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[@WillManidis](/creator/twitter/WillManidis)
"slop is the defining cultural export of the next decade. the industrialization of writing via LLMs will turn all writing into slop in the same way the industrialization of farming turned our food supply into slop. total slop. your only hope is to find the old the durable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1882824726911045806) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-01-24T16:16Z 104.4K followers, 2.6M engagements


"the modern "private equity investor" has thousands of tools historical data digital dashboard public stock reporting even slack let alone account for being able to email text call signal etc and still cannot operate at the level these guys could. nuts level of agency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980322759243886970) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T17:18Z 104.4K followers, 8981 engagements


"the ford foundation is the single greatest office building in america"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1973368220129304757) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-01T12:43Z 104.4K followers, 1.3M engagements


"impossible not to see God in every piece of creation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1976745557281640463) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-10T20:24Z 104.4K followers, 169.7K engagements


"greatest to ever do it. Michael Dell was XX when Dell Computer crossed $150m in sales"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977385846958387470) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-12T14:48Z 104.4K followers, 199.9K engagements


"we are suffering from an epidemic of "cocktail party thought". a huge part of our country can only conceptualize the world through nice little facts and counterintuitive gotchas. they view the world like its all one big atlantic article. not a big mess of blood flesh and souls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977793833401200846) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-13T17:49Z 104.4K followers, 715.2K engagements


"the central lie of modernity is that the world is a large complex system that can only be understood via "trends" and "demographic shifts". the jared kushner "just read XX books and get the guys in the room" is much closer to the Truth Of What's Really Going on Here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977795189344186483) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-13T17:54Z 104.4K followers, 43.3K engagements


"software distribution in legacy/regulated verticals is probably the worlds most underpriced asset right now in both public and private markets. buying this distribution/install base and offering as a channel for new software is an obvious and gulfstream-bearing trade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978442528442445909) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-15T12:47Z 104.4K followers, 3525 engagements


"openai allowing erotic content on platform is a huge own goal for tech in politics rising power bills will be a key issue in 2028 and now you need to defend those power bills increasing such that your kids can cheat on their homework and get wire headed by ai pornography"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978464299598139777) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-15T14:13Z 104.4K followers, 20.2K engagements


"replying "congratulations" to someones job announcement: heard mentality conformist played out everyone else is doing it implies no degree of intimacy consider: "i think you're making a mistake" "what are they paying you" "how could you" "you will answer for this""  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980365861119812095) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T20:09Z 104.4K followers, 16K engagements


"the modern deal guy has no permanent capital no permanent loyalty and no permanent location. the modern deal guy is playing a repeated game he doesn't care who he pisses off there's going to be another hand. the modern deal guy is much more a broker than a principal. he has an ecosystem around him that identify as "his guys" the modern deal guy has XX% of his chips on the table at any given moment the next hand will always be bigger. the modern deal guy is reticent to monetize any given opportunity early but when he decides its time to sell he does so savagely and without concern for fallout."  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980644725427433546) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-21T14:37Z 104.4K followers, 86K engagements


"browser company for $610m to Atlassian closing on the day openai announces their browers has to be a top five timed m&a event ever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980693185790898352) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-21T17:50Z 104.4K followers, 359.4K engagements


"there is a degree to which someone/some idea being legible to Capital is the most underrated factor in its success certain ideas and certain people are understandable without packaging to large capital streams. many ideas are not. you can do very well packing + communicating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1981056263606952025) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-22T17:53Z 104.4K followers, 24.5K engagements


"for XX years emory university held XX% of their endowment in Coca-Cola stock. they 16xd the endowment on this position alone. whenever someone tries to convince you to diversify remember this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1981108532675268993) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-22T21:20Z 104.4K followers, 38.3K engagements


"@wolfejosh @go_thematic going short on the Sam Altman power company during the largest ai mega cycle in history months before any of the narrative started to show cracks is certainly a bold call"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1981110787998700010) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-22T21:29Z 104.4K followers, XXX engagements


