Merrill Anovick
4.9K posts
Merrill Anovick
@Manovick
Building companies at 25madison
New York, NY Beigetreten Ağustos 2009
3.4K Folgt909 Follower
I want to get the most AI pilled folks in NJ for a meetup in Westfield.
I have no idea how to source or find these people so please X do your thing!
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LIVE NOW: Join me as I sign legislation that paves the way for new nuclear power in New Jersey. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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It’s very notable that baseball has surged out of a cultural lull by just addressing things that annoyed people. And then you contrast that with basketball - paralyzed by tanking, free throw hunting, having too many games, etc.
Conor Sen@conorsen
This might be the first time in the history of pro sports that players have the opportunity to humiliate the umpires/referees with home fans getting to cheer it on — baseball’s doing everything right these days.
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QSBS isn't a loophole. It's the only tax break in America that requires you to have created something from nothing. New York is about to eliminate it. Here's why that should matter to everyone, not just founders.
cc: @nihalmehta @dhaber @juliepsamuels @davidu @zachweinberg @Trace_Cohen @yrechtman @WillManidis @mattturck @mansourtarek_ @brexton @BillAckman @packyM
Michael Bloch@michaelxbloch
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It should be deeply embarrassing to all Americans that our Jewish fellow citizens have to spend this amount of money on security each year just to worship safely.
Without the heroic actions of the private security force in West Bloomfield we’d be looking at dozens of dead.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss 🟧@RepAuchincloss
“Jewish institutions now spend $765 million annually on security… A typical Jewish organization spends 14 percent of its annual budget on security.” This money should be going to community building, child care, and charity. Instead the Jewish community must fortify itself against a surge of hate that is being mainstreamed by opportunists online. nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/…
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@NJTRANSIT Thank you for your work on this! Exciting to see our infra improved
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🚧 Progress continues on the Portal North Bridge project!
Crews are advancing Portal Cutover construction, an important step in connecting the new bridge to the Northeast Corridor and improving reliability.
Thank you for your patience as we build a stronger rail network.
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I’m calling for
REGIME CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES
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Attempting to destroy one of America's most important companies because of a terms of service dispute does not make us safer.
This is a designation usually reserved for international companies from foreign adversaries. Even if you think Anthropic is wrong this is an over the top response
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth@SecWar
This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic. Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives. The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield. Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable. As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives. Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered. In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service. America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.
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Never watched hockey. Kinda get it. Super fun.
Congrats Team USA! 🇺🇸
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@Jeffreyw5000 @shaig We moved here last August! Let me know if you ever want to go for a walk
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i’m absolutely loving the saas apocalypse discussions on the timeline right now.
to me the whole saas apocalypse via vibe coding internally narrative is mostly a distraction & quite nonsensical. no company will want to manage payroll or bug tracking software.
but the real potential threat to almost all saas is brutalized competition.
i.e. ai doesn’t need to magically recreate salesforce. it just needs to make it trivial for tiny teams to deliver functionally equivalent outcomes at a fraction of the cost. once that happens, pricing power potentially collapses.
imagine payroll… today you’re paying a fat margin for “trust + compliance + saas software” that increases prices so fucking often. like we have a startup & everyone is charging us up the ass for everything on a per seat basis. you can imagine tomorrow a 2 person shop empowered by ai can ship the same output, hit the same regulatory checkboxes, & charge 70% less because their cost structure is basically nil.
today saas margins exist because:
- engineering was scarce
- compliance was gated
- distribution was expensive
ai nukes all three in many ways, especially if you’re charging significantly less & know what the fuck you are doing when using ai. if you go to a company & say we will cut your fucking payroll bill by 50%, they will fucking listen.
the market will likely get flooded with credible substitutes, forcing prices down until the business model itself looks pretty damn suspect. someone smarter than me educate me on why this won’t happen please.
Anish Acharya@illscience
A+ post - “what is absolutely part of this whole arc are people who are certain we are less than five years away and are in a rush to build with absolute belief in where things are heading, and people who support them with their labor or dollars.”
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Horrible. This is a remarkably irresponsible statement. It is vile to cast such remarkably negative aspersions on a dead man in the absence of evidence. Lawful concealed carry (police have said he had a carry permit) is not evidence of a desire to commit mass murder.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
.@Sec_Noem: "This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement... This tragedy did not have to happen."
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We are allowed to have loaded magazines in America.
Whether the shooting was justified or not, simply being in possession of a gun with ammo is not proof of intentions to massacre anyone.
Sorry, I'm not giving up that premise to the federal government.
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NOW - Border Control Chief Greg Bovino: "The suspect also had two loaded magazines and no assessable ID. This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement."
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This video clip appears to show a federal agent already in possession of the victim's handgun and moving away when the first shots are fired. In other words, they suggest that the victim was disarmed, on his knees and being held by a bunch of guys when he was shot in the back and killed.
OSINTdefender@sentdefender
Third angle of today’s shooting of a 37-year-old male by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, clearly shows one of the agents running away from the scuffle before the shooting carrying the victim's handgun, a Sig P320.
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Have we really become a country where law enforcement can shoot protesters dead in the street without fear of investigation or repercussions?
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
Drop Site obtained harrowing footage of the latest killing which appears to be from the perspective of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk
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@HighyieldHarry The answer is to become a successful entrepreneur and then you can do anything as the business laws of gravity no longer apply to you. But at that point you probably won’t want to do IB/PE/Buyside.
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I get a lot of DMs about how to pivot from an unrelated role into IB, PE, or the Buyside.
The reality is you probably can't. You're supposed to get either 1) get on the path in college 2) lateral ur way to something adjacent by your mid 20s so you have a fighting chance or 3) get your MBA by 30 so you can pivot.
Nothing is impossible, it just becomes a rarity the older you get.
Every retort to this will invoke survivorship bias, but the fungibility that existed in the 80s/90s doesn't exist anymore.
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@Ross__Hendricks Have you spent any time building with AI? Give it a whirl - I think you might feel differently.
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Everyone slowly, then all at once, coming to the same realization that the AI hype is exactly that… hype. Used to justify trillions in capex that will likely never see a return.
Forrest Knight@ForrestPKnight
Honestly, Ben Affleck actually knowing AI and the landscape caught me off guard, but as a writer, makes sense. Great takes across the board.
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@kwharrison13 Who is investing (either buyout, equity, or GP buyouts) at that intersection?
Wholeheartedly agree and suspect there’s an EV+ way to structure funding for the right subset of those situations.
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Focusing on multi-billion dollar outcomes has changed venture. It used to be 3 in 10 would matter, now 1 in 10 matter. That's fine as long as I find a "one".
But for a huge swath of founders and startup employees, that means that 90%+ are getting left on the scrap heap of history with the tattered remains of a business that could have been something special, but instead it was over-burned into a rounding error on somebody's billion dollar fund math.
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