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Oct 18, 2024, 10 tweets

Sun Microsystems, Netscape, AOL, Mozilla +

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Sun Microsystems
Oracle/ Israel
Netscape/ AOL
Mozilla Foundation
Microsoft
Infospace
XX Network/ Mixx Labs
Ripple
Stellar
Singularity University
+

Andreas Bechtolsheim
Vinod Khosla
Larry Ellison
Dave DeWalt
Steven Waterhouse
Olivier Janssens
John Doerr
James Clark
Barney Pell
David Chaum
Chris Larsen
Naveen Jain
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Sun Microsystems, Netscape, AOL, Mozilla +
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Sun Microsystems
Part I:

Sun Microsystems co-founders include Andreas Bechtolsheim and Vinod Khosla, amongst several others.

Andreas Bechtolsheim was charged with insider trading by the SEC for the 2019 Cisco acquisition of Acacia Communications.

Andreas also has funding in Diamond Foundry, a diamond company with board member Wendi Murdoch with funding from others including: Leonardo DiCaprio, Vast Ventures (Company with ties to Jed McCaleb and Chris Larsen, Ripple’s co-founders), Jeff Skoll (Epstein friend), Scott Banister of PayPal mafia) and Matias de Tezanos of PeopleFund (investor of Singularity by Barney Pell and other transhumanists and cryptographers in this thread)

Andreas made an early $1.1M seed and pre-seed investment of Google, making a small fortune from their success.

Vinod Khosla, with deep ties to crypto company investments, was also an associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Vinod now runs Khosla Ventures, a VC that has funding in:
Stripe (Stellar funder)
Chain (Stellar/ Interstellar joint company)
Oscar Health, Cadre (Kushner Companies)
Lattice (Altman company)
WorldCoin (Altman company)
RainAI (Chip manufacturer for OpenAI, both Altman companies which is backed by Sound Venters Ashton Kutcher and Kushner brothers as well)
OpenDoor (Keith Rabois of PayPal mafia, Stellar board)
Affirm (Max Levchin of PayPal mafia)
Blockstream (Crypto company backed by Reid Hoffman of PayPal mafia along with other leading early cryptographers allegedly tied to Satoshi Nakamoto)
Vinod is an advisor for Deep Genomics, a company backed by Steve Jurvetson, a close Musk associate and funder, as well as a member of Creative Destruction Lab with Barney Pell, Musk’s ex Shivon Zilis, and several others.
Vinod’s wife works with Joichi Ito’s sister, Mimi Ito, at Wikimedia Foundation, backed by Open Society. Joichu Ito was director of MIT Media Labs where Epstein donated millions to fund crypto and AI related projects and Joichu Ito was a good friend of Epstein. Furthermore, Mimi’s husband, and Joichu Ito’s brother in-law, is Scott Fisher, who worked with Barney Pell at NASA for a short while, and was Nicholas Negroponte’s advisee at MIT. Nicholas Negroponte is founder of MIT Media Labs with ties to Epstein as well.

Vinod is a member of the Epstein funded “Edge Foundation” along with other major transhumanists, AI, crypto and healthcare leaders

Eric Schmidt joined Sun Microsystems in 1983, he went on to be long time board member, director and even CEO of Google, as well as Alphabet, its’ parent company. Schmidt also was CEO of Novell from 1997 to 2001 after leaving Sun Microsystems.

Novell employed cypherpunk Chris Toshok of Netscape.

Eric Schmidt also worked at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where Barney Pell of Powerset and Microsoft worked while at Stanford. Many big tech companies came out of PARC and Stanford during the early internet age.

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Sun Microsystems
Part II:

Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle in early 2010. Oracle was founded by Larry Ellison, who at the time was CEO.

Larry Ellison was a board of director for Tesla, Elon Musk’s company, and an investor in Theranos, the fraudulent biotech company founded by convicted Elizabeth Holmes.

Ellison is also a huge donor and supporter of Israel and their IDF (Israel Defense Forces). He has personal relations with their Prime Minters, President and high ranking military and intelligence leaders, including Mossad.

Larry, like Vinod Khosla, had relations with Jeffrey Epstein through several channels, including Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Larry Summers, Marc Benioff, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and several others who had indirect or direct relations with Epstein.

Dave DeWalt who has ties to Sun Microsystems and worked with Oracle at executive positions is a board member of Mossad/ IDF backed TEAM8.

Dave DeWalt also is a senior member of the advisory board for Silver Lake, a company that Brad Garlinghouse of Ripple is an advisor for.

