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Michael Dempsey
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Michael Dempsey
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Dreaming about the future, romanticizing the past | MP @compoundvc investing & researching former science projects & crypto | we are only creativity constrained
- I wore an N95 mask on my flight this AM (I subconsciously touch my face). The person next to me immediately asked if I was sick and then after I said no, lectured me about how the mask won’t help at all so it’s dumb to wear. So it’s nice to know twitter exists in the real world.
- I wish someone would have told me this earlier in my life so...a lot of people your age are doing things you aren't, entirely because of family money.
- My take on the Thiel/Rogan interview is that it is a masterclass in someone far smarter than someone else getting mansplained to and responding with more insight/contesting viewpoints while still making the overconfident person feel valuable and not offended.
- why is chamath trying to cosplay as trump on twitterWhat happened with all these SB commercials. They suck. Literally ZERO creativity. Sad!
- It is just...so fucking hard to build a company.
- This is an insane push notification from Coinbase telling me my 5% yield on USDC sucks and instead I should move it to staked ATOM which is down almost 40% over the past year.
- just going to say once again that crypto people so badly wanted trump for their bags, said it was by far the most important thing and ignored all other policy, and then the dude dumped memecoins on them 2x in 24 hours, opening the overton window for Milei to do the same, and
- When a founder becomes a threador I immediately: - worry that their company metrics are suffering and they are now more concerned with personal brand than their company - wonder how much secondary they sold - expect them to become a VC at some point
- The future is only going to get weirder and my only advice is to accept that and approach these fundamental shifts with an open mind.
- There's something hilarious about Chamath claiming everyone is blown away by Trump's cogency & then i listen to the podcast & the dude still sounds like that coked out guy at the party at 1am rambling as if every thought is groundbreaking but he actually isn't saying anything
- YC used to feel like a window into understanding the areas progressing from “what smartest people are doing on weekends” -> vc-backed startup. Today it feels like the best window into what is the current consensus thing. Not bad & still a good basket but meaningfully
- Powerful men in tech getting cancelled only to go quiet for a short period of time and then come right back:Art in motion - Paris -
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