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james hong
@jhong
RELAX, I'm probably joking. Cofounder of HOTorNOT. Angel Investor. Proud Husband and Daddy. Good Friend. Troublemaker. Go Bears! 🐻
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    james hong
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    Sep 27, 2020
    .@jimydotorg and I launched HOTorNOT 20 years ago this October 😮 @Mashable wrote a great retrospective about it. Realistically it is probably the last time anyone will ever want to write about HOTorNOT. I'm happy with this article as its final chapter.
    HOTorNOT: The forgotten website that shaped the internet
    From mashable.com
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    james hong
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    Jul 14, 2025
    Replying to @jefielding
    Once you feel you have enough money, life's big question is not how to make more money but how to spend your time.. and the only person whose opinion matters on whether they are spending that time wisely is themselves.
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    james hong
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    Oct 8, 2024
    My kid's public high school district started cancelling honors classes in the name of equity. I believe in letting any kid who wants to climb higher up a ladder to do so, and I equally support programs that help kids who don't have the same opportunities or resources to climb
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    james hong
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    Jul 14, 2025
    Replying to @jefielding
    Why would building companies be the only dimension that matters? Time is finite and every choice is a tradeoff, he's just choosing something else over building companies. Everyone has their own utility function.
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    james hong
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    Jul 14, 2023
    Replying to @TrungTPhan
    When AI takes the jobs, this is what we will all be doing to put food on the table.
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    james hong
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    Apr 18, 2022
    You just don't understand, Silicon Valley is not representative of normal society. No normal persom is ever going to use computers / the internet / touch screen phones / apps / EVs (YOU ARE HERE) / crypto / self driving cars / VR / AR / home robots / brain machine interfaces
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    james hong
    @jhong
    Oct 18, 2020
    Bieber killed it on SNL
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    Oct 18, 2020
    the pain in justin bieber's voice when he was singing lonely...just broke me #BieberOnSNL
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    james hong
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    Sep 14, 2021
    Expect more hugely successful startups founded by people in their late 30s, 40s, and even 50s, as WFH enables parent founders to juggle better.
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    james hong
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    Apr 18, 2019
    Notable that @ericsyuan was around 40 when he started Zoom. All the VCs must be clamoring to find Asian founders in their 40s to fund now, right? Suddenly I am fundable again! 🤣
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    james hong
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    Sep 21, 2018
    12 years ago these guys worked out of a dumpy student apartment in Beijing and failed to raise $2 million in seed funding. 2 startups later, many of them just IPO'd their latest company Meituan which closed ~$50 Billion. Success requires persistence/pain tolerance.
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    james hong
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    Sep 5, 2021
    Crypto and particularly NFT land feels a lot like the Internet felt 27 years ago when a few people had visions of it being huge someday, but 99% of it looked like garbage to most people and they thought it was a joke and ultimately useless.. shoulda bought AMZN in '97.
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    james hong
    @jhong
    Oct 20, 2021
    Replying to @sama
    It is so mindbogglingly significant that it ups the chances in my mind we are living in a simulation. Like why am I alive just as this is happening, seems almost too coincidental.
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    james hong
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    Jun 13, 2024
    I wonder if Elon using X's reach to drive the shareholder vote essentially means buying Twitter was cheaper than free, it made him money.
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    james hong
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    Jun 30, 2025
    Replying to @vibetogum
    The Thriller video was so anticipated, the day they released it was practically a national holiday.
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