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Ashlee Vance

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Ashlee Vance

@ashleevance

Writing at corememory.com and host of the Core Memory podcast. 2X NYT best-seller. Filmmaker @HBO (Wild, Wild Space) + @Netflix (Don't Die).

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Joined October 2009

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Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Jul 4
Vast hopes to get its new space station - Haven-1 - up in orbit by 2027. And so, we went to Long Beach to see the space station being manufactured and to explore what life might be like aboard it. We managed to acquire an astronaut for the visit, and he taught me how to pass
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Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Aug 30, 2024
Put the cartels in charge of higher education
Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Oct 5, 2024
The world's richest human and the secretary of transportation just casually hammering out disaster relief on X. What a bizzarely sane moment in the midst of our long national nightmare that is an election year
Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Sep 23, 2024
VC the other day told me, "We've lost several really good founders to ayahuasca. They came back and just didn't care about much anymore."
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Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Feb 7, 2025
A single tab in Chrome on my laptop is consuming 102,400 times the amount of memory as the entire Apollo Guidance Computer
Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Oct 13, 2024
SpaceX is now on to its second generation of reusable rocket technology and all of Europe is still just like, oh, well, crap, we never thought it would work in the first place and did NOT plan for this outcome
Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Aug 22, 2024
At least one third of the podcast industry is the same 30 people interviewing each other
Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Aug 25, 2024
Boeing was paid billions more than SpaceX to be seven years late on a mission it could not complete . . . And will now be rescued from total disaster by SpaceX Never forget, many bureaucrats wanted to sole source all of this to Boeing.
Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Jun 5, 2024
.@MrBeast is 26. You can't run for President until you're 35. My prediction is he runs in 2036 and raises 10x his nearest competitor by turning the whole campaign into an ongoing gameshow. After he wins, the American Experiment is considered complete.
Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
May 29, 2025
Fresh episode on the future of babies with @noor_siddiqui_ and @OrchidInc Full show below 👇
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Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Nov 20, 2023
700 of 770 OpenAI employees saying they will go now. What is the board going to be board of?
Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Feb 9, 2024
There's just no way Steve Jobs releases this mess. He would have demeaned someone until that battery weighed nothing and fit in the headset
Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Sep 20, 2024
2005 could not comprehend this paragraph
Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Nov 4, 2024
Is there a secret stash of federal contractors with lots of rockets and satellites we don't know about?
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