No one is raising 7 trillion dollars please. Not even AI Jesus Sam Altman can do that.Hold up. Is that even humanly possible? I mean I know AI is hot and Sam is quite possibly the hottest CEO in the startup world now, but still. $7T is lietrally 7% of the entire world’s GDP! The world’s GDP was 96.51 trillion USD (2021). Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is eyeing a colossal $7 trillion fundraising round that could reshape the future of the semiconductor industry and, by extension, the realm of artifici...

No one is raising 7 trillion dollars please. Not even AI Jesus Sam Altman can do that.Hold up. Is that even humanly possible? I mean I know AI is hot and Sam is quite possibly the hottest CEO in the startup world now, but still. $7T is lietrally 7% of the entire world’s GDP! The world’s GDP was 96.51 trillion USD (2021). Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is eyeing a colossal $7 trillion fundraising round that could reshape the future of the semiconductor industry and, by extension, the realm of artifici...

To give up or not give up. That is the question.You know the startup world, everyone is always telling you how to build, push on, expand, raise millions, get more users, iterate and grow. Nobody really tells you when and how to give up. Nobody really advises you on the art of giving up and actually knowing when to quit. I want to explore that today. Remember the guys who founded Instagram? They went on to build an AI-driven news app called Artifact just barely a year ago. Now, they are callin...

To give up or not give up. That is the question.You know the startup world, everyone is always telling you how to build, push on, expand, raise millions, get more users, iterate and grow. Nobody really tells you when and how to give up. Nobody really advises you on the art of giving up and actually knowing when to quit. I want to explore that today. Remember the guys who founded Instagram? They went on to build an AI-driven news app called Artifact just barely a year ago. Now, they are callin...

Everyone has an agenda, especially Billionaires who donates to Universities.Half a bil. That is really a lot of moolah to donate to a school. But when you are worth $37.2B, it’s chump change. Ken Griffin, the founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities, manages more than $62B in assets. He has a been a strong supporter and donor to schools like Harvard. Griffin’s recent statements on withholding donations from his alma mater, Harvard University, raised some eyebrows. His discontent with Harvard...

Everyone has an agenda, especially Billionaires who donates to Universities.Half a bil. That is really a lot of moolah to donate to a school. But when you are worth $37.2B, it’s chump change. Ken Griffin, the founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities, manages more than $62B in assets. He has a been a strong supporter and donor to schools like Harvard. Griffin’s recent statements on withholding donations from his alma mater, Harvard University, raised some eyebrows. His discontent with Harvard...

AI is up to some really cool stuff these days!AI strikes again! This time, it was used to magically decipher and understand what was written in an ancient scroll that was written 2 millennias ago. The ancient past and the digital future have collided in a spectacular victory for history. The Vesuvius Challenge 2023 has been a journey through time. A team of researchers armed with AI and 3D mapping technology resurrected a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll, buried and carbonized in the catastrophi...

AI is up to some really cool stuff these days!AI strikes again! This time, it was used to magically decipher and understand what was written in an ancient scroll that was written 2 millennias ago. The ancient past and the digital future have collided in a spectacular victory for history. The Vesuvius Challenge 2023 has been a journey through time. A team of researchers armed with AI and 3D mapping technology resurrected a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll, buried and carbonized in the catastrophi...

No jpeg should be worth that much. Or should it?Let’s talk about a digital rock that just sold for a whopping $739,000. Yep. Are we back to the days of the NFT craze? I sure hope not. Ether Rock #19, a virtual rock, part of one of the original NFT projects on Ethereum, recently fetched a price equivalent to a Lamborghini Aventador SVJ or very luxurious house facing the beach. In case you missed the memo, let me explain why is a jpeg rock so significant in NFT lore.Is the NFT craze back? Again...

No jpeg should be worth that much. Or should it?Let’s talk about a digital rock that just sold for a whopping $739,000. Yep. Are we back to the days of the NFT craze? I sure hope not. Ether Rock #19, a virtual rock, part of one of the original NFT projects on Ethereum, recently fetched a price equivalent to a Lamborghini Aventador SVJ or very luxurious house facing the beach. In case you missed the memo, let me explain why is a jpeg rock so significant in NFT lore.Is the NFT craze back? Again...

Nobody really teaches you how to bounce back from personal illnesses.A while back, I fell sick for more than 10 days. It was traumatizing. Not just the sickness and the fact that I was incapacitated for days on end. But the notion that I would not be able to work, gym, run or eat my favorite food. It was torturous to say the least. No more bubble tea, tonkotsu ramen, chicken rice and beer? Come on, that’s a horrible punishment.Always stay optimistic and level-headed, even when it is hard to.W...

Nobody really teaches you how to bounce back from personal illnesses.A while back, I fell sick for more than 10 days. It was traumatizing. Not just the sickness and the fact that I was incapacitated for days on end. But the notion that I would not be able to work, gym, run or eat my favorite food. It was torturous to say the least. No more bubble tea, tonkotsu ramen, chicken rice and beer? Come on, that’s a horrible punishment.Always stay optimistic and level-headed, even when it is hard to.W...

