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Nick Denton

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  1. “I trust car and driver. That's my brand. And Doug DeMiro, I like too. What is the ranking? I wonder on car and driver. Model thing A. Okay. I think it's because the price of these is a little bit high as part of it. Anything else in his thread there? I just want to talk a little bit about the vandalism. I really don't like the vandalism as a form of protest. If you want to sit in the Capitol building, if you want to do peaceful Black Lives Matters protests, if you want to do peaceful protests on Columbia's campus, all good. When you start burning stuff, you start chasing people around. When you start, you know, breaking things or shutting down a bridge when people are trying to get to work. That's where I'm kind of like, yeah, no Buenos. So I just don't like the violence in a lot of these protests that are going on.”

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  2. “Cabin is cramped for tall folks. Few available features backseat locks cubby storage. I mean, they hate this car. It is safe. I'll give you that.”

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  3. “Way they save money is by reducing the number of parts as you reduce parts you save money you have the priya c is that right yeah”

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  4. “It is a trend that we're going to track here 20k cars, 20k cars. Let's put it on our theme list along with static team size, but 20k cars that are sexy That are self driving. Elon's going to do that with the cyber taxi, which we're going to production next year, I think, around this time, he said. And the Chinese have no respect for IP. They just steal everything. And if you look at those cars, they've stolen all the innovations from Tesla and other places. And Xiaomi made smartphones. What is a car? There it is, Donald Trump's mugsh Wow, everything is computer”

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  5. “Why not? Okay. But I think the more interesting part of this is if we go down is his warning about just how amazing the Xiaomi cars are. So I think maybe jumping to that part is the most interesting part. Innovation in EVs is on a tear. And that was always Elon's big vision. He wanted to make EVs cool. Mission accomplished. Everybody's making them now. And these BYD and the Xiaomi ones are dirt cheap. And man, are they good looking?”

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  6. “Everything's computer, which I think kind of sums up the last 30 or 40 years of my life. Everything is computer. Everything's computer.”

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  7. “Yeah, so I just, you know, I just have an affinity for them as a collector. So the C8 is the greatest sports car ever made in America. I'm sure Elon will one up it with the Roadster 2, which I'll also get. But yeah, I think that my interpretation of it. And he goes on in his thread there, Nick Denton, and he's using X as the way to get this story out there because doing a thread of 30 or 40 tweets like this is going to get him more views than doing it for the financial time. So smart move for Nick Denton to do that here. And I think Trump said yesterday he had a funny meme. It's all computer. Is that what he said?”

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  8. “I'm going to test drive one. The folks at GM are going to let me borrow an E-ray. Really? Yeah, well, you know, I'm a Corvette guy my whole life. I had a C6, and now that I'm here in Austin, I'm gonna get a barn, like a man cave barn type thing. I decided I'm going to collect one of each generation C1 through C8. I'm going to have one of each.”

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  9. “Trash industries is from Marvel Comics. This is Trusk Industries. What you can take from this, as Nick Denton is a fan of what's happening in Doge and apparently a Trump fan because he's saying the rationalization of the federal government, which I think is kind of where I stand on it, whatever you think of Doge going too fast, moving fast and breaking things. I think we all agree waste fraud, spending too much is common ground for everybody, independent of political aisles. might obviously disagree with the process of doing it. So let's just make that note about Nick Denton's position here. It is true that yesterday, Trump had Elon's cars at the White House. This is, in my interpretation, again, I don't have any inside information, a make good in some ways, a make good for Biden not inviting Trump to the White House and Joe Biden driving like a Corvette and basically stumping for the great American car company GM. And I'm getting a Corvette, I think.”

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  11. “Yeah, paying a gigantic settlement to the Hulkster. But he wants to be a journalist again, apparently, and he wrote a really interesting thread, I think, which touched on a lot of things in the news around BYD and some of the cars we've been talking about here. So we'll pull up his tweet storm here and then just what the major points are and how we think about them. All right, founders, let's talk about your website. Yes, I know it's embarrassing. Yes, I know you're too busy to upgrade it. Well, if you're going to launch something new or you need to give your brand a refresh, which I know you do, you need Squarespace. It's the all-in-one platform that makes building a stunning professional website ridiculously easy. Whether you're selling products, offering services, or showcasing your portfolio. Like I'm going to do with one of my kids, they want to go and do artistic things in the world. So I'm going to make them a nice, beautiful squarespace site when they apply to college. Squarespace gives you everything you need to grow.”

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  12. “Yeah, sure. I'm always reticent to get into too much Elon territory because people will assume that I have some inside information. I haven't been talking to Elon all that much since he's been busy at Doge. I'm kind of, you know, even my friends are cooking, so I'm kind of letting him do their thing. So I don't have any information on this. But Nick Denton, for people who don't know, was a journalist. He's like a witty, bitter, interesting, intelligent journalist from the UK. He's old like me now, but in the heyday, he created Gawker, which was, you know, absolutely disastrous and fabulous at the same time. It did incredible moments of real investigative journalism. It did incredibly low some things, as he would tell you, and got shut down spectacularly by Peter Thiel when he sued it because they were trafficking Gawker, that is, in stolen sex tapes. And he wound up.”

