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  1. “I don't have to do that. Because I'm hiring the entire team and this company's out of money and there's nothing you can do about it. So I'm hiring the team because this company's going belly up. They can't make payroll. And your SOL, JCAL. So why would I do that? And I say, okay, fair enough, blank from blank company. Fair enough. I understand. And sure enough, he tells me to essentially in so many words to F off.”

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  2. “You could get us a save, and then you, as the founder of this company, who wants to acquire companies and talent in the future, can say, hey, you took care of the people in the investment community. I'm not asking for my cash back. I just want a token so I can go back to my investor and say, hey, this wasn't a great acquisition, but we got, let's say, 500K on our 1.4 million invested. I think we're about 1.4 million invested in this company, which isn't a lot of money in the grant scheme and things I just told you, put 750K into it. Literally a gesture. It's a goodwill gesture”

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  3. “And I'm totally okay with that. I am okay with losing my money on 90% of bets. I've done extraordinarily well being year zero the first investor. Now this company was gonna go out of business. They pivoted. I got them back in business. I work for years on the company. Went to the board meetings. So I say to this incredibly successful founder, here's a proposition for you. I want to be a supporter of the transaction and I'm going to support it either way because you don't want to be a scumbag and be like, I'm going to block the thing. But, you know, so I get on the phone with the founder. I said, here's an idea. Why don't you give the investors a token number of shares in your company?”

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  4. “So they, and one of the board members is already an investor in this company, so there's a bit of a conflict, but that's okay. There's conflicts, no conflict, no interest. So, this is all going down, and they make an offer, and the offer is like, okay, the founders get taken care of. They get these great deals. Okay, it's not life-changing money, but it's a soft landing. And I said, okay, well, what do the investors get? And the guy says to me, well, you get nothing. And I said, okay, well, let's jump on a phone call. Listen. Here's what I propose. Be super supportive of the transition. I want to see the founders have a great exit, even if it's just landing the plane. And sometimes you just land the plane in this game. And you see, oh, a company was acquired on TechCrunch. And it turns out nobody made any money.”

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  5. “I'm on the board of a company. It's a founder who I love pivots the company. They've got an extraordinary brand name. They've got a great vision to build a content management system, a CMS. And to build tools Doesn't work out. I'm not stung by that. The fun puts in a couple hundred thousand and the syndicate puts a couple hundred thousand in. We're okay with failure. It's not a big deal. Company is looking to sell. Find a potential buyer who has a giant company worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The company is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They've raised over $100 million, I believe. They've got tens of millions of dollars. It's all public information. For their content management system, which by all appearances is doing extraordinarily well. They love the team. They want to buy it. Yada.”

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  6. “Within that, no problem. And that's the opportunity to do this. All right. Sebastian, great job. Let's stay in touch and yeah, come back in a year and show us your progress. I'm rooting for you.”

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  7. “Okay, that's wrong. It needs to be done over again. It's wrong. We need the oracle to go to work on this. So how do you deal with an error in the system? Because this is taking a guess, I guess, square footage, whatever, right now? Or is this the Oracle did it?”

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  8. “I mean, I'm not saying I'm a mensch, but when my friend was down on his luck, I always came through for him. It was a nice bowl. There it is. South Woodburn Drive. It's like one eight.”

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  9. “We started Mahalo in the pool house. Lon worked there. My friend Nick Jarecki, the famous director, lived there for a year when he moved there. And my friend Josh Harris lived in the pool house from we live in public when he was down on his luck. I let him live in my pool house and I gave him my Corvette And I get my incredible wife gave him a custom food order every week from Whole Foods.”

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  10. “This was the first home I ever bought. I bought it, they wanted 3.5 20 years ago, I think, and I think I paid 2.4 million. I put a couple of hundred grand into it.”

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  11. “It. And then you have investing in the corporation. So walk us through. Are you a corporation? And then what's the opportunity here for investors who are listening? If there is one for them.”

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  12. “Is this a company or is it just a subnet? Are you a Delaware Corp or a Texas Corp, hopefully? What are you doing here in terms of the company versus the tokens? Because if we're investors in these things, this is one thing I bring up. You can buy TAW and you get access to essentially all the subnets because if subnets use TAW to a certain extent, then you have buying the subnet token. And you're, I think, subnet 46. Am I correct? Yeah.”

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  13. “Incredible He built an oracle. You built a beautiful oracle. And at scale, somebody could say, hey, I need, you know, we just had Jason Ballard on. He could do an analysis and say with Lennar, where should we build our next community, right? And where's the infill between Bastrup? Wimber Take the road south to San Antonio, right? You go west, you go east, you go west to hill country, go east to Bashrup, you go south to San Antonio. You could actually map this with the Oracle, get the data, look for trends, and this would save you. I got to think like hundreds of thousands of dollars in research. And you could get that same research for how much Sebastian. What would I pay?”

