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James Wang
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Apple is proof design matters. Amazon is proof design doesn't matter.
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Tesla AI day is probably the greatest technology presentation since 2007. It's also an absolute masterclass on AI.
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There is no faster way to lose money than to be in a hurry to make money.
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2010: Bitcoin is dumb 2018: Ethereum is dumb 2021: NFTs are dumb
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Lessons from crypto (from my investing journal)
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📣 Personal news: Today is my last day at ARK. It's been an absolutely amazing six years with Cathie and the team. I'll be headed back to Silicon Valley to work on the next generation of AI software. Meanwhile I'll be cheering on the ARK team every step of the way! 🙌
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James Wang
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Between Stripe, Square, Bitcoin, and DeFi—banks are so, sooooo dead. Stripe eats business banking. Square eats retail customers. Bitcoin eats fedwire. DeFi eats lending. Banks are dinosaur displays at the Smithsonian. They just don't know it yet.
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James Wang
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Nvidia is now worth more than Intel + AMD combined. That's the market's way of saying: x86 is a legacy architecture. The workload of the future is SIMULATION. Light -> raytracing Physics -> n-body, CFD AI -> neural nets ..and these will run on GPUs.
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I learn more from frogs on Twitter than CEOs on LinkedIn.
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James Wang
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ARK's Big Ideas 2020 deck is here—a year of research packed into 80 slides covering AI, robotics, autonomous, genomics, bitcoin, and more. Download: Here are 5 slides that really hit it home. Thread:
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James Wang
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Life is a blockchain—you cannot alter past entries, you can only append new entries.
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James Wang
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Ethereum can be the last investment of your life.
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Every social media company other than Facebook is trading below its IPO price.
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You cannot learn about crypto by reading blogs and listening to podcasts. You have to *do* it. Put $500 in metamask and try the top protocols. Think of gas as tuition fee. After a week you’ll know more than 99% of CNBC talking heads.
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Bitcoin has holders. Ethereum has users.
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Ethereum isn't just a crypto currency. It's a software platform with users, revenue, and applications. If you cover software like AWS, MSFT, SNOW, or TWLO you should cover Ethereum ($ETH). To get started, check out its Q1 'earnings' results:
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James Wang
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What about Cardano, you ask? $ADA
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In case you find this blockchain stuff confusing
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If computers were invented today no one would talk about how useful they are, only how bad they are for the environment.
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James Wang
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Work life balance is very important when your work is not your life’s work.
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If you like managing people, hire mediocre people.
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Sushiswap has returned more cash to token holders in its one year history than Amazon has returned cash to share holders in its 27 year history.
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James Wang
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There is no "the next Tesla" just as there has never been "the next Apple".
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Imagine getting Elon for an interview only to ask him the same questions he’s answered 100 times.
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Netflix will spend more on content this year ($17B) than TSMC will spend on capex ($15B). One makes Tiger King and Ozark. The other makes 50% of the world's computer chips.
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James Wang
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I have to say Solana is really fast. It's almost as if it's running on a single computer.
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James Wang
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I still don't understand how people straight out of school can become "management consultants".
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James Wang
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Ethereum revenue in 2021 is at the same level as AWS revenue in 2015.
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There are many Decentralized Exchanges in DeFi. But only the Cardano DEX is a JPEG.
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James Wang
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Naval has many great lines but perhaps my favorite is: “do what feels like play to you but work to others.“ It encapsulates so much in so little. And it is infinitely better than the common refrain of “follow your dreams.”
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James Wang
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Imagine concluding that Elon Musk is actually the bad guy
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James Wang
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What is DeFi? > Borrow money without a bank (Maker) > Trade stocks without a broker (Uniswap) > Launch ETFs without a sponsor (Enzyme) > Raise money without a VC (token sale) > Print money without a central bank (Olympus)
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If climate change was solved by a billionaire using technological invention rather than societal change, most climate activists would sulk rather than rejoice.
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James Wang
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A year ago SoftBank sold its entire stake in Nvidia at $218 a share, plowing the money into private companies like WeWork. Nvidia closed on Friday at all time highs of $340. WeWork never IPOed.