Three other executive level employees of Sun Microsystems, Bill Coleman,Edward Zander, and Michael Marquardt, all work or worked for Seagate, a company that has funded several rounds of Ripple.

Olivier Janssens worked at Sun Microsystems in 1999-2001. He also was a Bitcoin investor since at least 2010 and worked with the Bitcoin Foundation as a board member. Olivier Janssens is also married into the family of the last King of Italy, King Umberto II.

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Sun Microsystems
Part III:

Steve Waterhouse

Steve Waterhouse, Director and team leader of Sun Microsystems, and Pantera Partner, CEO and founder of Orchid Labs, former Fortress Investment Group managing director, board member of Bitstamp and Change Coin. Pantera and Bitstamp both have ties to Ripple through investment funding, and Jed McCaleb was a partner at Pantera.

Steve Waterhouse, while at Pantera with Jed McCaleb of Ripple and Stellar, invested in Chain, a company that would merge with Stellar’s Lightyear to form ‘Interstellar’ before separating years later back into Chain once again.

Steve Waterhouse also funded (through Pantera) ZCash, Brave, Abra, Circle, Bitstamp, BTCJam, Xapo, and several other crypto related companies.

Steve Waterhouse investments:

Zcash, a company founded by Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox, a cryptographer and “cypherpunk” with close relations with other cypherpunks involved in early Bitcoin days, many assume may be tied to Satoshi Nakamoto, like Peter Todd, Jacob Applebuam, Isis Lovecraft, Alex Gravely, Chris Toshok, Todd Huffman, and several others.

Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox also is advisor to Bolt Labs, a company with first round seed funding from Xpring, Ripple’s investment arm.

Brave, a browser that has ties to other early cryptographers and cypherpunks, as well as people who worked with: AOL, Mozilla, Netscape and Sun Microsystems.

Former CPO of Brave, David Tempkin, now responsible for advertising privacy and user trust at Google, previously ran product at Brave, led mobile and mail at AOL.
Patricia Mitchel was a board of director member of both AOL and Sun Microsystems.
Brad Garlinghouse previously worked for AOL before becoming CEO of Ripple.
AOL is invested in Ancestry dot com, where Brad is a board member of. AOL also is invested in Mozilla, which was formed from Netscape.

BTCJam, a company that let you earn interest on your BTC investments. BTCJam also has funding from Sun Microsystems former CEO mentioned earlier in thread, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Firestartr (Steve Waterhouse is advisor of) and Charles Moldow of Foundation Capital, a VC where Barney Pell of Powerset/ Microsoft worked. Charles also was board of directors of BTCJam and worked with Barney Pell at Powerset.
(More on Powerset later in thread)

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Netscape, Mozilla and AOL

Part I:
Netscape People

Netscape was founded by James Clark and Marc Andreessen (of Andreessen Horowitz).

James Clark also founded SGI (Silicon Graphics) a company funded by Mayfield Capital, where Barney Pell of Powerset worked at the time.

Other notable people who worked at Netscape are:

Rob McCool, who attended IMSA school along with: Ramez Naam of Microsoft, Nathan Gettings of Palantir, Yu Pan (Microsoft, Alphabet, 8i, Origin Protocol and more, and several early PayPal engineers during the Musk/ Thiel years in early 2000’s.

John Doerr, worked at Sun Microsystems, Kleiner Perkins (who also funded Sun Microsystems), Google director, Hamilton Project which has Epstein connections, and Amazon.

Lloyd Tabb, Mozilla founder (spun-off of Netscape) and Google employee

Naveen Jain, founder of Infospace and close friend and co-founder with Barney Pell of Moon Express. He left Microsoft to found Infospace. In 2002, David Chaum’s DigiCash (already sold to eCash) was acquired by InfoSpace.

Brendan Eich, President and CEO of Brave browser, longtime Mozilla CTO, and advisor of Palantir.

Luke Nosak of PayPal, Founders Fund, and Gigafund (Which funds Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Neuralink and Boring Company)

Chris Toshok, worked for Novell with Eric Schmidt of Alphabet/ Google/ Sun Microsystems. Chris also is close to cypherpunks Jacob Appelbaum, Alex Gravely, Charity Majors and Nat Friedman of Github.

Jamie Zawinski of Mozilla Foundation and accused pedophile.

James L. Barksdale, former In-Q-Tel (CIA investment branch), Sun Microsystems director, and Netscape (AOL) CEO. He is also special advisor to Kleiner Perkins where former Netscape employee, John Doerr, works.

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Netscape, Mozilla and AOL
Part II:
Connections

Netscape released its source code for its browser and created the Mozilla Organization (Now Mozilla Foundation). Mozilla rewrote all the browser’s source code.

