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Jason Ballard

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“No, no, it's a fun group. It's a fun group of people who love the show. Like a hundred of us. Let me just talk about the show every day and what we're going to have in the next episode. Have a great weekend. Bye bye.”
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“There's a secret group chat on X that's been brewing. It's got about 100 people in it. If you want to be in that group, DM, the TWI startups account. And we'll add you if you're a true fan of the show. Think about it. We'll think about it.”
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“Headless CMS TAW project, and I released my bounty and my instructions on what the competition will be. All right, everybody, it's been another great week of twist. There's a secret twist group on.”
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“Yeah, I forgot his name and the actor's name who was in Deadpool. Call They claimed he called in a bomb threat on a train. Remember that fiasco?”
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“I think the treatment is really industry. Like, industry is not like, hey, we have an axe to grind. It's just young people. And it's money and its power.”
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“Let me tell you what would actually work. Let me tell you what would actually work. And maybe I should. Maybe you and I need to write a treatment.”
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“Secession kind of nailed it, but I knew this one because I heard the rider on like a bunch of the woke anti-tech podcasts and they were over the moon. The hosts him of just how terrible everybody in Silicon Valley was, how, you know, oh my God, these are vacid people who don't care about society. It's just like, well, what if there's somebody in there who's like actually Jason Ballard, who actually is a good person? What if there's somebody like me who actually is an empathetic? Moderate person who doesn't care about politics doesn't want to dominate the world, just wants to make cool shit.”
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“But I knew that this was Okay, so both of those I love, so it's super legit. The problem with all of these is. I think, and I haven't seen it, so I'll reserve judgment. I'll watch it this weekend, maybe with the life. I've been looking for a new show. But when you watch these things, it's becoming a bit on the nose in terms of. Outsiders trying to write about the inside space and”
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“Yeah, they've been the person who's the writer, is a secession, I guess, writer, and they've been marketing it, not as the creative secession, but somebody who was in the writer's room, who knows what their providence is.”
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“So you can plug four things into this. You can plug a cable into it. The holes and the cables and the outputs, it comes with two built-in cables, so you're not searching for a cable. One of them is like a handle and cable. I put this in my backpack. I put one in my luggage. You've been with me in Japan. I pull this thing out. I'm not looking for, even when I'm on a plane, you know, the plugs on the plane are like eight watts. They never charge your laptop. I just bring this thing with me, charge it up in my hotel. It's fantastic game changer. There's your trio of off duty from JCal for dealing with. Battery issues. An anchor is Chef's kits, you got your charger, you got your cable, you got your battery pack. I'm done, folks”
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“I gave you the charger, right? Yeah, I gave you the cable. Now I will give you one more in my anchor trio of happiness. I buy these two or three at a time and then when I'm with a friend, I hand it to them and I gift it to them. I did this with a member of my, I got a high profile, one of my high profile friends, their chief of staff. We're at an event. I think we're at the All-In Summit. I won't say who it was, but you can look at the people on stage and get an idea. And I'm charging my phone with this. They said, what's that? I said, this is a giant 25,000 milliamp. I don't know what these ratings are. And it's got two built-in cables and it has pass-through charging. So you plug those two USB-Cs, one of them into the wall, one of them into your phone. And I carry this thing with me doesn't weigh all that much, but you can charge your phone four times, five times. You can actually charge your laptop.”
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“This thing's a godsend. You put these two things together. They don't take up any space. You got your phone and your laptop charging.”
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“A two headed USB-C cable. So you got the daughters, you got iPads, you got phones, you're at the airport, you're on the road, you're in an Airbnb. The dual-sided cable that Anchor makes, there it is. This is a four foot two-in-one USB-C to USB-C, 140 watt max, 18 bucks. Now, this isn't a data cable. I don't think this will do data. It might do data, but it doesn't do data to the best of my knowledge. But you can get like different length ones. Right.”
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“So knowing what your charge speed is is such an unlock with the screen and it looks really cute. You press the button. You can turn the screen off and turn it on. My daughters love it. It comes in orange. My favorite color. I just bought two of these. You throw two of these in your bag when you're going to Japan lawn. And they're dirt cheap. They're 30 bucks. This is so much better than anything Apple produces. And they charge twice as much for half the product. Anyway, I love these chargers. I love all Anchor products. Highly recommend you get this one. And then Anchor says sells.”
