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Read this korrent: A launch is a party; a landing is customers paying for the thing, and only the landing is worth measuring a career by.
A launch is a party; a landing is customers paying for the thing, and only the landing is worth measuring a career by.
Last stated 3 months ago
3 Jun 2026
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Kelsey Hightower — holds since 2026-06-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: How much fun you are having is a measure of how fast you ship: the weeks he enjoyed building, the product visibly got better. — tap to centre the map on it
How much fun you are having is a measure of how fast you ship: the weeks he enjoyed building, the product visibly got better.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
10 Aug 2026
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Peter Steinberger — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Selling launches to other people is now a rounding error for SpaceX next to the money it makes from its own satellites. — tap to centre the map on it
Selling launches to other people is now a rounding error for SpaceX next to the money it makes from its own satellites.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
17 Aug 2026
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Eric Berger — holds since 2026-08-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Weekly contact with paying users is what the launch-early rule is really for: it means learning from reality instead of your own extrapolated conception of it. — tap to centre the map on it
Weekly contact with paying users is what the launch-early rule is really for: it means learning from reality instead of your own extrapolated conception of it.
Last stated a month ago
31 Jul 2026
PC
Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-07-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Starting a startup is about the least efficient way there is to acquire prestige. — tap to centre the map on it
Starting a startup is about the least efficient way there is to acquire prestige.
Last stated 5 days ago
3 Sept 2026
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Paul Graham — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Building the same startup as everybody else buys you hype and easy money, and those are rarely the companies that turn out big. — tap to centre the map on it
Building the same startup as everybody else buys you hype and easy money, and those are rarely the companies that turn out big.
Last stated a month ago
28 Jul 2026
SA
Sam Altman — holds since 2026-07-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Extending consciousness beyond Earth, out to the stars, is a fundamentally good goal. — tap to centre the map on it
Extending consciousness beyond Earth, out to the stars, is a fundamentally good goal.
Last stated a week ago
30 Aug 2026
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Elon Musk — holds since 2026-08-30 — tap for who they are
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Wayne Hale — holds since 2014-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: If we are serious about going to the stars we will have to adapt our bodies, because we are not going to export Earth everywhere we go. — tap to centre the map on it
If we are serious about going to the stars we will have to adapt our bodies, because we are not going to export Earth everywhere we go.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
20 Aug 2026
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Max Hodak — holds since 2026-08-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Launch costs are on a declining trajectory comparable to Moore's Law-driven chip cost declines in the 1990s. — tap to centre the map on it
Launch costs are on a declining trajectory comparable to Moore's Law-driven chip cost declines in the 1990s.
Last stated a week ago
1 Sept 2026
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Paul Graham — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
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Casey Handmer — holds since 2021-10-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that grows enough eventually has no need for investors. — tap to centre the map on it
A company that grows enough eventually has no need for investors.
Last stated a week ago
1 Sept 2026
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Paul Graham — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI factories and foundries are too capital-intensive for venture money; they need government or sovereign funds behind them. — tap to centre the map on it
AI factories and foundries are too capital-intensive for venture money; they need government or sovereign funds behind them.
Last stated 3 months ago
18 Jun 2026
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Lip-Bu Tan — holds since 2026-06-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Being formidable means getting what you want in any situation, and that is exactly why investors want it: a formidable founder's interests and theirs are the same. — tap to centre the map on it
Being formidable means getting what you want in any situation, and that is exactly why investors want it: a formidable founder's interests and theirs are the same.
Last stated 5 days ago
3 Sept 2026
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Paul Graham — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "Move fast and break things" is the wrong mantra when you are dealing with atoms; the job is to move fast and ship safely. — tap to centre the map on it
"Move fast and break things" is the wrong mantra when you are dealing with atoms; the job is to move fast and ship safely.
Last stated a month ago
3 Aug 2026
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Dmitri Dolgov — holds since 2026-08-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: DeepSeek's paper was the single most important thing Silicon Valley researchers read in years. — tap to centre the map on it
DeepSeek's paper was the single most important thing Silicon Valley researchers read in years.
Last stated 8 months ago
8 Jan 2026
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Jensen Huang — holds since 2026-01-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Moonshots succeed more often than Silicon Valley's use of the word admits -- we actually got to the moon. — tap to centre the map on it
Moonshots succeed more often than Silicon Valley's use of the word admits -- we actually got to the moon.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
20 Aug 2026
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Max Hodak — holds since 2026-08-20 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 2014 to today (stretched back to the oldest claim here) — full is today a face: someone on record holding the claim — tap it for who they are