My mantra in business and life: Envision where the future is going. Invest in the good. Fight to prevent the bad.

The future of AR is reprojection, not optical transparency. Why try to recycle old photons when you can use brand new ones?

Atlas Shrugged

0/ Last year Hartmann Capital became one of the most active AR/VR investors in the space, here’s some initial thoughts on Apples new announcement and how it will affect the landscape and medium 🧵

10/ The most important thing that this announcement has likely accomplished tonight is sell the vision of enhancing reality in a way that makes people believe in magic again, a decade and a half since we last were wow’d by a new medium that changed how we experience the world

The bottom is closer

If Blackrock's spot ETF application gets approved, it is undeniable that Operation Chokepoint 2.0 was orchestrated to drive out crypto native companies and bring in large traditional firms that are buddy-buddy with the US govt to try and control Bitcoin/crypto.

RFK really wasted three hours of prime time on Joe Rogan to go down hour long rabbit holes on vaccines and 5G. I call bullshit on a lot of Covid propaganda and never got the vaccine, but man, you’re running for President, man covered like 1% of topics important to people.

I was hoping we got JFK but really we got Connor Roy it seems.

Crypto VCs & Angels - What are some of the coolest new crypto related products/verticals in your portfolio that don’t have a token yet, but plan to in the future? Every cycle brings fresh ideas and new tokens/models and I’m curious what the most innovative concepts coming up are

From our metaverse portfolio and others I hear that most are holding off token launches until there’s regulatory clarity… which signals to me that once there is regulatory clarity the market will be flooded with new startups and ideas that previously were in stealth

Cc: Kyle Samani Tommy Wangarian Andrew Steinwold Vance Spencer Andrew Kang Arthur Chris Burniske Jason Choi

Is there any way to change twitter default from “for you” to “following”? Quality of my feed has dropped about 90% since that feature was forced, and I went from seeing insights on tech, to pranks, people fighting, conspiracies, and other dumb shit. Elon Musk

The most important part of this ruling: “XRP, as a digital token, is not in and of itself a “contract, transaction[,] or scheme” that embodies the Howey requirements of an investment contract.” This is a now a matter of law (not up for trial.)

Future founder biopics will just be hours of dramatized zoom calls

Watch Gary Gensler awkwardly freeze up after stating the Crypto industry "runs past the law" and the interviewer responds with, "They do seem to be finding some sympathetic judges," referring to the SEC's recent court losses to Ripple and Grayscale.

Democrats coddling the SEC will turn every investor Republican. It’s shocking to watch how crypto had become such a partisan issue

Between Meta and Apple I don’t know how one can not be ultra bullish XR.

The rebels have secured another decisive victory against the evil empire. ETF next and I’m expecting you to eat them alive Brian Armstrong Meanwhile Su Zhu arrested, Do arrested, SBF on trial… the real criminals are done. Nature is healing.