We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone
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Michael P Gibson✓
@William_Blake
Coffeehouse radical capitalist. Gutter whiskey poet. Cofounder 1517 Fund + Thiel Fellowship
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- Michael P GibsonRT @josiezayner: 1517 has been picking top founders for decades before anyone else would even think these people were investable. It started with the Thiel Fellowship and continues today with companies like Rainmaker Danielle and Michael are the best early stage investors in the industryDanielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 @DStrachmanWe done good!01044
We done good!delian @zebulgarFrom 2011 - 2014, the Thiel Fellowship gave out 40 $100k fellowships to entrepreneurs That were all under 20 years old at the time... 13 unicorns have since been built by those 40 fellows 4 of those 40 fellows are also now billionaires Absolutely insane hit rate711114.4K- Michael P GibsonRT @DStrachman: The founding team of the Thiel Fellowship hosted a documentary crew for the first and second years of the fellowship, but very few people paid attention to our work then. See the comments for some early videos of teens who would go on to become tech titans. You'll catch a glimpse of what we saw and believed in before anyone else.delian @zebulgarFrom 2011 - 2014, the Thiel Fellowship gave out 40 $100k fellowships to entrepreneurs That were all under 20 years old at the time... 13 unicorns have since been built by those 40 fellows 4 of those 40 fellows are also now billionaires Absolutely insane hit rate05033
- Michael P GibsonRT @regardthefrost: Exceptional talent is widely distributed. Permission to use it is not. We started the Thiel Fellowship to find extraordinary young people and give them the freedom to pursue ambitious ideas. Fifteen years later, see what they’ve built.delian @zebulgarFrom 2011 - 2014, the Thiel Fellowship gave out 40 $100k fellowships to entrepreneurs That were all under 20 years old at the time... 13 unicorns have since been built by those 40 fellows 4 of those 40 fellows are also now billionaires Absolutely insane hit rate029045
- Michael P Gibsondelian @zebulgarFrom 2011 - 2014, the Thiel Fellowship gave out 40 $100k fellowships to entrepreneurs That were all under 20 years old at the time... 13 unicorns have since been built by those 40 fellows 4 of those 40 fellows are also now billionaires Absolutely insane hit rate02048
- Michael P GibsonRT @tybernstein: Monthly landings are how we build a Moon Base – and beat China to it – but only if the hardware survives the two-week lunar night and accumulates into permanent infrastructure. Scaling radioisotope power makes that possible!NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdminUnder @POTUS’ national space policy, the first mission to begin building the Moon Base launches this December, with robotic landers and rovers to follow at a near-monthly cadence in 2027.04054
Under @POTUS’ national space policy, the first mission to begin building the Moon Base launches this December, with robotic landers and rovers to follow at a near-monthly cadence in 2027.973462.4K65.7K- Michael P GibsonRT @jmrphy: After many false starts and delays, my book The Independent Scholar has now been typeset and is being emailed to all who preordered. Just about everyone today assumes that to produce a lasting body of work, one must pass through a "credible" institution and secure a certain kind of job, patron, publisher, or grant. But the historical record shows otherwise. Twas much harder than I anticipated, and I'm all too aware of its remaining imperfections, but overall I'm pleased with the result.017056
- Michael P GibsonRT @AlexKolicich: Amazon sold out of capacity into 2028 and people thinking $CRWV is about to go bankrupt 🙄
02056 - Michael P GibsonRT @1517fund: Claude has models named Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. But does poetry actually have anything to teach people building technology? We asked a 2E camper. Her answer went from creativity to understanding other people, which might be the harder engineering problem.01042
- Where uglification began. Yale 1951. Addition on the left starkly different from gothic revivalism on the right. Louis Kahn’s 1953 addition to the Yale University Art Gallery. University prez made a deliberate policy decision to abandon tradition in favor of progressive modern architecture “suited to contemporary pedagogy”