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  13. “We have people ask that for the $500, and what I say to them is I say, Oh, you can't find $500? And they're like, well, I mean, I could. And I'm like, okay, yeah, we don't have a scholarship program. You don't have any way to find $500 and get it back in 12 weeks. What you typically get is the whiners and the entitled will come up with why they can. And then the other people are like, yeah, no.”

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  14. “Found a university, which you pay 500 bucks to go to with two of your friends, build a prototype. And if you come to all 12 weeks, you give you the 500 bucks back. So I'm kind of thinking, I've got a better model here that we've developed. I might even take it to the point at which I charge $10,000 to go. And then if you finish. We invest the $10,000 back into your company, like literally round trip it. I was thinking like creative models like that, but I don't want to exclude people who, you know, maybe, you know, like myself, who wouldn't be able to afford the 10K”

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  15. “The thing UT is wonderful because it's 9k a year. When you talk about the value proposition, there's like two costs, opportunity cost, your time, and then money, actual hard cost. Spending 50K on a degree and then graduating to a 50k a year job, that's fine. That's my one X rule. Whatever you spent on the education, let's assume kids have more time than money, so no big deal. They spend four years growing up getting through the maturation process of developing the frontal lobes. Yeah, 50K, you come out of school, you make 50K. You got to pay down 10% of your loans every year. You can do a quite effectively and in 10 years you'll be done with your 50K in loans. Or if your parents can afford it, maybe have zero loans or maybe halfway 25. That's a big difference than graduating with five times your starting salary or 10 times your starting salary in debt, which means you'll never own a home and you'll never be able to get married and have kids because you're going to have a thousand, two thousand dollar a month mortgage payment that you're paying to Harvard or Columbia. So anyway, I think that's sort of where I come at it with it from. But we have.”

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  16. “Would go further. So there's that, but you know, some people have kids who don't have the huts, the resiliency, the self-reliance, the executive function. So you're kind of sending them there to build that muscle.”

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  17. “I'm biased because I work with entrepreneurs. There are things you're going to learn at an MBA program. I would consider it kind of like going to a yoga retreat or a meditation retreat that's incredibly expensive, like on the white lotus You can afford it and you can go to the White Lotus and do yoga or meditation and it costs you $10,000 a week, great. You could save the $9,900 and go on YouTube and learn meditation for $100 or for $0. And if you're a self-starter, you know, I would take the money your parents were going to give you for an MBA program. Let's say it was a quarter million dollars to go to Stanford or Harvard or like a really elite school. You take that quarter million and you do three 75K businesses or so, you know, projects, you would go further.”

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  18. “you know, being a handyman and you don't type into YouTube, what does code 17 mean on a dishwasher that's not working? Like you got to know what code 17 is. You figure out, oh, that's like this receptacle or this fuse and you flip it.”

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  19. “This is going to be a permanent state of affairs, and we see it inside of our tiny little 21 personnel post here in launch where we're getting more done every month. We do a little bit more. We get a little bit more done. But we use the same number of people because if you embrace the tools, you get 10% better. So I kind of went through the upside in these tools, which is if you use them every day and your boss asks you to do something and you haven't asked three, four, five LLMs, hey, my boss is a jerk. He wants me to get this done. He's totally unreasonable. How do I get this done and make him happy or her happy? And what questions will they ask me? What are the follow-up questions? You can literally give that prompt. And it's going to give you a really great way to address complex research projects or complex projects your boss might give you. And it could even anticipate what their follow-up questions are if you don't do that. We kind of like, I don't know.”

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  20. “To go work. And I don't think they're hiring in these places all that much anymore. So be resilient. Start a company is my best advice.”

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  21. “Great, you know, he listens to all in, as some people are wont to do, and he heard me talk about AI and what an impact it's going to have. And you guys help me with my little essay that I'm writing for my sub stack and just Jason Calicanis on startups on Substack. You'll find me. But I'm just writing this little piece on the static team size and how having spoke at UT a couple of times in the past month, these students actually think they're going to like get job offers. And I'm like, yeah, I don't think this is like. Years ago, where Airbnb, Coinbase, the sort of upstarts are going to give you an offer, and then you're going to work that offer against classics, McKinsey and Goldman consulting firms. Just for MBAs, I'm talking about. They used to MBAs had a lot. Lot of places.”

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  22. “Everybody, welcome back to this week in startups Monday, Wednesday, Fridays. We come to you live on the YouTube, on the X, on the LinkedIn from my personal LinkedIn. We got a big docket here. Sorry I'm running a little bit behind, but I was on Glenn Beck's show, The Glenn Beck.”

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  23. “I think the ex shareholders got ownership in XAI. XAI needs to be, I don't, I'm not an investor in either, but I know the guy who's running it and a lot of my friends are. XAI is doing something interesting, which is, I think they get X's corpus, which is a huge advantage. So the huge advantage is what I was talking about. I'm Glenn Becktalake, the huge advantage is if you have a real-time data source giving you information. And so whoever's got real-time data, whether it's Reddit or X or Facebook, they're going to have such a huge, huge LLM advantage”

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