
Alex Rampell
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Alex Rampell
@arampell
Silicon Valley entrepreneur (cofounder@ TrialPay, Yub, Affirm, Point, TXN), investor (General Partner @a16z), husband, father and sarcast (one who is sarcastic)






Homes in Silicon Valley keep getting *cheaper* if your currency is tech stocks and not cash. Takes a lot fewer Apple shares (split adjusted) to buy a house today than in 2005. Now with an “AI companies” edition. Asset price relativity!

New post on asset price relativity and how everything is correlated. Home prices in Silicon Valley have gotten dramatically more expensive in terms of USD, but dramatically cheaper in terms of tech stocks. Fostering asset ownership is important. a16z.com/2019/03/28/ass…


*MORE THAN 600 OPENAI EMPLOYEES SOLD SHARES LAST OCT.: WSJ *OPENAI EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVELY MADE $6.6B IN THE SHARE SALE: WSJ

Sure you can earn a billion dollars. I've been teaching people how to do it for 20 years. The way you do it is to start a company that grows fast. You don't have to do anything bad to make a company grow fast. You just have to make something people want. paulgraham.com/ace.html

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: You can't earn a billion dollars. Ilana Glazer: That's right. AOC: You just can't earn that. Glazer: That's exactly correct. AOC: You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws. Glazer: Yup. AOC: You can pay people less than what they're worth. Glazer: Yup. AOC: But you can't earn that, right? Glazer: That's right. AOC: And so you have to create a myth that -- since you didn't earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it.

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Glamorous JP Morgan exec accused of turning married male broker into her office sex slave: Viagra spiking and litany of obscene forced acts that made him cry trib.al/BiXXCM0


Our developer suite just got a new addition: Mercury CLI.





