Some Quick Christmas Insights Re: Sam Altman
A Talmudic reading of the dueling Wall Street Journal and Washington Post stories
It seems increasingly clear that Sam Altman is the new Sam Bankman-Fried — at least as far as the U.S. government is concerned.
That’s the takeaway from a bevy of coverage involving Sam Altman. For what it’s worth we’ve long contended that his moves against the CHIPS Act were fatal and that we’re in the dénouement.
First there was the Business Insider story which noted that Altman was sporting a $500,000 watch — one of just thirty-three ever made. This is not normal behavior.
From the Wall Street Journal piece, you learn that Brian Chesky vouched for Altman and from the Washington Post story, you learn that Altman co-invested in various of the Y Combinator companies.
It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that Altman’s late father Jerry — who worked as a consigliere for the Chisraeli-mob Roberts Brothers before his unexpected demise — provided a lot of the money for Altman and that that likely explains why Sam and his brothers colluded to steal their sister Annie’s inheritance.
When you understand that Airbnb is where the mob money launderers and the tech community meet up it isn’t surprising that Brian Chesky vouched for Sam Altman. Part of the reason housing costs are so expensive is in large measure due to Airbnb, which has acted as a kind of way station for criminal cash.
Chesky’s business — if you can call it that — is facing major headwinds, especially as the U.S. Treasury makes us more compliant with the rest of the industrialized world concerning money laundering and real estate.
You should expect this to serve as a kind of downward pressure on real estate prices right as Joe Biden wins re-election. Sorry boomers but it’s time to sell.
In both the WaPo and WSJ piece the key word phrase is mafia.
From the WaPo story:
“[Sam’s] greatest gift was making the two most important people in his life happy: Paul Graham and Peter Thiel,” said one of the people.
“I’ve had this conversation about what makes Sama special a hundred times,” said a venture-backed start-up founder who travels in similar circles. “He’s really good at the whole mafia thing. It’s almost like a secret society. There’s a reason why so many presidents come from Yale’s Skull and Bones.” [emphasis added]
Putting aside that ahistoric thing about U.S. presidents — William Howard Taft, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush is hardly that many when you account for legacy — this mafia thing shouldn’t become surprising when you spend anytime around these tech people.
It doesn’t take too much imagination to conclude that Thiel’s sources of capital were from the Russian (“Swiss”) and Chinese world whilst Altman’s were from Missouri’s mobbed up real estate rackets and that the reason so many of these players don’t seem real. These guys are about moving money.
When I argued with Thiel who promised but never quite delivered in backing me about these blacklists he didn’t deny their existence. Thiel had been the don of this spy network for quite a long time. That’s all done now. Peter has been tamed and he’s lucky he had Palantir or he’d be in real trouble.
My friend the writer Arthur Bloom put it thusly:
You should think of Silicon Valley as a kind of foreign occupation of the United States, using Chinese money, Israeli gangsterism, and various other foreign assets sprinkled in. If you're an actual American, you have an interest in breaking this, because they won't back you.
It is very clear that the way innovation is done in their style does not conduce to the American interest. Be extremely wary of these people, as they start to realize that, and head Uncle Sam's way. Nobody "deserves" forgiveness. It will certainly only come to the penitent. Taking out Crooked Kevin removed one of their outs, he would have given them all a pass.
Were I playing this game at the highest levels, I’d hire Annie Altman an attorney and begin the process of suing for her inheritance.
Merry Christmas
Chesky and Altman - both "mentored" *wink* by Peter Thiel