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With $3 billion, you could put a rocketship on Mars, do serious research into gene-modifying medicine, start new cities on the ocean, make automated laboratories that shrink the cost of medical research - you know, sci fi shit. I'd trade a teen messaging startup for that any day.



Exactly. It's funny that on a network of primarily tech founders, everyone seems to be looking at this as spending money, when the real pleasure is in using wealth as capital to really "make a dent in the universe".




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