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Jun 5 17 tweets 7 min read
This lawyer is about to DESTROY Google's $2 trillion empire.

He's already won 2 antitrust cases against the tech giant.

And now he's attempting the biggest corporate takedown since AT&T.

Here's why he's obsessed with breaking up Google for good: Image Meet Jonathan Kanter:

Assistant Attorney General at the DOJ.

This guy has spent his entire career taking down tech giants.

And Google? That's his white whale.

He's been preparing for this moment for over a decade...
Jun 2 16 tweets 7 min read
The Saudi Crown Prince just declared war on Silicon Valley.

After signing a $600 BILLION deal with the world's AI leader...

He's now making plans that even Trump was clueless about.

Here's what we know about his secret AI empire: 🧵 Image In May 2025, during Trump's visited to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

And committed $600 billion to U.S. partnerships across multiple sectors.

This isn't just oil money anymore.

It's a calculated move to become the world's AI superpower.

But the real story is what happened next...
May 31 19 tweets 7 min read
Trump just launched the most exclusive club in the world:

Membership costs $500,000. Allows only the elite.

And while everyone thinks it's about politics...

It's actually a business move experts call "genius."

Here's what's really going on: 🧵 Image First, some context.

Donald Trump Jr. just co-founded an ultra-exclusive members club named 'Executive Branch' in Georgetown.

The price? $500,000 to join. Plus annual dues on top.

But here's what caught my attention:
May 29 18 tweets 7 min read
Elon Musk officially just walked out of the White House.

But his legacy lives on:

$150B of fraud exposed. 260,000 federal jobs axed.

All in 130 days.

Here's the real reason he walked away: Image First, some context.

Musk joined the White House in January this year.

He was brought in as a "special government employee" to cut waste.

Had had 130 days to complete his mission.

But why did Trump pick Elon?
May 28 19 tweets 7 min read
Google just made every AI company panic.

The $2T titan just joined a $60M partnership no one saw coming.

And now they have the one thing ChatGPT, Claude, & Meta desperately need.

Here's how Google is outplaying the entire AI industry: Image The AI race has never been more intense.

OpenAI leads with ChatGPT, Anthropic pushes Claude, and Meta is building Llama.

However, Google's Gemini has been playing catch-up since the launch of ChatGPT.

Every AI company faces the same problem:
May 26 20 tweets 7 min read
The Trump Building in 1995:

A cursed 72-story skyscraper filled with squatters.

Then, Donald Trump bought it for just $1M...

The building was about to be demolished... Until he had a genius idea that transformed it into a $40M a year cash cow.

Here's the full story:🧵 Image Built in 1930, 40 Wall Street was briefly the world's tallest building.

But by the 1990s, it was a ghost town.

And most developers wouldn't touch it, as it needed millions in renovations...

But the real problem was darker:
May 21 19 tweets 7 min read
This is the most profitable tweet in history:

In 2017, a random Twitter troll trashed Wendy's "fresh, never frozen" beef.

Most companies would ignore it.

Wendy's response? So savage, it sparked $1 BILLION in sales.

Here's the burn that broke the internet: 🧵 Image January 2, 2017. A holiday Monday.

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

As Wendy's social media manager, she was keeping an eye on Twitter.

Then it happened.

A troll questioned Wendy's "fresh, never frozen" beef claim:
May 20 18 tweets 7 min read
Everyone thinks Grok is just Elon's ChatGPT clone.

They're wrong.

His real plan is for it to take over every part of life.

And he's spending $3 BILLION to make it happen.

Everything you need to know about his 2-year domination plan: 🧵 Image Elon Musk's xAI isn't building just another AI chatbot.

His vision for Grok is far more ambitious than most realize.

With a $3B funding round, Musk is creating Grok to become the universal interface for all information.

What makes Grok different?
May 17 20 tweets 6 min read
They've backed every tech revolution since Apple.

Marc Andreessen: "They constantly spot the biggest winners."

They just revealed something huge about AI's future...

And nobody else sees it.

Here's their 5-year prediction: Image Sequoia Capital is a leading American venture capital firm.

Successfully backing Apple, Google, Instagram, Reddit, and Zoom.

Recently, they've focused on AI...

And here's everything they predict for the future:
May 15 18 tweets 6 min read
I bet my life savings Russell Westbrook will be the next billionaire athlete.

Not because of his $375+ million contract or HTG clothing line.

But because he's building a secret, "boring business" empire.

Here's the true future of wealth creation: 🧵 Image Despite earning $375M+ in NBA contracts and running a successful HTG clothing line...

Russell Westbrook's path to billions isn't through basketball or fashion.

Those are impressive, but temporary income streams.

His real wealth strategy is much smarter.
May 13 20 tweets 7 min read
In 2018, Nike made one of the BIGGEST mistakes in sports history.

They disrespected Roger Federer...

Causing Federer to abandon Nike for life.

Then a rising brand offered him something Nike couldn't compete with.

The $300M robbery that haunts Nike executives to this day: Image With a roster of star athletes, Nike (worth $200B) has dominated sportswear for decades.

They had partnered with tennis legend Roger Federer—with 20 Grand Slams to his name.

The duo spent 24 years together...

And built one of sports' most iconic partnerships:
May 12 17 tweets 6 min read
Apple’s worst nightmare just came true:

In 2020, Epic Games spent $1 BILLION suing them for banning Fortnite.

Everyone said it was a waste of time.

But the judge just made a final ruling no one could believe.

Here's the decision threatening Apple's monopoly: Image It all started with the 30% "Apple Tax."

Epic Games saw this fee strangling innovation while other developers stayed silent.

In a bold move, Epic's CEO Tim Sweeney deliberately broke Apple's rules in 2020 by offering cheaper direct payments in Fortnite.
May 11 17 tweets 6 min read
This CEO made the boldest decision in corporate history.

In 2024, Boeing was on the verge of collapse.

$4 billion lost. Illegal dealings. Workers revolting.

His 2 options? Fire thousands or open his wallet.

His "insane" choice would create a $140 BILLION empire: 🧵 Image 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:🧵 Image 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: Image 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: Image 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: Image 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: Image 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: Image 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: Image 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: Image 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...