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🚀 Thread: 10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Jensen Huang Most People Don’t Know
1/ Born in Taiwan in 1963, he moved to Thailand as a kid, then at age 9 was sent to the U.S. His relatives mistakenly enrolled him in a reform school in rural Kentucky (thinking it was a fancy prep school). He cleaned toilets every day and faced bullying as the only Asian kid there. Built unbreakable resilience early. 🇹🇼🏫
2/ Table tennis phenom as a teenager! Placed 3rd in junior doubles at the U.S. Open Table Tennis Championships at age 15. Appeared in Sports Illustrated at 14. Seriously considered going pro and scrubbed floors at a sports store to fund tournaments. 🏓🥇
3/ Started working graveyard shifts at Denny’s at age 15 as a dishwasher, busboy, and waiter to build confidence and support himself. Worked there for years. Decades later, he co-founded NVIDIA in a Denny’s booth. Full circle! 🍔
4/ Met his future wife Lori (then Mills) at Oregon State University—she was his engineering lab partner. They bonded over homework and have been together ever since. True college sweethearts. ❤️
5/ Graduated high school early at 16. Earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State and an MS from Stanford (while working). Brains plus real-world grit from day one. 🎓
6/ Before founding NVIDIA, he worked at AMD on microprocessor design and at LSI Logic on cutting-edge design automation tools. Not just a visionary—a battle-tested chip engineer. 💼
7/ In 1993, at age 30, he co-founded NVIDIA with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem inside a Denny’s restaurant in San Jose. The graphics (and later AI) revolution literally started over breakfast. 🥞🚀
8/ Ultimate believer: Got a tattoo of the NVIDIA logo on his shoulder when the stock first hit $100 per share. Still proudly wears the ink today. 🖌️
9/ In that tough Kentucky boarding school, he taught his illiterate, heavily tattooed roommate how to read—in exchange for bench-press lessons. Classic win-win hustle. 💪📖
10/ Doesn’t wear a watch because “now is the most important time.” His signature black leather jacket is his trademark look (wife-approved). Bonus: He’s first cousins once removed with AMD CEO Lisa Su! 👨👩👧👦
From cleaning toilets in rural Kentucky to building the company powering the AI revolution—Jensen Huang’s journey is the ultimate proof that resilience, vision, and relentless execution can change the world.
#JensenHuang #NVIDIA #MindBlown #TechLeadership #AI
🚀 Thread: 10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Jalen Brunson Most People Don’t Know
1/ Jalen shoots left-handed on the court but does everything else right-handed — because his dad taped his right thumb as a kid to force the switch and build that dominant left hand! 🏀
2/ Grew up in NBA locker rooms watching his dad Rick (a journeyman guard who played for 8 teams in 9 seasons). The family motto “The magic is in the work” was taped on mirrors, doors, and the fridge. 💪
3/ As a kid, he played Pop Warner football coached by Vince Papale — the real-life inspiration for the movie Invincible! 🏈
4/ High school: His family moved multiple times before settling in Illinois. At Stevenson, he dropped 57 points in double OT, led the team to the state title (30 in the championship game), and was named Illinois Mr. Basketball and McDonald’s All-American. 🏆
5/ At Villanova, he was a role player on the 2016 NCAA champs… then became National Player of the Year and led them to another title in 2018. He graduated in just 3 years with a communications degree. His #1 jersey is retired. 🎓
6/ Drafted 33rd overall (2nd round) by the Mavericks in 2018. Many teams passed on him — he responded by leading Dallas to the Western Conference Finals in 2022. 🏀
7/ A die-hard Justin Bieber superfan. No matter what playlist he’s on, the last song before every game has to be Bieber. 🎤
8/ Married his high school sweetheart Ali Marks in 2023 (proposed in their high school gym). They welcomed their first child, daughter Jordyn, in 2024. ❤️
9/ Set an NBA record with 8 three-pointers in a half without missing — and tied the record with 9 in a full game without a miss. The ultimate clutch gene. 🔥
10/ Signed with the Knicks in 2022 on a four-year deal, became team captain, earned multiple All-Star and All-NBA honors, and turned into the heart and soul of New York basketball — from overlooked second-rounder to franchise icon. 🗽
From a kid bouncing between NBA locker rooms and high schools to becoming the captain and leader of the New York Knicks — Jalen Brunson is built different.
#JalenBrunson #Knicks #NBA #Underdog
🚀 Thread: 10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Sundar Pichai Most People DON’T Know
1/ Sundar Pichai has an extraordinary memory — he can recall every phone number he’s ever dialed since childhood.
