Replit CEO Amjad Masad on the “most gangster story in Silicon Valley” In September 2021, Replit founder Amjad Masad tweeted: “The most gangster story in Silicon Valley is Steve Jobs buying Pixar for $5m, investing $50m, operating at a loss for a decade — so much so he had to cut personal checks every month to make payroll and somehow turning it around to exit for $7B to Disney.” He expands on this in his interview on the My First Million podcast: “The thing I like about the Steve Jobs story is when he was lost in the desert for 10 years. He was fired from Apple, and then he created two companies that were failing the whole time. NeXT Computer and Pixar were literally failing, and he was investing more and more of his own money. At that pace he was going to go broke, but he kept going for 10 years. How do you do that?” Eventually the success of Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, helped make Pixar’s 1995 IPO one of the the most successful of the decade. And Apple used the NeXt operating system as the foundation for macOS. But both ventures took the better part of 10 years. Interestingly, the 12 “wilderness years” between getting fired at Apple and coming back was the most pivotal period of Steve Jobs’s life. His work with Pixar and NeXT helped him grow into the leader capable of taking Apple to unimaginable heights when he returned. Source: @myfirstmilpod @amasad (Dec 2024)

Perfect display of "subtle" British racism. Walk up to a young Black man and compliment him for being a 'gangster' and 'ex-prisoner,' when he is not either one. Using shitty negative stereotype to compliment Black people

Jared Kushner’s ambitious plans to bring a luxury tourist resort to Albania have become complicated by local villagers, a suspected gangster—and the country’s murky communist past.

Khleo Thomas says his favorite moment in Holes (2003) is when Zero hits Dr. Pendanski with a shovel because "everyone loves seeing an underdog stand up to a bully." He added, "Zero is not the most Disney-friendly character...he might be the biggest gangster in Disney history."

I had dinner with my 16 yr old daughter last night. I have 3 daughters and 2 sons. I spend time with each of them. I take my daughters out once a month or so for a date night. My baby was asking me questions about some of the gangsters I got to know well in my life. I told her about going to St Tropez with the boss of Chicago mafia or outfit at the time. She laughed and said “Dad, if I try to tell my friends ANYTHING about you they would think I am making it up”. I laughed and said something about being an interesting guy she said “you KNOW you are interesting”! I love that my kids think that. Lol. She doesn’t even know 25% of it. Maybe someday I will write a book.