Remember when Peter Thiel, the money-making genius, threw hundreds of dollars at the crowd during his keynote presentation at the Bitcoin 2022 Conference?You can never time the market. No one ever made money timing the market. Timing the market is a myth. Peter Thiel: HOLD MY BEER. “Peter Thiel’s fund closed almost all of its crypto positions shortly before prices crashed last year, according to the Financial Times. Founders Fund made $1.8 billion cashing out its bet on digital assets, the pu...

Remember when Peter Thiel, the money-making genius, threw hundreds of dollars at the crowd during his keynote presentation at the Bitcoin 2022 Conference?You can never time the market. No one ever made money timing the market. Timing the market is a myth. Peter Thiel: HOLD MY BEER. “Peter Thiel’s fund closed almost all of its crypto positions shortly before prices crashed last year, according to the Financial Times. Founders Fund made $1.8 billion cashing out its bet on digital assets, the pu...

StartupX was in KL and Penang, Malaysia, to meet the entrepreneurs and builders who are still hustling in the bear market!All we hear these days are collapse, fallout, destruction, implosions, recessions, layoffs and meltdowns. Negativity fills the room. Seems like everything is crumbling to bits. Everything is falling apart. Makes you wonder: Who’s still building? Who are the founders still willing to stick their necks out and build their startup? Who are the ones brave enough to hunker down...

StartupX was in KL and Penang, Malaysia, to meet the entrepreneurs and builders who are still hustling in the bear market!All we hear these days are collapse, fallout, destruction, implosions, recessions, layoffs and meltdowns. Negativity fills the room. Seems like everything is crumbling to bits. Everything is falling apart. Makes you wonder: Who’s still building? Who are the founders still willing to stick their necks out and build their startup? Who are the ones brave enough to hunker down...

SBF was once a crypto hero and wunderkid. Now, he is one of the most hated person in web3 and lost so much money for so many people.“The Bankman-Frieds hired private security guards to provide round-the-clock protection.” It is said that they spent $10K a week for armed security. They aren’t living in a scary country or where there are armed robberies happening frequently. They are in Palo Alto. That is one of the safest, richest, most educated neighborhoods in the US. Right by one of the bes...

SBF was once a crypto hero and wunderkid. Now, he is one of the most hated person in web3 and lost so much money for so many people.“The Bankman-Frieds hired private security guards to provide round-the-clock protection.” It is said that they spent $10K a week for armed security. They aren’t living in a scary country or where there are armed robberies happening frequently. They are in Palo Alto. That is one of the safest, richest, most educated neighborhoods in the US. Right by one of the bes...

Joshua Browder, founder of DoNotPay, made all kinds of news when he wanted to use AI to help defendants fight their cases in court.Joshua Browder, founder of DoNotPay, an AI-powered startup that helps you fight parking tickets, wanted to guide defendants on what to say to beat the law. The catch was that he wanted to put a earpiece in the defendant’s ears and guide them in real-time what to say. This is whacky, bold and definitely in the grey area of breaking the law. Of course it got people ...

Joshua Browder, founder of DoNotPay, made all kinds of news when he wanted to use AI to help defendants fight their cases in court.Joshua Browder, founder of DoNotPay, an AI-powered startup that helps you fight parking tickets, wanted to guide defendants on what to say to beat the law. The catch was that he wanted to put a earpiece in the defendant’s ears and guide them in real-time what to say. This is whacky, bold and definitely in the grey area of breaking the law. Of course it got people ...

Chef René Redzepi is known as the wizard of creating fascinatingly novel dishes that stuns, compels and engages the senses.Noma is shutting down forever.It will no longer be a restaurant. The world’s best fine-dining restaurant will cease to exist. Notice I said “fine-dining”, because the world’s best restaurant to me, would be McDonald’s. It is simple, tasty, reliable, consistent and affordable where ever you go in the world. Doesn’t matter if you are sweating in Rio de Janeiro or waking the...

Chef René Redzepi is known as the wizard of creating fascinatingly novel dishes that stuns, compels and engages the senses.Noma is shutting down forever.It will no longer be a restaurant. The world’s best fine-dining restaurant will cease to exist. Notice I said “fine-dining”, because the world’s best restaurant to me, would be McDonald’s. It is simple, tasty, reliable, consistent and affordable where ever you go in the world. Doesn’t matter if you are sweating in Rio de Janeiro or waking the...

Bankman-Fried, who remains free on a $250 million personal recognizance bond after being first charged in late 2022, has pleaded not guilty to all 12 charges.“Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of fraud and conspiracy related to the collapse of his crypto empire, including trading platform FTX and trading house Alameda Research.” Some say he is the literal personification of “white privilege” in the modern era. He burned a $9B crypto empire to the ground. He defrauded invest...

Bankman-Fried, who remains free on a $250 million personal recognizance bond after being first charged in late 2022, has pleaded not guilty to all 12 charges.“Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of fraud and conspiracy related to the collapse of his crypto empire, including trading platform FTX and trading house Alameda Research.” Some say he is the literal personification of “white privilege” in the modern era. He burned a $9B crypto empire to the ground. He defrauded invest...

