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“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.” — John Steinbeck, describing northern California in East of Eden
It was always that way
It was always that way
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Dimitri Dadiomov retweeted
Amazing chart from Adam Farrar of Bloomberg @economics.
Assuming the Binance hack was done by the North Koreans, as alleged by @trmlabs, then the country just captured 75% of its total 2025 revenue in the span of just 20 minutes
Assuming the Binance hack was done by the North Koreans, as alleged by @trmlabs, then the country just captured 75% of its total 2025 revenue in the span of just 20 minutes
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one of the funniest things to me from @AcquiredFM’s Seinfeld episode is that the show succeeded in large part because of its origins in NBC’s interest in Jerry’s stand up, which meant that the show came up through the Late Night department, NOT the Comedy department. And at the time NBC was owned by GE, so the idea of the Comedy department bringing Six Sigma and corporate strategy to all the sitcoms, and then for the one turns-out-it’s-a-sitcom show to be the blockbuster to come in unencumbered by their corporate comedy policies is just so meta and so splendid
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Dimitri Dadiomov retweeted
The master biographer reflects at 91. The Robert Caro interview.
0:00:00 – How Caro gets people to talk
0:05:03 – Does America need a little more Moses today?
0:12:42 – Moses the young idealist
0:17:57 – Watching Moses lose power
0:24:01 – Did Moses realize he was changing?
ng the Great Depression
0:32:51 – The threats and promises of Lyndon Johnson
0:36:08 – Could Kennedy have passed Johnson’s laws?
0:41:00 – Getting a book down to one sentence
0:46:21 – All the material that never made it into the books
0:52:59 – Loneliness
0:00:00 – How Caro gets people to talk
0:05:03 – Does America need a little more Moses today?
0:12:42 – Moses the young idealist
0:17:57 – Watching Moses lose power
0:24:01 – Did Moses realize he was changing?
ng the Great Depression
0:32:51 – The threats and promises of Lyndon Johnson
0:36:08 – Could Kennedy have passed Johnson’s laws?
0:41:00 – Getting a book down to one sentence
0:46:21 – All the material that never made it into the books
0:52:59 – Loneliness
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Oh wow, so excited for this interview.
I recently got to interview Robert Caro, who is my favorite author of all time.
This gave me the excuse to reread his biographies of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses, and to compile my prep notes into this video essay.
These guys pulled off some truly incredible schemes.
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Dimitri Dadiomov retweeted
The next great neighborhood spot needs capital that moves when the project does.
Homegrown helps food and beverage, retail, fitness, and wellness operators fund their next location. We’re proud to provide the payments infrastructure behind that work.
Homegrown uses Modern uts, collect repayments, and track every dollar by operator, location, and deal.
Details: go.moderntreasury.com/4e7bhKU
Homegrown helps food and beverage, retail, fitness, and wellness operators fund their next location. We’re proud to provide the payments infrastructure behind that work.
Homegrown uses Modern uts, collect repayments, and track every dollar by operator, location, and deal.
Details: go.moderntreasury.com/4e7bhKU
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Dimitri Dadiomov retweeted
I'm starting to sense a divide in the tech industry:
- People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient
- People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what to do and how. Frustrated with the lack of guidance from management on what to do with AI; also frustrated by seeing some of their peers thriving; increasingly bitter about AI and the state of the industry, as a whole
Neither group seems to be aware that there's another group, or have empathy for the other group
- People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient
- People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what to do and how. Frustrated with the lack of guidance from management on what to do with AI; also frustrated by seeing some of their peers thriving; increasingly bitter about AI and the state of the industry, as a whole
Neither group seems to be aware that there's another group, or have empathy for the other group
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Dimitri Dadiomov retweeted
If you're building a crypto startup in this YC batch, we'd love to help.
We'll give you $20K in @ModernTreasury credits to get started. One API for U.S. payment rails, accounts, wallets, and everything else you need to move money between dollars and stablecoins.
We'll give you $20K in @ModernTreasury credits to get started. One API for U.S. payment rails, accounts, wallets, and everything else you need to move money between dollars and stablecoins.
At @ycombinator, we're excited to fund more crypto startups solving financial needs including AI capital raising, stablecoins, trading, and agents.
Here's our latest crypto request for startups. Our next application deadline is Monday.
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Dimitri Dadiomov retweeted
At @ycombinator, we're excited to fund more crypto startups solving financial needs including AI capital raising, stablecoins, trading, and agents.
Here's our latest crypto request for startups. Our next application deadline is Monday.
Here's our latest crypto request for startups. Our next application deadline is Monday.
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Dimitri Dadiomov retweeted
Walter Isaacson asks Peter Thiel what humans can uniquely do in the AI era.
Thiel: "We're very relational… these relational dimensions will become more important."
When knowledge is worth $0, the only career skills that matter:
- networking / social calibration
- persuasion rnessing AI)
- taste (curation)
- storytelling
- grit
- golfing with clients (or equivalent)
We'll get so sick of a fake world that we'll go back to doing business like it's the 1800s. A handshake at the local saloon.
Thiel: "We're very relational… these relational dimensions will become more important."
