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Build systems that test for what you actually need. The talent is out there. You just have to design a way to find it that doesn't rely on someone else's vetting process.

For others - especially those who know what they want to build - four years of lectures and $1.7 trillion in collective student debt doesn't make sense anymore. Palantir saw that gap and built a bridge. If you're a founder, the takeaway is simple: stop filtering by credentials.

Palantir paid 22 high school graduates $5,400/month to skip school. Is this the future of education & work for the next generation? Or is this just Silicon Valley hype grooming cheap talent... Here's the system Thiel is building, and why it matters:

Six months of salary. That's what Matt Mullenweg offered every Automattic employee to resign if they didn't believe in the company's direction. About 9% took the offer and left.

A former CIA math genius built a quantitative trading fund that earned more than $100 BILLION for investors. At 66% return/yr, his track record destroys that of Warren Buffet, George Soros, Carl Icahn, and every investor who ever lived. The Smartest Billionaire in Finance:

The richest man in American history wrote 38 secret letters to his son. They weren't about money. They were ruthless psychological principles J.D. Rockefeller used to build empires worth more than most countries. Here's 9 principles he really taught his heir: 🧵

just ~six months ago so many ppl thought everything was bubble… e.g. too much compute, too much capex, & demand that couldn’t possibly absorb the buildout. but it turns out the ceiling on demand for intelligence is literally nowhere in sight. i mean who could’ve ever seen that a smart entity available on tap is actually insanely useful for ~every facet of human life & even for things we haven’t even thought of that are possible now???

The Starbucks Reward app is a juggernaut: 34m users and ~$2B of stored funds (which Starbucks is effectively paid $200m+ a year to hold). But mobile orders are now 31% of US sales and focus on grab n’ go is ruining in-store experience. I explain why here:readtrung.com/p/starbucks-di…

The first Costco $COST in Okinawa opened today. They opened it 3.5 hours before its normal hours. The building quickly reached max capacity. Cars wrapped around the parking lot. They could only let new people in as others left. There was a 5 hour wait to get in.

In 2005, MySpace had it all. Worth $12B. Crushed every competitor. 100 million users. Today? Dead platform. Stock crashed 99%. Users fled to Facebook. All because of ONE fatal decision. Here's the story of MySpace's biggest business mistake:

More than 500,000 people disappear without a trace every year. In 2009, something even stranger happened: a man appeared. No identity. No past. No record of where he came from. Peter Bergmann never existed. This is one of the greatest internet mystery of all time. 🧵👇

Pro tip: If you're afraid to take the risk, write down in excruciating detail what you're actually afraid of having happen. Step by step what happens next when you fail. You'll often find it's not so bad when you spell it out. Fear exists in the vague, not the specific.