Netscape was then acquired by AOL just a year later.

AOL connections to: Netscape, Mozilla, Ancestry, Ripple, Brave, Sun Microsystems

Former CPO of Brave, David Tempkin, now responsible for advertising privacy and user trust at Google, previously ran product at Brave, led mobile and mail at AOL.

Patricia Mitchel was a board of director member of both AOL and Sun Microsystems.

Dawn Lepore an AOL board member, also became interim CEO of Prosper Marketplace after Chris Larsen left to co-found Ripple with Jed McCaleb. Dawn also is a board member of GoodRX, which is mostly funded by Silver Lake, where Brad Garlinghouse of Ripple is an advisor.

Brad Garlinghouse previously worked for AOL before becoming CEO of Ripple.

AOL is invested in Ancestry dot com, where Brad Garlinghouse is a board member of.

AOL also is invested in Mozilla, which was formed from Netscape.
Denelle Dixon, Reid Hoffman, Alex Lakatos, Renee DiResta, Phillipp Schmidt, Joichu Ito, Brian Behlendorf, and Coil (Ripple subsidiary) all are member of Mozilla Foundation in some form.

Denelle Dixon > Stellar Development Foundation
Reid Hoffman > MIT Media Lab, PayPal Mafia, Epstein, Thiel, Microsoft, OpenAI +
Alex Lakatos > Interledger Protocol (Foundation)
Renee DiResta > Thiel Fellow, Mobilecoin, CIA, Long Now Foundation + (Mobilecoin built on Stellar blockchain)
Phillipp Schmidt > MIT Media Labs
Joichu Ito > Vinod Khosla’s wife’s friend’s brother, Epstein friend, money donor, former MIT Media Labs director +
Brian Behlendorf > Hyperledger Foundation (Stellar ties), Mithril Capital (Thiel VC), SparkLabs (Jed McCaleb’s ex wife and co-founder of Stellar Joyce Kim’s company)

Mozilla is a partner of Coil (Now defunct) which was a subsidiary of Ripple through Stefan Thomas.

Mozilla is also partners with Freedom of the Press, a foundation with ties to Open Whisper Systems (Signal) and Glenn Greenwald (Board member) who was the close media confidant of Edward Snowden during his leak and run from the US government. Snowden is a proponent of Signal (Open Whisper) and is tied to many cypherpunks mentioned throughout this thread as well as Mobilecoin (Stellar blockchain)

Omidyar Network, founded by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, is also a partner of Mozilla. Omidyar Network funded Chris Larsen’s Propser Marketplace, where Dawn Lepore of AOL was interim CEO after Chris left to co-found Ripple.

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Powerset, Microsoft, XX Network

Barney Pell, mentioned earlier in this thread briefly, co-founded Powerset, a natural language search startup. Pell is an AI expert, who also founded Moon Express and worked with NASA for many years.

Powerset was funded by:

Peter Thiel (Founders Fund)
Luke Nosak (Netscape, PayPal mafia, Gigafund for Elon, Founders Fund)
Reid Hoffman (PayPal mafia, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Epstein friend)
Esther Dyson (Epstein friend)
Todd Parker (Google, Investments tied to Thiel/ Founders Fund investments)
First Round Capital (Thiel investment ties)
Charles Moldow (Foundation Capital)
CommerceNet

Board Members and lead funders were Peter Thiel and Charles Moldow, along with Luke Nosak.

Charles Moldow and Foundation Capital were also funders of BTCJam, the company mentioned earlier in this thread, along with Steve Waterhouse of Sun Microsystems and Pantera (amongst other companies as well).

Microsoft acquired Powerset in 2008. Barney Pell went on to work for Microsoft’s Bing! search engine, where Powerset became a foundational component of the new search engine.

CommerceNet, a company that invested in series A of Pell’s Powerset company, also has an investment in XX Network, a parent company of Mixx Labs, both founded by world-famous cryptographer David Chaum, inventor of digital cash and father of online anonymity.

Chris Larsen, co-founder and executive Chairman of Ripple and Prosper Marketplace is the sole funder (publicly listed at least) of Mixx Labs (XX Network)

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Naveen Jain, David Chaum, Chris Larsen
Infospace, eCash.com, Ripple

CommerceNet, a company that invested in series A of Pell’s Powerset company, also has an investment in XX Network, a parent company of Mixx Labs, both founded by world-famous cryptographer David Chaum, inventor of digital cash and father of online anonymity.