When knowledge is worth $0, the only career skills that matter:
- networking / social calibration
- persuasion rnessing AI)
- taste (curation)
- storytelling
- grit
- golfing with clients (or equivalent)
We'll get so sick of a fake world that we'll go back to doing business like it's the 1800s. A handshake at the local saloon.
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Amazing opportunity for anyone interested in the bleeding edge of AI
I’m hiring a Chief of Staff to be my right hand across everything I do at Cosmos.
That starts with Cosmos Institute (@cosmos_inst), the nonprofit I founded after selling two AI companies, having two kids, and thinking hard about the good life and the good society. Through the Institute, we do research internally and with fellows from @GoogleDeepMind, @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, @Microsoft, and academia, have given out 200+ grants to build fast prototypes, and we’re launching a big new in-person bet for higher education in 2027. This side of my work also includes @UniofOxford, where I co-teach a graduate seminar on philosophy and AI and support the Human-Centered AI Lab (HAI Lab), as well as a book I’m writing on human autonomy in the age of AI.
On the venture side, you’ll work with me across Cosmos Ventures (@cosmos_vc), our new $77.6M fund backing founders building new institutions for the AI age. Our early portfolio includes companies like AIUC (@aiunderwriting), @PrimeIntellect, and Workshop Labs (acq. by @thinkymachines), with several more to be announced soon. We’re also going to be incubating new companies in 2027.
You’ll come in, do this well for two years, and if you want to build a thesis-aligned company or a nonprofit next, we will back you, or place you at a top company in our community. The role is based in Austin, with relocation provided.
To apply, read our essays and tell us where we’re wrong: docs.google.com/document/d/18_…
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I met with a founder and shared some product ideas to make his demo better. He sent a loom with all of it implemented an hour later.
Meanwhile my buddy messaged me his new physical product is getting 3D printed overnight.
We live in wild times. The Humans-in-the-Way era
Meanwhile my buddy messaged me his new physical product is getting 3D printed overnight.
We live in wild times. The Humans-in-the-Way era
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Dimitri Dadiomov retweeted
Regardless of where you stand on this election, it’s moving to see @gadi_eisenkot accompany former hostage Gadi Moses to his polling place to vote…in Kibbutz Nir Oz. On October 7th, 2023, one in four residents of Nir Oz were killed or taken hostage. After being massacred, Israelis rebuild their communities to flourish. One of many signs of Israel’s promise: the ballot box.
ניר עוז. גדי איזנקוט מלווה את גדי מוזס לקלפי. "בלי תקווה ואופטימיות לאן נגיע במדינה הזו. הגיע המושיע", אמר מוזס, "יש לי דרך ואל תפחד".
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Dimitri Dadiomov retweeted
It’s hard to predict the Internet.
It’s hard to know where Stablecoins will go.
It’s a hell of a lot of fun to work on both.
Thanks to @eastdakota for making time for us and to @arfrank @ay_o for bringing us all together.
It’s hard to know where Stablecoins will go.
It’s a hell of a lot of fun to work on both.
Thanks to @eastdakota for making time for us and to @arfrank @ay_o for bringing us all together.
“AI is going to take the old business models of ads and subscriptions and just annihilate them. Something will replace it, and I think there’s a good likelihood it’s going to be built on stablecoins.” - @eastdakota
Was incredibly prescient of Matthew Prince (@Cloudflare) with t @averystableconf in March of this year. Can't wait to tell you what @ay_o @kerrykellogg and I are working on for next year!
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To everyone who said tech is done, SF is dead, Silicon Valley can't produce any more massive outcomes, the venture world can't fund real breakthroughs, and on and on and on
Go read Anthropic's filing. What a triumph for an ecosystem written off as "dead" only a few years ago 🚀
Go read Anthropic's filing. What a triumph for an ecosystem written off as "dead" only a few years ago 🚀
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This aged well 😂 x.com/rabois/status/…
@pitdesi will take the bet that no SF based company founded after March 2020 until today that raised VC capital will exit above $10b.
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Dimitri Dadiomov retweeted
Patrick Collison on the excuse founders hear every single decade
▫️ 80s: Japan will win everything
▫️ 90s: Microsoft will dominate
▫️ 2000s: the dotcom crash
▫️ 2010s: Google, Facebook, funding is about to dry up
▫️ now: the AI labs
for almost 50 years it was empirically a ompany
via @0x_mjaka
Is the AI labs fear any different?
▫️ 80s: Japan will win everything
▫️ 90s: Microsoft will dominate
▫️ 2000s: the dotcom crash
▫️ 2010s: Google, Facebook, funding is about to dry up
▫️ now: the AI labs
for almost 50 years it was empirically a ompany
via @0x_mjaka
Is the AI labs fear any different?
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Dimitri Dadiomov retweeted
$BX Blackstone Co-Founder Stephen Schwarzman on Bloomberg: "Last year, 2025, we built the same number of houses in the United States as we did in 1960. Is that even vaguely possible that the country's population has over doubled and we're still building the same number of houses and people are surprised that the price of houses has gone up? So the solution for this is basically build more stuff. It couldn't be simpler.""
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