Author Archives: Big Red Car

11/20/23

OpenAI — How To Wreck An $80B Company In One Weekend

When the sun came up on Friday, 17 November 2023, OpenAI was a vibrant, exciting company — the acknowledged leader of the AI pack — headed by 38-year-old Sam Altman, a Silicon Valley wunderkind who had started a company, sold it, was the head of Y Combinator for 6 years, and at the helm of OpenAI (ChatGPT) for 8 years.

Punchline alert: When the sun went down on Friday, 17 November 2023, the survival of OpenAI was a huge uncertainty.

Sam Altman was an important voice for AI at recent Congressional hearings.

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11/16/23

The Power of Imperfection

DISQUS IS HAVING SYSTEMWIDE ISSUES AND YOUR COMMENTS ARE NOT SHOWING UP BELOW. IT IS IS A SYSTEMWIDE PROBLEM AND THEY ARE WORKING ON IT. I CAN READ YOUR COMMENTS EVEN THOUGH THEY DO NOT SHOW UP. 

If I eliminated all the imperfections in my life, I would erase myself completely. I am a colossal combination of imperfections. In fact, I am almost perfectly imperfect. Continue reading →

11/16/23

The $10MM Gross Revenue Reality Check

If you are a startup, I hope one day soon you get to $10,000,000 in gross revenue. If you do, I have some thoughts for you.

A caveat first — there are a great number of exceptions to what I am going to share with you, so do not fall prey to missing the difference of your situation or embracing every word I say, but there are reasons big and small as to why I hold these views.

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11/14/23

News Flash: The Jews Have Guns This Time Around

The Jews, the world’s chosen people to persecute for millennial, are again the victim of an unprovoked, deadly, horrific attack — beheading babies, burning babies alive, rape, maiming, parading corpses of dead naked women in the streets, killing grandparents, taking hostages — and the world’s reaction is to call for a cease fire and to accuse the Jewish state, Israel, of genocide when they go after their attackers.

Not to be a cynic, but good luck with that. Continue reading →

10/23/23

Senator Bernie Sanders and The Grift

Senator Bernie Sanders is a self-admitted socialist. He is also a grifter.

His wife, the esteemed Dr. Jane O’Meara Sanders, and her son, David Driscoll, founded the Sanders Institute to save American democracy.

Some say it was formed to employ David Driscoll and to promote the interests of Bernie Sanders, but who really knows? Cough, cough.

So, where’s the grift, Big Red Car?

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10/23/23

Cut The Crap: It’s IRAN!

The world is at the precipice of World War III with the Israeli response to Hamas — Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement) — and their brutal, medieval, war criminal, unprovoked assault upon Israeli babies, children, women, the elderly, and the Israeli Defense Force.

What kind of men behead babies?  Continue reading →