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@EricJorgenson @elonmusk Just submitted the Amazon review 👊

@AlexSharp41 @elonmusk Absolutely nailed those takeaways! So glad you're enjoying it!

@EricJorgenson’s “The Book of Elon” by arrived and it absolutely lives up to the hype! What it does: ✅ demystifies @elonmusk’s ways of viewing the world ✅ empowers us to cut down on noise and distractions ✅ challenges us to think BIGGER and on a longer time scale What it DOESN’T do: ❌ create more legroom when you fly commercial….at least until you apply the principles more fully and fly private😂 Great job, Eric!!!!

@davidsenra @FoundersPodcast @pmarca @a16z Best podcast episode of 2026 so far. Pure red meat for us founders who are toppling tired, stodgy incumbents to move industries forward. Thank you @pmarca and @davidsenra!

My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.

I am so excited to announce the launch of SPG Dental Implant Centers nationwide! 😁 I am fortunate to help transform smiles at Sarasota Dentures and Implants every single day. I'm passionate about this meaningful work helping people to regain their confidence and restore their overall health. The mission of SPG Dental Implant Implant Centers is to help expand access to full-arch implant dentistry. I feel incredibly fortunate to be affiliated with this amazing organization that helps so many people on a daily basis. Real Patients React to Their New Smiles | Dental Implant Transformations youtu.be/oBHrFVhTbIg?si… via @YouTube

The wait is over! 😊 @bgurley

@EricJorgenson @scribemediaco Could scarcely be arriving at a better time in @elonmusk ‘s career arc! Can’t wait to devour this.

One of the coolest moments in the Book Publishing journey is seeing the first full jacket cover manifest. For the first time... Here's the full cover for The Book of Elon:

@EricJorgenson Before reading “The Book of Elon” vs after!

69 Days until The Book of Elon releases... What meme should I post?

@davidsenra @iamjohnmackey @WholeFoods This is the best interview you’ve done yet. You pulled incredible insights from an inspirational, humble, and highly-convicted man. Thank you @iamjohnmackey and @FoundersPodcast!!!

John Mackey. Whole Foods Market. Tomorrow. January 4, 2026. Available everywhere you get podcasts. @iamjohnmackey

@EricJorgenson Our year indeed! Happy New Year, Eric!

Our Year.

@EricJorgenson Merry Christmas to you and your family, Eric!

Merry Christmas to all

@nikitabier Embolden heirs

In 2 words, what is your purpose in life?

Men historically provided for the family’s needs in the present. Women historically did the same PLUS providing for the family’s future through procreation and the enablement of subsequent generations to prosper. That future focus seems to be disappearing quickly in favor of the here and now. Scary to consider, but true.

@EricJorgenson Procreation is survival - the sole biological imperative!

Procreation is the meaning of life. Procreation distinguishes living (plants, animals, humans) not living (like rocks). The best answer we have so far to "What is our purpose?" is simply... "Procreation." The most obvious idea imaginable. Yet few seem to agree.

@tferriss Dogged persistence. If you don’t wanna fail, just don’t stop! Thanks for sharing, Tim!

