🚨INSANE BET:
IN 2019, ASHTON KUTCHER PUT $30M INVESTMENT IN OPENAI
NOW THE COMPANY IS EYEING A $1.5 TRILLION IPO
HIS STAKE IS WORTH 3 BILLIONS DOLLARS RIGHT NOW
ASHTON WILL BECOME THE REACHEST ACTOR IN THE WORLD AFTER IPO
As we wind down 2019, I wanted to share with you my annual list of favorites that made the last year a little brighter. We’ll start with books today — movies and music coming soon. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did.
Pop Past | From the Archives (2019):
In his 1949 short film 'Puce Moment', Kenneth Anger created a new kind of cinema — one that was glitzy, gaudy, queer-coded, and proto-feminist. – Matt McKinzie
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Elon Musk once revealed in 2019 that only around 5% of SpaceX resources were focused on Starship at that time
The other ~95% were running Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon - one of the most successful orbital rocket programs in history
A small dedicated team built Starship (starting in tents at Boca Chica), while the rest of the company kept launching astronauts and landing boosters
Today, that same program has scaled massively - with roughly 3,400–4,000+ people focused on it, out of SpaceX’s ~13,000–15,000 total employees
The Starship program has shifted from a “side project” to the central pillar of the SpaceX's long-term goal: making life multi-planetary
Now it's like watching sci-fi become reality
I went to look at precisely one apartment in Bushwick in 2019 and the second I pulled up to the building and took one look at the people walking down the street I knew I'd never fit in
The last 8 @Kia NBA MVPs:
🇬🇷 Giannis (2019, 2020)
🇷🇸 Jokić (2021, 2022, 2024)
🇨🇲 Embiid (2023)
🇨🇦 Shai (2025, 2026)
GLOBAL STARS at the TOP OF THE GAME!