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Matt Griswold

@griswold

3 years

The most overlooked superpower is to think in decades and act in days.

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Matt Griswold

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9 months

Sad to announce that @BillAckman and I have made the decision to suspend millions in combined donations to Harvard. I already have an ugly building with my name on it anyway. We hope the school will reconsider its inaction before the rest of the $53.2B endowment is exhausted.

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The Harvard Corporation: “In this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously stand in support of President Gay.”

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The OpenAI story.

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Okay, just hear me out Taiwan

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Sam Altman has the chance to do the funniest thing

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Matt Griswold

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After listening to two fifty-somethings on a first date at the next table over, my wife and I have agreed to just make it work forever.

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Matt Griswold

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@WillManidis Vulnerable. All it takes is one Android user to screw it all up.

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@kfitzsports A flag is warranted; but not a suspension. This is incredibly short sighted, @NFL – promote this guy to HQ and let him focus on how to best capture the sport for a new generation.

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@cstanley Women: these are our pillows. Please understand.

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Matt Griswold

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@growing_daniel Who should we send as her Major Yoshimi Taniguchi?

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Matt Griswold

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3 years

The dinghy is “Net Profit”

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Matt Griswold

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9 months

@BillAckman (Coming back to see these comments, yikes! Clearly my humor was too dry here – I'm sorry. It's a shitpost, relax. To clarify: I'll continue to donate $0 and the building is named for some distant Griswold. I'll ask them to remove my name anyway though.)

Matt Griswold

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9 months

Humblebrag: I didn't go to Harvard.

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Where's Ilya?

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@A24 @IMAX With a united CA + TX, it's over. 24% of GDP, 60% of the oil, all of the best apps, SpaceX, Fort Hood, and 100% of good Mexican food. Don't mess with Texifornia!

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Matt Griswold

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@nikitabier The aluminum and lithium in all thosee scooters have to be worth something.

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Matt Griswold

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My friend runs a $30M/yr company, needs a CFO, and asked my advice. "It all boils down to whether they golf," I said. "If your goal is to double the business and raise capital, hire a golfer. You can spot these resumes because they started in banking and talk about deals. If

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@Andercot The second gamedevs couldn’t rely on every Xbox having one — because they became optional to match PlayStation on price — any Kinect feature could no longer be core to gameplay. No big games. People think it failed, but it was killed in the most passive aggressive way possible.

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Matt Griswold

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@joshuavoydik that nocode-to-dyson curve is intense. I asked GPT5 for directions and it buit a tesseract with six dimensions so that I could get to my destination yesterday

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Matt Griswold

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9 months

Candidly, this whole thing sadly highlights just how broken this system really is. The board failed in its governance, obviously; but then everyone's great hope is for a few elite donors to be the counterweight? What?

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@hlntnr OK, please stay away from AI.

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@AdamSinger Chat GPT 4: hold my beer

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@MarkTomasovic The fragility of global supply chains

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@growing_daniel this must become the Weissman score for generative video

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@unusual_whales Best case it's Britney with knives

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@ATRightMovies "oh her!"

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@mpopv So brave of Tuvalu

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Matt Griswold

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@ChicagoAdvisor If you were that big a fan of Monster Energy for 30 years, you died 20 years ago.

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Matt Griswold

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Stop this train. My notifications are clogged with bad people.

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9 months

Best four teams* #CollegeFootballPlayoff #CFPCommittee

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@RobertMSterling @thatchthoughts @onnnnnnnion Have you considered that you are a poor judge of fictional character?

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Matt Griswold

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'Twas two months before Christmas, and all through the port Container crates lined every inch like a fort; Each big iron box was stuffed tight with great care In the hope that holiday sales soon would get there. 1/12

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Matt Griswold

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2 years

Fear is "Trending on Art Station" this morning, but artists and technology (yes, even #AI ) enable one another and have been advancing together for a long time. A brief history: 1/n 🧵

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Matt Griswold

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@jspeiser Thanks for sharing this painful lesson. It took Disney ~97 years to learn the lesson for media companies to own the direct relationship, so you’re well ahead of the curve!

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@buccocapital The ranch is in Kilauea – should be ok on water

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@sama Found him, just as he's leaving. 😢

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Where's Ilya?

