His "insane" choice would create a $140 BILLION empire: 🧵
By early 2024, Boeing was in freefall.
The aerospace giant posted a $4B operating loss.
Production lines had ground to a halt. Former execs fired.
Workers were striking, bringing the company to its knees.
Wall Street predicted Boeing's demise...
May 7 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
This mistake haunted Steve Jobs forever.
Jobs trusted Samsung to help build the iPhone.
Then Samsung stole Apple's designs & launched the Galaxy.
Jobs response? "I'll spend every penny of Apple's $40B to destroy them".
The brutal story of what happened next:🧵
In 2004, Jobs began developing the top-secret iPhone project, working to create a device that would change technology forever.
The team operated in total secrecy.
They isolated in their own building with strict confidentiality rules.
But Jobs faced one critical problem...
May 5 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
This Silicon Valley company:
• Is backed by the CIA
• Helped track Bin Laden
• Solved what caused 9/11
Now, they're worth $292 BILLION — but no one really knows what they do...
Inside the most dangerous tech company ever built:
Imagine hundreds of filing cabinets, each with a different system.
That's what organizations face—data trapped in software (databases, apps, spreadsheets) that can't talk to each other.
And for intelligence agencies, like the CIA...
This problem costs lives:
May 3 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
In 2015, a single punch destroyed Jeremy Clarkson's BBC career.
He went from 350 million Top Gear viewers to unemployed overnight.
Until Amazon offered him $260M to build their biggest series.
Here's their brilliantly simple show that changed everything:
First, let's understand his fall.
In March 2015, Clarkson punched a Top Gear producer over catering.
BBC fired him after 13 years and 22 seasons.
He lost the show he built into a global hit, reaching 350M viewers.
But that was just the beginning...
Apr 29 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
This is the greatest social experiment ever conducted:
He created a fake restaurant on TripAdvisor.
No food. No staff. No venue.
Yet it became the #1 ranked restaurant in London...
Here's how he pulled it off:
Meet Oobah Butler, a Vice Magazine writer from South London.
His side hustle? Getting £10 for fake restaurant reviews.
But after watching restaurants gain traction from his fake reviews, he had a genius idea...
Butler hatched a plan to create a completely fake restaurant:
Apr 28 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
The Canadian government was trying to hide something TERRIFYING.
One psychologist spotted their evil plan.
What he found was so disturbing, he risked everything to speak out.
Here's how Jordan Peterson brought the Canadian government to its knees:
Before 2016, Jordan Peterson was a psychology professor at Toronto University, Canada.
He also maintained a clinical psychology practice, helping up to 20 clients a week.
But after 18 years of delivering lectures, he wasn't afraid to explore the darker aspects of the mind:
Apr 17 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
In 2010, Dana White accidentally tweeted his phone number to millions of fans.
His phone EXPLODED with calls from fans.
His team panicked...
Until ONE woman saw a multi-million-dollar opportunity.
Here's how one epic mistake changed social media forever:
In 1979, Amy Jo Martin was born in the small town of Green River, Wyoming.
In 2006, she joined Arizona's basketball team, the Phoenix Suns, as Director of Digital Media.
Twitter had 7K users then, and brands saw social media as pointless updates.
Martin saw it differently...
Apr 17 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
This is Howard Lutnick:
Trump's Commerce Secretary leading manufacturing talks with Taiwan.
In 1996, he built a trading platform that processes $400B PER DAY.
Now, his master plan will end America's dependence on Asia.
Here's why Trump REALLY picked Lutnick for Commerce Sec:
Howard Lutnick's path to becoming a key figure in tech policy was anything but conventional.
After losing his parents at a young age, he went from a struggling college student to a Wall Street prodigy.
And adversity became his greatest teacher:
Apr 16 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
The entire VC industry is a filthy ponzi scheme.
And Chamath is burning their playbook to the ground.
He's profiting on founders' successes, not high fees like traditional VCs.
Here's how Chamath's $6B war chest is reshaping Silicon Valley:
Chamath was an early Facebook executive who helped grow the platform to 1 billion users.
After amassing his fortune in Silicon Valley, he founded Social Capital in 2011 to reinvent how startups get funded.
And his unconventional views have built him a reputation...