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  14. “He who shall not be named, who I barely knew. And I was like, hey, pal, sure, just so you know, this is like a nonprofit. Essentially, these guys are monks. They're techno monks. They're not interested in money. But yeah, I'll introduce you to them, I guess, because my agent was like, can you introduce them to these guys? I always like to help founders out. And then, of course, I get dragged for it. I'll put it all aside. I'm not making that mistake anymore. When I get the spidey sense, you know what I do? I share it and I place bets. I place a 750k bet on Tao, co-founded, still core capital with Mark Jeffrey. I leaned in and put some money of my own in. And I did the same thing with OpenClaw, right? These two things are my spidey senses in 2026. Those are my two spidey sense bets. This is not investment advice, but I told Lon, if you have $500, $1,000 and you ask me, should I buy some TAW? I'd say, yeah, go for it, Laun. I feel comfortable giving you that advice, but I'm not giving anybody else advice. Okay.”

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  15. “Do hey well, I did it with BitTorrent by not BitTorrent, by the way. And I made a mistake. I had some Bitcoin on Mt. Gox. It got hacked. I had it on another thing. I lost my Bitcoin. Okay, whatever. My wife bought it. We did great. Shout out to my wife. She's brilliant. I should have done more. And like a crazy Moussad CIA agent, a famous one with the dark past asked me to introduce him to the Bitcoin because he watched my podcast and I was like, okay, here's the guys. I'll leave it at that. I don't want to go down this rabbit hole here.”

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  16. “No, it's a great one. Now do your demo, it's very important that we explain Tau and BidTetser to folks here on this program. Why? Sometimes they get a tingle. I hear a pitch. I get a tingle. I get a spidey sense. I'm good at this. This is one of the things I found I'm good at in life. You know that is finding the energy, the lean form.”

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  17. “Where we used to dump bodies just so everybody knows. Your family was working. In one of the most dangerous places in the world, I was having dinner the other night. This is my new friend, Jimmy Iavine. Jimmy And I was lucky enough to sit at a table with him at an event. This is the guy who did my Mak”

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  18. “Awesome. And you can help the team out by just doing that. Tell a friend, if there's a quality episode, there's a moment in it. Just send the deep link, please, and say, hey, Jason's been doing this with Lon for 15 years. We're in year 15, I think. Oh, more. Well, we got to have a, you know what? We have to start celebrating the community here. I want to do a yearly party on the anniversary of the show. I don't know when Brian Alva came on for the first episode. That's a quality. That's my guy. We'll have to go back. All right, what are you working on? Yeah, 2008. CB, what are you working on? Am I pronouncing correct? S-E-B-Y-C-B?”

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  19. “How long have you been listening to Twist? How long have you been listening to Twist? I always, it's okay if it's a year, it's okay if it's 10, but I always like to ask people because I've been getting so many people DMing me and it makes my day when somebody tweets at me or does a LinkedIn that they've been listening to the show and it had some impact on their entrepreneurial journey almost two years.”

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  20. “I mean, come on and get some of those RSUs. It's going to be That's one of my favorite guys. Good guest. Good guest. Right there. That's my guy. Always a good guest. I know quality guys. Now this next guy coming on the program, I don't know if it's a quality guy or not. We'll find out. So we're bringing up Sebi Rubino. He's from Rezi Labs, Jason. It's a bit tensor subnet. We've been talking to a lot of them. Subnet 46. And Rezi stands for real estate superintelligence. So they are hosting a competition for AI models that can accurately price real estate. It's a theme show today. We're talking housing. Sebi, thank you so much for being here. Hey, Sebi, how you doing, brother? Doing good, brot It's great to be here. Thanks for having me”

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  21. “I'm going to try to channel a little grace, but there's no better person you could go work for, and there's no better mission than housing people. Jason is an A-plus character individual. This is the person, if you're effective at what you do in your career, go work for Jason. Clip this, put it on your hiring page, Jason. I give you permission. Thank you. Use this endorsement on your social media. And on your website, go work for Jason and do something good in the world. Stop working for Zuckerberg and no offense and trying to make people click on more ads and invade their privacy. Go work and build housing for the military for... Space, excuse my French for the homeless and for rich people. Where else do you?”

