Barackface: 9: Elon Musk

Milan Kovac ran Elon Musk’s most important project: What the departure of the Optimus head means for Tesla “Milan, thank you for your outstanding contribution to Tesla over the past decade. It was an honor working with you,” the entrepreneur acknowledged on Friday......... Given his role as head of the program since its inception, Kovac‘s leaving represents a loss perhaps best akin to the departure of Tesla’s former director of artificial intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, three years ago. ........ It unites all the attributes of a killer product that Musk loves—one standardized piece of hardware that can be affordably produced at scale, but still meets various market needs, thanks to ever-improving software updates. ......... “This is going to be bigger than the car,” he said in April 2022, a claim that sounded even more ambitious back then when there seemed to be no limit to Tesla’s EV sales. ............ Musk predicted the droids Kovac was creating would revolutionize human behavior, and in his vision, everyone across the globe would own at least one robot, eliminating any ceiling on economic growth. .......... He called this an era of “sustainable abundance,” the world’s first utopian society where there is no more scarcity.

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You are in politics now, Elon! pic.twitter.com/9ZvJEPrPJ3
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2025

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It’s outrageous how much character assassination has been directed at me, especially by me!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 8, 2025

ICE: Los Angeles, New York City https://t.co/mkB5CuhstI
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 8, 2025

It is not either or. You can do both. Step by step. In sequence. I show you how in my roadmap. :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 8, 2025

I’ve been impressed with Trump’s restraint and disappointed with Elon’s, now that it’s become clear the whole Epstein thing was an emotional outburst.

I’ve also been impressed with Elon’s principled stance and disappointed with Trump’s.

Trump’s admin and the GOP were voted in…
— Farzad (@farzyness) June 7, 2025

Sarah Guo said the thing.

“When people ask about AGI, they're really asking about consciousness.” pic.twitter.com/DCqLmD9YiW
— vitrupo (@vitrupo) June 7, 2025

At @xai, we grind through weekends. We take pride in the hard work. And we are rewarded for it. What a surprise today! pic.twitter.com/Gjal2hhN5L
— Hieu Pham (@hyhieu226) June 7, 2025

My experience using AI is somewhat the opposite:

AI is barely helpful at all in domains where I'm a domain expert, but super helpful in domains where I'm a noob (recent examples: writing native android apps, playing around with lower-level linux internals)
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) June 8, 2025

Contacting Harmonic now ....... :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 8, 2025

X beat LinkedIn by a week in the Trump-Musk feud.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2025

Private fintechs & their mafia - people who left the company and have a startup now

Stripe - 76
Brex - 22
Plaid - 20
Chime - 8
Deel - 6
Rippling - 6
Ramp - 4
Navan - 3
Airwallex - 3
Rho - 0
Meow - 0

Previous employees had to have raised at least $1M and info is public (listed…
— Shai Goldman (@shaig) June 7, 2025

Seed math is broken

Median post-money at seed last year: $14.8M (Carta)
Seed-to-A conversion rate: 13% (Carta)

That implies a risk-adjusted A valuation of $114M
But the median post-money at A? Just $56M

(It’s actually worse once you factor in option pool refresh and post-seed…
— Hadley (@Hadley) June 9, 2025

Every complex N8N, Gumloop or Zapier flow is just a software business waiting to be built.

99% of the population will never get their hands dirty with these tools.

They just want a product that works reliably, solves a problem elegantly, and obscures all of the complexity.
— Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) June 9, 2025

Buy me lunch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2025

Ilya Sutskever, in his speech at UToronto 2 days ago:

"The day will come when AI will do all the things we can do."

"The reason is the brain is a biological computer, so why can't the digital computer do the same things?"

It's funny that we are debating if AI can "truly think"… pic.twitter.com/FoVicvA1CD
— Yuchen Jin (@Yuchenj_UW) June 9, 2025

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— Emad (@EMostaque) June 9, 2025

The solution is a new economic paradigm. It is called Kalkiism or Karmaism. The chosen country for the pilot project: Nepal.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2025

Founders be like:

“I’m building to escape the 9 to 5.”

Now it’s 24/7.
— Yutish (@star_yutish) June 8, 2025

Introducing @origamiagents: AI Research Agents that can find you anything.

9 months ago I pitched my most cracked friend a crazy startup idea and he dropped out + moved to the US to help me build it (in a tweet that went viral).

Check out what we’ve been working on pic.twitter.com/Zdsn8b2oJg
— Finn Mallery (@fin465) June 9, 2025

you can do gradient descent on manifolds other than model parameter space btw https://t.co/2f2Mpsg7wE
— Rohan Pandey (@khoomeik) June 9, 2025

Almost every time I meet somebody who I'd consider to be a genius, I discover that they have some debilitating inhibition like severe insomnia, addiction, mania, or paranoia. Nature trades in fine balances. Rare is the one who gets the gift but not the curse.
— David Perell (@david_perell) June 9, 2025

It's not a big, beautiful bill. It's a prescription for deadly, dangerous decline. It's ill advised, it's imprudent, and it fails to recognize a basic truth, that the world's greatest debtor is unlikely to stay the world's greatest super power. We are making a very serious…
— Lawrence H. Summers (@LHSummers) June 8, 2025

4 key takeaways from 4 innovative marketing leaders. In this @canva-presented panel conversation, 4 innovative marketing leaders discuss how companies can combine AI-driven insights and human connection to drive brand loyalty. #sxsw #ad
— Fast Company (@FastCompany) April 25, 2025

Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan, $JPM: "You are going to see a crack in the bond markets. It is going to happen. I am telling you its going to happen, and you're going to panic. I'm not going to panic" pic.twitter.com/ehkni4EoFi
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) June 7, 2025

Their team of three is great innovation, but it still can not compete with a startup with mojo. That laser focus.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2025

...... and to the White House. pic.twitter.com/2eh7BF9zyD
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2025

🇺🇸🇺🇸 https://t.co/cvOsEb45MH
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2025

Is this even real?

