Andy Dunn

Let me tell you a ghost story. My Ghost first arrived in the year 2000 and would haunt me for the next sixteen years. It was a secret, known only to a handful of my closest loved ones.

can i get a hallelujah from the congregation🙌 pie has a new cofounder. welcome @nadyaokamoto

are you a founding CEO who has raised at least $3m from a top-tier venture fund? and want genuine advice from your peers? if so, this one's for you. will admit the first 30 people today. getpie.app/p/019f1e86-e6b…

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Last 30 seconds of the Knicks winning the finals live from West Village FIRE ESCAPE. Best city in the world.🔥👑 #knicks #nyc

POETRY

What do you think SpaceX’s market cap will be in one year?

@perksofbeingTH How many are you

@dunn I will accept Andy

Who wants six front row tickets to Mumford and sons at wrigley field tonight?

@kimessary How many are you

@gwhoosier How many are you

@dunn Near Wrigley already and would love to surprise wife and siblings with front row seats

AI startup CFO, CEO, CMO, and CTO

@sulekhat95 thank you for sharing this @sulekhat95. my life lessons learned from joel, a hero - and now one for the ages: dunn.substack.com/p/say-yes-to-t…

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT. This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years. Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

The late, great Joel Peterson. @JoelCPeterson May his memory be a blessing. He was a professional father to me. Here is what I learned from him: dunn.substack.com/p/say-yes-to-t…

what is your favorite AI-powered executive/personal assistant? what great experiences have you had? what not so good experiences have you had?

#2 #2 #2 #2... 🙄 feeling this one hard these days... (and makin some moves)

The Fast and the Furious

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your ambition is killing you. 👇

Christopher Nolan asked IMAX to build him a new camera. They did. Then he and Matt Damon spent four months filming The Odyssey on the open ocean, on the largest modern Viking longship in the world, with no green screens at all. The shoot ran 91 days, from late February to August 2025. Seven countries: Morocco, Greece, Italy, Iceland, Scotland, Western Sahara, and Malta. Aside from one indoor studio in Los Angeles, every shot was filmed on real ground. In Italy, the cast and crew climbed 900 feet up a mountain every morning. Imagine walking up a 60-story building before breakfast. In Iceland, they filmed the underworld scenes by lantern light while rain came at them sideways. The four months at sea actually happened at sea. Damon and the actors playing his crew sailed on a real ship called the Draken Harald Hårfagre, used here as a Greek warship. Nolan called the experience "primal." He said the cast and crew were exhausted in a way he had never seen before. The cameras were the other big problem. IMAX cameras have always been too loud to record clean dialogue, which is why directors mostly save them for big action scenes. Nolan asked IMAX to fix this. They engineered a new soundproof case for the camera, a kind of quiet jacket, that lets the lens get within a foot of an actor's face while they whisper and still pick up clean audio. The new cameras also came out lighter and about 30% quieter than the old ones. To prove it worked, the lead cameraman Hoyte van Hoytema filmed a tight close-up of a child reciting a David Bowie song, "Sound and Vision." Nolan watched the test and called it "electrifying." Damon went all-in on the role. He dropped to 167 pounds on a strict no-gluten diet. He grew a real beard for a full year because Nolan refused to allow a fake one. The crew built a full-scale wooden Trojan Horse and shot the attack scene at an ancient walled town in Morocco called Aït Benhaddou. Nolan himself climbed inside the horse with the cast and his cameraman to get the shot. Across the whole shoot they used 2 million feet of film. That comes out to around 380 miles of it, longer than the drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco. At about $1.50 a foot, they spent roughly $3 million just on the film itself. The full budget was $250 million, the biggest of Nolan's career. They wrapped nine days ahead of schedule. Tickets went on sale on July 17, 2025, exactly one year before the movie's release. That had never been done before in cinema history. Half of the 22 US theaters offering IMAX 70mm sold out within 12 hours, bringing in around $1.5 million in a single morning. Nolan called the shoot "an absolute nightmare to film, but in all the right ways." He did not destroy a single IMAX camera. He has wrecked several over his career.