My timeline before The 4-Hour Workweek: 1977 Born 6 weeks premature and given a 10% chance of living. I survive instead and grow so fat that I can’t roll onto my stomach. A muscular imbalance of the eyes makes me look in opposite directions, and my mother refers to me affectionately as “tuna fish.” So far so good. 1983 Nearly fail kindergarten because I refuse to learn the alphabet. My teacher refuses to explain why I should learn it, opting instead for “I’m the teacher—that’s why.” I tell her that’s stupid and ask her to leave me alone so I can focus on drawing sharks. She sends me to the “bad table” instead and makes me eat a bar of soap. Disdain for authority begins. 1991 My first job. Ah, the memories. I’m hired for minimum wage as the cleaner at an ice cream parlor and quickly realize that the big boss’s methods duplicate effort. I do it my way, finish in one hour instead of eight, and spend the rest of the time reading kung-fu magazines and practicing karate kicks outside. I am fired in a record three days, left with the parting comment, “Maybe someday you’ll understand the value of hard work.” It seems I still don’t. 1993 I volunteer for a one-year exchange program in Japan, where people work themselves to death—a phenomenon called karooshi—and are said to want to be Shinto when born, Christian when married, and Buddhist when they die. I conclude that most people are really confused about life. One evening, intending to ask my host mother to wake me the next morning (okosu), I ask her to violently rape me (okasu). She is very confused. 1996 I manage to slip undetected into Princeton, despite SAT scores 40% lower than the average and my high school admissions counselor telling me to be more “realistic.” I conclude I’m just not good at reality. I major in neuroscience and then switch to East Asian studies to avoid putting printer jacks on cat heads. 1997 Millionaire time! I create an audiobook called How I Beat the Ivy League, use all my money from three summer jobs to manufacture 500 tapes, and proceed to sell exactly none. I will allow my mother to throw them out only in 2006, just nine years of denial later. Such is the joy of baseless overconfidence. 1998 After four shot-putters kick a friend’s head in, I quit bouncing, the highest-paying job on campus, and develop a speed-reading seminar. I plaster campus with hundreds of god-awful neon green flyers that read, “TRIPLE YOUR READING SPEED IN 3 HOURS!” and prototypical Princeton students proceed to write “bullsh*t” on every single one. I sell 32 spots at $50 each for the 3-hour event, and $533 per hour convinces me that finding a market before designing a product is smarter than the reverse. Two months later, I’m bored to tears of speed-reading and close up shop. I hate services and need a product to ship. Fall 1998 A huge thesis dispute and the acute fear of becoming an investment banker drive me to commit academic suicide and inform the registrar that I am quitting school until further notice. My dad is convinced that I’ll never go back, and I’m convinced that my life is over. My mom thinks it’s no big deal and that there is no need to be a drama queen. Spring 1999 In three months, I accept and quit jobs as a curriculum designer at Berlitz, the world’s largest publisher of foreign-language materials, and as an analyst at a three-person political asylum research firm. Naturally, I then fly to Taiwan to create a gym chain out of thin air and get shut down by Triads, Chinese mafia. I return to the U.S. defeated and decide to learn kickboxing, winning the national championship four weeks later with the ugliest and most unorthodox style ever witnessed. Fall 2000 Confidence restored and thesis completely undone, I return to Princeton. My life does not end, and it seems the yearlong delay has worked out in my favor. Twenty-somethings now have David Koresh–like abilities. My friend sells a company for $450 million, and I decide to head west to sunny California to make my billions. Despite the hottest job market in the history of the world, I manage to go jobless until three months after graduation, when I pull out my trump card and send one start-up CEO 32 consecutive e-mails. He finally gives in and puts me in sales. Spring 2001 TrueSAN Networks has gone from a 15-person nobody to the “number one privately held data storage company” (how is that measured?) with 150 employees (what are they all doing?). I am ordered by a newly appointed sales director to “start with A” in the phone book and dial for dollars. I ask him in the most tactful way possible why we are doing it like dummies. He says, “Because I say so.” Not a good start. Fall 2001 After a year of 12-hour days, I find out that I’m the second-lowest-paid person in the company aside from the receptionist. I resort to aggressively surfing the web full-time. One afternoon, having run out of obscene video clips to forward, I investigate how hard it would be to start a sports nutrition company. Turns out that you can outsource everything from manufacturing to ad design. Two weeks and $5,000 of credit card debt later, I have my first batch in production and a live website. Good thing, too, as I’m fired exactly one week later. 2002–2003 BrainQUICKEN LLC has taken off, and I’m now making more than $40K per month instead of $40K per year. The only problem is that I hate life and now work 12-hour-plus days 7 days a week. Kinda painted myself into a corner. I take a one-week “vacation” to Florence, Italy, with my family and spend 10 hours a day in an Internet café freaking out. Sh*t balls. I begin teaching Princeton students how to build “successful” (i.e., profitable) companies. Winter 2004 The impossible happens and I’m approached by an infomercial production company and a conglomerate interested in buying my baby BrainQUICKEN. I simplify, eliminate, and otherwise clean house to make myself expendable. Miraculously, BQ doesn’t fall apart, but both deals do. Back to Groundhog Day. Soon thereafter, both companies attempt to replicate my product and lose millions of dollars. June 2004 I decide that, even if my company implodes, I need to escape before I go Howard Hughes. I turn everything upside down and—backpack in hand—go to JFK Airport in New York City, buying the first one-way ticket to Europe I can find. I land in London and intend to continue on to Spain for four weeks of recharging my batteries before returning to the salt mines. I start my relaxation by promptly having a nervous breakdown the first morning. July 2004–2005 Four weeks turn into eight, and I decide to stay overseas indefinitely for a final exam in automation and experimental living, limiting e-mail to one hour each Monday morning. As soon as I remove myself as a bottleneck, profits increase 40%. What on earth do you do when you no longer have work as an excuse to be hyperactive and avoid the big questions? Be terrified and hold on to your ass with both hands, apparently. September 2006 I return to the U.S. in an odd, Zen-like state after methodically destroying all of my assumptions about what can and cannot be done.

If you ever feel conflicted about a strategic decision, talk to your customers. When you feel adrift, talk to your customers. To reignite your passion for your purpose in challenging times…you guessed it!..talk to your customers. And don’t just listen to the customers who weren’t pleased (though that’s important). Spend equal time listening to those who were ENTHRALLED with the service they received so you can find more of them and keep improving how you serve them. Enter Julie, a patient from our Phoenix practice. Julie’s story reinforced SPG’s why: to democratize the fixed dental arch. Julie’s our ideal patient: motivated, clear on her pain points, nonsalvagable teeth, and ready to be impressed. And we did just that. Kudos to Dr. Aaron Miller and his team for creating a Raving Fan of Julie! She brightened my day and made me proud of the services we provide!

@jaltma So many new finance bro terms, so little time

I heard the term "forward deployed VC" meaning "investor who's helping a company" and now I'm logging off for the rest of the year.

@naval It’s never been easier to survive, yet many find it now harder to thrive.

Say something true, in an interesting way.

@jeremygiffon Part of it has to come from the transient nature of having young kids, which spawns a reluctance to “overinvest” in clothes/furniture with near-term hardwired obsolescence.

The aesthetics associated with parenthood and having little kids are really terrible. Sweatpants, endless plastic junk, ugly strollers, “kids furniture”, horrible gadgets. It’s needless and plays a big factor in why the whole thing is viewed as so uncool.

@jordihays @tbpn Murderer’s row! Incredible lineup.

Today on @tbpn: