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@USC CS grad → Built AI tool to 10k+ users. AI Consultant bridging hype/execution gap. Writing on GenAI, startups & tech's societal impact.
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Jul 15 18 tweets 7 min read
In 2025, North Korea quietly became a ground force in Europe.

Now, Kim Jong Un is reportedly sending 30,000 more troops to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

His soldiers are dying on European soil, honored in public ceremonies back home.

What’s really going on? 🧵 Image
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This isn’t propaganda.

Multiple Western and Asian intelligence sources confirm it:

North Korea already deployed 11,000–14,000 troops

Now they’re tripling that, sending up to 44,000 soldiers to support Russia’s war machine.

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Jul 10 18 tweets 6 min read
OpenAI has the best models.
Google has the most data.
Microsoft has the biggest cloud.

But Elon Musk just realized something they all missed:

POWER is the real bottleneck.

His solution? Import a 2-gigawatt power plant.

Here's why this "insane" move changes everything 🧵 Image
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In July 2024, Elon Musk announced that xAI would purchase an entire power plant overseas and ship it to the United States to power a data center with 1 million GPUs.

What followed fundamentally transformed how the world thinks about AI infrastructure. Image
Jul 7 17 tweets 6 min read
In 2024, Google offered $23B for a 4-year-old company and got rejected.

The founders?

Two Unit 8200 veterans in their 20s.

While American grads pay student loans, these Israeli soldiers are building unicorns.

Here's the military secret that's reshaping global tech 🧵 Image
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The numbers are staggering:

$160B+ in market cap, dozens of unicorns, Google's failed $23B Wiz acquisition.

But here's what nobody's talking about:

Unit 8200 has a 90%+ success rate for funded startups.

That's not luck, that's systematic advantage.
Jul 4 18 tweets 7 min read
In 2016, Pokémon Go became the world’s most popular mobile game overnight.

500M downloads, $1B revenue.

But few knew the truth: it was built on CIA tech for military surveillance.

Here’s the classified story they don’t want you to know 🧵 Image It starts with Keyhole Inc., a little-known mapping company in 2003.

CEO John Hanke needed funding for 3D Earth visualization tech.
Traditional VCs said no.

The CIA's venture arm, In-Q-Tel, invested millions naming it after spy satellites. Image
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Jun 30 27 tweets 9 min read
The Saudi royal family stopped talking to each other.

Not from anger but from fear.

MBS had bought $55M worth of Pegasus spyware and was monitoring their every word.

Here's the chilling story of how surveillance destroyed family trust 🧵 Image
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In 2017, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made a purchase that would forever change the nature of royal power:

NSO Group's Pegasus spyware for $55 million.

This wasn't just another defense contract.

It was the beginning of history's most audacious family surveillance operation.Image
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Jun 29 17 tweets 6 min read
China’s $500 million AI cluster was shut down overnight—by NVIDIA.

A "routine" driver update burned out 12,000 GPUs.

Accident? Insiders say otherwise.

Here’s the shocking tech sabotage story no one’s talking about 🧵 Image
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On January 30, NVIDIA quietly pushed driver version 572.16, supposedly a standard update for their new RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs.

Within hours, chaos erupted on forums worldwide—GPUs went dark, permanently bricked.

Coincidence? Insiders aren't buying it... Image
Jun 28 6 tweets 3 min read
Russia has spent 10 years building "invincible" hypersonic weapons.

They claimed Mach 10 speeds & zero chance of interception.

Then Ukraine did the impossible with a 40-year-old Patriot system...

Here's the $50 BILLION reality check that shattered military history 🧵 Image
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March 2022, Putin announced on Russian state TV with a direct message to the West.

"I expect that everyone understands that these weapons cannot be intercepted by any existing air defense systems."

His ultimatum was clear... Image
Jun 22 21 tweets 7 min read
⚠️BREAKING: Last night U.S. stealth fighters struck Iranian nuclear sites.

Iran’s $2B air defense didn’t even see them coming.

This wasn’t just an airstrike—it was a live tech demo.

The future of warfare just arrived.

Here’s how it happened—and why it matters: 🧵 Image
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The mission was unprecedented:

The United States took offensive action on 22 June 2025, by striking three Iranian nuclear sites using aircraft that Iran's $2 billion air defense network couldn't even see coming.

This wasn't luck—it was physics. Image
Jun 21 21 tweets 6 min read
In 2025, the U.S. banned AI chip exports to 120 countries.

China responded with state-backed LLMs.

Europe buried startups in compliance.

What happened next created the biggest startup arbitrage since the internet.

Here’s how to play it: 🧵 Image The AI world has fractured into 3 distinct regulatory regimes:

US: Deregulation + Export Controls
EU: Strict Horizontal Regulation (AI Act)
China: Vertical Controls + State Capitalism

Each creates different startup opportunities. Most founders are building for only one.
Jun 19 19 tweets 6 min read
Startups used to have 2 years to build a moat.

Now they get 6 months—if they're lucky.

Moore’s Law is dead, and a new law is taking over: AI scaling laws.

They’re faster, more brutal, and they’re reshaping how Silicon Valley works.

Here’s what it means: 🧵 Image
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For 60 years, Moore's law states that a microchip's transistor count doubles in approximately every two years.

This predictable pace governed everything: product cycles, R&D budgets, competitive strategy.

