Evan Knowles

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Starlink provides reliable high-speed internet to even the most rural locations 🛰️🐎

@jryanharris @CrainHangLow @JonRothstein facts

Kentucky did as good of a job as any program in college basketball last spring at allocating its resources properly in an effort to construct a TEAM. Love the way the Wildcats are doing the same so far in 2025. Not acquiring talent, but building a TEAM!

Had a great time talking about technology in Kentucky with @middletechpod! Thanks for having me and Winnie on the show!

There is a worldwide culture battle playing out publicly at a scale we’ve never witnessed before thanks to billionaires that care deeply about western values. They have put their money behind the things that made them billionaires in the first place… their western values, work ethics, and convictions. Those three things are what allowed them to build great businesses that have pushed America forward. When you combine this engagement of powerful civilians with the advent of GenAI, you have a renewed alignment between western values and Silicon Valley. First and foremost, this is because we are entering a new Industrial Revolution in which unimaginable wealth will be made. Secondly, Silicon Valley is becoming aware of their failed ability to sustain responsible decision making as it relates to social media platforms and speech. They were compromised letting fear and profits consume them. Over years, we witnessed a slow erosion of western values and an infiltration of competing ideologies that made their way into our minds, government, and our institutions leading to racism, censorship, and a lack of meritocracy ultimately coming to a head with the reckless globalization and Kamala Harris presidential campaign. The public had their eyes opened to where that path was heading and made a clear statement in the election to change course. Why is this all so important? Why is Silicon Valley getting aligned on this issue all of a sudden? Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter? Because of AI. I think Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Alex Karp, and many others are viewing this as an inflection point for the future of AI supremacy and a continuation of western values as they were written when our country was founded. If we do not take western values seriously now, it will be almost impossible later as our values spill over into social threads and training data. The stakes have never been higher for Silicon Valley or western values. They failed us with social media and cannot do it again with AI. Today’s video released by Zuck is a major domino falling as Facebook dominates global conversation. A topic that has not yet hit mainstream is “Sovereign AI.” This will be what restores western values or kills it. Jensen Huang has traveled the globe talking about this but the cycle of GenAI is still too early for the masses to understand this concept and implement it; however, I think Elon and Peter Thiel do understand it hence the Twitter acquisition and the backing of the Trump administration and his appointments. Without the snap back to clear, high conviction values in America, we will not take full advantage of this concept and will fall as a nation as time goes on. We will literally lose our values to training datasets that are too diluted. An AI trained on all values has no values at all. But this isn’t true of just AI. That’s just why Silicon Valley cares. The rest of us should care because this is our country and we should take pride in it and our values. Europe and Canada are next. Align on your values or risk extinction or at the very least a major dilution of the culture that makes you special.

Is there a way to score AI models based on how truthful they are? Let’s call it the Galileo Index. Suggestions welcome.

Best two minutes you’ll watch all weekend.

If you played this game as a kid, you're an entrepreneur now

You are the media now

@andrew__rea Running (exercise in general) and time with family are the best ways to manage IMO.

The hardest thing about entrepreneurship is not the workload. It's managing your psychology through tremendous ups/downs, highs/lows. It's an incredibly emotionally challenging path. If you don't figure out how to manage your psychology productively, you'll fail or burn out.

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We’re not an NBA prep school. We’re the top program in the nation that expects championships.

Can’t believe it’s been 3 years a since I last appeared on the terrific ⁦@middletechpod⁩! A must-listen for entrepreneurs! Evan and Logan are outstanding and we covered a lot of ground—from renewables to the courage to dare greatly. Podcast drops next week!

Who is going to build a public facing site that runs every available transcript of our political officials through an LLM that creates a dashboard for the number of times they contradict themselves, state mis-information, or mention a topic? Seems valuable and is possible now.

Many organizations are about to be disrupted because their organizational structure and the bureaucracy within them will prevent them from being nimble and moving with AI. We will look back at the Twitter acquisition as one of the best acquisitions in history that set an example for getting out in front of a disruptive force by removing the people and bureaucracy that were destined to prevent Twitter from playing a meaningful role in AI. Ad revenue will likely pale in comparison to feeds and search API revenue for powering AI experiences. Many more opportunities like Twitter are playing out in healthcare, finance, consulting, and law. Revenue models will change. Access to data and building an architecture and culture for AI will be priority. Smaller more nimble orgs will win while those staying big and protectionist will lose.

If there is an NCAA record for making a mistake then immediately making up for it, Reed Sheppard would have the record.

@bradluttrell @Rupp_Arena great first game

Driving to Lexington to watch Kentucky vs. Georgia for my son's first @Rupp_Arena experience. Soundtrack: • "Lexington" - Nicholas Jamerson • "We ain't even kin" - Benjamin Todd • "Home" - Sundy Best What else, songwritin' #BBN kinfolk?

Bring back the platoons.

@ladaytweets Yea, not sure we have the social infrastructure to handle this at scale. Need to figure out a methodical roll out strategy.

@EvanKnowles_ If we aren’t by now, then we never will be.

We are not prepared for this to exist...