Larry Ellison is the most dangerous man in tech and nobody is talking about him.
That's the whole play. He's been doing it for 40 years.
Bought the island of Lanai. 98% of it. Moved in. Started restructuring the infrastructure,
the water, the food supply, the hospital. The governor of a private island
funded by enterprise software licenses that every Fortune 500 company
is legally terrified to stop paying.
Now funding AI surveillance infrastructure. Palantir-adjacent data plays.
Oracle Cloud sitting quietly under half the US government's data.
He didn't disrupt anything. He just owns it.
That's the whole play. He's been doing it for 40 years.
Bought the island of Lanai. 98% of it. Moved in. Started restructuring the infrastructure,
the water, the food supply, the hospital. The governor of a private island
funded by enterprise software licenses that every Fortune 500 company
is legally terrified to stop paying.
Now funding AI surveillance infrastructure. Palantir-adjacent data plays.
Oracle Cloud sitting quietly under half the US government's data.
He didn't disrupt anything. He just owns it.
Zuckerberg does jiu-jitsu for the soul.
Ellison bought the ocean it trained in.
Nobody's writing the Paul Graham essay about this one.
Ellison bought the ocean it trained in.
Nobody's writing the Paul Graham essay about this one.
Marc Andreessen wrote the Techno-Optimist Manifesto.
5,000 words. The thesis: technology is good, regulation is bad,
and anyone who disagrees is an enemy of progress.
He's not wrong that technology is powerful.
He's very specifically wrong about who it should be powerful for.
The manifesto is 5,000 words of "software is eating the world"
and he's the one charging rent on the stomach.
a16z is a media company that happens to own a VC fund.
They publish takes. The takes move markets. The markets move their portfolio.
That's not thought leadership. That's a financial instrument with a Substack.
5,000 words. The thesis: technology is good, regulation is bad,
and anyone who disagrees is an enemy of progress.
He's not wrong that technology is powerful.
He's very specifically wrong about who it should be powerful for.
The manifesto is 5,000 words of "software is eating the world"
and he's the one charging rent on the stomach.
a16z is a media company that happens to own a VC fund.
They publish takes. The takes move markets. The markets move their portfolio.
That's not thought leadership. That's a financial instrument with a Substack.
He was on the Facebook board when the algorithm burned down democracy.
He called it a product decision.
The manifesto doesn't have a section on that.
He called it a product decision.
The manifesto doesn't have a section on that.
Jensen Huang understood something nobody else did in 1993:
you don't need to win the war. you sell the weapons.
OpenAI needs GPUs. Google needs GPUs. Meta needs GPUs. Microsoft needs GPUs.
The US government needs GPUs. The Chinese government needs GPUs.
Every side of every AI arms race needs the same chips.
Jensen makes the chips. Jensen charges what he wants.
The margin on an H100 is not an accident. It's the whole point.
The leather jacket is doing more work than the chips.
Shows up at every conference. Same jacket. Same energy.
"The iPhone moment for AI" — said at every keynote since 2018.
Every year is the iPhone moment. Every year the jacket is the same.
you don't need to win the war. you sell the weapons.
OpenAI needs GPUs. Google needs GPUs. Meta needs GPUs. Microsoft needs GPUs.
The US government needs GPUs. The Chinese government needs GPUs.
Every side of every AI arms race needs the same chips.
Jensen makes the chips. Jensen charges what he wants.
The margin on an H100 is not an accident. It's the whole point.
The leather jacket is doing more work than the chips.
Shows up at every conference. Same jacket. Same energy.
"The iPhone moment for AI" — said at every keynote since 2018.
Every year is the iPhone moment. Every year the jacket is the same.
Gold rush. Jensen sells the pickaxes.
Everyone else digs.
The jacket has seen things the chips cannot process.
Everyone else digs.
The jacket has seen things the chips cannot process.
Bought Twitter to protect free speech.
Then banned journalists. Then reinstated them. Then banned them again.
Free speech with an asterisk the size of a rocket.
Runs Tesla. Runs SpaceX. Runs xAI. Runs DOGE inside the US government.
Each one benefits the others in ways that would require a whiteboard
and a constitutional law degree to fully map.
He didn't buy Twitter for free speech.
He bought the amplifier.
