Steven Hassan PhD on Instagram: "Peter Thiel is giving secret, unrecorded, expensive lectures on “the Antichrist.” And he’s using an old influence tactic to do it: scarcity. In addition, he was quoted as saying, “If you really want to terrify people, you have to do it through religion.” Now he’s recruiting libertarians and Silicon Valley elites into a cult called Acts 17, “Acknowledging Christ within Technology and Society.” It’s led by Michelle Stephens (husband Trae founded AI weapons company

Startups | Entrepreneurs | VCs🦄 on Instagram: "Michael Seibel, former Y Combinator CEO, has a blunt but needed take on virality. Chasing clicks, views, and fleeting hype feels productive, but it rarely builds durable companies. Viral moments spike attention, not trust. What actually matters is whether people understand the product, believe the idea, and are willing to pay for it again and again. If your growth disappears the moment the algorithm shifts, you do not have marketing, you have noise