Alex Terrien
@aterrien
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just a guy trying to figure it out. I rarely write at https://t.co/AVV6HDLbVZ
Paris, France
Joined May 2010
Spoke to a candidate yesterday who told me this podcast interview was very helpful to understand what we do at Parable, and why it matters. So reposting it here:
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“Technology is a fundamental property of life” - by @mustafasuleyman. Yes. So clearly and succinctly expressed. We cannot separate life from technology, nor for that matter can we separate life from growth.
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When people are angry at you, they are generally just angry at themselves.
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Reading @mustafasuleyman ‘s book The Coming Wave makes me feel like I’m right back @singularityu - back in 2014 when it was still cool.
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We have a single question on our application form for candidates: why do you want to work at Parable? I'm amazed at how many inbound applicants DON'T ANSWER THE QUESTION. What is this about??
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This is awesome. So simple.
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I’m in.
My cult is better than your cult. Join my cult. Be jacked. Feel amazing. Look great. Be clear-headed. Have high energy. Maintain a stable mood. Be ambitious as fuck.
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Whatever you may think of @elonmusk’s current political stance, his approach — putting a swat team of extremely smart, driven people with a laser focus on finding waste — will yield immense gains, and I suspect will be regarded as an example by many governments, left and right, around the world.
🚨🇺🇸ELON’S DOGE PLAN TO SLASH $4B DAILY FROM GOVERNMENT SPENDING COULD BE REACHED AS SOON AS THIS WEEKEND Elon: “I am cautiously optimistic that we will reach the $4B/day FY2026 reduction this weekend.” Elon has assembled a powerhouse team of tech visionaries—including Marc Andreessen, Joe Lonsdale, Antonio Gracias, Steve Davis, and Travis Kalanick—to eliminate waste, automate bureaucracy with AI, and kill bloated contracts. He acknowledges the goal is ambitious, but cutting half the deficit would fuel economic growth and prevent inflation. Government waste is on notice— @DOGE is making it efficient and fast. Source: Yahoo Finance, Washington Post, New York Post, X
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@APompliano This could be helpful:
WINNING: THIS IS HUGE Temu, SHEIN and all these tacky fast fashion companies that sell mostly crap have long relied on an unfair and unwarranted trade advantage. They have long been beneficiaries of what is called the "de minimis loophole." This loophole allows goods to be shipped directly from overseas to American consumers so long as the value of EACH PACKAGE is under US$800, without any customs declaration. It's cheap, direct, untaxed and unregulated. It's a law that's existed since the 1930s, long before the internet and the existence of e-commerce retailers. Last year the US received a BILLION packages from China through this loophole. CBP (Customs and Border Protection) cannot possibly inspect items at this scale so things do slip through the cracks - unsafe items, knock-offs, products made with forced labor from Xinjiang and yes, chemicals that are used to make FENTANYL. To put things in context: In 2022, GAP paid $700 million while H&M paid $200 million in import taxes. Temu paid ZERO. "Free trade" once again is not free. It's flooding our markets with cheap crappy potentially toxic goods, gutting our own retail markets, and allowing unsavory foreign competitors to exploit loopholes and gain unfair competitive advantages over retailers who HAVE to play by the rule because of... geography. Now, we have closed this loophole for goods coming in from China. 🏆
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"Presence is to our personal lives what focus is to our work". Thinking about this quote today from my dear friend Adam.
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