Tech-obsessed from a young age! 📞
2/ Grew up in a modest middle-class home in Chennai (then Madras) without a car, TV, or even a telephone for years. He and his brother slept in the living room. Classic humble beginnings. 🏠
3/ He was captain of his high school cricket team and once dreamed of becoming a professional cricketer. 🏏
4/ Studied Metallurgical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur (earned a silver medal), not computer science! Then got an MS in Materials Science from Stanford and an MBA from Wharton. Brains + hustle. 🎓
5/ Joined Google on April 1, 2004 — April Fool’s Day — the exact same day Gmail launched. He initially thought the Gmail announcement was a prank! 😂
6/ He personally pitched and championed the idea for Google Chrome. It was initially rejected over high costs, but he did deep research and convinced leadership. Chrome now powers nearly half the internet. 🌐
7/ Before Google, he worked as a product manager/engineer at Applied Materials (semiconductors) and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Real-world grit. 💼
8/ In 2014, he was a serious contender for Microsoft’s CEO role (alongside Satya Nadella). Google gave him big retention packages to stay — loyalty paid off. 💪
9/ Married his IIT Kharagpur college sweetheart Anjali (they met in their first year; she’s a chemical engineer). They have two kids and keep a low-key family life. ❤️
10/ As CEO of Google (since 2015) and Alphabet (since 2019), he’s steered the company through Android dominance, Chrome’s rise, and now the AI era with Gemini. One of the highest-paid tech CEOs ever — all while staying remarkably grounded. 🌍
From a boy in Tamil Nadu who waited years for a rotary phone to leading one of the world’s most powerful tech companies into the future — Sundar Pichai is built different.
#SundarPichai #Google #Alphabet #MindBlown #TechLeadership
SBF didn’t lose $8 billion because the trades went bad.
He lost it because the trades were never his to make.
FTX sat on a $32 billion exchange with customer deposits treated like a personal venture fund. Alameda borrowed billions, bought illiquid stakes in Anthropic, Solana bags, Robinhood shares, even SpaceX exposure through side vehicles. On paper at the November 2022 peak it looked like genius: Anthropic mooned, Solana 15x’d, Bitcoin went from $16k to six figures.
Pure investment selection was elite.
The fatal mismatch wasn’t market risk.
It was duration risk.
A CoinDesk article drops the balance sheet. CZ tweets. $6 billion walks out the door in 72 hours. You can’t liquidate a 7.84% Anthropic position over a weekend. You can’t sell real estate or private equity when retail wants fiat yesterday. The exchange had the controls of a college dorm spreadsheet: no real segregation, no reserve proof that mattered, no hard asset-liability matching. Risk limits? Optional. Alameda’s borrowing from FTX? Unlimited until it wasn’t.
That’s what a bank run exposes in 72 hours that years of bull market hide.
The bankruptcy estate sold everything at the literal bottom. Anthropic at fire-sale prices that now look absurd. Solana in the teens. Total recovered so far: around $18 billion, with creditors getting 118-143% back in some cases because crypto recovered hard. Hold the portfolio to today and the math hits $136 billion. The difference isn’t fraud on the asset side.
It’s the decision to commingle, lever, and treat customer money as dry powder for the next big bet.
SBF’s defense keeps circling the same point: FTX was never truly insolvent, just illiquid in a panic. New witnesses, alleged pressure on co-founders, lawyers who billed $950 million pushing the Chapter 11 anyway. He’s filing pro se from prison, appealing, asking for a new trial while his parents lobby publicly. Prosecutors say no. Appeals court so far unmoved. 25 years stands.
The pattern is the oldest one in finance: genius at picking direction, amateur at managing the pipe. You can be right on every asset and still blow up if your customers can redeem faster than you can exit. FTX proved crypto exchanges aren’t “different this time.” They’re just faster versions of every mismatched bank that ever existed.
The filter is brutal and already running.
By the time the next cycle peaks, the question won’t be “was SBF a visionary investor?”
It will be “why did anyone ever think running a bank with no real bank controls was a good idea?”
And the answer will be obvious in hindsight — the same way we once wondered why anyone trusted a spreadsheet with no audit when the music was playing.
This food tech startup didn’t build a better cow.
It deleted the cow.
Bloom Labs just hit $0.89 per liter for real dairy proteins — identical at the molecular level to what comes out of a Holstein, zero animals required. Traditional milk is still $3.40 at the store. Their bioreactors run on sugar water, CO₂, and electricity. The output tastes, foams, and bakes exactly like the real thing because it is the real thing — just printed by yeast instead of biology that needs 1,000 gallons of water per gallon of milk.
Here’s the math that just broke the dairy industry:
• One Bloom reactor the size of a shipping container produces 12,000 liters a day.
• A single dairy cow produces ~25 liters a day and needs 200 square meters of land.
• Bloom’s fully loaded cost (capex + opex + energy) is now below California almond milk.
• They ship shelf-stable protein powder that rehydrates into milk in 17 seconds. No refrigeration until you open it.
The pattern is identical to every platform extinction we’ve watched:
1980s: Lotus 1-2-3 owned spreadsheets until Microsoft made Excel free inside Office.
2007: Zynga built FarmVille on Facebook’s open platform until Facebook changed the rules and killed the golden goose.
2023: Twitterrific and Tweetbot spent a decade building the best client until Twitter cut the API on a random Thursday night.
