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Founder & GP Tenacity VC 25yr Entrepreneur | 15yr VC | Pitch me by DM w/1 line elevator pitch and ARR

Joined May 2011
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I love my typos because it proves I am not AI. Oops. SI. ;)
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No he’s not. Stop opining idiotically.
Here’s @CGasparino on the “reckless” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s alleged spy affair: “he's going to resign.”
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It’s not going to happen. 10-1 money he does not get pushed out.
Jason Says NVidia Needs to Keep Jensen Huang on as CEO ‘At All Costs’ “Benching him is what the Chinese want. The Chinese do not want him out there leading this company. That's why they targeted him … We have to think strategically, not vindictively.”
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100% in agreement AG
100%, Gavin. America would not be ahead in the AI race without Jensen. He clearly made a mistake. One mistake does not erase a lifetime of leadership and contribution in building NVDA. This great American company continues to give our country a meaningful lead in the most important technology of the modern era.
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Today’s pitch Ben at Cafe Borrones. Outside. All in blue. Logo
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Tomorrow Pitch Ben / AMA / VC Office Hours will be 9-10:30 at Cafe Borrones Menlo Park.
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Give me a break. That’s not going to happen. If presidents of countries don’t resign for infidelity you think a 30 ur JB CEO w no successor is going to m - sure. Let’s look into your past JB seoth. Guys make dumb mistakes. Often really big ones. Glass house? Internet can find it
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It’s almost like he’s a male.
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I agree
1) Jensen is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of this generation 2) he did something incredibly dumb 3) it was bad for America 4) but my guess is there was no bad intention 5) two mistakes don’t make a right, and I believe Jensen is irreplaceable for America’s AI leadership
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Big talk that will crush the little people.
Democrats took the Senate on 4 November. Four days later @SenWarren said she is "ready to go" on a 10% cap on credit card rates. The average new card offer today: 22.46%. That would cut the going rate by more than half, on $1.37 trillion of card debt. No president can set an APR. Only Congress can. Trump asked for 10% in January, Congress did nothing, and the market did what markets do. The average commercial bank card rate went from 20.94% in May to 21.19% in August. Higher, not lower. A 10% ceiling does not put every borrower at 10%. It decides who still gets a card at all. WalletHub's fair-credit offers average 27.01%. Excellent credit pays 17.08%. The cap bites the first group and barely grazes the second. Issuers do not eat the difference. They shrink limits, close accounts, add fees, or leave subprime cards. The Congressional Research Service said so in March. The Senate needs 60 votes. Nothing drafted this month has 60. So the bill's job is to exist. Elizabeth Warren gets years of material, and your APR stays where it is. The version that passes, if one does, will cover accounts already in good standing. The people at 27% will not be in it. A hearing by spring, a compromise by summer, and an average APR still north of 20% next November.
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This to shall pass.
nvidia ceo jensen huang just hurt so many people. his family. his employees. his customers (this hurts the entire ai trade up and down the supply chain, and impacts anthropic ipo). and nearly every americans retirement account because nvidia is the largest holding in most s&p 500 index funds. his stock is down 25% over the last month because of his actions. he has a long road to building back trust, but one thing he could do is donate to the kids of america in trump accounts. im not saying you can buy your way out of this... you can't. but it would be one sign that he sees the weight of what he's done and how many he's impacted. it's time for him to give some of his wealth to the next generation. one of the dozens of things he should do to rebuild trust with the american people. cc @MattLira @altcap @TrumpAccounts @JensenHuang
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nvidia ceo jensen huang just hurt so many people. his family. his employees. his customers (this hurts the entire ai trade up and down the supply chain, and impacts anthropic ipo). and nearly every americans retirement account because nvidia is the largest holding in most s&p 500 index funds. his stock is down 25% over the last month because of his actions. he has a long road to building back trust, but one thing he could do is donate to the kids of america in trump accounts. im not saying you can buy your way out of this... you can't. but it would be one sign that he sees the weight of what he's done and how many he's impacted. it's time for him to give some of his wealth to the next generation. one of the dozens of things he should do to rebuild trust with the american people. cc @MattLira @altcap @TrumpAccounts @JensenHuang
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crazy. lowest intelligence (or at least highest ignorance ) blocking the most intelligent thing. But it has always been so. If the ludites had knows they would have started a union. The other great blocker of progress. It’s like banning iron during RR or concrete during the hwys
The shopping mall closed 24 years ago and was leveled. A data center developer offers to build but gets blocked—leaving the struggling community without jobs, a tax base and the ability to negotiate other concessions. This NPR story compares it to the civil rights struggle and MLK. Yes, data centers are the equivalent of the civil rights movement 🤦 My lord, we’ve lost the script, and China is laughing at us while they catch up and conceivably bear us to superintelligence. Best advice: ask them to downsize the Data Center to half the space, require closed-loop water systems and have them build a giant trade school adjacent to the data center, offering free engineering and construction training to local community residents.
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The shopping mall closed 24 years ago and was leveled. A data center developer offers to build but gets blocked—leaving the struggling community without jobs, a tax base and the ability to negotiate other concessions. This NPR story compares it to the civil rights struggle and MLK. Yes, data centers are the equivalent of the civil rights movement 🤦 My lord, we’ve lost the script, and China is laughing at us while they catch up and conceivably bear us to superintelligence. Best advice: ask them to downsize the Data Center to half the space, require closed-loop water systems and have them build a giant trade school adjacent to the data center, offering free engineering and construction training to local community residents.
JUST IN: Maryland activist helps block a $5B AI data center planned for the site of an abandoned shopping mall that closed 24 years ago, after gathering over 25,000 signatures.
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Here for any and all Foubders. In case my cartoon icon is t adequate to find me.
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Pitch Ben Live - I had a one week trip drop off last minutes so I will do coffee shop VC office hours every day this week. Pitch for feedback or AMA. Today: Mademoiselle Colette Atherton 1-3. I will be wearing a blue Tenacity logoed 1/4 zip
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