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For the last 13 years, Forbes has published our 30 Under 30 List, which in the U.S., now has 20 different categories, or 600 total, each year. Add in the alumni from our Europe and Asia lists, we’ve honored more than 10,000 wunderkinds––and vetted some 100,000 candidates. An astounding number of these folks have gone on to become cultural tastemakers, tech titans, even billionaires––32 of the latter, and counting. But regrets, we’ve had a few. While our process correctly weeded out folks like Fyre Festival impresario Billy McFarland and, yes, even Elizabeth Holmes––one-time superstars who all wound up fraudsters––others slipped through. Here are 10, out of 10,000, that we’d like to walk back. We’ll add more here as the years go on––the 30 Under 30 list is, by definition, future-facing, and not even Warren Buffett can predict with 100 percent accuracy. But we’d guess he’d be good with 99.9%.
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This speech was fantastic, and not what I expected. I honestly expected more anti-bank, anti-government, anti-regulation talk. That's what we've become accustomed to on X and other platforms, and what usually gets the crowd riled up. However, this speech exactly what I should have expected from Erik. I met Erik in 2018 at the Denver Day for Crypto (my first crypto conference, where I met Matthew McClintock). He gave a talk there, telling us the establishments were going to fight us. They weren't going to willingly give up power and control. Spot on. In this speech for Coin Center, we get a very aspirational and forward-looking talk, while also looking back, using history as a guide. Using the move toward Protestantism, and the formation of the United States, Erik shows us we always move toward more control of our own lives. We don't like being controlled by centralized entities, whether it's control of our faith, our ability to govern ourselves, or in this case, our provenance over our own financial and economic future. If given the choice, we choose self-sovereignty. On a smaller scale, in the past 20 years we've chosen to cut phone cords in favor of mobile. We've chosen more personalized streaming media over settling for what radio stations and cable networks want to provide. Of course, the financial choice is bigger. With more powerful players in both the private and government sectors. However, this talk gives us the ability to calmly look at the historical movements, and feel comfortable knowing those in the room are on the right path, regardless of the roadblocks. We're on the right path, and it does have to happen in the US, where the traitors of 1776 pushed forward, knowing they were right. Anyone vehemently against crypto for the technology, or the financial system it creates, very simply has an un-American opinion, in the true sense of what "American" originally meant. I appreciate this speech so much, as an aspirational view of what is being built to move us toward the greater self-control and self-sovereignty over our financial present and future that we always seek. Thanks, Erik https://lnkd.in/gUS2bdPC
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Over the last 2 weeks I have organized a movement of crypto advocates alongside Will Schweitzer VI, Jonathan M. Padilla, and Amanda Wick to support the Harris campaign in their election effort and understanding of the industry. Tonight we are hosting the Crypto4Harris Town Hall with speakers that include: Kirsten Gillibrand, Adam Schiff, Jared Polis, Steven Horsford, Yadira C., Mark Cuban, Anthony Scaramucci, Sheila Warren, Dante A. Disparte, Justin Slaughter, and many more elected reps and industry leaders. Our goals for tonight’s event is two-fold: First, we hope to highlight how crypto is a “big tent” topic, with a diverse range of actors and opinions from across the political spectrum. You will hear from a broad set of progressives, independents, and conservatives from across industry and government, on why they believe digital assets are essential to America’s future financial strength, and ways they hope a Harris administration can position our country as leader in the future digital economy. Second, the goal of this event is to highlight leaders who are eager and willing to engage with a potential Harris administration on a "reset" for crypto policy. Come watch, it’s sure to be a big one: https://lu.ma/dpgcaxsi Follow the movement on X at: https://lnkd.in/dhTMQ-B7
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WARNING! Silicon Valley TDS sufferers, this may cause you to convulse, so please look away! Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, arguably the two most successful venture capitalists in the world, are supporting Donald J Trump for President. They made this video a couple weeks ago explaining why. The video is long so here's a quick summary: The Harris Biden administration has been proven to be corrupt, incompetent, and Marxist. They favor big business(Tech) with tax policies and regulations that cripple small businesses and startups. They also favor crippling regulations on blockchain and AI development. In this video, Marc and Ben explain how these policies are antithetical to this country and our culture and more importantly why Trump's clearly defined platform will benefit everyone. (if you have not seen or heard of this video, it's probably because it has been suppressed by google)
The Little Tech Agenda: Why We Support Trump
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🚀 Exciting insights from our co-founder on the evolution of the Web3 space! 🌐 The Web3 landscape continues to grow and innovate. We’re proud to be part of this journey and support the pioneers who are shaping the future. #Web3 #Blockchain #Crypto
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Trump may have made the headlines in #Nashville, and I don't underestimate the significance of a major party presidential candidate advocating for crypto with an unprecedented speech to the industry. But my own takeaway from the Bitcoin 2024 event is that the Web3 space has matured enough through navigating the good times and tough ones that it can have real-world impact. This is my eighth year going to one iteration or another of this particular conference. It started when there were just a few hundred participants. Compare that to nowadays where it feels like there's about the same number of side events alone. 👀 Sure, there are still the grifters, band-wagoners and hyped-up marketers (at least the Ordinals art made a Tesla cybertruck less ugly. 🤦♂️ ) Celebrities come and go too. At one point, I walked into the speakers hall and overheard a thick accent so I started to exchange pleasantries with a fellow Brit. It was Russel Grant and I made like I didn't know he was famous. Still, it was easy to filter out the noise this year because there was plenty of substance everywhere. Whether it was celebrating an innovative project with Hemi Labs, acknowledging classy reporters of the ACJR, networking with DNA Fund's community, or diving into chain comparisons with colleagues from the Nervos Foundation, it was certainly time well-spent. My hometown #Miami should have tried harder to keep this conference. Our loss was Nashville's gain -- and #Las Vegas will feel the benefit of such a vibrant industry at next year's event. Let's keep defying the odds!
