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In 2012, we got deplatformed by Apple, which took away all of our apps, and they never really told us why. They just said it was for violation of App Store rules, and just think about the power that…
We tokenized a Picasso painting because people everyone knows that Picasso painting, so we took a painting about 5 million equivalent dollars U.S. dollars. We tokenized it, fractionalized it about 70…
We have this hope of programmability, right? We can make financial assets, financial instruments, we can program them with code and make them do what we want in a more efficient way and ultimately as…
If we truly want to make this big, and build future finance, and leverage this technology more broadly for ultimately billions of people, we need to build trust and you have to build trust also by…
I think the identities will shift. I think certain people who can't move on and can't embrace if they're stuck with the ergonomics of let's say CSS, I think is a really good example. I personally…
I think overrated mentorship to be very honest like because see 80% of the advice that you get worked for or maybe 100% of the advice that people would give you worked for them, personality type that…
What I wonder is what happens when you put that brain inside of a robot and we humans need to then live side by side with humanoids. I'm like, wow, I don't know exactly when it happens. Maybe it's…
Some people on Wall Street say the best way to invest in AI is go invest in the big companies already doing AI like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and so forth. Others say go find the smaller companies…
The point though is that by tying our hands in this way the fact that the people on Substack can leave means that the only way to make money and grow is to make it good enough that they choose to…
As COVID carried on, New Zealand stayed locked down too long and were too slow coming out of it, and as a result, we felt the pain of that because every other country in the world moved on and New…
Moldova is no longer a gray zone, a profit money laundering enterprise for unscrupulous oligarchs and foreign powers who plundered the state and the people and manipulated institutions for their…
For this to happen, Russia's illegal military presence must end. I call on the International Community to reaffirm the need for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the Russian military from…
We’re talking serious oligarchy. It’s like Musk, you know, gave him well over a hundred million dollars for his super PAC, did a ton of other stuff for him, censored anti-Trump stuff on…
The ugly part of it is the ugliness of the rhetoric associated with it, you know, the cats and the dog sort of thing, the rapists or killers, which is just straight out textbook ugly dehumanization,…
We’re about to be closer to an oligarchy than ever. I mean, keep your eye on Elon Musk; he’s going to have a ridiculous amount of power. He already does by being in the good graces of the White…
We have rising deficits, the U.S. deficits are the largest in the world, growing at the fastest rate in the world, and we need to be finding ways of minimizing the role of the deficits on the…
What's really cool about having a sports team be public is that it allows the team to engage the fans in a totally different way. The fans have an opportunity to become owners in a company that is…
We cannot have what's going on here because it has a massive effect on all of our lives economically and it will for generations to come if we continue to let these geopolitical events play out the…
I think that that's a long term challenge that a lot of economies are going to have, including United States. I do think over time we have got to find a way to create a more balance in both the…
As CEO, Friedman has grown NASDAQ considerably, roughly doubling the number of employees to 8500 and overseeing the largest acquisition in company history, the 2023 purchase of risk software provider…
What is the weakness of Google is that any ad unit that's less profitable than a link or any ad unit that kind of disincentivizes the link click is not in their interest to, like, go aggressive on…
There are per country caps established in the American immigration system of like, okay, for this particular country, you only allow these many number of people per year on the permanent resident…
We will share our advertising revenue with the publisher on a query level basis. That is, on a particular query, if we gain an advertising revenue on that query and if your source was cited as part…
We are proposing a different structure; nobody's really come forward to propose anything here yet. What we are saying is like, we're going to make revenue through advertising because we're…
For the first time, the big clouds are being disrupted by this new architecture and so we're seeing companies like CoreWeave, Lambda, and G42 rise up and service enterprises in a way that the big…
Apple and Google have a totally broken vision for the world which is to limit what developers can do to impose ever more restrictions to prevent things like the metaverse from happening or to tax it…
The FED is going to do what the data tells it it should do irrelevant of the election, because if you do it before you're going to favor one candidate maybe, but then if you do it after then in fact…
The core of the Ethereum foundation is fundamentally a research organization, and you obviously want to have leading edge research, that's important stuff, but I think that research has led them to…
The web 2 world as we call it today, which most web two people don't even know about web2, right they just think they're living in the web, but as we define Web Two is a state of digital colonialism…
I think that it's going to be whatever the data says. Now, I've always been wrong. I think I've predicted seven of the last three recessions, something like that, because of the uncertainty in the…