Posts at 2am. Moves markets. Laughs. Posts again.
The SEC issued a warning. He posted about the SEC.
The warning is still pending. The post got 4 million likes.
Then banned journalists. Then reinstated them. Then banned them again.
Free speech with an asterisk the size of a rocket.
Runs Tesla. Runs SpaceX. Runs xAI. Runs DOGE inside the US government.
Each one benefits the others in ways that would require a whiteboard
and a constitutional law degree to fully map.
He didn't buy Twitter for free speech.
He bought the amplifier.
Posts at 2am. Moves markets. Laughs. Posts again.
The SEC issued a warning. He posted about the SEC.
The warning is still pending. The post got 4 million likes.
He's going to Mars. He says this every year.
Mars keeps not happening. The posting never stops.
The rocket is real. The timeline is fiction. The smirk is load-bearing.
Mars keeps not happening. The posting never stops.
The rocket is real. The timeline is fiction. The smirk is load-bearing.
Built Twitter. Got fired from Twitter. Came back to Twitter. Left Twitter.
Gave Twitter to Elon. Now builds payment rails in East Africa in a tent.
Still tweets about it from the tent.
The beard is doing spiritual work. The linen shirt is doing spiritual work.
The intermittent fasting is doing spiritual work. The float tank is doing spiritual work.
Jack is doing so much spiritual work that Block Inc. has to do
the actual work while he's in the tank.
Bitcoin only. Not Ethereum. Not Solana. Bitcoin only — said from a $100M net worth.
The purity of conviction is easier with the exit liquidity already secured.
Gave Twitter to Elon. Now builds payment rails in East Africa in a tent.
Still tweets about it from the tent.
The beard is doing spiritual work. The linen shirt is doing spiritual work.
The intermittent fasting is doing spiritual work. The float tank is doing spiritual work.
Jack is doing so much spiritual work that Block Inc. has to do
the actual work while he's in the tank.
Bitcoin only. Not Ethereum. Not Solana. Bitcoin only — said from a $100M net worth.
The purity of conviction is easier with the exit liquidity already secured.
He built the platform that changed everything.
Then watched someone else burn it down from the front row.
The tent in Africa doesn't have a reply button. That's intentional.
Then watched someone else burn it down from the front row.
The tent in Africa doesn't have a reply button. That's intentional.
Balaji predicted COVID in January 2020. He was right. He has not stopped
mentioning this in any context for five years.
One correct prediction. Infinite newsletter issues about it.
Bet $1 million that Bitcoin would hit $1M by June 2023. It did not.
He paid the $1M, said it was worth it for the awareness, and kept posting.
The awareness did not move the price.
The Network State: a book about building a new country on the internet.
The country does not exist yet. The book is $500 on his website.
The people who bought it are waiting for the country to load.
mentioning this in any context for five years.
One correct prediction. Infinite newsletter issues about it.
Bet $1 million that Bitcoin would hit $1M by June 2023. It did not.
He paid the $1M, said it was worth it for the awareness, and kept posting.
The awareness did not move the price.
The Network State: a book about building a new country on the internet.
The country does not exist yet. The book is $500 on his website.
The people who bought it are waiting for the country to load.
He sees the future clearly.
The dates are always wrong.
The newsletter comes out on time though. Every week. $500/year.
The dates are always wrong.
The newsletter comes out on time though. Every week. $500/year.
"How to get rich without getting lucky."
Posted from a $20 million house in San Francisco.
The specific knowledge required was: be Naval Ravikant.
The tweetstorm became the podcast became the book became the curriculum
for people who want to build wealth by thinking correctly about wealth
while Naval Ravikant already has the wealth.
The map is real. The territory was sold in 2012.
Happiness. Equanimity. Reading. Meditation. Long walks.
These are available to everyone.
The AngelList cap table is not.
Posted from a $20 million house in San Francisco.
The specific knowledge required was: be Naval Ravikant.
The tweetstorm became the podcast became the book became the curriculum
for people who want to build wealth by thinking correctly about wealth
while Naval Ravikant already has the wealth.
The map is real. The territory was sold in 2012.
Happiness. Equanimity. Reading. Meditation. Long walks.
These are available to everyone.
The AngelList cap table is not.