Chris Larsen, co-founder and executive Chairman of Ripple and Prosper Marketplace is the sole funder (publicly listed at least) of Mixx Labs (XX Network)

Barney Pell, aside from Powerset, also co-founded Moon Express along with Naveen Jain. Naveen Jain also worked for Microsoft and Netscape.

Naveen Jain also founded a search engine company called Infospace after he left Microsoft.

David Chaum of XX Network first founded a company called DigiCash, or the first digital currency company, in 1989, using “eCash” as the trademark (Now what is called digital currency or “cryptocurrency”).

Chris Larsen owned the domain “ecash. com” in 1997 for his E-Loan venture. In 1998, David Chaum’s DigiCash, or “eCash” company went bankrupt.

However, in 2000, just two years after Chaum’s eCash company (DigiCash) went bankrupt, sued Chaum for trademark infringement and unfair competition. While a legal battle continued for over a year, eCash Technology went bankrupt as well, and the domain name stayed with Chris Larsen and no penalties were issued.

eCash Technology was acquired by Naveen Jain’s Infospace company in 2002.

Chris Larsen “gifted” the domain eCash.com to David Chaum in 2018, and Chris Larsen invested in Chaum’s Mixx Labs just after.

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Microsoft

Barney Pell's startup Powerset, which focused on natural language search, was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 for about $100 million. Powerset's technology was integrated into Microsoft's search efforts, helping enhance its search engine capabilities. After the acquisition, Pell joined Microsoft and contributed to the development of Bing, which launched in 2009.

Microsoft was founded just 1 day before the alleged birthday of Satoshi Nakamoto on 4.4.1975.

Barney Pell, Bill Gates, and many others mentioned throughout this thread, including those who funded Barney Pell’s Powerset, all have ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein hosted a major event called Mindshift in the very early days of Bitcoin, where he invited all the leading tech minds, transhumanists, and crypto enthusiasts and founders, including Brock Pierce.

Reid Hoffman, a PayPal mafia member with close ties to Jeffrey Epstein and the Thiel network, also works with Microsoft. Reid also works with Mozilla, OpenAI, and was on the advisory board for MIT Media Lab, where many crypto projects originated and where Jeffrey Epstein donated a lot of funds to.

OpenAI is essentially owned by Microsoft, where Reid Hoffman, Sam Altman and several others are all board members of or founding members.

Other people who have worked or work with Microsoft that are relevant including:
Stephen Luczo (Seagate/ Relationship Science)
Garand Tyson (Stellar)
Nicolas Barry (stellar)
Bob Lee (Bitcoin Foundation/ BTCC)
Nat Friedman (Cypherpunk ties/ Stripe/ Github)
Ramez Naam (Singularity)
Yu Pan (Origin Protocol/ 8i/ Affirm/ Youtube/ PayPal)
Naveen Jain (Infospace/ Moon Express/ Netscape)
Christopher Pain (X. com with Elon/ eBay)
Eric Woersching (Palantir/ Clarium Capital)
Garry Tan (Palantir/ Y Combinator)
Ben Davenport (BitGo/ Blockchain Capital/ Facebook)

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Singularity (University)

Singularity University was co-founded in 2008 by Ray Kurzweil, a futurist and inventor, and Peter Diamandis, an entrepreneur and founder of the XPRIZE Foundation. The university was established with the goal of addressing global challenges through the advancement of technology and promoting the idea of exponential growth in fields like AI, biotechnology, and robotics.

Peter Diamondis and Ray Kurzweil are leaders in the transhumance community, along with others mentioned below. Peter’s XPrize company also has very close relations with the same people who are with Singularity University.

Other very prominent members of Singularity University (SU) include:
Barney Pell (Moon Express/ Powerset/ Microsoft +)
Ramez Naam (Moon Express/ Microsoft/ Netscape/ Infospace)
Robert J. Hariri (Moon Express/ Celularity/ Human Longevity)
Klee Irwin (Moon Express)
Jonathan Knowles (Moon Express/ XPrize)
Cathie Wood (Ark investment)
Anthony Scaramucci (Stellar promoter/ XPrize/ Human Longevity)
Tasha McCauley (OpenAI/ Open Philanthropy Project)
David A. Bray (Mobilecoin [Stellar])
Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems/ Stellar/ Chain/ Stripe/ CDL +)
Mustafa Suleyman (Microsoft/ Google/ Hoffman friend)

Noticably, many other these people work with or for the same companies, specifically:
Moon Express
Human Longevity
Microsoft
XPrize
Stellar/ Mobilecoin

These people also have relations with Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein (for the most part, one of both).

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