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NVIDIA's CEO admitted to cheating on his wife while his company investigated whether he had been targeted by Chinese spies. And somehow both stories involve the same woman. > Jensen Huang is the billionaire founder of NVIDIA, the company behind some of the world's most powerful AI chips. > A Chinese businesswoman named Alice Huang was an executive at Megaspeed, a company suspected of helping China get access to restricted NVIDIA chips. > US intelligence reportedly believed Alice was working for Chinese intelligence and had developed a close relationship with Jensen. > They suspected she was gathering information about him and could influence NVIDIA's business with China. > Then reports emerged that Jensen and Alice had been romantically involved. > Three Republican congressional committee chairmen wanted answers and requested a closed-door briefing with Jensen. > But Jensen's next move caught even more attention. > He sent a message to NVIDIA employees admitting he had been unfaithful to his wife. > "My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did." > NVIDIA's board then launched an independent investigation into whether Jensen had been targeted by a foreign intelligence operation. > Jensen said he would cooperate fully. NVIDIA says it has no reason to believe its secrets or US national security were compromised. Jensen remains CEO.

A man helped write the research paper behind ChatGPT, left Google to build an AI startup, and somehow ended up creating one of crypto's biggest blockchains because he couldn't find a cheap way to pay his workers. > Illia Polosukhin grew up in Ukraine and became interested in programming as a teenager. > After studying computer science, he moved into machine learning research and eventually joined Google. > While there, he worked on natural language processing and became one of eight researchers who co-authored a paper called "Attention Is All You Need" in 2017. > That paper introduced the Transformer architecture, which would later become the foundation of modern AI systems like ChatGPT. > But Illia had another idea. > In 2017, he left Google with his colleague Alexander Skidanov to build an AI startup called NEAR AI. > Their goal was to teach computers how to write code using natural language. > To train their models, they recruited software engineering students from different parts of the world to help generate data. > Then they ran into a problem. > Some of their contributors didn't have bank accounts, and sending small payments across countries was becoming a nightmare. > They turned to Bitcoin and Ethereum, hoping crypto could solve the problem. > But transaction fees were too expensive, and the networks couldn't handle what they needed. > So Illia and Alex decided to build their own blockchain. > They thought it would take six months. > It took them a couple of years. > In August 2018, they founded NEAR Protocol, and its mainnet eventually launched in October 2020. > The project they started because they couldn't find a suitable payment network had become a blockchain of its own. > Today, NEAR has grown into a major blockchain ecosystem, with a global community of developers and users. A man who helped create the technology behind modern AI ended up building a blockchain because paying his workers was too difficult. Imagine if he'd just stayed at Google.

A man left a 13-year engineering career to build a new blockchain, watched every investor who had committed to backing him pull out, and still built one of crypto's biggest networks. > Anatoly Yakovenko spent nearly 13 years working as an engineer at Qualcomm, helping develop technology used in mobile phones. > In 2016, he left Qualcomm and joined Mesosphere, a company building software for large computer systems. > In 2017, he moved to Dropbox, where he worked on making distributed systems faster and more efficient. > But something else had caught his attention. > While experimenting with cryptocurrency mining, Anatoly started thinking about how blockchains could process transactions faster. > One night, after two coffees and a beer, he stayed awake until 4 AM and had an idea. > He realised computers could use the passage of time to help agree on the order of events without constantly communicating with each other. > He called the concept Proof of History. > Just five months after joining Dropbox, he quit to build a blockchain around the idea. > By November 2017, he had published the Solana whitepaper and started looking for investors. > Some investors initially committed to backing the project. > But as the crypto market started collapsing in 2018, those investors pulled out before sending the money. > Anatoly kept building and brought in former Qualcomm colleagues Greg Fitzgerald and Stephen Akridge to help turn the idea into a working product. > Eventually, Solana secured its first backers and continued developing through the bear market. > On March 16, 2020, Solana launched its Mainnet Beta. > Today, Solana is one of crypto's biggest blockchain ecosystems, powering thousands of applications and millions of transactions. Anatoly left a comfortable engineering career, watched his early funding commitments disappear, and kept building until Solana became one of crypto's biggest networks. Imagine if he'd just stayed at Dropbox.

