Trevor McKendrick - I'd like to buy Stripe shares

Hi all,

I’m interested in buying Stripe shares. If you know anyone who’s interested in selling I’d love an intro.

I’m open to buying direct shares or via an SPV (0/0 structure, no management fees or carry).

If you refer me to someone who I end up buying from I’ll pay you $1,000 USD.

Thanks!

Trevor

How to think about the meaning of life(substack)

If you don’t like the thought of being conscious with nothing but your own thoughts for all of eternity I would not recommend reading this.

If you can handle thinking through that then this was a really interesting and new way to me about thinking about what makes life & living valuable.

How Blake Scholl recruited a world class team to build the first civil supersonic jet made in America(tweet video)

Step 1: find out who the absolute best of the best are

I’m very impressed he’s not an aeronautical engineer himself. Homeboy worked at Groupon and then started a jet company(!)

No knock on Blake but if he can do a supersonic jet what else in the world is waiting to be built?

Nat Friedman: “The efficient market hypothesis is a lie”

Andreessen on Deepseek is good and gets to why it matters more than just the cost of the final training run(text screenshot tweet)

“There's all these people that want to lock down and control AI, and this basically guarantees that none of that's going to happen, which I think is great. It's very much in the tradition of Internet freedom and free speech. And so I think that's fantastic. And then this was a 30x cost reduction for the same capability in one step.”

Also I can’t remember where I saw it but someone made the point that if all AI progress stopped today where it’s currently at, we’d still have 20 years of updates to make to everything to get it fully rolled out.

What is the ‘Fun Criterion’(20 min YouTube interview)

5-year old video w/ David Deutsch on how to choose what to work on.

How to build an LLM(YouTube)

3.5 hour video from Andrej Karpathy taking you soup-to-nuts on how an LLM is built.

His whole channel is worth subscribing to.

And he just released a new video that I just started on how he uses LLMs.

How to Make Superbabies (tweet)

Extremely long post. Summary on Twitter is here.

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