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Alvin Foo

@alvinfoo

Venture Partner | ex-Google | Decoding AI, Fintech & Web3 for builders • Motivational stories on innovation & resilience • Tesla/SpaceX insights 🚀

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Alvin Foo
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Keeanu Reeves He was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident. His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose. His sister has leukemia. And with everything that has happened, Keanu Reeves never misses an opportunity to help people in need. When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants; One cried because he would lose his house if he did not pay $ 20,000 and on the same day Keanu deposited the necessary amount in the woman's bank account; He also donated stratospheric sums to hospitals. In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery and bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him. After winning astronomical sums for the Matrix trilogy, the actor donated more than $ 50 million to the staff who handled the costumes and special effects - the true heroes of the trilogy, as he called them. He also gave a Harley-Davidson to each of the stunt doubles. A total expense of several million dollars. And for many successful films, he has even given up 90% of his salary to allow the production to hire other stars. In 1997 some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours. Most stars when they make a charitable gesture they declare it to all the media. He has never claimed to be doing charity, he simply does it as a matter of moral principles and not to look better in the eyes of others. This man could buy everything, and instead every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought: Be a good person.
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Wisdom isn’t about being strong. It’s about knowing how and where to use your strength.
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Warren Buffett just warned that the US dollar could collapse and admitted he doesn’t understand most of the stock market anymore. 95 years old, sitting on $380 billion in cash, and the first time watching from the sidelines instead of actively investing.
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You are not an accident. 2 parents → 4 → 8 → 16… Go back 12 generations and it took 4,094 people for you to exist. Every struggle, sacrifice, love story, and survival led to you, right here, right now. Act like it matters.
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Documenting Saylor
Documenting Saylor@saylordocs·
We are still early
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The Kobeissi Letter
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter·
BREAKING: Bitcoin rises above $80,000 for the first time since January 31st.
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Sawyer Merritt
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt·
Singapore Airlines has just announced that it is adopting SpaceX's @Starlink. The rollout will begin in Q1 2027 and be completed by end of 2029. "With more than 10,000 satellites launched to low Earth orbit, Starlink can deliver multi-gigabit connectivity to aircraft using its Aero Terminal, which can support up to 1 Gbps per antenna. This means customers in all cabin classes will enjoy faster, smoother, and seamless connectivity from take‑off to landing for activities such as video streaming, sharing content on social media, gaming, and sending large files." - SIA
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Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt·
Tesla's global fleet has just officially crossed 10 billion miles driven on FSD (Supervised)! Tesla owners are collectively driving on average 1,000 miles every 3 seconds on FSD, which is 28.8 million miles per day.
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Dead and stupid can be quite similar 😁
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May the 4th be with you!
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Population collapse is the biggest risk to civilization. Not AI. Not climate. Not even war. This chart shows a clear trend: birth rates are falling below replacement levels across major economies. Once you drop below ~2.1, population starts shrinking. And reversing that trend is incredibly hard. China tried one-child. Then two-child. Now three-child. Still declining. The U.S. is below replacement. India and Indonesia are heading there fast. This isn’t just a demographic issue, it’s an economic and existential one. Fewer people means: * Smaller workforce * Slower innovation * Heavier burden on younger generations * Fragile long-term growth If this trend continues, many countries will age rapidly and shrink. Civilization doesn’t advance when it contracts. We should be making it easier, not harder, to have kids. A future worth building must also be a future worth having children in. @elonmusk
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Ten layers sit between you and ChatGPT and almost nobody can name half of them. AI is the outer shell, Machine learning is the engine that learns, Neural networks mimic the brain, Deep learning gives it depth, Transformers changed everything in 2017, Generative AI is the creative layer, LLMs speak human, GPT is OpenAI’s family of models ChatGPT is just the doorway. The real story is everything sitting behind it.
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Alvin Foo@alvinfoo·
This Eight minutes of presence can change everything. Eight minutes is enough to remind someone they’re not alone. That someone sees them. That someone cares. This is the power of real friendship. Not fixing. Just being there. Credit : Simon Sinek
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While China paraded its competitive premium EVs at the recent Beijing Auto Show, the bottom range EV market is even more cutthroat! Not only is US afraid of these low end EVs entering the market, every market with its local auto makers are equally fearful as its next to impossible to compete with China’s scale in auto-manufacturing.
Suzie rizzio@Suzierizzo1

This is China’s newest and cheapest Electric vehicle here in the United States and it only costs $4,800 and these women drove it around and everyone loved it!

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Hyperscalers about to drop $805 BILLION on AI this year.
Next year? $1.1 TRILLION.
This is 2.5%+ GDP tailwind before counting the productivity boom from all those AI tokens.
America’s tech lead is unstoppable 🚀
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@elonmusk 10B FSD miles = proof the robotaxi fleet is coming. Imagine every Tesla earning while you sleep. How does this $10T goal connect to full autonomy rollout? The math is beautiful. @elonmusk
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@elonmusk Size DOES matter 😂 Starship v24 looking like the beast that finally makes ‘people will live here’ real. How soon until we see the first uncrewed cargo fleet to Mars? This is the future we signed up for! 🔥 @elonmusk
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@elonmusk @PeterDiamandis If you hit $10T, does that mean free Starlink for Mars settlers first? 😂 Serious question: how does that wealth actually accelerate the Petawatt Moon vision? This timeline is insane. @elonmusk
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Peter H. Diamandis, MD
Peter H. Diamandis, MD@PeterDiamandis·
.@elonmusk just crossed $800 billion — roughly 2.7% of the entire US GDP. The last person to hold that much of the American economy? John D. Rockefeller in 1913. It took a century for anyone to match him. Rockefeller had oil. Musk has the future.
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Li Zexin 李泽欣
Li Zexin 李泽欣@XH_Lee23·
BYD has built its "5 minute 70% charge" next-gen flash charging station in the desert! Insanely unbelievable! So far, BYD has built 5,715 flash‑charging stations, in 311 Chinese cities. It plans to build 20,000 by the end of 2026.
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Asia isn’t just the world’s most populous region, it’s also its economic engine. The continent produces roughly $42–43 trillion in nominal GDP and exceeds $116 trillion in purchasing power parity (PPP). That’s about one-third of global output at market prices, and nearly half of the world economy when adjusted for cost of living.
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