Now it’s 2026 and the $1 trillion global dairy supply chain is the next Lotus. The “cows on pasture” story was never about romance — it was a distribution moat. You needed land, feed, trucks, and cold chains because milk spoils in four days. Bloom’s powder lasts 18 months on a shelf. Their AI controls pH, temperature, and gene expression in real time so every batch is identical. No seasonal variation. No herd disease. No $800M bailout request when feed prices spike.
Farmers in Wisconsin and New Zealand aren’t competing with “plant-based alternatives.” They’re competing with code that scales on compute instead of pasture. One reactor replaces 480 cows. Bloom already has 41 contracted and is building a 400-reactor campus outside Austin that will outproduce the entire state of Vermont.
The filter is already running.
By 2030 the question won’t be “organic or conventional.”
It will be “did this come from biology or from software?”
And the answer will be obvious in hindsight — the same way we once asked why anyone would pay for software when Lotus was free at the library.
Jensen Huang just broke down why Elon Musk moves at lightspeed while the world crawls:
Delete ruthlessly.
Most add complexity. Elon subtracts everything that isn't load-bearing. Rockets. Meetings. Supply chains. Bare physics only.
Show up at the fire.
No reports. No Slack. He stands over the broken part until it works. Feedback loops in hours, not weeks.
Burn with urgency.
His pace rewires everyone else's reality. Suppliers don't queue him — they rebuild around him.
Three traits. One man running 6 companies like it's one.
Jensen Huang just reverse-engineered why Elon Musk operates at a speed no one on the planet can match.
Three traits.
The first is deletion.
Huang: “He has the ability to question everything to the point where everything’s down to its minimal amount.”
Most engineers solve problems by adding.
Musk solves them by subtracting.
Every part. Every process. Every assumption that survived because no one had the nerve to kill it.
He picks it up. Asks if it’s load-bearing. If the answer is anything less than absolutely, it is gone.
Not simplified. Not optimized. Removed.
What survives is the skeleton. The bare physics of the problem. Nothing between intent and execution.
Huang said it plainly.
As minimalist as you could possibly imagine.
And he does it at system scale.
Not at a product level. Not at a department level.
Across entire companies. Entire industries. Entire supply chains.
He strips a rocket the same way he strips a meeting. Down to the load-bearing walls and nothing else.
The second is presence.
Huang: “He is present at the point of action. If there’s a problem, he’ll just go there and show me the problem.”
Not a Slack message. Not a report filtered through four layers of people who weren’t there when it broke.
He walks to the failure. Stands over it. Puts his hands on it.
Most executives have never seen the actual problem their company is trying to solve.
They have seen slides about it.
Read summaries of it.
Formed opinions about it in rooms that are nowhere near it.
Musk stands over the broken hardware and does not leave until it works.
That collapses the distance that buries most organizations.
The gap between something breaking and the person with authority to fix it actually understanding what broke.
In most companies, that gap is weeks.
For Musk, it is hours.
The third is the one that bends everyone around him.
Huang: “When you act personally with so much urgency, it causes everybody else to act with urgency.”
Every supplier has a hundred customers. Every vendor has a dozen priorities. Every manufacturer has a backlog stretching months into the future.
Musk makes himself the top of every single one of those lists.
Not by demanding it. By demonstrating it.
When the CEO shows up at your facility at midnight. When he is moving faster than your own internal team. When his timeline makes yours look like a suggestion.
You do not put him in the queue. You rearrange the queue around him.
Huang watched this up close.
Huang: “He does that by demonstrating.”
Not by asking. Not by negotiating. Not by leveraging a contract clause.
By moving so fast that everyone else’s normal pace feels like standing still.
Three traits. Strip everything down. Show up at the failure. Move so fast the world rearranges around you.
That is not a management philosophy.
That is why one man runs six companies while entire boards cannot keep one moving.
🚀 ETH Price Targets from Top Analysts! 📈
- Tom Lee (Fundstrat): $12,000–$18,000 (end of September 2025) – Increased forecast after BlackRock’s $233.5M ETF move on Aug 21, signaling a supply squeeze
- Ryan Lee (Bitget): $4,200–$4,600 (this week), $5,500–$6,000 (end of September 2025) – Adjusted upward due to sustained ETF inflows.
- Arthur Azizov (B2 Ventures): $5,500–$6,000 (this week), $12,000–$13,000 (end of September 2025) – Reflects stronger institutional demand and reduced supply.
- Shashank Sripada (Gaia): $7,000–$8,000 (end of September 2025) – Revised higher due to optimism on network upgrades and adoption.
- Spencer Yang (BlockSpaceForce): Up to $9,000 (end of September 2025) – Driven by recent volatility and market momentum.
#Ethereum #ETH
MrBeast's 2017 shift from obscurity (29k subscribers) to viral success (1M+ subscribers in 12 months) stemmed from reverse-engineering YouTube's algorithm.
His "counting to 100,000" video used psychological hooks like curiosity and social proof, supported by 2019 American Psychological Association research on how incremental goals and peer influence enhance viewer retention.