MP Tin Pei Ling caused quite a commotion when she revealed her new job at Grab, which opened a can of worms.Honestly, when Tin Pei Ling announced her new role at Grab, I thought it was just a formality. From Grab’s perspective, of course they hired her precisely for her experience, network, connections and influence in politics, policies and social clout. When you hire someone prominent like her, who spent more than a decade in politics, you don’t exactly hire her for her coding skills or des...

MP Tin Pei Ling caused quite a commotion when she revealed her new job at Grab, which opened a can of worms.Honestly, when Tin Pei Ling announced her new role at Grab, I thought it was just a formality. From Grab’s perspective, of course they hired her precisely for her experience, network, connections and influence in politics, policies and social clout. When you hire someone prominent like her, who spent more than a decade in politics, you don’t exactly hire her for her coding skills or des...

Apparently, SBF was doing a ton of shady stuff behind the scenes, hiding his dirty deeds even from the CEO of FTX US.We are in the thick of crypto winter. Just when you thought everybody has packed up and gone home to hibernate and no one will be able to raise a cent, someone actually just raised web3 money. It’s akin to spotting a Golden Phoenix while walking the Sahara desert. “Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX.US, has raised $5 million for a new crypto startup called Architect th...

Apparently, SBF was doing a ton of shady stuff behind the scenes, hiding his dirty deeds even from the CEO of FTX US.We are in the thick of crypto winter. Just when you thought everybody has packed up and gone home to hibernate and no one will be able to raise a cent, someone actually just raised web3 money. It’s akin to spotting a Golden Phoenix while walking the Sahara desert. “Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX.US, has raised $5 million for a new crypto startup called Architect th...

ChatGPT is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history, according to a UBS study published last month.ChatGPT got 100M users in 2 months. It set the record for fastest-growing user base ever. Let me tell you why that is amazing. Here are the stats for fastest growing user base ever (to 100M users). The Internet took 7 years. FaceBook took 4.5 years. Whatsapp took 3.5 years. I...

ChatGPT is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history, according to a UBS study published last month.ChatGPT got 100M users in 2 months. It set the record for fastest-growing user base ever. Let me tell you why that is amazing. Here are the stats for fastest growing user base ever (to 100M users). The Internet took 7 years. FaceBook took 4.5 years. Whatsapp took 3.5 years. I...

AI tech is accelerating at an alarming pace, even creating and publishing entire books now.AI generated books are flooding the market and you should be so afraid. “Reuters found more than 200 e-books on Amazon’s Kindle Store that credit ChatGPT as either the author or a coauthor. But because Amazon doesn’t require authors to disclose the extent to which AI helped them write their books, the number could be much higher.” “One author using bot assistance bragged that he churned out a 119-page n...

AI tech is accelerating at an alarming pace, even creating and publishing entire books now.AI generated books are flooding the market and you should be so afraid. “Reuters found more than 200 e-books on Amazon’s Kindle Store that credit ChatGPT as either the author or a coauthor. But because Amazon doesn’t require authors to disclose the extent to which AI helped them write their books, the number could be much higher.” “One author using bot assistance bragged that he churned out a 119-page n...

The multi-billion dollar empire that Yuga Labs has built isn’t rocket science, its just doing the basics right.Yuga Labs is the company behind the massively successful Bored Ape Yacht Club, Mutant Apes and so many other NFT projects. Their NFTs are worth hundreds of millions in the market today. Celebrities own them. Fans loved them. They have become the bluechip projects in the NFT world. Somehow, they haven’t been complacent and sitting on their laurels. They just launched a new game called...

The multi-billion dollar empire that Yuga Labs has built isn’t rocket science, its just doing the basics right.Yuga Labs is the company behind the massively successful Bored Ape Yacht Club, Mutant Apes and so many other NFT projects. Their NFTs are worth hundreds of millions in the market today. Celebrities own them. Fans loved them. They have become the bluechip projects in the NFT world. Somehow, they haven’t been complacent and sitting on their laurels. They just launched a new game called...

Slipping a competitor a tampon is literally one of the funniest and most outrageous prank I have ever seen.We all make jokes and have a good laugh about things once in a while. We all make fun of each other and say weird stuff all the time, especially to our best friends. We are humans, and laughing is a great way inject some joy into our lives. It is hard to imagine but there are times pranks and jokes can be misconstrued and taken out of context. Especially when we are looking at it from th...

Slipping a competitor a tampon is literally one of the funniest and most outrageous prank I have ever seen.We all make jokes and have a good laugh about things once in a while. We all make fun of each other and say weird stuff all the time, especially to our best friends. We are humans, and laughing is a great way inject some joy into our lives. It is hard to imagine but there are times pranks and jokes can be misconstrued and taken out of context. Especially when we are looking at it from th...