i wish this came out before @micsolana and the @PirateWires ep dropped.
Scott Galloway says he owned a Tesla, but sold it because of Elon.
"Not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story."
He's gone from suggesting Elon be executed to telling stories of taking dumps in a car he owned because it was made by Elon's company.
This is a broken, deranged and utterly toxic individual.
ive posted about travis kalanick more than once. especially when he was very much out of favour with the media. but i think he is truly one of the greats and should be admired/learned from.
- his first company, Scour, was sued for $250b by the music and movie industries and went bankrupt
- he moved back in with his parents and started Red Swoosh, which he called his "revenge business"
- grinded for many years and eventually sold it to Akamai for $19m and made a little bit of money
- moved to sf and became friends with people like Garrett Camp and Chris Sacca
- they wanted to tap a phone and have a car show up, like James Bond in Casino Royale
- that became Uber
- uber grew so fast it became the poster child for a new term: blitzscaling
- he struggled to take Uber from pirates to the navy
- one of his earliest backers led the push to oust him, weeks after his mom died in a boat crash
- he went dark for years
- now he's back. building a new company Atoms: robots for mining, transport and autonomous kitchens.
- lots have predicted a jobs like arc where he eventually returns to or merges with Uber and take back his throne
everyone is trying to get into @ycombinator, while yc founders are just tryna get on my feed.
different games are being played here people.
(i have applied for and been rejected from yc more times than i can count lol)
i wanna give a little shoutout to this guy called @alanchanguk. he seems to be one of the most aggressive and ambitious entrepreneurs in the world.
•At @Revolut he went from an ops analyst to CRO
•When he got promoted to VP he asked to get paid nothing and just receive equity
•General counsel wouldn't allow him go below min wage so he earned $20k/yr
•Lived in a shoebox 5 mins from the office and ate free compnay food only
•Early investor tried to get him fired for being too hard core (maybe more than once)
•@NStoronsky backed him and removed all VCs from the board as a result
•Those revolut shares are now worth £10m
•He's put everything back into building his next company @fuseenergy
i gaurentee you he didn't pick up the dogs shit
This 2006 Pacific Coast News photo shows Apple co-founder Steve Jobs walking his pug “Baby” on a quiet Palo Alto sidewalk just before the iPhone’s launch. Although speculation has grown over the pugs real name.
Jobs was famous for taking long walks around his neighborhood and the Apple campus for thinking and conversations, making this candid shot a rare glimpse of the private man behind the tech legend.
some version of this is the future. could v0 of this just be some android fork with existing hardware?
is @CheekyPint such a good source of revenue for stripe that their president has to invest the time in each episode. or is @collision just very very chatty??