China’s 4DV AI dropped 4D Gaussian Splatting—2D video becomes 4D + audio.

You could rotate, zoom, and shift perspective like it's a game engine.

Gaussian Splatting represents a scene by decomposing it into a cloud of 3D Gaussian “splats,” where each splat… pic.twitter.com/0G0eIM3F5F
— Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) June 8, 2025

Ted, tagging your favorite… also @iamsrk, why don't you feed me when I come home 👻 pic.twitter.com/VNCanlyUqM
— Nikhil Kamath (@nikhilkamathcio) June 8, 2025

Glad @airindia is back in profits. It will get budgetary love in due upgrades.
I heard that they have taken practically all possible aircraft available for lease in the world.
Can’t wait to see new interiors on all international routes and fly non-stop Air India. https://t.co/PqDiePPIa5
— Vijay Shekhar Sharma (@vijayshekhar) June 8, 2025

Thank you Amul. pic.twitter.com/jG28tPZBoJ
— Ashwini Vaishnaw (@AshwiniVaishnaw) June 8, 2025

Four of the world’s top ten chess players are Indians today. The mainstream media is silent, too busy parading a single sport-you know which one. This is how quiet excellence goes unnoticed while hysteria sells.
— Dilip Kumar (@kmr_dilip) June 8, 2025

We sent the most ruthless operational cost cutting machine in the world (Elon Musk) into the government and he walked away less than 180 days later saying "yea these guys don't actually want to reduce the deficit"

Should tell you exactly what's going on in the White House.
— Tweets from Zach Weinberg (@zachweinberg) June 7, 2025

Mark. What do you think of this? The Tesla Of Political Parties https://t.co/NpochJhLyk
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 8, 2025

really bad metaphor ------
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 8, 2025

"The unexamined life is not worth living? I would take it a step further and say the unexamined life is not living.
You're running on scripts you did not choose. So you're effectively, like ChatGPT, responding to prompts."
--@tferriss via @KateSullivanTV https://t.co/w7vviIEUU5
— Rolf Potts (@rolfpotts) June 7, 2025

OpenAI just dropped massive upgrades to ChatGPT Advanced Voice.

...including a big improvement to (IMO) the most under-hyped use case - real time translation.

It can now seamlessly translate a full convo between multiple speakers w/out instructions or interruptions 👇 pic.twitter.com/tY4YI4COtK
— Olivia Moore (@omooretweets) June 8, 2025

The thing about Elon is that he usually self-corrects.

He also has a faster OODA loop—By the time the stories come out about the feud, he’s already softened and started to reverse course.
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) June 8, 2025

The economic, reputational, and human cost of these immigration raids to America is abominable.

Deport criminals, but offer law-abiding, undocumented people and families naturalization or work permits for a $1k fine/fee. We’d raise billions, instead of spending 100s of billions…
— Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) June 8, 2025

Unicorn attitude.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 8, 2025

Click on Messages and create a Group. Private. pic.twitter.com/dN1EWT6ZLy
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 8, 2025

Thomas Jefferson’s Forgotten Vision: A Constitution for Every Generation https://t.co/CfofOxff5o
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 8, 2025

@grok What is he talking about?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 8, 2025

Why? What happened? No link to any news article.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 8, 2025

Founders don’t have weekends. They have moments. A late Friday spark. A half-thought that turns into a product. A quiet room and a loud mind. This is the work. And this is the life.
— Hiten Shah (@hnshah) June 7, 2025

Meanwhile our president is engaging in Twitter beef. 👍🏾 pic.twitter.com/NtAUhLouCS
— Pramila Jayapal (@PramilaJayapal) June 7, 2025

Inequality as existential as climate change, maybe more so, because it is that structure of inequality that is making climate catastrophe possible.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 7, 2025

Was on @ChrisCuomo Thursday night talking about the need to move on from the 2-party system. pic.twitter.com/JkIRQnrLrK
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) June 7, 2025

You two should team up, like X and Polymarket.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 7, 2025

“Your two greatest assets in life:

1. Health
2. Time

Invest in your health. It will buy you more time.”
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) June 7, 2025

hahah I cloned my voice recently and it sounded pretty close to me
— Sherry Jiang (@SherryYanJiang) June 7, 2025

The new version of ChatGPT Advanced Voice totally shocked me.

I felt like I’d accidentally called a very smart woman — I actually felt a bit self conscious talking about personal stuff because the voice sounded so human.
— Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) June 7, 2025

Men don’t want to be influencers.
They want to be the man who influencers ask for advice.
— Shweta (@shweta_ai) June 7, 2025

yo

can you like

stop building features

and actually market your app

is it too much to ask?
— Bart Ziem (@zmbnski) June 7, 2025

Most people think Demo Day is when @ycombinator founders start fundraising.

But the real grind? It starts the week before during a chaotic sprint YC partners and founders call “Raising Week.”

Founders take 60+ investor calls in 5 days. Some even close their rounds before Demo… pic.twitter.com/DRGsiEdh7H
— Yash Dulla (@yashdulla) June 7, 2025

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