🤡 UBER GOT RUGGED?!?

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V :)
16 Sep

GM ladies and gentleman and welcome back to B&C, the newsletter that'll have you healthy, wealthy, and somewhat well informed.

Here's the breakdown for today:

  • Seeking Sigma

  • The Uber Pill

  • The Balaji Pill

  • Implosions and Explosions.

Seeking Sigma

THE UBER PILL

Uber recently got hacked with the exploiter gaining control of some of the most fundamental layers of Uber's codebase. In fact this fellow even managed to gain admin access to Uber's AWS account. Oof. Apparently the hacker notified the company via their Slack 😭. “I announce i am a hacker and uber has suffered a data breach." Based.

The hacker said that he "did it for fun" and may release the source code "in a few months". Hacking into Fortune 500 companies tech stacks is one hell of a hobby. Uber employees thought it was a joke and started sending Mr. Krabs memes in chat. Uber's IT department responded with “Sorry to be a stick in the mud, but I think IT would appreciate less memes while they handle the breach.”. Ouch

CRYPTOPILLZ

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💹 Watch Li Lu legendary investor, Colombia BS, MBA, and JD graduate, and student of Charlie Munger scream at the new generation of Colombia business students.

🦘 Apparently the tail of a kangaroo walking works as hard as an actual human leg. So there's that.

THE BALAJI PILL

There are some books that you judge by their covers, others by their summary on the back. The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan is one that sets itself apart from the rest with its brilliant organization, innovative design, and of course its insightful content. I'd urge you to read it free on its website where Srinivasan offers various synthesis of the fundamental thesis of the book.

Srinivasan himself offered a one sentence summary of his book:

A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility, an integrated cryptocurrency, a consensual government limited by a social smart contract, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and an on-chain census that proves a large enough population, income, and real-estate footprint to attain a measure of diplomatic recognition.

Balaji Srinivasan

Implosions and Explosions

See y'all next week,

V and Nat

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