Alpha Barry

If by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.

Elon paid $44B for Twitter’s ~238M daily users. $SNAP has ~474M daily users and 1B monthly users — almost double — and its entire market cap is ~$8B. Make it make sense.

That's a wrap on Venture in the Capital! We were able to host some of the most important conversations on technology for the national interest at Georgetown. Incredibly privileged to have moderated 3 panels discussing technology for the tactical edge, lessons on building new primes, and the new era of reindustrialization. Grateful to our speakers who traveled thru a snowed-in DC, our sponsors for making this event possible, my fellow student organizers, and the Georgetown alumni who graciously offered their network and counsel. Very excited for the future at Georgetown. Hoya Saxa 🚀

Roll Skies!