Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright: 'AI transforms electricity into the most valuable output imaginable: intelligence.'

The Future 50 is here. 5 months ago, we asked +200 of the world’s best VCs to pick the 2 companies with the highest ceilings. The only rule: they had to be valued under $200M. After months of research, we chose the 50 we believe are best-positioned to dominate. More here:

Katechon marks the primary force fighting entropy. It doesn’t eliminate the possibility of apocalypse but postpones collapse long enough for the next katechon to be born. Every age has its own. By imposing order, they create the conditions for growth and human flourishing.

1 yr ago, I rescinded my US O1 visa, left my startup, and moved down to Próspera to build a city from scratch. It’s a zone with very special laws, regulations, and taxes. It has raised almost $200M, incl from Coinbase, Peter Thiel, and created 3000+ local jobs 🧵

"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say". My thoughts are with Charlie Kirk's family.

It has been encouraging to see El Salvador demonstrate that with steadfast leadership transformation is possible in LATAM! Thanks to Nayib Bukele for his example and hospitality. The future is exciting and promising!

We just had our best-ever quarter at Próspera - crossing 350 incorporated companies! 🧵

We just raised $60 million for Blueprint. To bring my longevity protocol to you. Our society has made us unwell…metabolically, mentally, spiritually. We’re addicted. Social media, porn, nicotine, junk food, fast food, smartphones, streaming, energy drinks, and gambling. Each

This week on The Generalist Podcast, I'm joined by Erick Brimen, Founder and CEO of Próspera. The $170M Experiment to Build a Private City in Honduras | Erick Brimen (Founder and CEO of Próspera) Erick A. Brimen is the founder of Próspera, a platform for

Privacy is the precondition for many of our freedoms. It’s the point at which government and corporate reach end and our individual freedoms and self-sovereignty begin. As our lives have moved online, privacy’s become a rare, vanishing commodity. That’s why we founded Cypherpunk

Today we launched Cypherpunk (cypherpunk), a company dedicated to privacy and self-sovereignty. As the world becomes increasingly digitized, privacy has become a rare and precious commodity. Despite this, privacy enhancing technologies remain under-adopted. Backing privacy

outsized returns are always a function of scale this is intuitive to crypto people because you're already familiar with using leverage to get scale via perps, but everything is a derivative of this: software companies all made trillions based on the leverage and scale of

welcome to cypherpunk

Ilya and I are predicting the same future. Ilya Sutskever predicts that as AI becomes viscerally powerful, humans will change in unprecedented ways. I’ve been arguing the same. We are not open to radical change yet because we cannot feel the pressure of AI. Once we do, the vectors for

Dear Readers, Today we released the most important white paper we’ll publish at @8VC this year, authored by my colleagues Sebastian and Finn. There are few topics I’m more obsessed with than how we can make healthcare better and more affordable for all. (Building inexpensive

my assessment on where we're at as a society: 0. addiction is the dominant control structure of our late stage capitalism. the smartest algorithms in history are not designed to help us solve problems or become better, they are designed to hijack our reward systems and make us

Traditional finance says rapid inflation is bad, but deflation is also bad, so slowly losing your wealth via inflation is good. Bitcoin rejects this. Traditional medicine says rapid death is bad, but life extension is also bad, so slowly losing your health via aging is good.

My friend Darren Aronofsky texted me this earlier and my draw dropped. He told me it was AI. Lux is deeply invested in AI (esp Runway) but had he not told me I would have thought he made the movie in stealth and had no idea.

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"This is all about our country right now. I love the USA... We're so proud to be Americans." — Jack Hughes, USA Hockey 🇺🇸