Michael Byrd

@PattieRose20 That’s a different Michael Byrd ;)

Yes, a daycare that’s been in business for 17 yrs and does not have a single review on it!!!! @michaelbyrd

@TimDraper Killing the golden goose!

See below companies that left CA. Each billionaire represents about 25,000 jobs. How many more jobs does California want to lose? And they wonder why there is a homeless problem here. #deregulate #lowertaxes #innovateeducation #growcalifornia

Buffalo Bill in conversation with Oglala Lakota Chief Iron Tail. William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Oglala Lakota Chief Iron Tail shared a remarkable friendship that lasted nearly twenty years. Despite their opposing roles in the Indian Wars, they became close companions while touring with the Wild West show. Speaking different languages, they famously communicated through Plains Indian Sign Language. A rare 1898 silent film captures them sitting together, engaged in a fluid, expressive conversation using these hand gestures. Iron Tail, whose profile later inspired the Buffalo nickel, remained Cody’s loyal companion on hunts and international tours until his death in 1916.

Capitalism didn’t conquer the world. It compounded.

When I think about capitalism, I don’t start on Wall Street. I start in Amsterdam, in 1602, when the Dutch East India Company issued the world’s first publicly traded shares. Before that moment, global trade was a royal privilege. Monarchs financed expeditions to Asia hoping to return with spices—nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, pepper—commodities worth more than gold in Europe. These voyages were extraordinarily risky. Ships took years to return. Many never did. When they failed, entire royal treasuries collapsed. The Dutch changed that model. Merchants pooled capital, divided risk, and waited—sometimes a decade—for outcomes. When a ship finally returned to port, loaded with spices from Indonesia or India, investors knew they had just participated in something new: time applied to capital at scale. That idea—shared risk, shared reward—moved to London, was refined through joint-stock companies like the East India Company, crossed the Atlantic, and was ultimately scaled by Americans. Railroads, canals, steel mills, and factories weren’t built by speculation; they were built by patience and compounding. As America approaches its 250th birthday, tools like @InvestAmerica24 | @TrumpAccounts feel less like a new invention and more like a continuation of this story—extending compounding capital to people and places that never fully entered the system the first time around.

@altcap @TrumpAccounts @WhiteHouse Great ad!

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Capitalism doesn’t need better PR. It needs better outcomes. And compounding capital — applied through tools like @InvestAmerica24 @TrumpAccounts — can finally deliver them in places left behind for 100+ years.

Real capital. Long time horizons. Compounding instead of extraction. That combination can rewrite the story — and genuinely lift people out of poverty at scale.

In the late 1800s, Jacob Riis used 📸 to shine a light on New York inner-city poverty. That visibility changed the conversation and paved the way for reform. Today, fully funding @TrumpAccounts could do something similar for other communities history passed over.

Here’s the thing I keep coming back to: capitalists are in a uniquely powerful position right now... not just to build wealth, but to reshape how capitalism itself is understood.

The part that often gets skipped: when economic gaps last got this wide, it was business leaders and capitalists who helped fix it. Labor reforms. Child labor laws. Safety standards. Not overnight. But deliberately.

Capitalism gets blamed for a lot. Robber barons. Resource extraction. Inequality. Some of that criticism is earned. But it’s not the whole story.

Everyone in markets recognizes this curve. What happens when it finally applies to kids who’ve never had access to it?

@MichaelDell @InvestAmerica24 @TrumpAccounts Looking forward to it!

This is just the beginning. Tune in 2/8 to hear from America's children. @InvestAmerica24 @TrumpAccounts 🇺🇸🚀🏈#SuperBowl

I keep thinking about places where time never got a chance to work. Appalachia. Lakota communities. The Mississippi Delta. Same country. Very different access to compounding.

Compounding is quiet. And then it changes everything.

If compounding capital really works the way everyone in markets knows it does… what else could it fix? Generational poverty. The wealth gap. Entire regions left behind by history.

Serious question I can’t shake: what if compounding capital is the superhero we’ve been missing?

Attended the @TrumpAccounts summit in DC this week. Watching @InvestAmerica24 move from idea → execution was one of those pay attention moments. Compounding isn’t flashy — but it’s transformational. 👏 @altcap @MichaelDell @SecScottBessent @RayDalio @realDonaldTrump