52301.7K - Kimi Antonelli could make history today. At just 20, he might become the youngest F1 championship driver ever. Toto Wolff built and manages the Mercedes team. On Cheeky Pint, he describes how he thinks about talent spotting. Two things stand out to me relative to startup talent spotting. (1) is we need the equivalent of cart racing for science and tech. Many think it's math olympiads or some high IQ shit but it's not. And (2) there is a similar connectedness to being in the driver seat, being one with the car and the road. From the episode, Toto Wolff, head of Mercedes F1 Race Team: “How do I spot a Kimi? I think when it comes to spotting racing drivers, you can judge pretty early on in a kid’s carting performance whether that kid has the potential to be a professional racing driver. Even with the tiny ones, you can identify the ones that are doing better than their peers. Either because they are younger–if someone who is 8 years-old beats the ones that are ten in that group, you can have those early signs of whether that kid has the potential. You can see when someone is comfortable in the cart, going 100 kilometers per hour…in the rain..and that kid does his first lap, and comes across the corner sideways…you know, there are the ingredients for being good at it.” “I don’t know what his metrics were when we was twelve” “Ingredients of success that you can’t measure: personality, how resilient are you to pressure, how much can you play the team game. When it comes to racing drivers, there are obviously similar KPIs–the stopwatch. The stopwatch never lies. Put them in the same car, the stopwatch is going to decide whether you are judged good or not. But underneath the stopwatch there needs to be the ability to set your car up in the right way, interact with the engineers, have some kind of social competence–making sure you have sponsors, treating them well. There have been extremely talented kids who never went anywhere because they were simply bad people. Or not intelligent enough. And then, there is the kind of overwhelming part, and that is called speed. What is speed? And all of your cognitive abilities and neuro-sensors, the sheer billions of sensors that a human has that give you an ability that not many have–it’s actually to feel what the car does underneath the fuel. And you can see with the extraordinary drivers, they feel much more connected to the car on the road than anybody else. One example is an old friend, a driver of mine, Louis Hamilton. You have two axles. A front axle, a rear axle, and you have the chassis in between. And when you call a car…it understeers, it means when you turn the wheel and it goes straight. And that happens over the tires in the in the front axle. It’s pretty normal. But Louis once said something when talking about the car. “The car understeers from the front axle to where I sit.” But that’s the middle of the car! How can that understeer. The engineers couldn’t really identify what he meant. But that is what his body told him, his brain told him, what the car is doing. And if the driver is able to have that underlying layer of ability, then that becomes unbeatable. But that is genetics.” “Connectedness is the right word. It’s being one with the car. And with the road.”61182.1K
- Michael P GibsonRT @1517fund: April 2025: Michael Huynh was working out of a garage with blue tape on the floor, trying to get robots to work as a swarm. 18 months later: he's leading a team of 14, demoing drones they built from scratch for the U.S. military. We were Pheratech's first investors.03042
- Michael P GibsonRT @MTSlive: Xona CEO Brian Manning explains how he’s using the SpaceX playbook to build a GPS alternative once reserved for superpowers: "SpaceX is famous for the SpaceX algorithm, the process by which you design and build things. Step one is get rid of dumb requirements. All the same steps are things we’ve carried over into Xona." "Historically, GPS has been the realm of exclusively superpower governments." "The only entities that have ever built a satellite navigation system operating on a global scale are the US government, the European government, the Chinese government, the Russian government, and now Xona." @XonaSpaceXona @XonaSpace$250M in new funding. $2.45B valuation. Six satellites launched this week. Xona's Series D builds on major milestones in technology readiness, manufacturing scale, and commercial deployment as we accelerate toward serving users in 2027. The next era of global navigation is closer than ever.06051
$250M in new funding. $2.45B valuation. Six satellites launched this week. Xona's Series D builds on major milestones in technology readiness, manufacturing scale, and commercial deployment as we accelerate toward serving users in 2027. The next era of global navigation is closer than ever.
