If you want to change your life:
Move to Shenzhen.
Get into hardware.
Date a Chinese girl in manufacturing.
Start drinking whisky.
You’ll be a billionaire.
If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2026 Midterm Elections, I’m going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America, $5,000! Thank you for your attention to this matter, and I look forward to signing those checks!
Community note
This $5,000 “Trump Dividend” promise was first made in Sept. 2026. Similar prior DOGE and tariff check pledges have not been paid out. It would cost ~$1.2 trillion and require congressional approval.
pbs.org/newshour/polit…washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…
Your customers won’t pay more because you have a co-founder.
They won’t use your product daily because you have 12,500 LinkedIn followers.
They don’t care if you raised at a $10M or $30M valuation.
Here’s what I wrote this morning --> darijanducic.com/blog/the-fo…
$100B ideas:
Asteroid mining
Underwater cities
Brain-computer interfaces
Supersonic aviation
Nuclear fusion
Weather control
Artificial organs on demand
Space elevators
Cure leukemia
Reverse aging
Humanoid robots
Manufacturing in space
Apple in numbers:
~166,000 full-time employees
~540 Apple Stores, operated directly by Apple
~450M core devices shipped every year
Including:
~248M iPhones
~63M iPads
~26M Macs
~37M Apple Watches
~70–75M AirPods
I use 4 Apple devices every day.
Can’t find the right co-founder? Me neither.
Still building Draki solo, so I’m bringing solo founders together in SF.
Technical or not, come pitch your vision. You might find someone who wants to build it with you ;)
--> luma.com/5j49bo7n?tk=1FBhCe
Neeeeeed a co-founder with a better GitHub 👾
Building STT models, diarization, voice embeddings, MCPs + hardware to create the last context layer for personal AI.
If that’s your idea of fun, we might have a company to build.