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I was burning $10-$20 per hour, $1.50 - $3.00 per prompt with Gemini 3 in Openclaw... it was insanely inefficient.

Company was burning $17m per month with less than $300m in revenue... while growing at a slower rate than ramp.com . simply unsustainable.

An overview of the studies and data regarding the repurposed type-2 diabetes drugs that are now being used for weight loss by Elon Musk and other celebs.

Curious to hear others experience with Wegovy, Ozempic, and similar..

The writing was on the wall for quite a while here... the company is literally run by convicted felons.

Check out the short seller report -- https://www.sprucepointcap.com/carvana-co-update/

One ENS founder is already in jail for helping North Korea - just Google Virgil Griffith + ENS. He's been scrubbed from their site already.

Now this...

This project is rotten to the core.

That anybody chooses to use .eth in their Twitter handle is shocking to me.

Sandy's background (the Amazon exec quoted at the top of the article) is very impressive! https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandyacarter/

I'm glad so many smart people are getting paid $200,000+ per year to bring such new and innovative products to the market.

Ahh Geocities, brings back memories.

Step #1, forget everything you learned on wall street bets

They got beat out by Opera who got there first, but Brave is a much better browser.

There are only so many viable combinations of 4-letter domain names... $2400 seems pretty fair compared to what .com's of the same length are going for (50K-$1m+ for random 4 letter combinations)

Honeypot is much smaller.

Any centralized source of data is very attractive and worth spending a lot of time & effort on and inevitable gets hacked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches

Not sure about others, but I've paid thousands of dollars for ICANN renewal fees over the last decade... love the idea of "owning" real estate on the internet vs. merely renting it (and having prices go up every few years).

Same as Dogecoin

Anybody wanting to understand inflation vs. the CPI index should familiarize themselves with the concept of "hedonic adjustment" -

The Chapwood index offers a good alternative view as to the actual cost of living - https://chapwoodindex.com

What claims are absurd?

Tens of millions of people will own significant Tesla stock via the index despite obvious evidence of fraud and financial engineering at the company.

Even if everything was above board (i.e. the company had a general counsel or was able to obtain a D&O policy from someone other than Elon Musk himself)... this is probably the most overpriced car company on the planet by any metric, and it's revenue has flat-lined the last 8 quarters (no, it's not a growth stock).

Either way, ouch: https://www.plainsite.org/realitycheck/tesla.html

This is the PayPal model.

Starts slowly, then add in dark patterns for FX currency conversion, withdrawals, etc. etc.

Negative externalities born by the public, but profits go to shareholders.

Foist... i see what you did there ;)

You forgot venture debt, warrants, & management carve-outs during M&A.

The big missed opportunity was to build a bounty-based marketplace to serve the SMBs... charge for results vs. the product.

The pricing consultant they brought in was Simon Kutcher...

Another proof point that once the founder-CEO is replaced by a professional CEO, it's game over more often than not. This happened in 2017 at Optimizely.

The PR they generated for it was crazy... would love to read a post-mortem.

"If people don't pay for a company's products, that company will go out of business."

The problem is that capitalism has broken down.

20% of publicly traded companies are zombies. Their earnings are below what they need to pay INTEREST on their debt.

Government is bailing out inefficient companies, whose assets would otherwise be sold off to more efficient operators.

ShadowStats.com tracks the Consumer Price Index according to the old 1980 and 1990 methodologies.... 6% or 10% annually vs. less than 2% under the current CPI index.

The Hertz investors clearly didn't :)

At least that money can get counted for properly... and venture capital as an asset class still generates double-digit IRRs, and LPs stop funding investors with poor returns.

The Pentagon has spent 20 years and hundreds of millions of dollars in building systems to just try to account for its waste, highly recommend this long read from Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/pent... and http://nebraskansforpeace.org/pentagon_accounting_fraud

The stuff about government people spending 15 year careers entering phony numbers is just insane: https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-accounting-conceals...

$400 for a hat?