3155712.4K- Michael P GibsonRT @XonaSpace: 7 billion GPS users around the world. Zero premium tier. We think it's time for an upgrade. @FoundTheSpace on @tbpn ↓09052
- Michael P GibsonRT @stephanieszhang: building & testing my 1 meter long motors 🙈 thank you @William_Blake @1517fund for supporting early!01050
- Michael P GibsonRT @AtelierMissor_: This is outrageous. Contact us and we’ll restore it for free.Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh🚨 BREAKING: Outrage erupts after man named "Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano" took a SLEDGEHAMMER to the historic Iwo Jima statue at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia and knocked the head off one of the Marines HE LITERALLY BEHEADED IT. Dig into his history and find out if he's an illegal! Should be deported regardless! Police caught Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano, 27, of Stafford, in the act around 10 PM Wednesday. They say the damage runs into the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars The 9-foot limestone statue was carved by Felix de Weldon, the same sculptor behind the famous Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington. It honors the Marines who raised the flag over Iwo Jima 🙏🏻 He's charged with felony destruction of property, trespassing, and felony injury to a monument, and he's being held without bond. Throw the book at him 😡 📽️ WUSA902.2K045
🚨 BREAKING: Outrage erupts after man named "Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano" took a SLEDGEHAMMER to the historic Iwo Jima statue at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia and knocked the head off one of the Marines HE LITERALLY BEHEADED IT. Dig into his history and find out if he's an illegal! Should be deported regardless! Police caught Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano, 27, of Stafford, in the act around 10 PM Wednesday. They say the damage runs into the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars The 9-foot limestone statue was carved by Felix de Weldon, the same sculptor behind the famous Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington. It honors the Marines who raised the flag over Iwo Jima 🙏🏻 He's charged with felony destruction of property, trespassing, and felony injury to a monument, and he's being held without bond. Throw the book at him 😡 📽️ WUSA94.9K11K40.2K3.4M- Exciting news in the startup city spaceDevon ☀️ @devonzuegelGREAT NEWS: The Council voted to advance Esmeralda's approvals! This was the single most important vote of the project, Oct 14. Adoption of the ordinances is on track for Nov 11 These approvals will unlock tremendous value & opportunity41221.1K
- Michael P GibsonRT @DStrachman: If you want to stay hip to the lingo, while making incredible returns, all while making a dent in the universe, become an LP in 1517.1517 Fund @1517fundmichael has spent years betting on young people. understanding what they’re saying is apparently a separate skill.03055
- Michael P GibsonRT @AlexKolicich: Grateful to @evansammccann for the months of thoughtful reporting that went into this story Building @8vc has been my life’s work so far. What means the most is seeing so many people I’ve been lucky to work with take the time to share their experiences. Thank you all!Evan McCann @evansammccannThe Quiet Force. My profile of @AlexKolicich is out. Raised by a single mom in Hamilton. Google engineer. Peter Thiel’s math guy. Founding partner of 8VC. “8VC is 8VC because of Alex.” I was told. I spent months reporting his story in SF, Palo Alto and Orange County, talking with founders and the people who knew him at Clarium, Mithril and 8VC. Highlights - Peter Thiel playing blindfolded chess - Turning down Geoffrey Hinton’s lab twice - Dreaming about oil - Back story on 8VC's investments in Quince, Cognition and Anduril Link to read below.014063
The Quiet Force. My profile of @AlexKolicich is out. Raised by a single mom in Hamilton. Google engineer. Peter Thiel’s math guy. Founding partner of 8VC. “8VC is 8VC because of Alex.” I was told. I spent months reporting his story in SF, Palo Alto and Orange County, talking with founders and the people who knew him at Clarium, Mithril and 8VC. Highlights - Peter Thiel playing blindfolded chess - Turning down Geoffrey Hinton’s lab twice - Dreaming about oil - Back story on 8VC's investments in Quince, Cognition and Anduril Link to read below.
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