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James Wang
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1/ Apple's upcoming ARM MacBooks isn't just going to save them some money and run a bit faster. It marks the beginning of the end of the x86 era and Intel's four decade empire. Thread⬇️
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James Wang
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I miss Steve Jobs
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James Wang
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If you can understand AWS, you can understand Ethereum. It's just a cloud computing platform. Like AWS, you build and deploy apps to it. Instead of $, you pay in ETH. It has tiny throughput but a unique kind of security. And many people find that valuable. cc: @TrustlessState
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James Wang
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Bitcoin is going to become the reserve asset of crypto. But actual money is going to be programmable currencies on Ethereum like OHM. This is clear to me now.
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James Wang
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Building your Twitter follows to 10k+ will teach you more about content and distribution than any MBA class.
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James Wang
3 years
Bonds: 0.5% yield, no growth. Tech stonks: 0% yield, maybe growth. ETH: 6% yield, maybe 10x. Your move.
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James Wang
6 years
This week on ARK's podcast—hear @elonmusk explain why Tesla build its own AI silicon and how that improved image inference performance by 20x.
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#Autonomous cars are coming sooner than you think. Don't just take my word for it, listen to @elonmusk on the latest @ARKInvest #FYIpodcast . Thanks again for sitting down with @CathieDWood and me!
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James Wang
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A minute of silence for those who are still doing deep work on whether Facebook or Apple is the better buy.
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Did my first $1,000 gas fee transaction. Ethereum is just legalized ransomware. Don't @ me with your Cardano, Solana et al takes. You guys don't have anything worth paying ransom for.
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James Wang
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It’s cute that Elon thinks paying capital gains on a portion of this stock will placate the mob. There is no satisfying the mob. Ever.
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James Wang
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Prediction: Chamath's IPO A-Z will probably demolish the S&P500 over the same time period.
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James Wang
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You can love Ethereum and acknowledge that every point in Su’s tweets is true.
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James Wang
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1/ Cerebras just built a chip with 50x the transistor count, 1,000x the memory and 10,000x the bandwidth of Nvidia’s flagship GPU. One such 'chip' could replace an entire rack of Nvidia GPUs. What the heck is going on?
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James Wang
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Tesla is the largest company in the world that is 100% supply constrained.
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James Wang
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The purest metaverse play isn't $NVDA, it's $ETH.
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Stanford gave the world ImageNet. Now it's giving the world Medical ImageNet—a 0.5PB dataset for diagnostic radiology. #GTC2017
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James Wang
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If you want to see the future, go to the weirdest corner of the internet and stay there for a while.
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The final analysis on Slack is simple. Startup vs. incumbent is a race of innovation vs. distribution. Microsoft achieved feature parity faster than Slack reached distribution parity.
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He literally put party before country
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Etsy is the manufacturing arm of Pinterest.
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James Wang
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The most undervalued tech stocks are DeFi tokens.
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James Wang
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How does the Metamask product manager sleep at night after using Phantom?
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James Wang
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1 in 5 US adults use Twitter. 1 in 2 US kids use Roblox.
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James Wang
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It took Apple 42 years to reach $1 trillion in market cap. It took just two more years to reach $2 trillion.
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James Wang
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If you don't go down rabbit holes, what knowledge are you going to possess that's not a commodity?
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James Wang
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I've had this conversation like a million times: "But ARK made all its money through bitcoin" "We also did Tesla" "Okay so you had two flukes" "We also did Nvidia" *grumbles*
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Seems sustainable
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James Wang
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I own more $GM than $BTC.
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James Wang
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Ethereum is iPhone level ecosystem with Android level market share.
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When crypto crashes, it doesn’t require a government bailout to restore normality.
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Tonight I had to pay an artist in Spain. He asked if I wanted to use wire or PayPal. I said: how about crypto? He received the $ETH in 10min for $7 of network fee. GG banks.
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James Wang
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Half the people in the world are below average.