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“One more, the plug will go different directions depending on what you need, and it has a display on it. I don't know how they do this, but the display knows what you plugged in. So it'll say charging at this watt. For this specific phone. It knows I have an iPhone air, it knows that you have an iPhone 17. And then I have a bunch of different cables laying around. Turns out some of the USB-C cables I have are not charging as fast.”
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“And you got to plug your thing in. Look at the 180 degree flexibility for your ideal view. It's like maybe the fifth image down on the Amazon. And what you'll see in the fifth image down is you can rotate the plug. There it is. See that one? Yeah.”
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“So, anyway, that's my off duty for today is I really think this is just a great, great product. And then I have another amazing product I just want to add to our off-duty because, you know, I love gadgets. I love a good charger. And, you know, I got the daughters. And I saw Anchor, my favorite brand. And they made a beautiful charger. And what's really unique about this one, this is the anchor nano 45W max. Charger. This is like a fast one. So really good, but it's so tiny. And what's really unique about this one is, you know, sometimes you're on a plane or you're in a hotel.”
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“And when I saw this, I immediately thought I am a fan of Sony Airbuds. Everybody goes for the Apple ones. The Sony ones for so much better. And these are expensive folks. These are $300. And I've bought two different versions of these. The Sony WF 1000XM6. These are great noise canceling. The batteries last forever. They're extraordinary. Now, they're expensive. Okay, fair enough. The last version is $50 off. Sony WF1000 XM5. And I actually prefer my XM5s better. They fit better. And if anybody has any tips on how to get the phone things to fit, that's what I've been having a challenge with is making them so they fit so they're not, they don't hurt from extended use and they don't fall out. You have like a real decision you have to make. Yeah.”
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“And now you're skiing I'm skiing and it's seeing what's in front of me, and it says, hey, these are the conditions, this is the route you're gonna go, this is, you know, how you get back town to this lodge. Sometimes I'm in a new mountain. I skipped when I was in Davos for one day. I don't know the terrain. I don't have the map. You got to take the map out in the cold. It's a blizzard. It's very inconvenient. But if it told you, hey, there's a quick way to the left and that lift only has the three minute wait. The one on the right has a 15-minute wait. There's all kinds of interesting things that developers will do when they get their hands on this.”
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“We got to get him out of Google and make this a startup if he wants to, or if anybody else wants to pursue something similar and they have hardware chops or they're just super motivated and have two friends, I'd love to incubate something similar because this could be incredibly accretive to blind people. Navigating the world. This could be incredibly accretive to when you're in another country. We already have auto translate in pixel buds or whatever. But you're in Japan and you're looking at the sushi menu or you're looking at the eel menu and it's in Japanese and it just starts reading to you what your options are and you're talking to it.”
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“And this will lead me to my off duty. Okay, let me just say this. This idea is brilliant This is a founding team. If they have any entrepreneurial ability, I would love to invite them to my accelerator and give them 125K or their first 25K to incorporate whatever it is. If they're decent entrepreneurs and they seem like they're pretty great.”
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“I'd like to try playing the game. Maybe it's only a 1% chance I make a business out of this, but maybe I could then go to my LPs who lost money in this and gift them. Some equity warrants that they didn't get. That's it. Enough already. I am at peace with this, but with peace and love, I'm going to suit up. And I took that person”
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“When you take 90% of the cost out, you're essentially saying, I'm going to make this free for the good of humanity. And we'll play another basketball game. We'll have round two. And this time. I'm not getting elbow.”
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“To the person who broke my nose, I forgive you. I'll take you at your word. It was impersonal. I haven't spoken to the person since the selding happened. He told me to F off Take you at your word. It wasn't personal. And me launching a TAO subnet. This vertical of content headless content management systems is also not personal. It's not personal. But I've got Mark Jeffrey, I've got all these developers in our community who like to build stuff with me and they love a bounty and they love a competition to show off their work. And now perhaps we'll be in another basketball game. Together. And I'm bringing a squad with me. And our goal is to take the price of a content Headless CMS. And we would like to take out 90% of the expense. That's the goal Remove 90% of the expense and make it available to everybody in the world essentially for free.”