An engineer spent 10 years at Apple, six years at Facebook, and helped build Meta's ambitious crypto project. When that project stalled, he left to build a blockchain of his own. > Evan Cheng spent 10 years at Apple working on foundational software technology. > In 2015, he joined Facebook, which later became Meta. > He worked on programming languages and developer infrastructure before moving into the company's blockchain research team. > Meta was developing Diem, an ambitious project that aimed to bring cryptocurrency payments to BILLIONS of people. > Cheng helped lead the research and development behind it. > But Diem faced mounting regulatory opposition, and the project never launched as planned. > By 2021, Cheng had grown frustrated with what he could accomplish inside a large company. > He wanted to build something bigger, with a team focused on solving the problems he believed blockchain could address. > So he left Meta. > He teamed up with former colleagues Adeniyi Abiodun, Sam Blackshear, George Danezis and Kostas Chalkias to start Mysten Labs. > They had spent years working on Diem and the technology behind it. > Now they wanted to use that experience to build a new blockchain. > Their project became Sui. > In September 2022, Mysten Labs raised $300 MILLION at a $2 BILLION valuation. > Sui's mainnet launched in May 2023. > The project that grew out of Meta's stalled crypto ambitions had become a blockchain of its own. Evan Cheng spent years building technology inside some of the world's biggest companies. Then he left to build the blockchain he wanted to see. Imagine if he'd stayed at Meta.

A man left Twitter to build a crypto wallet with no token of its own, and somehow turned it into a $3 BILLION company. > Brandon Millman worked as a senior engineer at Twitter from 2013 to 2017. > He moved into crypto and joined 0x, a project building infrastructure for decentralised trading on Ethereum. > After spending years working on crypto infrastructure, he teamed up with Francesco Agosti and Chris Kalani to build something of their own. > They wanted to make using crypto simpler. > In 2021, the three started building Phantom, a wallet that initially focused on Solana. > At the time, Solana was still growing, and Phantom was betting that more people would need a simple way to interact with its ecosystem. > By July 2021, Phantom had raised $9 MILLION from investors led by Andreessen Horowitz. > Then its user base started taking off. > By September 2021, Phantom was adding around 100,000 users a week with just six developers and a couple of contractors. > In January 2022, it raised $109 MILLION at a $1.2 BILLION valuation. > Three years later, it raised another $150 MILLION at a $3 BILLION valuation. > And it did all this without launching its own token. > Today, Phantom is one of crypto's most widely used wallets, giving millions of people access to digital assets and blockchain applications. Brandon left Twitter and bet on an emerging ecosystem to build a multibillion-dollar company. Imagine if he'd just stayed at Twitter.

A man bet $53,000 on a dying video game store. Wall Street bet against him. His position hit $48 MILLION, and he ended up testifying before Congress. > In 2019, Keith Gill was working at MassMutual, a financial services company, while researching stocks in his spare time. > He believed GameStop, a struggling video game retailer, was deeply undervalued. > Wall Street was betting against it. > By January 2021, more shares had been shorted than the company had available to trade. > Gill posted his analysis on Reddit as DeepFuckingValue and on YouTube as Roaring Kitty. > For months, he kept sharing his research while building his position. > Then Reddit's WallStreetBets community piled into GameStop. > The stock surged from around $17 at the start of January to an intraday high of $483 on January 28. > Short sellers suffered BILLIONS in losses. > Melvin Capital lost 53% in January and received a $2.75 BILLION cash injection from other investment firms. > On January 27, Gill's posted portfolio showed his GameStop holdings and cash worth nearly $48 MILLION. > Then trading platforms restricted some GameStop purchases, triggering public outrage and congressional hearings. > Gill appeared before Congress in February 2021. > His defense was that he was an individual investor who believed the stock was undervalued. He started sharing stock research online. At the height of the frenzy, his portfolio was worth nearly $48 MILLION, and Congress wanted answers about the market chaos surrounding the trade.

