David Holz's Living The Dream Era Begins

Midjourney takes a turn with a full-body scanner

One of the tricks Silicon Valley pulls on people is making it seem cool to raise tons of money. The sums can be so vast, especially in this moment of AI frenzy, that it looks awesome to pry billions of dollars away from investors in the hopes that you might make billions of dollars for yourself. The better, more awesome approach, of course, is to make your billions without taking any money from investors and without giving up any control of your company. It’s a very hard outcome to engineer but glorious when it occurs.

David Holz is living this dream, and we’re now catching a glimpse of what his version of rich, smart, eccentric guy with no one to answer to looks like.