Happy holidays! When more to feel festive than seeing Taylor Swift at the Kansas City/Green Bay football game yesterday in VRAI’s linked tennis earring… It made our year as we’ve worked hard on diamond sustainably created in America for everything from jewelry to semiconductors!

Ms Americana bejeweled in diamonds sustainably grown in America — three days in a row! We are psych’d about the ultimate standards setter choosing what we worked on so hard for ten years now — growing the world’s only “real zero” carbon footprint diamonds.

Harvard Corp door beats Rick Singer’s! “[Palandjians] stays in a safe place until she understands where the chips are going to fall,” have three grown daughters, all of whom have attended Harvard. wsj.com/us-news/educat…

Imagine being ignorant of technologies that's propelled 100,000,000x gains in the last few decades * FinFET * 3D NAND * High K Metal Gate * Argon Fluoride Immersion Lithography * Low K Dielectrics * Copper interconnects * Strained Silicon * Gate All Around * 3D Stacking * EUV

Stripe's EBITDA profit is $100M, and they processed roughly $1 trillion in 2023, which means their profit margin is 100m/1tn = 0.01%. Can't believe this is a $65bn company.

This AI thing starts feeling like 1995 during dotcom—there’s exuberance!

Nestled among the apple orchards of America’s beautiful Pacific West, we are converting greenhouse gas into diamond -- using zero-emission energy from its river. Unquestionable origin. American ingenuity & craftsmanship at work. Use your consumer dollars to support America

An uphill battle for De Beers De Beers is on the block with a ‘for sale’ tag, making the rounds to pitch it is investible. Many eons ago De Beers created diamond desire – can they do it again? Perhaps but De Beers is facing a very different reality today: MARKETING More than

Fed: "U.S. export controls to deny China access to strategic technologies [but] we find no evidence of reshoring or friend-shoring…wiping out $130 billion in market capitalization newyorkfed.org/research/staff…

Founder Mode. This resonates for me. At Zynga i was often battling with senior managers who didnt want me diving into details with their teams. I later realized i just lacked the confidence to institutionalize this ‘Founder Mode’. paulgraham.com/foundermode.ht…

The skepticism around AI's ROI today feels a lot like the doubts people had about the internet in its early days. Back then, no one could fully grasp how much the web would transform our lives, and now AI is on the same path. Yes, it might be tough to measure immediate returns,

De Beers' consultant Boston Consulting Group (BCG) admits to bribery and Foreign Corrupt Practice Act violation over Angolan diamonds. ft.com/content/4fa338…

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News about diamond cartel collusion, De Beers monopoly power abuse, corruptible conspirators Bain&Co / BCG / S&P Global / GIA / JVC, incorruptible women, and advanced tech ultimately winning. As we enter the second decade focused on chip tech of our 30-year founding master plan,

U.S. CHIPS supports poly diamond startup in Oakland but single diamond will win — linkedin.com/posts/martinro…

D Foundry II commences operation. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Michael Jordan gave a short, excellent, and provocative talk recently in Paris - here's a few key ideas - It's all just machine learning (ML) - the AI moniker is hype - The late Dave Rumelhart should've received a Nobel prize for his early ideas on making backprop work 1/n

BREAKING: German Chancellor-Elect Merz says CDU, SPD & the Greens have struck a deal to dismantle the constitutional debt brake on military spending. Hundreds of billions EUR will go to rearmament & infrastructure. Merz says ”Peace in Europe will be protected. Germany is back”

Diamonds - Beyond Shining Illusions a message the Man Made Diamond industry agrees with. Investigating mining operations in Sierra Leone, Lesotho, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, this documentary exposes the unspoken realities of industrial diamond mining in African

I truly believe the idea of "winning the AI war" is misplaced, unachievable, and will lead to horrible and ineffective policy. More below ...