Wayt King

Yep. It's a golden age for AI-native solo entrepreneurs and small startup teams.

"This Army soldier was on my delayed flight home to Mississippi. He had to watch his baby being born through FaceTime. He was crying, and it broke all of our hearts. Everyone stayed quiet so he could be there for the moment, even from far away. When we heard the baby cry through his phone, the whole crowd started to cheer for him.“ Let’s honor our soldiers and their sacrifices.

Your embarrassing moment is someone else's background noise. ㅤ What haunts you for years is an instantly forgotten detail to them.

I am a Democrat. I served in the Clinton administration. I did not vote for Donald Trump and am highly unlikely to support him or his acolytes in the future. I also have serious disagreements with many of the Trump administration’s domestic and foreign policies. But it is profoundly disturbing that a growing segment of the far left appears to be almost rooting for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian regime, and other forces fundamentally opposed to the United States and our allies. This seems to reflects a corrosive strain of anti-Americanism, dressed up in postcolonial theory, that risks blinding us to the moral realities of our world and the nature of our adversaries.

Bitcoin fixes this.

People forget: By killing Hitler, the allies only radicalized the Nazi party. Also, it created 1,000 new Hitlers. This is obvious. We need to think more strategically about the unintended consequences of killing genocidal tyrants.

Never thought I'd be retweeting @RonWyden but here we are.

@JayVTheGreat Have the courage to break the cycle and boycott the Uniparty

In late October 2001, a 30-year-old who had just been fired from his own company flew coach to Moscow to buy a nuclear missile. Elon Musk brought two people. Jim Cantrell, an aerospace consultant who had worked on a joint Mars balloon mission for the French Space Agency and the Soviet Union. And Adeo Ressi, his college roommate, who had spent the previous month compiling videos of rockets exploding and staging interventions with Musk’s friends to convince him to stop. The plan was to buy a refurbished intercontinental ballistic missile from a Russian company called ISC Kosmotras, gut it, fill it with seeds and nutrient gel, and land a greenhouse on Mars. The entire purpose was a publicity stunt to guilt NASA into funding a real mission. Musk had $180 million from selling PayPal and was willing to spend $20 to $30 million. The Russians quoted $8 million per missile. Musk offered $8 million for two. They laughed. One reportedly spit on him. He came back four months later, February 2002, bringing Michael Griffin, who would later become the head of NASA. Same result. The price kept climbing and the Russians wouldn’t close. On the flight home, Cantrell and Griffin called over the drink cart and started celebrating the fact that they’d made it out of Moscow in winter. Musk sat in front of them, silent, typing on his laptop. After a while he turned around and showed them a spreadsheet. He’d modeled the cost of manufacturing a rocket from scratch. Raw materials, he’d calculated, were about 3% of the typical launch price. The other 97% was margin, bureaucracy, and vertical integration that nobody had attempted. SpaceX incorporated March 14, 2002. First office: a 3,000-square-foot warehouse in El Segundo with a few cubicles. Musk put in $100 million of his own money and personally interviewed the first 3,000 employees. First rocket: Falcon 1, named after the Millennium Falcon. Target price to orbit: $6.9 million when the going rate started at $30 million. First launch, March 2006, failed 25 seconds in. Corroded fuel line nut. Second launch, March 2007, reached 180 miles altitude before the engine cut from fuel slosh. Third launch, August 2008, the first stage bumped the second stage after separation. Residual thrust. A fix that took one line of code. Three failures. Tesla hemorrhaging cash at the same time. Divorce proceedings. Musk later said he was waking from nightmares screaming. 2008 was the worst year of his life. The fourth rocket had no paying customer. Nobody wanted to fly on a vehicle that had exploded three times. The payload was a 364-pound aluminum dummy nicknamed RatSat, built from spare parts in the factory. Musk split his last $30 million between SpaceX and Tesla. If the rocket failed, both companies die. September 28, 2008. Falcon 1 reached orbit. First privately developed liquid-fuel rocket to do so. NASA called six weeks later with a $1.6 billion contract. Musk couldn’t hold the phone. He just said “I love you guys.” SpaceX is now valued at $1.25 trillion after the xAI merger, filing for an IPO targeting $1.75 trillion. It launched over 160 rockets in 2025, more than half of all orbital launches on Earth. Starlink has 9 million subscribers across 150 countries from nearly 10,000 satellites. Twenty-four years ago, his best friend made him watch compilation videos of rockets blowing up to convince him this was insane. He watched every one of them and flew to Moscow anyway.

@rauchg True

A person raised on love and a person raised on survival see the world differently.

Everything will work out.

"Pi keeps walking into rooms it was never invited into and sitting at the head of the table."

This adds up.

He kept America safe, but America couldn't keep him safe. Such a well-lived life. Exemplary. God Bless RIP Lt. Col. Brandon Shah

The new tech marketing is to agents. A class of agents is your ICP.

Here is Jim Waters commenting about my @RepThomasMassie interview. There are rarely occasions where politicians show real courage, Massie does it routinely: youtube.com/watch?v=yMj9P_…

American hero.

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