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If you divided that money... in half and gave everybody a $21,000 voucher and a $21,000 money in their bank account, they would graduate with $300,000 and the affordability crisis that got Mamdani…

Jeff Yass ·Co-Founder & Managing Director ·May 2026

The real reality, the sad reality, is the left is not trying to solve the problem. They know school choice would make kids much happier. They know they'd save a fortune, but they would lose power,…

Jeff Yass ·Co-Founder & Managing Director ·May 2026

I care a lot more about the ecosystem. I want the ecosystem to be healthy. I want it to be thriving. I want it to be like a coral reef of a lot of cool exciting startups and all the nooks and…

Andrej Karpathy ·Independent AI Researcher and Former Director of AI ·Jun 2026

I think there's still like a massive gap in just the energetic efficiency of running all this stuff. So my brain is 20 watts roughly. Jensen was just talking at GTC about you know the massive…

Andrej Karpathy ·Independent AI Researcher and Former Director of AI ·Jun 2026

I think we have to be careful with the naming because a lot of the ones that you listed like Llama, Mron, and so on, I wouldn't actually say they're open source, right? And so like it's kind of like…

Andrej Karpathy ·Independent AI Researcher and Former Director of AI ·Jun 2026

I think the OS analogy is also really interesting because when you get when you look at something like Windows or something like that these are also operating systems they come with a few default…

Andrej Karpathy ·Independent AI Researcher and Former Director of AI ·Jun 2026

I think roughly speaking the way things are happening is everyone is trying to build what I refer to as kind of like this LM OS and basically I like to think of it as an operating system you have to…

Andrej Karpathy ·Independent AI Researcher and Former Director of AI ·Jun 2026

I can't think of a more relevant, bigger opportunity than broadly speaking the digital asset opportunity. And it comes from a couple of uh frameworks. One, do you believe we're going to be spending…

Yat Siu ·Executive Chairman & Co-Founder ·Jun 2026

We believe in this thing called the shared network effect. And it's this idea this stemmed a little bit from our open source background and open source thinking that it's not possible to have uh…

Yat Siu ·Executive Chairman & Co-Founder ·Jun 2026

The fact that the US dollar is a stable coin in the form of circle and and tether and other other other stable coins actually made the dollar more powerful and had a bigger network and because of…

Yat Siu ·Executive Chairman & Co-Founder ·Jun 2026

We look at tokens and tokenization essentially as creation or expansion of network and network effects. And what that means is that when you tokenize anything whether it is something like a memecoin…

Yat Siu ·Executive Chairman & Co-Founder ·Jun 2026

NFTs still do about a half a billion dollars of sales a month. You know what I mean? And and this is one of those funny things where if you're not in the space you would say oh NFTs are dead or they…

Yat Siu ·Executive Chairman & Co-Founder ·Jun 2026

Yes I feel very happy. I feel happy but not totally accomplished because of course we still have a lot of things to do and above all we must economically liberate Africa and this must be done by us…

Aliko Dangote ·CEO ·Mar 2025

We are a major company on the African continent who invests only in Africa but not in small ways. We invest massively in Africa. So this perception has somewhat changed and I would even say has…

Aliko Dangote ·CEO ·Mar 2025

The differences you know we have between the countries that speak French and let's say it Nigeria it's that we have taken control of our own destiny we control the economy of our country and I prefer…

Aliko Dangote ·CEO ·Mar 2025

One of the things I'm really very very proud of is that I didn't inherit money from my father. I really built everything I have from scratch.

Aliko Dangote ·CEO ·Mar 2025

For games, honor of kings and peacekeeper elite achieved record high in gross receipts during the first quarter of 2026 while newly released creator collecting gain. Local kingdom world achieved…

Pony Ma ·CEO ·May 2026

Looking at our financial numbers for the first quarter, total revenue was 196 billion R&B up 9% year. Adjusting from for the impact on revenue recognition for our value added services from the la the…

Pony Ma ·CEO ·May 2026

Our core businesses continue to grow their engagement, revenue and profit providing the cash flow to fund our AI investments as well as use cases for future AI deployments.

Pony Ma ·CEO ·May 2026

We start 2026 by making significant initial progress on our new AI products so as continue to utilize AI to grow our existing core business. The hunu review model built by our revamped team of AI…

Pony Ma ·CEO ·May 2026

I don't think China wants to replace the US dollar if Trump wants to sanction China and try to remove them from the pay global payment system they have an alternative the trading partners have…

Arthur Hayes ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

Regulatory input means nothing to these coins. If if Zcash needed a positive regulatory environment to survive, Zcash is worth nothing. The whole point is that it exists outside the system that…

Arthur Hayes ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

If you're in the game of providing a front-term model, you cannot fall behind unless you're going to go the Chinese way which says I'm going to undercut price, open source everything, I'm going to…

Arthur Hayes ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

I don't think we're anywhere close to the saturation point of AI capex build. If anything, this is proving that you need to build even more capex, right? Because at the end of the day, you know, if…

Arthur Hayes ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

Google took the Microsoft route which is we're going to be a horizontal software company, we're going to license our software or quote unquote open source it so everyone can use it, but they wanted…

Ben Thompson ·Founder ·Jan 2024

Google is going in and selling openness and then they're going in and cutting all these deals which by the way is like a word for word violation of the Sherman Trust agreement which talks about…

Ben Thompson ·Founder ·Jan 2024

Everyone knows Apple controls the App Store. There is no there's been no changing of the rules, there's no treating different companies differently. This is a very important reason why Apple has…

Ben Thompson ·Founder ·Jan 2024

The fundamental nature of technology and the way it works and the way that aggregation market works which entail controlling demand not controlling supply require a different approach legally.

Ben Thompson ·Founder ·Jan 2024

Ultimately gives the power back to the people because you own your data you own your identity you own you uh and when you do business with people you're able to prove things about you but you don't…

Charles Hoskinson ·CEO ·Jun 2026

I think succinctly Midnight is the missing layer that will bridge the trady and the DeFi together. And it's the thing that really you can start using to make blockchains grow up and be able to deal…

Charles Hoskinson ·CEO ·Jun 2026