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“Of me, somebody make me looking at the iPad and saying, I took that personally. And then I will release the 5K bounty next week with the conditions of what else.”
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“Nothing you can do about it, hey? What are you going to do? Sue me? No, I'm not going to sue you. You're going to sue the founders. I'm going to block the transaction? No. Mazatov, go for it. I considered it. Of course I considered it. I have LPs. I considered, do I take legal action? The amount, it would cost $10 million to fire up a lawsuit for 1.4 million invested. It doesn't make any sense. Who's going to fund the lawsuit? It's going to be five years later. But I now have become tuned in to this incredible business opportunity. And so that's what happens sometimes. When you treat somebody incredibly unfairly, you might have also educated them and highlighted to them, there's a major opportunity here. And hey, we live in a free market where the best idea wins. I might want to have an entry in this market.”
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“Correct So what's happened here? I'm just going to recap this. When somebody does this to you, you have to be forgiving. Okay. I've talked myself off the ledge. Thank you, Jason Ballard. Thank you, Lawn, for your counsel. I'm taking the high road. But it also educated me on, hey, there's this really interesting company with a shark who elbowed me in the face, like this guy Has this guy broke my nose in a basketball game for no good reason? And when I said, hey, you broke my nose, he told me to F off.”
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“Communities that are better product Nailed it a better version. And then there's a second piece. Not only is it better, but it could be if it works.”
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“What happens to the product category, the customer, what did they experience then? What did they experience when they engaged those products? What value does the customer get?”
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“I'm going to write my headless CMS Bit Tensor open source $5,000 prize to build this opportunity. And the prize in this case, if it becomes a company, I'm going to ask for. I don't know. The ability to buy 5% of the company for whatever, 50K or something. Be the original seed investor. I just want the option. It works to have a little skin in the game. Why? Because if this works and I can get warrants or whatever, I might be able to make some of my previous investors whole. I don't want revenge here, but I do have unfinished business. I want to fix the ledge. There's a ledger. We're going to fix the ledger. Now, what does this mean for the person who shivved me? Is Tao good at, Lauren? Is Tao good at? At its core when you put a service on Tao versus a commercial proprietary service, what happens?”
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“So We did $1,000. We did $5,000. Going to announce another $5,000 next week. I'll do it a week from today. I have to have the time to write this. I got a”
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“So if you're the type of person who takes notes and wants to learn from podcasts like I do and London does, this is like our gift to you and open clause gift to you is that you get in there. We have two of these.”
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“And this will be an enhanced show notes, right? We'll put all the links in the enhanced show notes. If you look at the show notes on your podcast player or on YouTube's description. We're doing enhanced show notes where we put like 20, 30, 40, 50 links in.”
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“Rest in peace. This guy was Guy was a provocateur, but he also raised the intellectual level. And when we started the web on fisking was like a way to engage intelligently and move award the ball forward. So anyway, I put a thousand dollar thing out and people started building already. So now I'm bounty crazy. Bounty”
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“Is he still alive? I want to have him on the program because fisking to me was like one of the most interesting things in the early days of the internet. I think this is like 90s internet. It might have even been like pre-web.”
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“So, what I need is I need a Chrome browser extension. I'm on a YouTube video, like this video, and somebody, anybody wants to either anonymously, pseudonymously, like Reddit or Twitter or whatever, they say give me seconds 30 to 60, clip it, put a transcript, analyze it with AI, and I want to put some commentary on. I want to let my friends put some commentary on completely fair use. Don't want to steal and rip other people's content, but if there's a story in the New York Times and you want to fisc it, if you remember Fisking F-I-S-K-I-N-G, pull up Fisking from the Wikipedia, there was a dude on Usenet who used to fisk people and it became Became the art of taking apart somebody's argument by line by line annotating it. So that's my concept here.”
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“I did last week two bounties Thousand dollar bounty I did on Twitter, so you can pull it up, please, to make annotated.com, which is an annotation service I just need for myself where I want to like highlight, you know, five seconds from a video, 10 seconds from a video, and give my commentary on it. And I got all these people who built me like a Wayback machine style annotation device. I said, I'll give $1,000 to whoever makes the most interesting one in open sources it. And I did $5,000 to build the real-time commentary agents on the podcast. And I think we got five people who built something.”
