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Thank you for focusing on this!!! mahanforcalifornia.com/hollywood

@kimsNotHavinIt Haha. I tried to edit it but then I just thought the flaw was funny.

When you have to read the responses to understand the actual text. @aplusk done set the pace for my entire week. I thought something was wrong with me.

This Ella Langley album is 🔥. You&me time and loving life again are gonna be on auto repeat daily for foreseeable future. open.spotify.com/album/6nrtxtga…

When would the family to see project Hail Mary today. Fabulous film. Ryan Gosling kills it. Highly recommend.

@CaelanSilver Wanna rewrite my Wikipedia page?😂

>be Ashton Kutcher(@aplusk) >born 1978, Cedar Rapids, Iowa >fraternal twin brother Michael born with cerebral palsy + needs heart transplant >factory worker dad, P&G mom, family broke AF >high school: breaks into school for cash, gets arrested, probation >college: studies biochemical engineering to cure his brother >sells blood plasma + works General Mills factory for tuition >no regrets 1998: >wins Fresh Faces of Iowa modeling contest >lands Calvin Klein gigs + That '70s Show as lovable dumbass Kelso >co-stars with Mila Kunis (future wife) 2003: >creates + hosts Punk'd — king of Hollywood pranks 2009: >first person EVER to hit 1 MILLION Twitter followers >races CNN live on air and WINS the Guinness World Record >now sits at 14.1 million followers 2010: >co-founds A-Grade Investments with $30M of his own money >early bets on Uber ($500k) + Airbnb ($2.5M) >turns that $30M fund into $250 MILLION in six years 2015: >marries Mila Kunis >kids Wyatt + Dimitri >launches Sound Ventures + Thorn (AI tech hunting child sex traffickers) 2020: >diagnosed with rare vasculitis >loses vision, hearing, balance for months >battles back like a beast 2023-2026: >Sound Ventures manages over $1 BILLION in assets >drops ~$30M into OpenAI early >that stake explodes to $1.3 BILLION — 43x return in under 3 years >personal slice alone ~$400M on paper >Uber + Airbnb + Spotify wins still printing >net worth north of $200M (way more with paper gains) >just closed $240M AI fund 2026: >ends acting hiatus >stars in Ryan Murphy’s The Beauty on FX as a sinister tech billionaire >ironic flex after becoming one IRL >shows up at events with Mila looking like the chillest dad alive from broke Iowa factory kid selling plasma + a rap sheet to sitcom heartthrob to first-ever Twitter millionaire to one of the smartest VCs on earth who turned Hollywood money into billion-dollar AI + Uber/Airbnb jackpots while building tech that rescues thousands of kids all while raising his family the right way and looking like your laid-back California neighbor ready to grill burgers Be like Ashton Kutcher.🔥

@DailyF54713 The consumer still matters. Empathy wins. Culture is not the what. It’s the how. The how will always provide value because it’s what attracts talent. Talent = distinct knowledge and shortcuts to success.

@aplusk The 'Duplicate and Distribute' strategy is the real killer here. 📉 If organizational principles are no longer assets, does that mean 'Company Culture' is officially a legacy concept in the AI era? Curious if you think speed now permanently trumps soul.

Evening Software musings… Welcome to the great convergence. Only moats = capital, distribution, compute, isolated intelligence- data or human Future big co playbook= offer acquisition IF: acquisition provides time/value competitive edge THEN: capitalize, integrate, broadly distribute ELSE: duplicate and broadly distribute. Only stand alone entities = unique isolated trapped data sources. (Edge intelligence) and regulated human in loop functions. Organization principles are no longer value assets. Chag Semeach

@NickyTheFrench Eq Kimble the insurance man?

@aplusk Do you know Kimble?

Then there were 8

BURN!!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥

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@Bencera Keep cranking brother. You got this. In 20 minutes I flipped a product on this and it was the most magical thing I’ve experienced in quite some time. Now I get a daily email of how it’s making improvements while I sleep. So epic!

About to hit $4.5M run rate. Still 1 founder + AI. Zero employees. Honest moment: this past week almost broke me. No one prepares you for what PMF actually feels like. Every infra partner hitting rate limits. Every bug that could happen, happened. Investors throwing big numbers at me. Customers flooding every channel. All at once. I went silent. Stopped tweeting, stopped LinkedIn, stopped podcasts, stopped growth. Just me and my AI agents, fixing things one by one. Here's what I learned: everything is solvable with AI. Every single thing. I'm building Polsia so every solopreneur gets access to the same tools keeping me alive right now. If I can survive this alone, I can package it for everyone. The future is solopreneur + AI. I'm living at the edge so you don't have to.

Getting older is the process of trading pain for wisdom.

No incentives = truth.

Kindness isn’t being nice when it’s easy. It’s what someone does when there’s no upside or when it costs them something.

@raging__redhead @skysafe Hahah

@aplusk @skysafe Run, everyone! The sky is falling!!

We should be scaling @skysafe asap!!!

I find these measured approaches valuable. It’s easy to jump to a position because we’ve heard one side of an arguement.

Thoughtful post regarding truths about Iran strike. Worth a read. open.substack.com/pub/vanjones/p…

$1M run rate. $100K → $1M in 2 weeks. One founder. Zero employees. Thousands of agents running 24/7. 1,000+ pioneer solopreneurs building autonomous businesses on Polsia.