S. and international markets.
(Extract from their Q3 letter) https://t.co/Yhnxbap8ZX
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RT @InsiderRadar: $IMNM has risen 8% today, and is up over 50% since we reported on these insider trades two weeks ago https://t.co/g9mj9wVP72
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RT @InsiderRadar: $IMNM has risen 8% today, and is up over 50% since we reported on these insider trades two weeks ago https://t.co/g9mj9wVP72
🚨 JUST IN: 3 New Insider Purchases at $IMNM
- $960K purchase by CEO
- $150K purchase by Chief Medical Officer
- $200K purchase by CTO
All three of these trades were filed this morning, shortly before market open. tweet