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@unusual_whales quiet, quiet. he's gonna say something!!

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@deedydas regulatory capture as a service (to incumbents)

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@amasad Honestly beautiful, and perhaps the best example of male friendship one could think of.

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@OpenAI The European mind is starting to comprehend their choices.

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Matt Griswold

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9 months

To everyone suggesting alternate schools to fund, you can pitch your mascot in under 140 characters here:

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Matt Griswold

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@JohnLeFevre Alternatively: buy two copies of the LEGO set and store one. A much greater return than wine, but much harder for a 30 year old to brag about.

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Matt Griswold

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@Cokedupoptions DARPA is still training the birds, but otherwise a go.

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Matt Griswold

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@paulg They're confusing the art with the tools. I've come across many portfolios in hiring where the artist learned the tools but not the principle. Given AI, I'd double down on learning the principles of animation.

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Matt Griswold

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9 months

It's worth noting that a unified California and Texas would control 24% of the country's GDP, 60% of the oil, most of your favorite apps, and 100% of good Mexican food. Don't mess with Texifornia!

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In this land, anything is possible. Welcome to Alex Garland's CIVIL WAR. In theaters and @IMAX April 26.

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@cremieuxrecueil Confirmed.

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@YIMBYLAND Who is insuring these future lighthouses?

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Matt Griswold

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@anothercohen You clearly did your job well, even if you misinterpreted the "let's make history" motivational poster hanging next to the Gemini servers.

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Matt Griswold

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@mayfer I'm working on a GPT that tucks my kids into bed.

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Matt Griswold

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@lindayaX How many have 6 numbers in their username and DM "hey"

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Matt Griswold

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@doganuraldesign It's faceswapping more than upscaling

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Matt Griswold

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@Mauro_Rulz @Neil_Druckmann “Karen the Clicker”

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Matt Griswold

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America is such a geographic lottery winner: extensive internal waterways, vast arable lands, biodiversity, climate diversity, many natural harbors, two massive oceans, abundant natural resources... and now more lithium than anywhere. Everyone else is playing on hard mode.

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The U.S. Department of Energy confirmed its discovery of a 3,400-kiloton reserve of lithium in California's Salton Sea, making it one of the largest exploitable lithium deposits in the world.

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Matt Griswold

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Do not trust adults who change their voice talking to kids.

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Matt Griswold

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@Austen A derivatives trader and a fashion designer living in a Chicago suburb with five kids.

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Matt Griswold

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@Andercot it's the kind of thing that makes you dream about how my kids' lives will be different 30 years from now – there could be a dropdown, a new font weight, anything!

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@PalmerLuckey "delivering on schedule, within budget, and at scale" is the most important innovation here. Congrats!

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Matt Griswold

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10 months

LinkedIn should support hours and minutes.

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OpenAI's new CEO, Emmett Shear, who was appointed yesterday, is in talks to resign, per Bloomberg.

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Matt Griswold

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@thesamparr There is only one Napoleon

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@dtmorgan18 Last year I was warned the school would take me to court and fine me if we went to Japan for 40 days... it was a great trip.

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@sama Any amendments to this?

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The OpenAI story.

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Matt Griswold

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Patience is a virtue: an OpenAI story.

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@gdb So exciting!

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Matt Griswold

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@thegarrettscott Nailed it. Here's the NYT two months prior to that flight:

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Matt Griswold

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@blinkist The populism in this thread is insufferable! Demand your congressperson to write a simple tax code… don’t shout down the only member of society who has an outlook longer than the next business quarter or the next election cycle!

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Matt Griswold

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"I’m sorry, but as an AI language model I do not have the ability to be your girlfriend at family gatherings."

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Matt Griswold

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@akm515 It's a market; imagine that story from the buyers' POV. They're probably happy to get in at $500k, but it's still a bit crazy since the house was $350k 4 years ago.

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Matt Griswold

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@POSMarketer A more nuanced version: Previously all art required several overlapping talents – vision, taste, and the ability to paint, for example. Most people with vision and taste cannot paint. Now everyone can paint; but taste is still rare.

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Matt Griswold

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@Austen Palmer is awesome. We could use 10 more of him, but either they don't exist or they're currently "wasting their lives on something that doesn't matter" elsewhere. The latter is far more likely.

