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Henok retweeted
Scammers on over drive now. Be careful.
So few in crypto have any fundamental understand of Ai and what’s coming
But they’ll find out
2027 will be a bloodbath
“Not your keys not your crypto” is dead
Henok retweeted
Steve Jobs on being an artist:
(This clip is from the very first episode I ever made on Steve Jobs. It came out April 29th, 2017)
"If you want to live your life in a creative way as an artist, you have to not look back too much.
You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.
The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times artists have to say, "Bye, I have to go. I'm going crazy and I'm getting out of here."
And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they reemerge a little differently."
Henok retweeted
For 2 years in his 20s, Rafael Vivas woke up at 4 AM and worked until midnight:
“I dated a girl at the time, and I told her, ‘I'm going complete Black Mamba.’”
“I was kind of a psychopath. I listened to these motivational videos all day while working.”
“I understood the future of the company was on my back, because at this point, all guns are pointed at us. We've burned the ships. We are there to win. There is no other option. So I would wake up at like 4 AM, and stay up until midnight.”
“Nothing else mattered to me besides work. It was the most important thing.”
Fantastic episode
Rafael Vivas (@rfvivas) dropped out of high school, got kicked out of his house, and was a billionaire by 32.
When he joined AppLovin, he had one condition: he had to live inside the office. Adam Foroughi built him a bed from IKEA. He said:
“The only way that we’re going to win is we’re going to have to out-hustle everybody else.”
When a partner called Cheetah squeezed AppLovin too hard, he started a game studio to compete with them and named it Lion Studios, “because lion is the only animal that can kill a cheetah.” It went from zero to over $250 million in revenue in two years.
Raf has a lot of ideas on dealmaking, persistence, attention to detail, why he’s against delegation, and why retiring at 28 made him miserable.
This is a fascinating conversation about purpose, performance culture, and staying in the game.
0:00 Kicked out of his house at 16
6:42 Starting his own ad platform at 17
9:58 “Don't be mad, but I'm going to compete with you”
11:06 His one condition: living in the office
15:40 Turned down by VCs while already profitable
21:00 Why he's against delegation
24:15 Two years of persistence to land one customer
30:42 Lion Studios: built to kill a Cheetah
38:41 Walking away from AppLovin at 28
44:13 The IPO that brought him back
45:44 The stock buyback that made $50 billion
1:01:01 The mentor who redlined the NDA
1:03:54 “Do you want to be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods?”
1:05:46 The best advice he ever received: stay in the game
Includes paid partnerships.
All OpenAi has to do is build a superior product and deploy it
It’s like Patrick Ewing complaining the New York Knicks can’t beat Michael Jordan and the Bulls
If OpenAi wants the spotlight then deliver for the people
Simple.
Win.
I’m going to be disgusted with OpenAi if it doesn’t bear Fable 5.5
You mean to tell me you had since 8/26/2026 to build the flagship model
KNOWING Anthropic has a behemoth waiting for you
And with all that talent and billions of dollars you got cooked?
Ok
GPT-6.2 Astra is seriously impressive. It's a massive leap over GPT-6 Astra, outperforms Opus 5.5 in several areas, and looks ready to give the highly anticipated Fable 5.5 some serious competition.
Expect a huge improvement in design taste, much stronger technical skills, and a whole new level of coding performance.
Who should I vote for? Talarico or Paxton?
21%Talarico- Democrat
79%Paxton- Republican
29 votes • 11 hours
