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Seth Bannon

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Seth Bannon

@sethbannon

Entrepreneur, investor. Founder of @fiftyyears. Make something civilization needs. Also: threads.net/@sethbannon

San Francisco, CA

Joined April 2009

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Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
May 27
Why did we make a short film? Storytelling is everywhere in tech. Slickly produced videos with A24 quality aesthetics announcing yet another massive round. Carefully crafted narratives designed to make companies feel inevitable. Increasingly, these videos are being used to sell
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Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
Feb 14, 2025
When I was 12 my house exploded because of a propane gas leak. My single mom suffered a brain injury and became disabled. She couldn't hold a job. I caddied to help support the family. Food stamps helped us keep the fridge from being empty. So grateful for that support we had.
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Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
Oct 26, 2025
When I was 12 there was a propane gas leak in my house and a spark caused an explosion. My single mother was in the house, suffered brain damage, and became permanently disabled after that. We relied on food stamps to get by for a bit. I've gone on to have a great career and now
Jack Spirko⚡️
@TheSurvivalPodc
Oct 26, 2025
Many just read 40 million are going to starve. I just read 40 million people are being fed for free by stealing from those of us who produce. We are not the same.
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Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
Jul 14, 2025
Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell Google for under $1m so they could return to their PhDs. Paul Allen had to convince Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard took day jobs until pushed by a professor to start HP. Steve Wozniak wanted HP to build
Will Summerlin
@WSummerlinAI
Jul 13, 2025
The idea of convincing people to become entrepreneurs is ridiculous. If you need to be convinced, you shouldn’t do it. Starting a company is totally irrational—you need to be obsessed and committed to a painful, decade-long grind. Most people are better off as employees.
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Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
Mar 7, 2020
American Hospital Association "Best Guess Epidemiology" for #codiv19 over next 2 months: 96,000,000 infections 4,800,000 hospitalizations 1,900,000 ICU admissions 480,000 deaths vs flu in 2019: 35,500,000 infections 490,600 hospitalizations 49,000 ICU admissions 34,200 deaths
Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
Dec 19, 2023
This man is now worth $110B
PC Philanthropy
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PC Philanthropy
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Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
Sep 21, 2025
The current anti-Indian sentiment in America is nothing new. It’s a tired, recycled view. And as history shows, always a losing argument. Anti-Irish 1840s–1850s Portrayed as drunkards and troublemakers and racially inferior. “No Irish Need Apply.” Anti-Chinese 1870s–1880s
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Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
Jul 13, 2025
There should be no place in tech for outright racism. Telling a Palestinian founder that his “friends” committed the October 7th massacre is exactly that.
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Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
Sep 21, 2025
Most common traits of accounts spewing anti-Indian hate: 1/ cartoon pfp 2/ no real name In other words, bots and cowards.
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Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
Sep 21, 2025
Convinced a ton of the anti-Indian hate on this site is coming from Russian and Chinese bot farms trying to divide us.
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Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
Jan 25, 2025
Youtube and Reddit have both blocked Operator. Sign of things to come?
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Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
Apr 19, 2025
"What's trending and how do I cash in?"
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Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
Sep 20, 2025
Perfect policy to incentivize American companies to open up offices overseas. And that's exactly what the research shows they do 🧵
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Sep 19, 2025
Trump signs an EO on H-1Bs raising "the fee that companies pay to sponsor H1-B applicants to $100,000"
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Seth Bannon
@sethbannon
Nov 4, 2024
If Harris wins, Musk and his companies should be treated no differently than if he had supported her instead of Trump. And I say this as someone who thinks he's gone off the reservation when it comes to politics.
Will Stancil
@whstancil
Nov 4, 2024
If Harris wins, Musk will have lost a foolish, existential gamble, and the natural consequence of that should be the end of his chapter of history
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