Payson Johnston

October '25 Update - Keeping it REAL novaec.org/2025/10/31/oct…

💥 Product Launch💥 Today, we are launching Metal as a layer of super intelligence for founders raising venture rounds. Our vertical AI platform powers every workflow from discovering investors to refining your round collateral to managing the investor pipeline. A thread...

@UT_President Awesome campaign!

Summer doesn’t slow us down. We’re still scouting new spots for our Everywhere You Look, UT murals—because our impact doesn’t take a vacation. From mountain towns to river cities, UT’s impact stretches across all 95 counties. The Everywhere You Look, UT murals are a bold reminder of the difference being made—every day, everywhere.​​ ​ Want to see a mural on your property? Check out this link: everywhere.tennessee.edu/murals/

All these new @Apple products and my phone still crashes 2-4 times per day? Where did the famous Apple quality go @tim_cook? The latest updates have not fixed the issue and the iPhone won’t tell me what is causing it?

⛵ Exciting News from Our Scouting Adventure! My son, William, and I are embarking on an incredible Scouting journey! To make this dream a reality, William is raising funds for high adventure bases, and we need your support! trails-end.com/store/scout/MA… Thank you! ⛵⛺ #scouting

Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz): AI could consume 10% of the world's power

Founders after they replace all instances of "crypto" with "AI" in their pitch deck

Have we reached the top of the hype curve? #ai

Are you asking about cash or crypto ? For crypto: lower cost of capital transfers, immediate collateralized loans, store of value , tokenization of assets, application and retention of royalties to digital assets like books, real time, low cost insurance markets , cold storage ownership of significant assets to protect against theft Good enough start ? I’ll let others add more. If the SEC would follow Japan’s lead the fraud would be reduced significantly. And as a point of reference the amount of fraud in bulletin board stocks rivals that of today’s crypto. The SEC will let you trade billions of shares of bankrupt companies that have announced they their shares will never have value. This is an institutional failure of the SEC, not a crypto issue. If the SEC has instituted audited collateral and segregation of funds requirements , we would not have seen FTX and others fail.

At #Spring2024SCF, hundreds of attendees got to learn about how to grow a start-up and help a university thrive from @UT_President Randy Boyd. Read a write-up of his conversation w/ @HaslamUT #SCM dept head John Bell: hubs.la/Q02tC5-j0

It is great to be expanding the relationship with @Intuit with integeation to QuickBooks and @mycrowdz joining the QuickBooks Solution Provider Program. #tradefinance #smb #Accounting streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id…

BRRR! Nearly 2" of snow has fallen in Columbia, TN 🥶

🚀 Big news from #Crowdz! Transforming #fintech with real-time scores for assets, sellers, & obligors. It's not just an upgrade; it’s a revolution! 🔮 Future goals? Mapping supply & value chains with AI precision. #Innovation #AIInFintech #FinanceFuture crowdz.io/blog/crowdz-ne…

Seriously though — what did Ilya see?

Called @BestBuy repair service 800 number today for TV repair and they asked to access my computer via remote access. I mentioned I was uncomfortable since it was my TV that was broken and they immediately hung up? Is BestBuy’s support now scamming customers???

One of the primary ways people give "wrong" feedback is telling people to work on their weaknesses instead of encouraging them to double down on their strengths.

Robots are getting forgotten in the AI boom… but robots+AI might be the AI boom podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thi…

@PeterDiamandis AI could be used to estimate and predict breakages in multi-tiers of the supply chain before they happen. Natural disasters always affect supply chains and they usually impact tier 3 or 4 of the chain and can break days or weeks or months post natural disasters.

Thought experiment: How would YOU use AI to address natural disasters in live-time?

The worse thing about an iPhone is when your icons get all messed up for no apparent reason @Apple

@coinmamba I'd recommend increasing your distance from trading/investing circles, and getting closer to the tech and application ecosystem. Learn about ZK-SNARKs, visit a meetup in Latin America, listen to All Core Devs calls and read the notes until you've memorized all the EIP numbers...