"@kwharrison13 @wquist @slow @generalcatalyst @ThriveCapital @8vc @khoslaventures @a16z @jeremygiffon Jeremy and I will only speak on growth buy outs in a field in Columbia Missouri at 3am in just a few weeks. If youre meant to be there youll find your way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1981162335944528241) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-23T00:54Z 104.4K followers, 1251 engagements


"great moment in the cheeky pint episode with dan sundheim where daniel presses him to walk through his average earnings morning in exhaustive detail both w/ and w/o a crisis i wish more interviews would do this: how you do the smallest things is how you do the biggest things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1981344320495243428) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-23T12:57Z 104.4K followers, 77.3K engagements


"an interesting side effect of living during the first great age of private market podcasting (new media) is how quickly private market strategies are getting saturated. LLM buy out when from weird / un investable to consensus overpriced in like six months. used to take years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1981383104620044439) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-23T15:31Z 104.4K followers, 4894 engagements


"ScienceIO has been acquired by Veradigm Together we are going to build the intelligence provider for the future of healthcare"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1762469955147096324) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2024-02-27T13:29Z 104.4K followers, 600.8K engagements


"paul ferri founder of matrix partners"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1899457062825796040) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-03-11T13:47Z 104.4K followers, 42.3K engagements


"with the exception of museum quality/rareness antique prices have fallen off a cliff over the past XX years. you can decorate your home like a 18th century royal with pieces unthinkable XX% of humans across history but instead you live amongst minimalist ikea slop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1945158602009813263) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-07-15T16:28Z 104.4K followers, 1.3M engagements


"what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1947293334952685797) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-07-21T13:51Z 104.4K followers, 715.5K engagements


"if I had to make a long bet on the forms of religion that keep sane over the next century: I would bet on mercantile faiths (quakerism etc) thrived during the first Industrial Revolution that focused on limited consumption engagement in labor and small isolated communities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1948350672715276762) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-07-24T11:52Z 104.4K followers, 11.9K engagements


"i think we will all remember this as one of the obvious high water marks that everyone was too fee-blind to see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1970173986660110706) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-09-22T17:10Z 104.4K followers, 125.8K engagements


"earnestly going into banking today is as contrarian as going into venture was in 2016 adjust your expectations of both groups accordingly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1970929262669812149) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-09-24T19:12Z 104.4K followers, 90.1K engagements


"theyre doing tiktoks about how to get YC to fund your LLM powered private equity buy out. thats where were at in the market cycle on this theme"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1973787662453498296) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-02T16:30Z 104.3K followers, 64.4K engagements


"its genuinely nuts that if you get good enough at new york city real estate the only other place where those skills are useful is negotiating world peace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1976317581104644191) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-09T16:03Z 104.3K followers, 614.7K engagements


"a century ago a small scale industrialist could raise armies annex cities and operate with very little concern for the state no matter how much richer the rich get today they live completely at the whims of an increasingly fickle state. incredible growth in state power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977041425054531822) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-11T15:59Z 104.3K followers, 91.6K engagements


"i've been harping on the idea for years that there's a set of ideas that make incredibly interesting venture-like opportunities but require complexity in structure/capital that venture funds are/were unwilling to underwrite (ie: buyout take private roll up etc.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977822993087926594) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-13T19:45Z 104.3K followers, 4413 engagements


""software investors" were obsessed with the idea of the idea of a tiny team reaching a billion+ run rate in enterprise saas because of "AI" this is a silly idea- gtm sales etc all track linearly with headcount. but it will become common in biology nabla is XX ppl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978441969891217468) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-15T12:44Z 104.4K followers, 39.3K engagements


"all successful human societies are built around a belief in *SOMETHING* the perversion of secular modernity is that its a social belief based in the absence of a thing not the existence of it. this is literally a black hole that warps and destroys all of society around it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978621201464303731) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-16T00:37Z 104.3K followers, 16.3K engagements


"on bubbles from "A Taste for Happiness" by Michel David-Weill the chair of and heir to Lazard for many years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978805135519170737) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-16T12:48Z 104.3K followers, 6085 engagements


"more photos from norway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978866295866003545) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-16T16:51Z 104.4K followers, 12.7K engagements


