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This week, we break down the biggest story in markets: the blowup of Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund. We discuss whether Ken Griffin killed him or just showed up with the best bid, how an eleven-figure liquidation actually works behind the scenes, why going to the street to meet a margin call is like walking into a lion's den (and the Terra Luna call that proved it), whether the rate-hike comments were an orchestrated hit, why Avi is stepping into the memory dip now with Micron, Intel and SanDisk, the Korean "Squid Game" liquidation that wiped out millions of accounts, the real lesson of being dead right and broke, and the great Mag 7 split — why Apple, Google, and Meta are all underperforming for completely different reasons while Amazon keeps printing. Enjoy!

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Coming Up on 1000x...
(00:32) Did Ken Griffin Kill Leopold Aschenbrenner?
(03:30) How An 11-Figure Liquidation Actually Works
(9:32) Amateur Hour: Why He Broke The Cardinal Rules
(18:39) Walking Into The Lion's Den (And The Luna Parallel)
(25:48) Was It An Orchestrated Hit?
(30:42) Why Avi Is Buying The Memory Dip Now
(36:17) The Real Lesson: Being Dead Right And Broke
(42:56) Atoms Over Bits: The Mag 7 Split & What's Next

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Disclaimer: Nothing said on 1000x is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Avi, Jonah and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

This week, Avi sits down with Alexander Good, founder of Post Fiat, former Palantir and essayist, for one of the most wide-ranging conversations we've had. We discuss how he built a trading edge by reading stocks through advertising data, the EA vs Booking pair trade, the "goldfish theory" of why attention is more predictable than the future, where the model breaks (and why it's happening to Michael Saylor right now), why he's bearish on Palantir as ontologies become less necessary, why AI won't make people useless but will take their jobs, his call that unemployment starts kicking in within three months, the Nintendo trade and the coming AI-and-IP goldmine, and his big thesis: that AI gets regulated and sequestered like nuclear tech in 1945, ending in a sovereign margin call rather than a productivity utopia. Enjoy!

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Coming Up on 1000x...
(00:52) Who The F*** Is Alex Good?
(03:59) The Advertising Edge: How He Read Stocks Through Ad Data
(10:05) The Goldfish Theory & Where The Model Breaks
(16:15) Why He's Bearish On Palantir
(24:23) AI Won't Make You Useless — But It Will Take Your Job
(28:27) Unemployment In Three Months
(32:30) The Nintendo Trade & The Coming IP Goldmine
(37:20) The Sovereign Margin Call: Why AI Gets Regulated Like Nukes

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Disclaimer: Nothing said on 1000x is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Avi, Jonah and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

This week, with memory stocks down 30-40% from the highs, we ask whether memory has bottomed. We discuss why AI bailed out the everything bubble and why this bubble is different, the George Soros model of why a bubble comes back bigger the second time, why only 2.2% of US households pay for AI and why that means we're in inning one, the $26 billion Korean margin-call wipeout and what it tells you about sentiment, why nobody wins the US-China AI arms race except the components makers, the Saudi nuclear deal and looking where nobody else is looking, why the latest Iran escalation won't derail markets, and why gold looks phenomenal here while crypto may have finally bottomed. Enjoy!

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Coming Up on 1000x...
(00:32) Save Everything In Your 20s: The Bleecker Street Lesson
(07:01) How AI Bailed Out The Everything Bubble
(10:15) Has Memory Bottomed?
(13:51) Only 2.2% Pay For AI: We're In Inning One
(19:36) $26B Wiped Out: The Korea Margin-Call Warning
(23:42) The US-China Model Arms Race (And How To Trade It)
(28:26) Bombing Iran Again: Why Markets Don't Care
(42:02) Gold Looks Phenomenal & Crypto May Have Bottomed

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Disclaimer: Nothing said on 1000x is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Avi, Jonah and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

This week, Avi sits down with Vlad Novakovski, founder and CEO of Lighter, the on-chain exchange partnered with Robinhood. Vlad went to high school with Robinhood's Vlad Tenev, competed in the Physics and Informatics Olympiads alongside future Anthropic co-founders and Facebook's first CTO, finished Harvard at 19, and was recruited to Citadel by Ken Griffin himself. We discuss the Olympiad pipeline that produced half of Silicon Valley, what Ken Griffin told him about Bernie Madoff in 2004, why Madoff couldn't have happened on-chain, why he left Wall Street for Silicon Valley and then came back, how he pivoted his company and kept 80% of his engineering team, the custom ZK circuits that let Lighter run finance at 1% of the compute cost, why he thinks Lighter beats Hyperliquid on every axis, the Robinhood partnership and onchain options coming in Q3, and why every dollar of value at Lighter accrues to the token instead of the equity. Enjoy!

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Coming Up on 1000x...
(00:49) Harvard At 16 & The Olympiad Network Behind Anthropic
(10:10) Ken Griffin Closed Me At 18
(12:12) "That's A Ponzi": Ken Called Madoff In 2004
(16:08) Why He Left Wall Street For Silicon Valley
(19:46) How To Pivot And Keep 80% Of Your Engineers
(24:29) Running 40% Of The Economy At 1% Of The Cost
(27:46) Robinhood, Ethereum & Options Onchain
(30:48) All Value Accrues To The Token

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Disclaimer: Nothing said on 1000x is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Avi, Jonah and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

This week, we go deep on how careers and capital actually get made. We discuss how Jordi Alexander built Selini from a poker table, why table selection is the single most important decision you'll make, an insider's account of how Goldman Sachs anoints its "Illuminati" and what it takes to get there, why Jonah took a shot at the king and missed, why Ken Griffin says the alpha has been squeezed out of short-term trading and megatrends are what's left, the complete flows framework for Bitcoin and why there may be nobody left to sell, the Avi vs Jonah standoff on whether crypto is a buy here, the Clarity Act and why it probably won't pass, and what crypto was actually supposed to be. Enjoy!

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Coming Up on 1000x...
(00:29) How Jordi Built Selini & Why Table Selection Is Everything
(8:27) Inside Goldman: How They Anoint The Illuminati
(15:13) Shot At The King And Missed
(23:17) Ken Griffin Is Right: The Alpha Is In Megatrends
(25:07) Nobody Left To Sell: The Bitcoin Flows Framework
(39:13) The Market Can't Make Up Its Mind
(44:07) The Clarity Act & What Crypto Was Supposed To Be

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Disclaimer: Nothing said on 1000x is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Avi, Jonah and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.