There’s a shop called Kum N Go. Don’t ask me why.For real y’all. Someone named their convenience chain store Kum & Go. I’m not laughing ok. Kum & Go, the name that’s been a staple in the convenience store industry since 1959, is set to disappear by 2025. The chain’s new Utah-based owners, Maverik, have decided to rebrand, citing concerns about the name’s double entendre. Iowa is about to lose a historic, momentous state icon real soon. I mean I can understand why you name a convenience store ...

There’s a shop called Kum N Go. Don’t ask me why.For real y’all. Someone named their convenience chain store Kum & Go. I’m not laughing ok. Kum & Go, the name that’s been a staple in the convenience store industry since 1959, is set to disappear by 2025. The chain’s new Utah-based owners, Maverik, have decided to rebrand, citing concerns about the name’s double entendre. Iowa is about to lose a historic, momentous state icon real soon. I mean I can understand why you name a convenience store ...

Durwin HoImagine spending 8 years building anything. Its quite a dedication.You know having a Guinness World Record is quite cool. It is something you can brag about and probably be a great story you can share at any time. But it kinda depends on what record you have set. Fastest mile, longest jump, highest IQ or even having the most amount of Olympic Gold medals. But there are some quirky ones that will make your eyebrows twitch.Oh yea, there are some weird records out there.Like the dude wh...

Durwin HoImagine spending 8 years building anything. Its quite a dedication.You know having a Guinness World Record is quite cool. It is something you can brag about and probably be a great story you can share at any time. But it kinda depends on what record you have set. Fastest mile, longest jump, highest IQ or even having the most amount of Olympic Gold medals. But there are some quirky ones that will make your eyebrows twitch.Oh yea, there are some weird records out there.Like the dude wh...

Just how amazing is the Super Bowl?There’s football, and then there’s the Super Bowl. Think of it not just as a sports event but a pop concert with some football before and after. More than just touchdowns and tackles, it’s a glitzy showcase where big money, top-tier entertainment, and sports frenzy collide. With 123.4 million eyes glued to the spectacle, the Super Bowl is not just a game; it’s a cultural phenomenon.The Taylor Swift effect.Taken from Joe Pomp: “The business behind the Super B...

Just how amazing is the Super Bowl?There’s football, and then there’s the Super Bowl. Think of it not just as a sports event but a pop concert with some football before and after. More than just touchdowns and tackles, it’s a glitzy showcase where big money, top-tier entertainment, and sports frenzy collide. With 123.4 million eyes glued to the spectacle, the Super Bowl is not just a game; it’s a cultural phenomenon.The Taylor Swift effect.Taken from Joe Pomp: “The business behind the Super B...

A CEO worth billions reviewing the competitor’s products himself?That man is Zuckerberg himself of course. And he did what no other CEO would ever do. He grabbed the Vision Pro right after it released, tested it and did a review of it. It seemed genuine, off the cuff, very real and honest. It was a bold move. The Meta CEO, in a rare personal Instagram post, declared Meta’s Quest 3 not just a better value, but a superior product to Apple’s Vision Pro.Why would a CEO review his competitor’s pro...

A CEO worth billions reviewing the competitor’s products himself?That man is Zuckerberg himself of course. And he did what no other CEO would ever do. He grabbed the Vision Pro right after it released, tested it and did a review of it. It seemed genuine, off the cuff, very real and honest. It was a bold move. The Meta CEO, in a rare personal Instagram post, declared Meta’s Quest 3 not just a better value, but a superior product to Apple’s Vision Pro.Why would a CEO review his competitor’s pro...

Durwin HoSomeone just won a literary award using ChatGPT.Rie Kudan is a Japanese author. She recently won the Akutagawa Prize. You win those by writing really good novels. During her acceptance speech, she revealed that around 5% of her Akutagawa Prize-winning novel, ‘The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy,’ was composed using generative AI, specifically a chatbot program like ChatGPT. “Probably about 5 percent of the whole text is written directly from the generative A.I. I would like to work well with...

Durwin HoSomeone just won a literary award using ChatGPT.Rie Kudan is a Japanese author. She recently won the Akutagawa Prize. You win those by writing really good novels. During her acceptance speech, she revealed that around 5% of her Akutagawa Prize-winning novel, ‘The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy,’ was composed using generative AI, specifically a chatbot program like ChatGPT. “Probably about 5 percent of the whole text is written directly from the generative A.I. I would like to work well with...

So turns out celeb endorsements and virality does not equate to profitability.Remember when Snoop Dogg, the godfather of smoking blunts, wanted to give up smoking? He made news everywhere and even his friends reached out to see if he was ok. Turns out, it was a marketing stunt. A really believable and brilliant one indeed. When it first happened, I thought it was a smart, well-executed ad. Well Solo Stove’s latest marketing venture, enlisting Snoop Dogg as their “smokesman,” turned out to be ...

So turns out celeb endorsements and virality does not equate to profitability.Remember when Snoop Dogg, the godfather of smoking blunts, wanted to give up smoking? He made news everywhere and even his friends reached out to see if he was ok. Turns out, it was a marketing stunt. A really believable and brilliant one indeed. When it first happened, I thought it was a smart, well-executed ad. Well Solo Stove’s latest marketing venture, enlisting Snoop Dogg as their “smokesman,” turned out to be ...