Rasmr says Bitcoin could be the exit ramp for investors getting nervous about AI “When AI was going up, Bitcoin was going down. And now with AI retracing, Bitcoin is steady and going up slightly” “So it’s like, what’s the take? The take is you have to look at the fucking charts and say they’re uncorrelated. They are uncorrelated” “And so when AI gets spooked and there’s like a run on GPUs and whatever fucking Alexander is saying, it’s like the uncorrelated thing to buy when everybody’s spooked about debt obligations and all these weird things is like, you just buy Bitcoin. You buy the exit ramp, right?”

Sylvester Stallone says someone tried to sell him back a Monet painting for $130 million that he originally bought for $110,000 “You could buy Picasso, you could buy Renoir. These are very famous paintings. Francis Bacon, $75,000. And then I would sell it for $3,000,000. Not bad, right?” “Ten years later, 12 years later, guys come back and try to sell it to me for 75 million. I’m not joking. So the point is, if you’ve got art, don’t sell it unless you have to pay the mortgage, because it’s appreciating. You don’t have to feed it” “I had a collection that you can’t replace because of the shift in finance. It’s unbelievable. This one Monet, it’s $110,000. It’s called the Haystacks, right? I paid like 110. Guy wanted to sell it back to me for 130 million”

Sylvester Stallone says he broke his neck at 21 but was too broke to get it fixed “I was doing a fight scene in Expendables with Steve Austin… So I go to the doctor. They go, ‘Oh, you broke your neck. Again.’ I go, ‘What do you mean, again?’ He goes, ‘Yeah, you have double autofusions.’ I didn’t realize that at the time” “I was doing a bench press when I was maybe 21, in a wrestler’s bridge, which means you’re putting all your weight on the back. It’s really ridiculous. And it snaps. And I think, ‘Oh, I just strained it a little bit.’ I couldn’t move my head” “So literally, for maybe five weeks, I take a towel, twist it, and walk around. Go buy some eggs, cottage cheese, come back, and then do the same thing. I didn’t realize I’d broken my back, but I couldn’t afford to have it fixed. So it autofuses… 17 degrees forward. So I’ve got to constantly go back”

Sylvester Stallone says his dad smashed his chair with an axe after he got kicked out of school again because of his ADHD “I’m talking to my father. We’re having an argument because I got thrown out of school again. Because I have ADHD, I cannot focus at all, and I’m always looking out the window. And that was before they really understood to put a student in a special class because he cannot work with other students. He’s a distraction” “So he’s yelling at me, yelling at me, yelling at me. And then finally he goes, ‘What’d you say?’ I said, ‘Stop yelling at me… I got it’” “He went downstairs and he got an axe, and he came back upstairs. ‘Get out of that chair.’ I said, ‘Okay.’ When I tell you, it was splinters. ‘Next time you’ll be sitting.’ But it was just business as usual”

Miles Deutscher has Claude searching the property market every day so he can get to good deals before other buyers “I do a lot of property investing and I'm looking into some development stuff. And what I essentially do is I've got parameters that are fed to Claude” “It scans the property market in my local area every single day and it lets me know if a listing comes up under my parameters cuz I want to be like first to see it” “So if a block of land that fits my parameters in the area that I like at the price that I like, with other parameters, for example, it needs the right zoning, then it can flag a potential opportunity for me as opposed to me having to scroll manually through a real estate website”

Toto Wolff says Mercedes asked him how Williams won a race with $100 million less, then hired him to run their F1 team “I was at the time running Williams with the founder, and we also won a race. One of the board members approached me and invited me to Stuttgart, and he said, ‘How can it be that your private little team can win a race, and we, Mercedes, can't do any better than that?’” “I came back and said, ‘What is your aspiration?’ They said, ‘Winning World Championships because we bought the team that did that.’ I said, ‘Okay, then one of us is wrong because I'm working on the same budgets, and I'm thinking about finishing in the top six.’ They said, ‘No, it's not the same budget. Look, we spend 100 million more.’ I said, ‘Yeah, those 100 million, you spend on Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg. I have a pay driver from Venezuela’” “‘That's the main difference.’ They didn't like that situation at all. I said, ‘I'm just a messenger, and I'm going to go back to Williams.’ Eventually, they came back and said, ‘We think our model, a corporate running a Formula One team, doesn't function. It needs to be much more entrepreneurially led, and we want you to run this’”

Toto Wolff says he helped a teenage hacker sell his company to T-Mobile for $250 million “I found out that there was a web portal, a free SMS web portal called SMS dot at. And what you did, basically, you wrote your SMS on the interface at no cost” “I found out that this was run by a teenage boy in Graz, Austria. I visited him with the idea, ‘I'm gonna raise money for your company.’ When I said to him, ‘How do you do that?’ he said, ‘I'm hacking. I'm hacking into the SMSC servers of the big telcos’” “Eventually, they find out that the data volume was bigger than on normal days, and they shut me down. And I said, ‘Okay, and if that happens, what do you do?’ He said, ‘Well, I have a plan. For example, today I'm running on Nigeria Telecom, and next week it's gonna be Norway’” “We put it in an entity, and I started to visit Telekom Austria and T-Mobile, the two biggest Austrian telcos. They said, ‘We hate SMS dot at. We absolutely hate it, but we can't shut it down. What is it we can do together?’ Eventually, within two years, that nonexistent company was sold for 250,000,000 to T-Mobile”