An Irish drug dealer hid the keys to a $400 MILLION Bitcoin fortune inside a fishing rod case. It ended up in a landfill. The same stash just moved another 500 Bitcoin. > Clifton Collins bought 6,000 bitcoin:native in 2011 and 2012 using money from growing and selling cannabis, when Bitcoin traded for just a few dollars. > In 2017, he was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison. > Before his arrest, he had split his Bitcoin across 12 wallets and printed the access codes on paper. > He hid the paper inside the cap of a fishing rod case at his rented home. > While he was in prison, his landlord had the property cleared out. > His belongings, including the fishing gear, reportedly ended up at a dump. > The keys were never found, and the fortune was believed to be lost. > But in 2026, wallets linked to the stash began moving again as Irish authorities recovered 500 bitcoin:native at a time. > Today another 500 Bitcoin worth $41.5M has moved. Imagine losing the keys to a fortune, only for the wallets to start waking up years later.

A man spent 90 minutes telling YouTube everything it was doing wrong with gaming. They hired him anyway. > In 2014, Ryan Wyatt was working in the gaming industry when Google reached out about YouTube's head of gaming role. > Ryan had plenty to say. > His previous company depended heavily on YouTube, and he was frustrated by how the platform treated gaming creators. > So when he sat down for lunch with YouTube's chief business officer, he spent the next 90 minutes telling him what needed to change. > He didn't even realize he was being considered for the job. > But YouTube brought him into the interview process, and after 13 interviews, he got hired. > He was just 27 at the time. > When Ryan arrived, gaming videos didn't even have their own category on YouTube's homepage. > He believed gaming was a massive opportunity. He just had to convince the company. > Over the next eight years, he helped turn YouTube Gaming into its second-largest vertical, generating BILLIONS of dollars. > His team also helped launch features like channel memberships and Super Chat, giving creators more ways to earn money. > Then, in 2022, he left YouTube to lead Polygon Studios and help bring gaming into Web3. > Today, he's CEO of Cronos Labs, the team behind @UltApp and @CronosNetwork. He went from telling one of the world's biggest platforms what it was getting wrong to helping build one of its biggest businesses. Imagine if he'd kept his opinions to himself.

$GRX Chain is up 2,428% in 24 hours, and I went digging to understand what's behind the move. Here's what caught my attention: > $213M market cap > $2.61M in 24h trading volume on GroveX > $8.5M in TVL, up 69.45% >Just $0.04 in reported chain fees and revenue The price is exploding, but the on-chain numbers tell a different part of the story. Trading volume shows that GRX is changing hands. TVL shows capital deposited in DeFi. Fees give us another signal of actual network usage. These metrics measure different things, so I'm not jumping to conclusions. Watching closely 👀

A 20 year old bank teller stole $215,000 and vanished. On his deathbed he begged his daughter never to look him up. She looked him up that night and started a podcast to talk about it 2 years later. > Theodore "Ted" Conrad was a vault teller at Society National Bank in Cleveland, starting in 1969. > On July 11, 1969, he finished his shift, stuffed $215,000 in cash into a paper bag, and walked out the door. > He was never seen as Ted Conrad again. > $215,000 in 1969 is worth roughly $1.8 MILLION today. > Investigators chased him for decades. > His case ran on "America's Most Wanted" and "Unsolved Mysteries." > He resurfaced hundreds of miles away as Thomas Randele, sold luxury cars in Massachusetts, got married, raised a daughter named Ashley. > Ashley grew up knowing nothing about any of it. > In March 2021, dying of lung cancer, he finally told her: he'd changed his name decades ago, and the authorities were "probably still looking" for him. > He agreed to give her his real name. One condition, she had to promise never to look into it. > She promised. > She broke it the same night, searched his real name and found hundreds of articles about a bank teller wanted since 1969. > He died two months later, at 71. 52 years on the run and never arrested. > In late 2023, Ashley turned everything she found into a podcast "Smoke Screen: My Fugitive Dad." He asked her to bury the secret forever. She looked him up that night and started a podcast to talk about it 2 years later.

Someone has sold all 15.94M $PENGUIN for a profit of $1.7M+ Despite trading 1,000+ tokens with a win rate below 15%, catching just $PENGUIN flipped his PnL from a $1.3M loss to a $433.6K profit A reminder that all it takes is just one good ticker

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