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      <title>Scott Bessent: Operation Pacific Viper has seized more than 225,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific a</title>
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      <description>“As of June 2026, Operation Pacific Viper has seized more than 225,000 pounds (approximately 112 tons) of cocaine in the EPAC.” — Scott Bessent, Treasury press and remarks</description>
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      <title>Scott Bessent: Bessent reports OFAC has taken nearly 30 actions against over 300 individuals and entities sinc</title>
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      <description>“In keeping with President Trump’s pledge to eliminate drug cartels, OFAC has prioritized targeting these and other criminal groups that threaten the welfare of Americans in close coordination with the Homeland Security Task Force, taking nearly 30 actions against over 300 individuals and entities since the beginning of 2025.” — Scott Bessent, Treasury press and remarks</description>
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      <title>JD Vance: Vance asserts that demand for metal cutting and machine tools is at century-high levels in the U.S.</title>
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      <description>“Demand for metal cutting and similar machine tools is hitting its highest levels in a century in The United States Of America.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley cites Ferriss has sold 10 million books, has 2 million email subscribers, and podcast appr</title>
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      <description>“He sold 10,000,000 books. I got a list here. He&#x27;s got 2,000,000 email subs, over a thousand blog posts, 7,000,000 followers on social media, and his podcast is about to pass a billion downloads.” — Bill Gurley, BlackNova Productions</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Dylan Patel: Patel reports Claude Code doubled to 4% of GitHub commits in January alone, with overall AI codin</title>
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      <description>“Just in this month just in January, it went from 4% of or 2% of commits on GitHub to 4% of GitHub commits were done by Cloud Code.” — Dylan Patel, Latent Space</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gavin Baker: Baker says ARC AGI scores jumped from 8% to 95% in three months with reasoning models.</title>
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      <description>“The reason we&#x27;ve had all this progress, maybe we could show like the ARC AGI slide where you had zero to eight over four years, zero to 8% intelligence, and then you went from 8% to 95% in three months when the first reasoning model came out from OpenAI.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>David Friedberg: Friedberg notes Google grew from $20B to $100B quarterly revenue and $2T market cap under Pic</title>
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      <description>“Under your tenure as CEO, the stock has gone up by four and a half x to a $2,000,000,000,000 market cap today. You&#x27;ve grown revenue from 20,000,000,000 a quarter to nearly 100,000,000,000 a quarter.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 05:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner says NVIDIA generates $4M revenue and $2M profit per employee, unprecedented efficienc</title>
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      <description>“You know NVIDIA is in a league of its own really, know, at about 4,000,000 of revenue per employee, about 2,000,000 of profits or free cash flow per employee.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gavin Baker: Baker proposes a new metric decomposing MFU that he developed the morning of the interview.</title>
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      <description>“MFU is the most important metric because it gives you all of these advantages and ways to differentiate yourself amongst five people, six people who&#x27;ve trained these GPT core class models.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley cites Ferriss&#x27;s metrics: 10 million books sold, 2 million email subscribers, and podcast a</title>
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      <description>“He sold 10,000,000 books. I got a list here. He got 2,000,000 email subs, over a thousand blog posts, 7,000,000 followers on social media, and his podcast is about to pass a billion downloads.” — Bill Gurley, Tim Ferriss</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley criticizes price-to-revenue multiples as the crudest possible valuation tool for evaluatin</title>
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      <description>“price to revenue is like this really crude valuation tool, it&#x27;s like the crudest you could possibly have.” — Bill Gurley, All-In Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2022 05:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: And so what really values companies, you know, it&#x27;s typically a discounted cash flows. And so now</title>
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      <description>“And so what really values companies, you know, it&#x27;s typically a discounted cash flows. And so now all of a sudden, the buy side&#x27;s asking SaaS companies about net dollar retention, about long term operating margin, about whether their free cash flow is greater or less than their net income, about SBC as a percentage of free cash” — Bill Gurley, All-In Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2022 04:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gavin Baker: Baker says investors are running a new metric: days of solvency with zero revenue.</title>
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      <description>“Days of liquidity with zero revenue has been the acid liquidity test that I think a lot of investors have been working through.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley calls the LTV model a house of cards where numbers can be manipulated.</title>
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      <description>“Lifetime value model, where people say, as long as we&#x27;re paying below our lifetime value, cost of capital. But the numbers can be run-in a whole bunch of different ways.” — Bill Gurley, TechCrunch</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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