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“So I put into my agent give me a business plan. Open source bit tensor business plan based on content CMSs and I got back the most brilliant business plan”
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“However, There is a business opportunity. This person Decided that his business interest I mean, I literally was asking him to give me, I think, 500K in options. I would, and I was willing on the options, by the way, to pay the current price, just have warrants, which would have been 0.0 basis points, maybe in the value of his company. And if he had done it, I would have him on this podcast. I would be tweeting for him. I'd be helping him. Just sort of what I did with Jason. And I said, hey, let me help you fill some things. He would have been on the podcast twice.”
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“Don't want to start another war. I've been involved in too many of these things. I'm like Obi-Wan Kenobi right now. I mean, I fought so many battles in the Clone Wars. I'm an old Jedi”
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“At some point, you'll figure it out when I launch my AI browser. It'll all come out in the wash. But now I need your counsel.”
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“Tons of these things out there, and I looked at the towthing and Boom, it hit me. A headless CMS, a content management system powered by TA Be incredibly disruptive I'm not naming this founder. Not naming the companies involved.”
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“Talk to an old collaborative of mine, I said, listen, I want to build an AI based browser with this domain name. He's like, whoa, that's one of your best ideas ever that somebody I've worked with before. And I'm about to see this company and launch it there. But while I was thinking about it, you know, I did a little study of the CMS systems, these headless CMS systems, et cetera. This is a huge, huge space. What's the headless CMS? It's like you store the data, you can use any presentation level. I mean, it is like one of the great spaces. And my friend I've had friends who have built content management systems. It's the cows, movable type, WordPress.”
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“I put up 250k. I win the bid. 250k goes to the investors in the washout. So now I have that domain name. Yesterday, I realized that domain name would be the ultimate domain name for an AI-based browser.”
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“How much is the domain? And they're like, well, we got 100k off for 150k off. I said, listen, let me stop you right there. I think the domain's worth 500K a million. I'm going to put in a, I'll double whatever the last bid was. I'll put in 250k. Now I'm dealing with the lawyers doing the liquidation. Said, listen, I insist that we do this right because the shareholders on the other side Just tell me what the bid is. I'll beat the bit. He's like, well, I can't, in fairness, do that. I said, great. What was the last bit? Because we all need to know the last bid It's X amount. I say, okay, I'll put it up. I can't remember. I think it was like $250K.”
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“And this domain name I know is worth a bunch. So I say, hey, listen, just so we get some money back for the shareholders who lost three, four, five million bucks, and I was 1.4 million of it.”
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“So close. So I talked to his. My friend who's on his board, chairman of his board, made a lot of money from this. I said, Me a favor just talk to this kid because he just literally, it's like you're in a basketball game and somebody throws an elbow at you on purpose. And bust your nose, and then you say, Hey, listen, that was. Not cool. You hit me in the nose with your elbow. It was a flagrant. Flagrant And so my friend says, yeah, that was a flagrant. I apologize on his behalf. We'll take care of you, JKO. He's a fan of yours. And then he basically just tells me to F off. Been sitting on this for a long time. Now I'm at a crossroads. Jason Ballard just told me my brother in Christ told me.”
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“The first interaction, I'll just quote I have reflected on our conversation, don't think it was a great first interaction between us and don't like that it ended the way. So I wanted to share a couple of reflections. I'm sorry this didn't turn out. Blah blah blah.”
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“He basically has the audacity To tell me that he's a huge fan of my work. And then he writes me essentially an apology letter.”
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“It's well over a year ago now. I say to the guy, listen, I understand. I talk to the other board members of his company who happens to be a great friend of mine. I say, do me a favor. This is making me mental now. And it's not because I'm being told that I'm going to get screwed, that I'm deliberately going to get screwed. There's a massive conflict of interest here because the asset and the team goes to this company that another board member is already an investor in. I don't have any shares in this company. And it's not for me. It's not going to change my life. It's for my LPs. It's for my syndicate members.”
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