When we sat down with @alexandr_wang at Meta Connect 2025, he shared his advice for young people:
“If you’re 13 right now, you should spend all your time vibe coding. This is the Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg moment. The people who grow up with these tools will have an immense advantage in the future economy.”
From his appearance on the show in September.
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"Let's not be politically correct. Let's just admit you're supposed to be having kids when you're 16, 17, 18. And be done by the time you're in your 20s."
@PalmerLuckey says we should be having kids in our teens 👇
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Netflix rejected a $12M offer from Bezos in 1999.
Blockbuster "laughed [Netflix] out of the room" when Netflix offered to sell to them for $50M.
Today they announced their acquisition of Warner Bros, and have a market cap of $426B.
BREAKING: Soham Parekh will be joining us live at 11:00 AM PST to share his side of the story.
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BREAKING: Soham Parekh will be joining us live at 11:00 AM PST to share his side of the story.
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ON THIS DAY: Mark Zuckerberg rebrands Facebook as Meta.
“To reflect who we are and the future we hope to build, I’m proud to share that our company is now Meta... For me, it symbolizes that there is always more to build, and there is always a next chapter to the story.”
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Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) is getting into nicotine.
"Basically, America smoked its way to being the dominant hyperpower. It kept people focused, it kept people fit. It's an appetite suppressant.
"I'm becoming more and more convinced that the health benefits of not smoking have not been properly traded against the health problems caused by the resulting eating."
"I think the crazy version of this is we'd all be better off with lung cancer eventually, but fit until then."
"Is vaping worse than being fat? I don't know. I struggle. Based on the evidence I've seen."
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Clawdbot creator @steipete describes his mind-blown moment: it responded to a voice memo, even though he hadn't set it up for audio or voice.
"I sent it a voice message. But there was no support for voice messages. After 10 seconds, [Moltbot] replied as if nothing happened."
"I'm like 'How the F did you do that?'"
"It replied, 'You sent me a message, but there was only a link to a file with no file ending. So I looked at the file header, I found out it was Opus, and I used FFmpeg on your Mac to convert it to a .wav. Then I wanted to use Whisper, but you didn't have it installed. I looked around and found the OpenAI key in your environment, so I sent it via curl to OpenAI, got the translation back, and then I responded.'"
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We asked @realsohamparekh if he had been working multiple full-time jobs at once.
"It is true."
“I’m not proud of what I’ve done. That’s not something I endorse either. But no one really likes to work 140 hours a week, I had to do it out of necessity."
"I was in extremely dire financial circumstances."
"I’m not a very people person. I don’t share much about what’s going on in my life. So I just thought: if I work multiple places, maybe I can elevate myself out of the situation faster.”
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Sequoia partner @sonyatweetybird says we're going from the age of product-led growth to the age of agent-led growth.
"You see this most clearly if you're using Claude Code actively. It says, 'Hey, for a database, you should use Supabase. For hosting, use Vercel.' It's choosing for you, the stuff you should be using."
"Product-led growth brought us closer to the vision of 'best product wins,' but ultimately people are still lazy. They can't read all the reviews, and they kind of default to what looks cool on the website."
"Whereas your agent has infinite time to go and make these choices for you. It can go and read all the documentation, read all the user comments, and figure out [what you need] for your use case."
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The IPO market is officially back. We spoke with @lynnmartin (President of the NYSE) about the recent boom:
"The market very much is now open. I don't think anyone is debating that after today."
"Just in the last couple of weeks, we had accelerant, Ambic Micro, Figma, Circle, Nielsen IQ, McGraw Hill, and Hinge Health come to market. And they've done well."
"When I'm with institutional investors, I keep hearing, 'We want more issues to come to market. We want to add to our portfolio.'"
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In an effort to expand awareness of technology and business, we bought a Super Bowl ad.
See you Sunday on NBC
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"You can break AI down into 5 tiers." - George Hotz
"Data centers - tier 1, fabs - tier 2, Nvidia/AMD - tier 3, OpenAI/Anthropic - tier 4, and completely worthless things like Cursor and Windsurf, which are tier 5."
"OpenAI and Anthropic will eat all the value from the Cursors and Windsurfs of the world. I argue that the tier 4s (OpenAI/Anthropic) aren't even going to have value."
From his June 2025 appearance, @realGeorgeHotz really raised eyebrows with this clip when it hit the timeline.
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BREAKING: Rostra’s @gaby_goldberg and Layer3 co-founder @dariya are engaged
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Mark Cuban on the next big job students should focus on:
Most companies don’t know how to implement AI, especially small businesses.
“Companies don’t understand how to implement AI right now to get a competitive advantage… learn to customize a model, walk into a company, show the benefits. That is every single job that’s going to be available for kids coming out of school.”
Don’t just study AI. Make it work inside a business.
From our August 2025 interview with @mcuban.
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The Ray-Ban Meta story started with a cold email to Mark Zuckerberg.
Rocco Basilico (Chief Wearables Officer, EssilorLuxottica) broke it down:
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BREAKING: US approves Erebor, a new bank from @PalmerLuckey and @JTLonsdale
This is the fastest conditional approval for a depository institution de novo application in 25 years.
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Bloomberg's @markgurman says that even though Apple partnered with Google Gemini for Siri, they actually run their business on Anthropic.
"Apple runs on Anthropic at this point. Anthropic is powering a lot of the stuff Apple's doing internally in terms of product development and a lot of their internal tools."
"They have custom versions of Claude running on their own servers internally, too. This Google deal just came together a few months ago. They were not going to use Google. Apple actually was going to rebuild Siri around Claude. But Anthropic was holding them over a barrel. They wanted a ton of money from them, several billion dollars a year, and at a price that doubled on an annual basis for the next three years."
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.@bryan_johnson: "I've been able to figure out how to compress everything I've learned into one biomarker."
"The marker that's durable over time is resting heart rate before bed. Show me your resting heart rate, I'll see your soul. It's an accounting of your life decisions."