Mario Martinez II
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Mario Martinez II
@MarioMartinezII
Built. Sold. IPO’d. Building again, this time for fun with a digital co-founder and an army of agents.












The DeepSeek-V4-Pro discount has been extended until May 31, 2026, 15:59 UTC!

🥅 /goal has graduated from an experiment—for tasks big and small, Codex gets your work done. Use goal mode in the Codex app, IDE Extension, or CLI to give Codex a specific milestone, and it will keep working until it gets there, even across hours or days. You can check in and steer, and even pause Codex along the way. Pro tip: start side chats to understand the work that has been done so far without having to interrupt the main task. #goal-mode" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">developers.openai.com/codex/promptin…



JUST IN: SpaceX shared every major milestone from 2002 to 2026 on its S-1 filing. From the first private liquid-fuel rocket to reach orbit in 2008 to the first gigawatt-scale AI training cluster in 2026. Two decades. Three industries. One company. ~7,400 metric tons delivered to orbit. ~10.3 million Starlink subscribers. And they're just getting started.

"You have to be willing to be vilified to build anything interesting in the world." Progress ep04 is live with @brian_armstrong, cofounder and CEO of @coinbase. We discuss why becoming AI might actually feel great, why the most unimpeachably good charity still got hit pieces, and why delaying progress kills people too.



JUST IN: COLOSSUS II is currently training Grok-5! Running on GB200 and GB300 processors, which SpaceX says made it one of the first data centers in the world to deploy both at significant scale, per its S-1 filing.


EXPECTED TERMS IN "FINAL DRAFT" OF US-IRAN AGREEMENT: 1. Immediate and comprehensive ceasefire on all fronts 2. All parties mutually agree to refrain from targeting infrastructure 3. Freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz is guaranteed under a "joint monitoring mechanism" 4. Sanctions will be "gradually lifted" in exchange for Iran's compliance with the terms of the deal 5. Negotiations on outstanding issues will begin within a maximum of 7 days 6. Iran's President Pezeshkian is leading efforts to restrain the IRGC from overstepping on political and diplomatic policy-making The agreement is expected to be announced within the next "few hours." Turn on our post notifications @KobeissiLetter, we will be bringing it to you first. Pakistani officials are reportedly brokering the deal.


You can now use your @grok or X Premium subscription in @opencode. Use the model powering Grok Build for high speed and codebase intelligence. x.ai/news/grok-open…

Interesting that in three of my recent conversations with Krishna at Anthropic, @dylan522p, and @GavinSBaker, each said that frontier tokens are capturing the majority of the economic value. Gavin: "An overwhelming amount of the economic returns to AI at the model layer have been at the frontier. That's surprising to me, and I think it's been surprising to a lot of people. This is one of the most important questions to be answered, and you need to have a hypothesis on it as an investor." Krishna: "We think the returns to frontier intelligence are extremely high. Customers invest really heavily in more tokens with the newer models. The ones at the frontier clearly are capturing this economic value, driving meaningful ROI for customers. The returns to frontier intelligence are not slowing down." Dylan: "No one gives a crap about GPT-4 class models. They want the frontier because the frontier lets them create the economically valuable things."

The Man Behind Grand Theft Auto VI and a $45 Billion Media Empire: Strauss Zelnick Strauss Zelnick has been one of the most powerful people in media for decades, and most people still don't know his name. He took over Take-Two Interactive while the company was under criminal investigation and was 6 months from bankruptcy. It had one product that made money (GTA); everything else was unprofitable. Since then, Take-Two has gone from a $700 million disaster to a $45 billion empire built on Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead, and NBA 2K. His management philosophy fits on a napkin: hire the best creative talent on Earth, don't interfere, and run a rational company. He's been doing that for more than 4 decades. This conversation was awesome. 0:00 Hostile Takeover With No Money 1:29 Becoming the New Media Guy 3:58 Lessons From Entertainment History 9:44 Why Hollywood Feared Games 11:52 Fox Turnaround and Barry Diller 20:54 Rupert Murdoch and High Stakes Calm 26:20 Taking the Leap to Crystal Dynamics 38:04 Bootstrapping Without Capital 43:57 Carl Icahn Connection 47:01 Take Two Proxy Coup 56:36 Turnaround Cost Cutting Playbook 1:01:37 Leading Creative Geniuses 1:06:24 Rationality Beats Magic 1:07:54 Borderlands Bet 1:09:28 GTA Timelines Pressure 1:11:22 Specific Goals Visualization 1:21:34 Service Leadership Mindset 1:31:52 Media vs. Entertainment 1:34:22 AI Productivity Reality 1:36:08 Why Hits Surprise Includes paid partnerships.