"we spend so much time thinking about GPUs or electricity or talented engineers as the substrate of technological progress and not nearly enough about the fast and efficient formation of risk capital as the real enabling technology. we would not have the last XX years without vc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978976877529182499) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-17T00:10Z 104.3K followers, 14.8K engagements


"the argument against the repatriation of artifacts from northern european museums has always been these countries are stable enough to prevent the looting/destruction of such priceless cultural artifacts. we're very quickly entering a world where that is no longer true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980278750521507933) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T14:23Z 104.4K followers, 21.1K engagements


"@1001ai_ @generalcatalyst @civ @Lux_Capital missed opportunity to not call it wallah dot ai"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980363404452983254) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T20:00Z 104.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Craft Is the Antidote to Slop "The devils oldest strategy is of course promising godlike creation without godlike effort.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1971920155996574168) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-09-27T12:49Z 104.4K followers, 403K engagements


"as the world gets increasingly short term oriented the returns you get from being oriented towards the long term increase exponentially"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978551502462394725) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-15T20:00Z 104.4K followers, 23.7K engagements


"interesting cultural indicator that Volvo quietly rolled out armored versions of their family cars direct to consumer over the summer probably nothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978578966970552688) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-15T21:49Z 104.4K followers, 100.1K engagements


"would love to fund a bloomberg terminal for private markets twitter timeline + dms signal messages unified inbox for each person text message based cal invites"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1979946263261950038) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-19T16:22Z 104.4K followers, 134.4K engagements


"the sin of mass production is that it shifts the onus of quality from the producer to the consumer. it is your job to find to food products and newly ideas and text that don't poison you. we've lowered the cost of creation only to increase the cost of consumption much more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980252147049509056) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T12:37Z 104.4K followers, 10.4K engagements


"@DavidSacks its very funny that "reid hoffman" endorsing anthropic is about the worst possible thing that could happen to the company"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980324449640735098) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T17:25Z 104.4K followers, 21.1K engagements


"there are basically only two businesses in the world: computer and money. ideas from one are mutually illegible to the other. fund staking and business podcasting are both arbitrages where you make ideas from computer legible to money and get a gulfstream out of the trade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1981057397083762838) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-22T17:57Z 104.4K followers, 4370 engagements


"@HighyieldHarry When Judgement Comes I hope God sees what we did to ensure efficient price discovery of public assets. When the trumpets blow I hope He recognizes all we did to efficiently price risk on his earth. I hope he knows His servants in the JPM Bug Pod came every day to honor Him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1981334990093770922) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-23T12:20Z 104.4K followers, 17.9K engagements


"if you talk to any serious hiker theyre like yes demons are real make sure you dont walk along a stream for too long sometimes a witch trails me for miles avoid wearing bright colors and pray being entering the forest. the ancient is still very much alive along the edges"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1960316234324389959) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-08-26T12:19Z 104.4K followers, 17.8M engagements


"my rough view of the venture consensus is a certain set of funds have fallen head over heals for 90s wall street and is introducing catastrophic amounts of low iq structuring/finacialization into deals that don't need it. right idea horrible execution. going to nuke cash"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977822690955461115) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-13T19:44Z 104.4K followers, 10.3K engagements


"the reason is simple: biology is used to a development/commercialization split. it is totally expected that a tiny company will develop a new technology (before: drug technology now technology that finds the drug technology) and license/partner its way to market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978441971573092358) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-15T12:44Z 104.4K followers, 3806 engagements


"if youre a young person interested going deep on weird things basically the only good advice is you should be 1000x more commercial. someone will get very rich by monetizing the things you figure out theres no reason that person shouldnt be you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1979191707599053066) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-17T14:24Z 104.4K followers, 115K engagements


"whenever you read the history of the corporate raiders in the 70s and 80s its even more nuts to imagine how little coordination infrastructure they had. these guys had span of control over 1000s of people in distant locations with no text no email only fax and calls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980322502204354653) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T17:17Z 104.4K followers, 51.3K engagements


"@benln albania"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1981417940990783505) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-23T17:50Z 104.4K followers, 1409 engagements