Pickle Cat(@0xPickleCati):If you don’t believe life keeps giving you the same lesson until you pass it, go read the script God wrote for Leopold Aschenbrenner. > graduates Columbia at just 19 > joins FTX future fund > FTX blows up > joins OpenAI superalignment > gets fired for a “leak” > raises a $20b AI fund > fund blows up > and he’s not even 26 yet If he runs it back from here he’s a legend forever. If he doesn’t, he’s 25, he can just do it twice more.

2026.07.30 07:28

If you don’t believe life keeps giving you the same lesson until you pass it, go read the script God wrote for Leopold Aschenbrenner. > graduates Columbia at just 19 > joins FTX future fund > FTX blows up > joins OpenAI superalignment > gets fired for a “leak” > raises a $20b AI fund > fund blows up > and he’s not even 26 yet If he runs it back from here he’s a legend forever. If he doesn’t, he’s 25, he can just do it twice more.

Michael Sikand@michaelsikand

2026.07.30 03:51

JUST IN: FT confirms Leopold Aschenbrenner is in trouble after a historic tech drawdown. FT reports SALP has been in talks with existing investors and lenders to raise fresh capital after heavy losses in the AI rout. It also floated letting some investors buy assets straight out of the portfolio. His stated catalyst for the recovery is an Anthropic IPO. I don't know why a bunch of you were saying that "he hedged" with a small sleeve of puts you saw on the recent 13F. One of us.