Taxing unrealized capital gains might place Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like myself in jail. Udacity stock went up and down (on paper!), but at its "unicorn" prime I would not have been able to pony together the cash necessary to pay those taxes. Jail time for people who build?
Sebastian Thrun
1,024 posts
CEO StealthStartup, Adjunct Prof at Stanford and GaTech
- Wow. Asking workers to report what they did last week freaks everyone out?? What planet do we live on?
- Let today mark the end of wokeness!
- "According to @LinkedIn ’s analysis of its 500 million users, emerging online educational platforms like @udacity , FreeCodeCamp, and General Assembly have each placed more full-stack engineers into jobs this past year than any American university." fastcompany.com/90205557/how-d…
- Can we give @elonmusk and @VivekGRamaswamy options for the US economy worth one trillion dollars, contingent on the Dow hitting $60,000 (inflation-adjusted)? There is only one person in the world who can do this. It would be a small price to pay.
- Looking for engineers for an exciting agentic AI startup in San Francisco. Contact me at [email protected]
- This is me!! One of over 1,000 successful flights so far by about 15 different riders.
- Sad to see so many promising AI startup throwing the towel. Are we all back to getting rich fast? Or did those founders all believe that hype is business success? Sad.
- I really wonder why so many AI companies seem to blindly compete for building the same thing: the best foundational models, as measured by some abstract set of benchmarks. It feels like there is now an entire ecosystems of companies that want to outperform GPT.x. Why?
- Proud to announce that @udacity has signed the @WhiteHouse Pledge to America’s workers and will fund 100,000 scholarships to empower America’s workers with the tech skills they need to future-proof their careers! bit.ly/2nDqCgc
- I LOVE the fact that so many AI companies are open sourcing their models. Thank you for placing humanity above shareholders and investors.
- Extremely proud to have met PM @narendramodi at #ETGBS. Super inspired about our impact with @udacity in India and worldwide. Thank you @UdacityINDIA
- The AI hype is now finally and officially over. Let numbers (like: growth, revenue, margins, EBITDA) reign once again.