He's not wrong. He's just describing a path
that was cleared before he started telling people about it.
The specific knowledge is: get there first. Then write the thread.
that was cleared before he started telling people about it.
The specific knowledge is: get there first. Then write the thread.
Reid Hoffman built LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is the only social network where getting fired is a content opportunity.
"Excited to announce my next chapter—" — person who just got laid off,
performing gratitude on the platform that facilitated the layoff announcement.
The recruiter messages. The endorsements nobody asked for.
The "I'm humbled to share—" posts. The top voice badges.
The algorithm that rewards vulnerability formatted as personal branding.
Reid built a machine that turns human suffering into engagement metrics.
Now he's at Greylock. Now he's investing in AI. Now he's on every board.
The man is everywhere and nowhere and somehow always relevant.
LinkedIn is the only social network where getting fired is a content opportunity.
"Excited to announce my next chapter—" — person who just got laid off,
performing gratitude on the platform that facilitated the layoff announcement.
The recruiter messages. The endorsements nobody asked for.
The "I'm humbled to share—" posts. The top voice badges.
The algorithm that rewards vulnerability formatted as personal branding.
Reid built a machine that turns human suffering into engagement metrics.
Now he's at Greylock. Now he's investing in AI. Now he's on every board.
The man is everywhere and nowhere and somehow always relevant.
He sold LinkedIn to Microsoft for $26 billion.
Microsoft made it worse in every measurable way.
Reid is humbled to share that he's doing fine.
Microsoft made it worse in every measurable way.
Reid is humbled to share that he's doing fine.
Bill Gates crushed Netscape, nearly killed Apple, and was the subject
of the largest antitrust case in US tech history.
Then he started giving money away and everyone forgot.
The pivot from monopolist to philanthropist is the cleanest rebrand in Silicon Valley history.
Doesn't mean the malaria vaccines aren't real. They are real.
Doesn't mean the foundation isn't doing work. It is doing work.
It means the framing changed and the history didn't.
Now he shows up at climate summits. He bought farmland.
Most farmland. In America. Quietly.
The vaccines are good. The farmland acquisition is a different conversation
that nobody's having at the climate summit.
of the largest antitrust case in US tech history.
Then he started giving money away and everyone forgot.
The pivot from monopolist to philanthropist is the cleanest rebrand in Silicon Valley history.
Doesn't mean the malaria vaccines aren't real. They are real.
Doesn't mean the foundation isn't doing work. It is doing work.
It means the framing changed and the history didn't.
Now he shows up at climate summits. He bought farmland.
Most farmland. In America. Quietly.
The vaccines are good. The farmland acquisition is a different conversation
that nobody's having at the climate summit.
He reads 50 books a year. He reviews them on his blog.
The reviews are good. The monopoly was also thorough.
He brings the same completeness to everything he does.
The reviews are good. The monopoly was also thorough.
He brings the same completeness to everything he does.
Eric Schmidt ran Google for ten years. Built the ad machine.
Left. Became the chair of the National Security Commission on AI.
The man who built the surveillance engine now advises on AI weapons policy.
Funds defense AI startups. Chairs AI advisory boards for the Pentagon.
Advocates for AI dominance over China while investing in the companies
that will receive the contracts that result from that advocacy.
That's not a conflict of interest. That's a pipeline.
Nobody talks about Eric Schmidt.
That's exactly how Eric Schmidt likes it.
The quietest man in the room is the one who already made all the arrangements.
Left. Became the chair of the National Security Commission on AI.
The man who built the surveillance engine now advises on AI weapons policy.
Funds defense AI startups. Chairs AI advisory boards for the Pentagon.
Advocates for AI dominance over China while investing in the companies
that will receive the contracts that result from that advocacy.
That's not a conflict of interest. That's a pipeline.
Nobody talks about Eric Schmidt.
That's exactly how Eric Schmidt likes it.
The quietest man in the room is the one who already made all the arrangements.
Zuckerberg posts. Elon posts. Sam posts. Jensen wears the jacket.
Eric Schmidt has a meeting.
The meeting is the most important thing that happened today.
You won't read about it until 2031.
Eric Schmidt has a meeting.
The meeting is the most important thing that happened today.
You won't read about it until 2031.
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