Tech moved in 24-month rhythms. Image
Jun 13 21 tweets 7 min read
Elon Musk’s billion-to-one bet started here:

1974: Writer Philip K. Dick experiences ‘reality glitch’

→ FBI raids his home
→ NASA now confirms his theory
→ Musk: “We’re almost certainly in a simulation”

Why Dick saw the truth first 🧵 Image
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Meet Philip K. Dick.

More than a sci-fi author.

A man who believed he perceived beyond our simulated existence.

What he shared at a confidential Paris conference stunned leading scientists:
Jun 12 15 tweets 5 min read
These billionaires committed the same fatal error:

They bankrolled Donald Trump.

$400 million combined to buy presidential access.

Now they’re uncovering his real agenda for their empires.

How their masterplan imploded: 🧵 Image Inauguration Day 2025 revealed everything.

Zuckerberg, Cook, and Pichai occupied front-row thrones.

Their $1M "donations" bought VIP real estate.

Mar-a-Lago courtship and DC mansions appeared to pay off.
Jun 11 14 tweets 7 min read
This man took the challenge of building 12 Startups in 12 months.

He failed 7 startups but struck gold with BannerBear.

It blew past 1 Million ARR in 3 years.

Here is how this Indie Hacker bootstrapped his SaaS as a solo founder🧵 Image Jon Yongfook founded BannerBear in 2019 as a solo founder.

BannerBear is a REST API that allows developers to auto generate cool, well-designed social images easily.

In 3 years they:

- Grew to $50k MRR
- Low churn rate of 6%
- Completely bootstrapped Image
Jun 7 16 tweets 5 min read
Anthropic just detonated a $3T bombshell across the AI sector.

They’ve formally teamed up with Apple.

Their goal?

Seize the single asset OpenAI, Google, and Grok crave most.

Here’s how two giants just outmaneuvered the entire AI field: Image
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Apple historically creates everything internally.

They seldom collaborate with outside AI firms.

Yet they just shattered that rule in a massive move.

And the motivation might surprise you:
Jun 6 15 tweets 5 min read
This might be the most valuable tweet ever:

In 2017, an anonymous Twitter user mocked Wendy's "fresh, never frozen" beef claim.

Most brands would brush it off.

Wendy's reply? So sharp, it ignited $1 BILLION in sales.

The comeback that took over the internet: 🧵 Image
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January 2, 2017. A holiday Monday.

Amy Brown was relaxing at home in pajamas, watching Law & Order.

As Wendy's social lead, she monitored Twitter casually.

Then it hit.

A troll challenged Wendy's "fresh, never frozen" promise:
Jun 3 19 tweets 6 min read
This guy makes $2M per year and keeps all the money.

He refuses to get on client meetings and works 100% async.

Here's the EXACT playbook he used to scale his businesses as a solopreneur.

Test his strategies RIGHT NOW 🧵 Image
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@BrettFromDJ founded DesignJoy as a side project.
Since then the product:

- Achieved $130K MRR
- Done monthly visits of over 130K
- Used by over 30K designers

Here's how Brett Davis did it all 👇
Jun 1 19 tweets 7 min read
Meet Jason Cohen.

He's a serial entrepreneur & has scaled 4 software companies from zero to $1M+, all bootstrapped till $1M

His current venture WP Engine did $400M in 2024.

He has mastered the art of bootstrapping and I'm revealing his precise plan 👇 Image Jason Cohen has founded 4 companies, with 2 of them becoming unicorns

In 1995, Jason founded his first company, SmartBear Software.

It was a software testing company that developed tools for developers and testers.

And in 2007 it was acquired and went on to be a unicorn Image
May 31 19 tweets 5 min read
Ketones are the greatest (legal) performance-enhancing "drug".

Your brain, heart, and metabolism greatly prefer ketones as a fuel source.

They are the reason you remain cognitively sharp while fasting.

Here's what everyone needs to know: 🧵 Image
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First off, what is a ketone?

It's a byproduct of fat being burned and serves as an alternative fuel source to glucose.

Think of ketones as your backup energy reserve when glucose is depleted.

Once that happens...
May 30 18 tweets 7 min read
e.l.f Cosmetics stock has surged by 5000% in the last 5 years and the company is valued at $11 Bn today.

In 2019, they shut down all their physical stores and became a TikTok phenomenon.

How e.l.f leveraged TikTok to go from $1 makeup brand to GenZ's favourite brand🧵 Image e.l.f Cosmetics is the only brand gaining market share consistently in last 5 years among 800 major cosmetic brands worldwide.

It has overshadowed cosmetics giants like Maybelline and L'Oreal to become the number one beauty brand for Gen Z. Image
May 27 15 tweets 5 min read
Investing in your health doesn't have to be expensive.

You can get healthier than most without spending thousands of dollars.

Here's the ultimate list of 10 best health purchases under $100.

1. Pre-Meal Tablespoon of Olive Oil 🧵 Image Extra virgin olive oil, the Mediterranean elixir is one of the secrets behind Blue Zones—areas with the most centenerians in the world.

Before every meal, take 1 tbsp of olive oil. It can keep your blood sugar levels in check while reducing inflammation.

Price: $10-$50
May 25 13 tweets 5 min read
You only feel motivated when your body has a dopamine level above normal.

But because you always have a high level of phone-dopamine, it's hard to get a 'higher' spike; which is needed to feel motivated.

Huberman's Dopamine-Control Protocol to raise your motivation 🧵 Image This might be the most important 2-minute clip in the history of Huberman Lab

The quote that stuck with me:

"Your experience of life and your level of motivation and drive depends on how much dopamine you have relative to your recent experience."