The Billionaire Victims Club
The Billionaire Victims Club, Coda: The Man Who Needed to Be First
My favorite fucker, Elon Musk, needs another look as we close out the second season of the BVC
This Fucking Guy
Some people are just fuckers, and they need to be called out. This is where I drop the myriad of people who have earned the "This Fucking Guy" award, some multiple times.
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The Barnacle Archetype
Donor-class preferences enter the All-In podcast as private consensus, exit as public analysis, and arrive at the policy table already formatted for legislative language. It's not a debate show. It's a credibility laundromat with a Spotify deal.
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The Whampoa Military Academy of Silicon Valley
In 2007 thirteen men posed in mafia cosplay for Fortune magazine and called themselves the PayPal Mafia. The photo looks different now. It's not thirteen men performing menace. It's a class photo — of the cohort that just finished taking over the government.
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This Fucking Guy: Larry Ellison
ORACLE stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison. He started with a CIA contract, named the company after it, and told investors citizens will be on their 'best behavior' once we're all constantly recorded. He didn't disrupt the system. He built it.
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This Fucking Guy: Mark Zuckerberg
Meta's employees named their internal AI status leaderboard 'Claudeonomics.' Not Llamanomics. Claudeonomics. Zuckerberg spent billions building a frontier AI model his own people won't use, while paying a competitor to power his flagship AI product. The acquirer can't sell to his own staff.
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TFG: Sergey Brin
Brin named his $450 million superyacht after Google's secret project to build a censored search engine for China. The man comparing a 5% healthcare tax to Soviet communism literally named his boat after helping communists suppress the internet.
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This Fucking Guy: Jeff Bezos
The Amazon logo smiles A to Z — delightful, frictionless, friendly. Then Bezos got unlimited money and no brand consultants, and built a rocket the entire internet immediately recognized as a penis with Peyronie's disease. The logo lies. The rocket does not.
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This Fucking Guy: Peter Thiel
Billionaire Victims Club, Vol. 2. - Europe has looked through Palantir and seen whose face is on the other end. Not the Antichrist. Just Peter Thiel, 58, looking older than his years, spending $40k a quarter on young people's blood, waiting for the lockup to expire.
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This Fucking Guy: Elon Musk
Billionaire Victims Club, Vol. 1. As I drafted this, I was watching SPCX lose $400B in market value. Only about $1.5T more to go to be "right priced" Glorious!
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Bill Ackman Runs Everything Like a Hostile Takeover, Including His Principles
Bill Ackman spent a year positioning himself as the conscience of American academia. Then his wife's dissertation came up. Turns out his standards have a bid-ask spread.
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TFG: Elon Musk
In 2010, his first wife published everything you needed to know about Elon Musk in Marie Claire. The world decided the Roadster was too cool to care. We've been paying for that choice ever since.
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The Bait and Switch (TFG Pt 3)
The third and final episode of this trainwreck: I look at what this passel of chucklefucks is doing to smaller writers as they shred any fidelity remaining to their original mission statement. It's all about the bucks.