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James Wang
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Spotify needs to stop "thinking" about Clubhouse and buy it pronto. You can't clone it, you can't beat it, it's an asset as compelling for audio as Instagram was for photos in 2012.
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That's it I quit I'm moving to Cardano
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James Wang
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1953 – Discover human source code 2000 – Read human source code 2017 – Edit human source code
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James Wang
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The three bravest persons in tech: – Elon Musk – Tim Sweeney – Brian Armstrong
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James Wang
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Max hype/reality: Cardano $ADA Max reality/hype: Terra $LUNA
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James Wang
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How well you understand something: Can explain in a blog = good Can explain in tweetstorm = excellent Can explain in one tweet = god
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James Wang
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Ethereum is the only appointment where if you turn up late you're still early.
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James Wang
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Have gotten lots of questions on *why* Tesla built its own AI chip and the right way to compare vs. Nvidia's Xavier/Pegasus. Here's a short blog that explains it all in plain English.
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James Wang
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In crypto you get paid for putting up with sickening volatility and emotional turmoil. Then in bull markets people call you lucky. That's the trade.
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Crypto is the only industry where you can 10x your money in a year and still feel like a schmuck.
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Stocks could easily be flat for the next five years.
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ETH $10K is as lame a price target as AMZN $100
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More lessons for myself that I will 100% forget to follow next time
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James Wang
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If you want to have a year's worth of experience in three months join a startup. If you want to have a year's experience over three years join a Fortune 500.
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Imagine hating rich people so much that you’d rather have less space technology.
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James Wang
4 years
People who don’t own bitcoin because they can’t afford a “whole bitcoin” have never ordered a 1/4 chicken.
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James Wang
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Forget business school—watch company investor day videos instead. The CEO and top brass prepare for weeks to explain everything from engineering to sales. Eg. @nutanix investor day is a veritable master class in enterprise computing. And it’s free.
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Why isn’t this flagged as misinformation?
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You want to bring down inflation? Let’s make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share.
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Apple was the rebels. Now they are the empire.
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Bitcoin - daily tweets, chants, and Clubhouse sessions to enforce HODLing Ethereum - we’ll pay you to stake ETH
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"We think Dojo could be the world's best AI training computer..we might offer it to others as a service. Dojo could be a business line by itself." –Elon Tesla just entered the AI hardware business. 🤯🤯
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James Wang
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It's so hard to convince friends to buy crypto. Half the time they just won't do it. Half the time it goes up 50% and they sell it. Half the time it goes down 50% and they sell it. So 150% of the time it just doesn't work.
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James Wang
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In every other age chads crushed nerds. This is the age of nerds crushing chads.
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I really feel Peter Thiel's frustration. In a nutshell—take away the internet and we basically still live in the 80s.
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James Wang
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If Banksy minted an NFT it would melt the internet.
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James Wang
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Ultimately, life is just a chase for feelings.
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James Wang
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There are months when nothing happens. Then there are days when months happen. Let’s go $ETH. 🚀🚀
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James Wang
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With $NVDA nearing $1T, everyone is now calling AI the next internet. Who could have known? You could have – if you had read @ARKInvest 's whitepaper on Deep Learning in 2017. Those exact words, six years before it happened:
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James Wang
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SHIB flipping DOGE is v bearish for bitcoin. Basically OG status don’t mean sh*t.
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James Wang
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Successful ppl that have been fired: - Steve Jobs - Steve Ballmer - Elon Musk - Jack Dorsey - Ev Williams Who else?
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James Wang
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Find a job where you don't look forward to the weekend.
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James Wang
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Fuck it i'm going to write the Ethereum Q1 earnings release. Whatever it takes to awaken my SaaS fellows from their dogmatic slumber.
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James Wang
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Netflix ML: every row in the Netflix UI (trending, drama, documentary etc.) uses a separate algorithm. The row order uses an ensemble. 300 person machine learning team. All research done on AWS. #NIPS2017
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James Wang
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You only need one great trade a year. A 10x on a 10% position = you double your portfolio.
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