Fantastic framework for America’s AI strategy as outlined by David Sacks 1. Innovation. “You have to out-innovate the competition.” Startups keep the US at the forefront. “You can’t regulate your way to being first.” 2. Infrastructure. Investing in data centers and energy.

Hulkamania in Heaven. RIP Brother.

The last 20% is where the real magic happens. 🎯🎯🎯

Shooter finally gets what's coming to him

Back is January, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella told me: "All I know is, I'm good for my $80 billion." Well, he just upped the ante this afternoon. He is now “good for” $120 billion.

A new age of transport begins at scale

Congratulations to all my friends and investors at @Figma - big day for design !

Access Approved. Figma joins the NYSE Listed Community $FIG

The magic of compounding for every child on every rural street & urban block in America. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

If you joined Figma 5 years ago with a $100K annual equity grant (pretty reasonable) over 4 years, just that initial grant would be worth ~$10M today.

The staggering drop in new startups in China. Entrepreneurship is one barometer of authoritarianism and its effect on culture. In the long run, authoritarian economies decline because they forestall disruption, and thereby forestall progress.

.Firefly Aerospace ringing IPO bell, SpaceX signing Mars deal w/Italy, Blue Origin making suborbital routine, Rocket Lab launching a Japanese satellite. These are the headlines--a healthy commercial industry generating revenue beyond U.S. govt is key to orbital economy & the future

The Fairchildren didn’t just build chips—they built a flywheel. Every unicorn since has launched the next wave. That’s America’s edge — the freedom to create startups, to scale them, to achieve an exit, and to launch what’s next. #LittleTech

Fairchildren. Intel. Apple. Sun. Netscape. PayPal. Google. Facebook. Airbnb. Uber. Tesla. SpaceX. Figma. Palantir. And the beat goes on… The freedom to disrupt with new ideas and new technologies, to not need special permission to try, is incredibly unique in human history.

Thanks for the memories. #RIP

F-35C Lightning II flies over the Florida coastline as a SpaceX satellite launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the distance. [📹 iceman_fox1]

Michael Jordan is competing in the White Marlin Open this weekend with his 82-foot Bayliss fishing boat. MJ and the Catch 23 crew are currently in second place after weighing in a 71-pound white marlin. If the result holds, they'll walk away with $400,000 in prize money.

Exclusive: Startup Vulcan Elements says it raised $65 million to increase production of rare-earth magnets, signaling a push to build up an industry in the U.S. and reduce dependence on China on.wsj.com/3Unb2kI

In our latest Cheeky Pint, Vlad Tenev of Robinhood and I discussed hoarding Bulgarian copper pots, his pitch to tokenise private stocks, how Michael Lewis got Flash Boys wrong, Vlad’s admiration for Frank Slootman, and what he’d do as SEC Chairman. I also discovered that Vlad can