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Thanks Jamil Hasan for a great conversation on Kadena and a discussion from From Hoodies to Suits on how #finance is changing for the #nextgen. #innovation #digitalassets #millennials #genz #finfluencers #tradfi #defi
Good morning! Happy Tuesday! After attending Consensus 2024 last week, I’m delighted to announce I have a new show. Before Season 7, as you know, I retired the X-Factor with the Crypto Hipster. I replaced it with eleven episodes to date of Shooting from the Hip, which are longer and more in-depth topical conversations. Now, I bring to you interviews from the ground during conferences, which are a bit shorter in length but just as fabulous, as all my guests are amazing. This new series is “Reporter on the Ground”. My first foray into this new endeavor was filled with some rookie mistakes as I hadn’t been a conference goer for four years. Still, I have a bunch of episodes I’ll be releasing this week, starting with this one. Thank you to Annelise Osborne for a wonderful discussion centered around her new book “From Hoodies to Suits” which is available for pre-sale now. I recommend you get a copy. And, of course, listen to our conversation, too. https://lnkd.in/e6yuABEj
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What do you get when you mix the World's Richest Man (#ElonMusk) & likely soon to be most powerful man in the world (#DonaldTrump)? An open decentralized... a true digital town hall... where anyone can join, from anywhere in the world... & if we know anything about Elon... the scripting will be the inverse of a Kamala Harris recording... Today Mon 12 Aug 24 @ 1700 Pacific Time | 2000 ET (For us in Asia Wed13 Aug @ 1000 SYD | 0900 TOK | 0800 SGT-HK | 0400 GST) It is likely be another one of those historic milestone days, as well as ice stake in the click-bait-biased heart of traditional media... who are furious that they can no longer control the narrative for the masses... you know the folks that are all about free speech, so long as its their free speech... ...will be interesting to see if the tech infra. can support the folks signing on... Will also be interesting to note how little / to how biased the actual event will be reported by the MSM.. May also be interesting to see effects on markets if any... Yet almost certainly super short term... $TSLA... EV space... trade linked assets... & of course $BTC & $DOGE & crypto in general are to be watched...
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The largest Super PACs this #election cycle are crypto PACs. Which makes the political posturing quite interesting heading into the final stretch. Republicans and Democrats alike have been clamoring for the crypto vote (and crypto donor money.) But as was just laid bare before everyone at the recent SEC Congressional hearing — even Democrats are souring on Gary Gensler's approach to regulate through suing crypto companies. This week, we chatted with Caitlin Long about how both the Trump and Harris camps might be leaning pro-crypto and how the Bitcoin community might be increasingly split ideologically as Wall Street leans in: https://lnkd.in/gQBPSnYx #bitcoin #politics #crypto #Congress #Trump #Harris
Caitlin Long on Historic SEC Hearing in Congress & Gary Gensler's Future
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Don't confuse the trend with the signal and the signal with the noise. A leaders ability to identify and understand trends is key to good decision making and planning. They indicate how the future might be different from today and can signify emerging opportunities or risks. But amongst the overwhelm of information we face on a daily basis it's often difficult to discern what is noise and what might be a signal of something important... ...AND even if you uncover an important signal it rarely matters in and of itself. It's only when we compile a number of signals together, and amongst those signals identify an underlying patterns, that we may have uncovered a trend (but be cautious as the human brain is hyper-vigilant pattern recognition engine and will identify trends that don't exist). For example - Trump's assassination attempt is noise - Trump's recent meeting with Viktor Oban is a signal - The rise in Authoritarianism is a trend For more on this check out the recording of my chat this morning on Moolah with Omar de Silva. https://lnkd.in/gcUHwEW4
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"BlackRock Doesn’t Want YOU To Know What’s Coming!" - Whitney Webb's Last WARNING This is the latest warning out from Whitney Webb. In her latest interview, Whitney Webb breaks down why AI is a slippery slope, and why if AI is given enough data & falls into the wrong hands, it can be used as a tool of unprecedented manipulation. Make sure to stick around to the end of the video where Whitney breaks down why power needs to be taken away from centralised control & put back into the hands of the people. A future that Bitcoin certainly plays a role in. https://lnkd.in/dmvf_YWh
"BlackRock Doesn’t Want YOU To Know What’s Coming!" - Whitney Webb's Last WARNING
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