Eric Gravengaard

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S-Tier C-Suite: CEO: Square jaw behind a gray beard. Runs the company off an iPad and hasn't opened a laptop in a decade. CFO: Lenovo ThinkPad, three monitors, has cried over a spreadsheet and will absolutely cry over one again. Twitches over $14 salads on company card. CTO: Banned from 3 countries. Carries an Android phone they cracked themselves. Blurry in every photograph. Knows where the bodies are buried. Never online during the day. Always online at night. COO: Former valedictorian who once flagged the CTO for not updating a footer from 2025 to 2026. Always 10 minutes early. The CTO's natural enemy. CMO: Part time influencer who hasn't paid for a meal since 2016. Gets recognized at airport lounges by people who can't explain what they do either. CRO: Great Gatsby energy. Doesn't need the money, works for the thrill. Drives a vintage Aston Martin and is always late. The COO has filed complaints.

Has someone built a Reindustrialize job board yet? Could probably vibe code, scraping the top 200 manufacturing startup websites every week to look for open positions.

For years, Wall Street has used your 401k money to buy single family homes. We should ban them from doing it - but allow you to use your 401k to help you buy a home, without penalties or caps or taxes.

I'll tell you this as someone who has been to Venezuela and not some UK lefty looking for political capital. I see the usual band of socialists like you, jumping on this because (1) they are lefty socialists and (2) they hate Trump. I’m don't know the legality of any this, and I’m sure oil will play a role, but most people have no idea of the reality inside Venezuela. I’ve been to Caracas and the Colombian border near Cucuta and it was like nowhere I had ever been. Caracas was unique, a middle-class bubble where if you have access to dollars, you can scrape together an okay-ish life. If you don’t, you’re living on close to nothing. At the border, there were huge numbers of Venezuelans sleeping rough, desperate for work and access to basic goods. I met a young man and his pregnant wife living on the street. Every day he was looking for any work at all, just to send money home to his parents looking after his kids. We gave him $60 and he cried his eyes out because this meant they could eat for a month. Inside Venezuela, there were long queues for food and we visited charities struggling to feed people who were hungry. Millions have fled the country, those that remained and supported Maduro were mobilised for pro-government protests in exchange for regular boxes of basic food, a system that keeps people dependent and compliant (no different from what the socialists do with welfare here). Political repression is real. Protests have been violently suppressed with soldiers opening fire. Journalists and activists have been harassed, jailed and murdered. Elections have stolen and political opposition forced into exile. I have friends who were intimidated into leaving the country, had businesses stolen and watched their life savings evaporate through hyperinflation. Venezuela was once one of the richest countries in South America. Chavez began the destruction and Maduro finished the job. What happens next matters, of course. But if this process leads to a transition toward a genuinely democratically elected government, then while leftist politicians slam Trump, I guarantee the overwhelming majority of Venezuelans, both inside the country and across the diaspora, will be celebrating. Sure sure, agendas agendas.

You can LITERALLY incarcerate your way out of violence. That’s precisely why incarceration exists in the first place.

The Bitcoin UTXO set is 11 GB now. At current growth rates it will exceed 128 GB in 2035, preventing many people from running nodes. In 2043 it will exceed 1 TB, and many larger mining operations will struggle to run nodes.

The day of Treasury BTC mania is OVER. If you don’t have a real business at the core of your BTC strategy you won’t have a sustainable business. Seems everyone running to duplicate what @saylor did forgets he had a real business, real products, real sales, customers & cash flow.

Recent survey of Harvard students, by @TheFIREorg

I genuinely feel bad for people who got roped into the @nakamoto hype. The stock is now down 96% from the top and 50% alone today. I hope you treat this as an investment lesson and learn something.