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Matt Griswold

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The End — Thanks to @typesfast , @ChrisJBakke , and the MSC Uberty who inspired this while heading out to sea this morning. If you enjoyed this — or just tacitly support the misappropriation of copyrighted masterpieces — I guess you could follow for… whatever comes next. 🤷‍♂️ /12

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Matt Griswold

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@mnolangray Feels like Germany unwinding it's energy policy - it's much harder to rebuild it than sustain it through moments of turmoil

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@dhh Thank you NoCode

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Matt Griswold

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@mikebeckhamsm This is great directing; no dialogue required. It's also a great way to start the week, thanks.

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@collider_sama OK, please write "Ark 2: TSMC & Bubble Tea" when you file.

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Matt Griswold

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2 years

My team is in production on 4 games at the moment — one of them will use ~50% generative art, with the Art Director and an “AI Wrangler” working hand in hand. Thanks to the @Scenario_gg team for sparing us the gray box prototypes on the journey…

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Someone before asked for isometric greek temples 🏛️, so I did a few with @Scenario_gg 🚀 (+ plasticine, 3D render, detailed) - !

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@EvanCull @Abhiuday7Singh @mckaywrigley Any statement about technology that includes “always” doesn’t age well.

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@BillAckman @GroupEldorado @Harvard @X Not plagiarism, Bill... 'duplicative language'.

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@BillAckman Axel Springer when they read "So I am now going to turn the spotlight around to the people responsible for this unbelievably disastrous mess."

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@BenjaminDEKR CCP testing the fences

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@HeroDividend Eat before you go – saves at least $100.

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Matt Griswold

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More companies should do this – it's self-aware and useful signal.

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@RobertMSterling I miss the office; but the group I worry about most are WFH twentysomethings who don’t understand the osmosis and access they’re trading.

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Matt Griswold

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This is why Major League Baseball recruits out of high school. Big win for the Dodgers finance team!

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Exclusive @TheAthletic : Shohei Ohtani will defer $68 million per year of his $70 million annual salary over the course of his 10-year, $700 million deal with the Dodgers, allowing the team to keep spending, according to a person briefed on the terms.

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One key difference of designing games at @synthesischool is that we measure conversation more than engagement. As important as controls.

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@nealagarwal My contribution to the Doctor Who canon. Two firsts!

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@chrisstanchak @lexfridman She didn't win the delegates. Her name wasn't even on the primary ballots.

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@Noahpinion I'm hoping it's Larry David.

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@historyinmemes And this is why the sun now sets quickly on the British Empire.

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Matt Griswold

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@powerbottomdad1 because nuclear is green energy, and Nixon was a strong environmentalist (2nd only to Teddy R) Clean Air Act Marine Mammal Protection Act Endangered Species Act Environmental Protection Agency Legacy of Parks Program These views are compatible with 1000 nuclear plants.

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Matt Griswold

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@BetterCallMedhi It must frustrate our adversaries to know that he can't be compromised with embarrassing photos.

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Matt Griswold

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3 years

Tomatoes don’t scale enough, @sweatystartup . I just bought 7x🦞 for $100 on the dock: at 100k eggs each I’ll have 250B lobsters in two generations (375B lbs) which I’ll ship south and sell at $12/lb. Should gross $4.5T on my $100 if I can resist eating these. Few understand this.

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Matt Griswold

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@typesfast He should have stepped back further and taken the shot from Nevada

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Matt Griswold

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To all of the Spanish speakers quote-tweeting this to correct me on the subtitles: lo siento, you're wrong.

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@nikitabier It's a self-licking ice cream cone: schools pitch tracks that require more school. Parents often pitch expected value.

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Matt Griswold

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but some people WANT to work late into the night with smart people on hard problems and eat Thai delivery 3x/week.

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Matt Griswold

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@unusual_whales Probably trying to save that $800 annual fee. Savvy

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Matt Griswold

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@CarolWalshReal1 There will always be a role for professional services... with a rate card, not a percentage of the asset. I could have hired an attorney, project manager, and group therapist for a fraction of the commission I paid to sell my house in Los Angeles.

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@growing_daniel they give you one per kid when you pay the hospital bill

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@DNewportgirl I'd like to see more funding and innovation there.

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