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  22. “Jason, you can clip this. You can clip this for your hiring. I am the ultimate judge of character. I am the bestie of all besties. People know. Like, hey, if you're having a tough time, you call Jason, he's going to come and chop it up with you, talk about your problems. I pride myself on trying to be a good friend to my friends. And I immediately can tell when somebody is that person, somebody is true, honest, a just person. Jason, I knew. Jason Ballard, I knew from the moment I met you that you're a quality guy. And I collect quality guys. You know why? Because some guys like to shive me. And I'm going to talk about the guy who shivved me at the end of the show. Stick around.”

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  23. “Okay, and you can always guess sometimes the founder gets first name at the domain name. And you're also hiring, who are you hiring for, J”

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  24. “Time when you come out. No, no, no. I'll give you a minute here because this is critical when you perfect the technology. You are partnering with the greatest home developers in the world. You started at the top, great way to do it. And then second, construction companies, you're also partnering with because you can't possibly deploy every single. Channel, so tell me about your channel strategy.”

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  25. “I cannot wait. I'm going to build my own tower. I'm going to build my tower and I'm going to have a seat at the top. My little writer's cabin.”

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  26. “I will come see it. Well, you know what we should do? We should do an onsite. We should bring a couple folks and do a little on site. We'll have a little barbecue down”

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  27. “None of it. And by the way, drywall Is basically drywall in Spanish means mold collector. It literally is where mold like I have cut so much.”

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  28. “No, I'm not saying I've had a term, I only had a termite problem in one of them, my L1 But all of them I've had to pay low thousands of dollars every two or three years to deal with this to get them treated concrete.”

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  29. “And mold and fire. I cannot tell you I have had mold in three of six homes I've owned. I have had flooding in two of six homes I've owned. I have had, thankfully, knock on wood. I never had any smoke or fire and termites in six of six homes I've had to deal with.”

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  30. “100 years is the lifespan of concrete at a minimum. And by the way. You may have heard of them when you have wood structures and you have to have somebody, I mean, listen, I've owned a lot of homes at this point. I am bane of my existence. Flooding.”

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  31. “Oh, yeah, I got a house in this really nice neighborhood that I'm looking at living in. I'm like, how's long living in my neighborhood? What the heck”

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  32. “And he's moving here. I give him 10 dimes to move. I'm like, here's 10K, you know, whatever, you know, I'll pay for your moving, whatever. Whatever. I mean, so it's the minimum I can do to get that level of talent here. I'm like, how's it going? What's going on with the apartment? I got a house. I'm like.”

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  33. “Your employees then start to figure out well, who do I resent for this? And they say, the rich VCs and the CEOs of these companies are the reason that my life sucks. And they're making $400,000 in RSUs and salary. Move your company to Austin. Lon came from LA, Jackie came from San Francisco. The reaction they had, Jason, when they came to this town was this town's dope. Lawn made an incredible observation. I can go get Brian and not wait online.”

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  34. “Whether it's Sachs, Elon, put myself down the list. But people who actually can solve the problems in those places are like, you know what? I'm kind of being hated for trying to solve problems and build things. Peace out. I'm going to go where the other builders are. That's why if you're listening to my voice right now and you're starting a company, I have no problem with you moving to the Bay Area for the first year or two. When you get to 10 employees, let me tell you what's going to happen. Everybody who works for you is going to hate you. And they're going to put their hatred on you as the owner of the business because it's $6,000 to have a two bedroom apartment. And it's $4 million to have a three-bedroom house. And it's 60 to $90,000 to put your kids in a decent school. You're going to need to supplement it with $20,000 in tutoring and you're going to have to hope your child is safe when they go to school.”

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  35. “By the way, this was what my experience when I grew up in the 80s and 90s in New York City. This was my experience when I lived in California for 20 years. There was a sense that anything was possible and you could build stuff. And then in both of those people, both of those places, the entire gestalt has changed. The entire modus operandus has been, how do I get mine? This is a shrinking pie. Nothing can get done. All problems are intractable. The taxes only go up. The spending and the deficit only goes up. There is no way out. It's a death spiral. And the greatest pilots in the world.”

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  36. “GE appliances. It's six, seven, eight hundred thousand dollars. It's $300 or $400,000 to remodel a bathroom in Los Angeles. You asked to have your bathroom remodeled in Brentwood, minimum $300,000. The cost of a three-bedroom. Here in Austin, get on it, folks”

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  37. “Easier than ever to build a great new product and launching a startup even as a solopreneur is getting easier and easier. But as my experience founders already know there's a lot more to starting a company than just putting up a website or even building a product. If you're serious about going into business, you need a Delaware sequel. And let that sink in. There are people right now in California, New York, Los Angeles, other. Who are looking at this and their heads are exploding because they remodeled their kitchen for 800,000. They could have bought two homes in Austin for what their remodel. I am not joking. And I'm not talking about remodeling your 2,000 square foot, you know, European kitchen that I had at my houses. I'm talking about a modest kitchen”

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  38. “I am very excited to be a shareholder in a fan of and partners with Polymarket. What will the median home value in Austin, Texas Metro Area be on April 30th? And here it is. What do we have here? Have you put it out one week? Give us an overview here of what people think the value here will be. And I think this one needs to be traded a lot more heavily.”

