"What is man, that you are mindful of him?" ☧ Long substance, short status! Founder @LaurusAg https://xitter.gq/t.co/DMCInFhqK8
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FIRST ROUND
The candidates who finished in:
3rd) Augusto Cury: 3,448,569 votes
4th) Renan Santos: 2,675,887 votes
5th) Ronaldo Caiado: 2,605,148 votes
6th) Romeu Zema: 326,488 votes
TOTAL: 9,056,092 votes
SECOND ROUND
Lula received 10,376,694 more votes than he did in the first round.
It’s as if he had secured every single vote cast for these candidates, none of whom are left-wing, plus another 1,320,602 votes, becoming the most popular president in Brazil’s entire history.
THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE. UNACCEPTABLE!
Especially since the vote counting was halted for two hours.
🤖 Made with AI
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We will enter an age of abundance
If we can stop the communists for the next 5 years
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Revolut founder Nik Storonsky says one of his investors tried forcing him to fire his best person:
“He was forcing me to fire my best person, because he was too hardcore.”
“Of course I didn’t fire him. I said no.”
“Pretty early on I realized that quite a few VCs, they are not very operational, and they can be actually dangerous for the company if they have enough power. So every single investment round, we just remove VCs.”
“Now I don't have any VCs on the board. I think that's the best. You always need to have operators rather than VCs on the board, people who actually build business and who know how to do things.”
Nik Storonsky is one of the most hardcore and competitive founders I’ve ever talked to. He’s the founder of Revolut, a $115 billion company, and wants to be the number one bank in 100 countries.
When someone asked Nik if he was coming for Jamie Dimon's lunch, he said “I’m coming for his dinner.”
“We want to dominate, otherwise what’s the point?”
He removed every VC from his board, and when one investor pushed him too far, he started his own fund to compete with them.
Nik has a lot of ideas on talent, product design, marketing, constraints, and what makes founder-led companies special.
This is a fascinating conversation about competition, speed, and building a machine-like company.
0:00 Coming for Jamie Dimon's dinner
2:04 Building the #1 bank in 100 countries
6:12 Why founders beat professional CEOs
8:45 Revolut's biggest mistake
12:47 Why legacy banks can't innovate
17:20 Running a company like a machine
20:28 Funding winners and cutting losers like a trader
23:31 How AI is changing Revolut's team structure
25:23 50 direct reports and spreading innovation fast
29:59 Hiring self-guided missiles
33:31 Too much money makes founders weaker
37:38 What Europe's constraints taught Revolut
41:08 Why VCs are like football cheerleaders
49:28 Starting a fund to compete with VCs
54:28 From zero marketing to buying Europe's airports
1:00:21 Funding moonshots like a global tech company
1:03:58 Building an unstoppable machine
Includes paid partnerships.
Cool idea. We constantly do this at Laurus. Feels like something big platforms would absorb into a native product, though.
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These 3.5 seconds did more to fortify American Identity than any establishment politician or political party in the last generation.
100 years of neoliberal rule was vaporized in 3.5 seconds.
Rejoice, we are still America. 🇺🇸
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When the world needed it most, the car did a flying kickflip 360 barrel roll. American dynamism.
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okay one thing I can say with confidence is truly nobody thought the guy who owned the 140 character company would also be the guy that built the flying cars
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JUST IN: Palantir CTO reveals many AI researchers have started smoking cigarettes to demonstrate their confidence that AI will cure cancer.
Vibe manufacturing: what dads have been doing in their garages since the bronze age
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I always find it surprising when VCs in new tech waves get overly hung up on business quality / metrics (TAM, quality of revenue, margin, etc.).
Disruptive tech always precedes figuring out the business model. Hell, we didn't monetize the Internet for years.
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Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are:
• Proprietary data
• Network effects
• A physical component
