
Zane Busteed
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Zane Busteed
@ZaneBus
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.” Husband. Father. Builder. Investor. Day dreamer.
Salt Lake City, UT Katılım Ekim 2010
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@bykevinclark 62 games is the right number. Revenue per game will go UP as game supply goes down.
What would make things even better is if the NBA only played two games a week. Two weekday game days and two weekend games. Make it appointment viewing in the way that the NLF does on Sundays.
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32 is the perfect size for an American league so this is good. The NFL should never expand and the NHL's rumored push to go to 34 should stop.
By the way, each NBA team should play every team once, home and away, for a 62 game season. Would make games an event.
Shams Charania@ShamsCharania
Just in: The NBA will hold a vote at the Board of Governors meetings March 24-25 to explore adding expansion teams exclusively in Las Vegas and Seattle, with the two franchises targeted for the 2028-29 season, sources tell ESPN. There is momentum for stakeholders to approve surveying what industry executives project will be bids in the $7-to-$10 billion range for each team.
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@im_roy_lee The ultimate zag would be to launch $ROY coin tomorrow.
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@MollySOShea @cluely @im_roy_lee @kirbyman01 @a16z future forbes 30 under 30 right here. and i don't mean that as a compliment...
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BREAKING: Cluely Raises $15M From a16z
Roy Lee, Founder & CEO of @cluely shares all.
Directly on Sourcery.
“ I want to be conqueror of the f*cking universe.”
Highlights:
00:00 - @im_roy_lee, Cluely
00:35 - Raising $15M From @kirbyman01 of @a16z
02:21 - Cluely’s Viral Mega Launch
03:07 - Fundraising Strategies & Founder Mindset
04:51 - From Columbia to Silicon Valley @neelyweely23
08:17 - Cluely: Product Overview & Vision
16:39 - Business Model & Profitability
21:10 - Stunt Marketing & Virality
26:48 - Idol: Elon Musk's Freedom & Success
27:05 - Controversies
27:46 - Criticism
28:09 - Will Roy Go To Jail?
29:54 - Selling to Enterprise
32:20 - Importance of Viral Content
33:58 - Team Dynamics & 50 Interns
36:03 - Managing Stunts & Culture
46:36 - Leadership Challenges & Personal Reflections
51:09 - Kalshi Predictions & Future Outlook
Roy@im_roy_lee
announcing @cluely's $15M fundraise, led by @a16z. cheat on everything.
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OKC reportedly has concerns about Utah tanking and has been working through back channels to pressure the league into making the Jazz remain competitive, per @Tjonesonthenba
If Utah’s pick falls outside the top 8, it will go to OKC.
“It's Oklahoma City going through back channels to try to put pressure on the Jazz to play the season out in order for them to get the pick. That's what it is.”
(Via hoopshype.com/story/sports/n…)

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@altcap @AltimeterCap Just don't invite Dario on your pod and ask him to justify his valuation and capex....
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Anthropic:
"Today, our run-rate revenue is $14 billion - with this figure growing > 10x annually in each of the past three years."
@AltimeterCap happy to return again as a Major Investor in the latest $30 B / $380 B round. 👊🚀

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Probably the best article I’ve read in months. Well done, @WillManidis.
Will Manidis@WillManidis
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Claude Cowork just KILLED manual outreach.
I used to grind for hours on LinkedIn.
Now? My AI stack does it better.
- No "Hey {{first_name}}" spam
- Natural, multi-step conversations
- 12+ hours saved this week
The result: 500+ conversations with human-level reply rates.
I packaged the entire system (prompts + workflow) into a FREE doc.
Want it?
Repost (so others see it)
Comment "CLAUDE" & I'll DM you.

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@scottew You've inspired me to vibe code a homemade tortilla making app
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@TrentMano Not stream Spotify, but you can rip tracks (or audio books) off whatever streaming service and “burn” them to a card similar to burning a CD. Kids can then pick what card they want to listen to without and safety concerns for parents. Works for my 8 and 6 years old!
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My take on California’s “One-Time” Billionaire Tax. It’s much worse than it looks.
📉 Will it pass? Yes, likely.
It only needs 50%+1 voter approval. SEIU + CTA have done this before—Prop 55 won 63% in 2016.
⚖️ Will it get tied up in litigation?
Almost certainly. Retroactive wealth tax on a tax type CA has never had = due process challenges. Billionaires have the legal budgets for years of fights.
👋 But it’s clearly … only the start. The goal is an annual tax, not one-time. And the target is $25m-50m net worth folks, including illiquid foldings (early stage founders raising a Series B).
The “one-time” framing is strategic, not terminal.
The same coalition (CTA, CFT, SEIU) already has AB 259 written—an >annual< 1% wealth tax at a >$50M threshold<, with plans to go to $25M. It’s been introduced 3 years running.
The one-time tax removes the constitutional barrier. Once that’s gone, the annual version becomes a much easier ballot measure.
🔃 CA Policy Center said: “If SEIU hopes to keep Medi-Cal spending growing, it may need to place repeated wealth taxes on the ballot—potentially lowering the threshold as billionaires flee.”
The real risk for founders:
At $1B, you’re taxing ~200 people. At $50M, you’re taxing 23,000 households—including most successful founders on paper before any liquidity event.
The rational move isn’t to leave when you hit the threshold. It’s to leave—or never incorporate in CA—before you get anywhere close.
✈️ Net net: it will make sense to leave before the Series B.
Vinod Khosla nailed it: “Even people who don’t expect this initiative to pass are still planning to leave because there will be another one.”
The one-time tax is the constitutional Trojan horse. The annual tax — at a much lower threshold — is already waiting inside.
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