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  39. “This is what's going to happen with Icon. You'll be a rich person. You'll want to rebuild your Malibu 10,000 square foot beach home or in the hills and you'll want it to be fire resistant. You'll build an IP.”

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  40. “He's in Austin and he showed up for. We had a nice steak dinner the other week. He shows up. He's like, How do I park my car? I'm like, David, there's your valet. He's like, okay, I give it to the valet. I'm like, yeah, you have to have your key, though, because, you know, I'm like, why are you driving yourself? He's like, oh, I have FSD and I have this model. Why? I love it. Sachs doing pretty good. Drives the model Y every day. Chamoff, he's doing pretty good. He drives the model Y every day. He's doing very well. Oh, Halloween's crushing it. He's got four model wise, he said on the program or four Tesla list. All of them would self traffic. We all drive the same car. It's all converged to one.”

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  41. “Do I drive every day? I drive a model Y. It costs 50K. I think you can get it used for 30K with 20,000 miles on it. The FSD I use, the FSD Elon uses, the FSD, everybody who has access to a used Model Y or Model 3, which you can get used ones right now with FSD is 15 to 20K. They're everywhere. And then CyberCare brings it everywhere. Every rich person you talk to, David Sachs started driving again. He used to take Uber.”

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  42. “We go You just unlocked for me this idea that when you make something that's truly got that craftsmanship that truly inspires the high end, it's not incongruous to have that hit everybody. And I'll give an example of it. I'm sitting a couple of feet away from the 16th Tesla ever made, the Roadster that I paid $150,000 for. And next to it is the Model S I paid also signature1, which I paid $150,000 for. Okay, it's $300,000 worth of cards. I'm a very lucky guy. I get to have those two cars.”

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  43. “The investors in these companies and the founders and the team can win, society can win. And all levels of society can win. It doesn't need to just be the top wins, the shareholders in the company”

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  44. “And let me tell you something when you are lucky enough to be in the top 1%, 0.1%, top 10%, top 20%, wherever you find yourself in life. And in our industry, you very quickly find yourself in the top 10%, 5%, 1%. It's extraordinary how the upper middle class has grown. We've had the upper middle class in the United States is the fastest growing. These are people who have net worths of one to five million, which doesn't seem a lot if you live in New York City or Los Angeles, but it is a heck of a lot of money if you live in Nashville or Austin, right? You're doing really well. You have a lot of optionality. So what can we do to just move the floor up?”

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  45. “And this is, I think, a great North Star for our society here in America. The reason it's important, and the reason I did my tweet this morning, is I think it's very easy as technologists. It's very easy as capital allocators, you hit some hits, they run away, and oh my God, Uber, Robinhood, you know, I'm a victim of it myself. But we have to ask ourselves, as society becomes so wealthy, Where's the floor and has the floor moved up?”

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  46. “Listen, I'm going to invoke Jesus. Lon and I have been talking a lot about Jesus these days, always, always. Always top of my You treat the meekest amongst us is how you treat me. This is what Jesus said. This is the gospel. He said to us, how you treat the weakest members of society is how you treat God. Let that sink in as a concept, folks.”

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  47. “cash bonus just for opening an account. Grasshopper.bank slash twist. Be honest, there's homes out here in Hill Country out in dripping springs, out in Wimberley that are selling for 500k that look exactly like.”

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  49. “Here's a picture of, and listen, this is no dig to the people who made it. And this is certainly a lot better than living on the street. But if I'm being honest, it looks like you're in barracks. Looks Don't look modern. It doesn't look.”

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  50. “Could be 20, 30, 40x in terms of just the amount of square feet and the cost, you know, somewhere in like half the price and 10 times the structure is like a 20, 30, 40 multiple. And talk to me about the, because what people typically get wrong here is aesthetics. And climate. I first looked at it and I was like, I don't know if I want to be in a pizza oven. And I, you know. It's not going to look good or whatever. And then I saw the structure and I was like, wait a second, this looks really beautiful, Lon. This looks like Deckard's apartment. It looks like the Innis house. This looks like something Frank Lloyd Wright built, right? Actually, great, and then talk about climate and temperat”

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