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Say Less<br>A simple reminder to myself

Andrew Peek<br>Aug 12, 2026

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For the better part of two decades, saying more was how you accrued resources.<br>An “influencer” wasn’t necessarily someone with an original thought. It was someone who curated the original thoughts of others and amplified them through a channel.<br>In return, they gained status points: followers, opportunities, and capital.

I think we’re in the twilight of that era.

As expression becomes both cheap and abundant, and agents mediate more of the discovery process, the scarce asset shifts from attention to judgment. From “saying” to “doing” — and doing in a way (honest em dash!) that isn’t half-baked.<br>Human attention is feed-driven. We respond to repetition, familiarity, entertainment, and social proof. Agents, conversely, are task-driven. They don’t consume content because they’re bored. They look for the answer that best serves their objective.<br>The influencer may well be their first stop, but if an agent can trace the provenance of an idea back to its originator, it will be better positioned to predict forward on the next turn. Provided, of course, that the insight proved correct, or perhaps just “ahead of consensus” (I think they’re kind of the same thing, but that’s for another day).<br>That’s why I’m reminding myself to say less in public. To spar with my agents in private, but to make public speech my track record, as opposed to where every unfinished thought gets performed. I’m betting that agents will know my “Hit Rate”.<br>I also want there to be something worth saying.<br>To be held accountable for what I say.<br>And I want a batting average that even a machine can’t ignore.<br>Fewer words, longer lasting, so to speak.<br>In fact, after 20 years of playing this game, I’ve come to love startups for a very simple reason: A company is really just a strongly held opinion.<br>This is the premise behind The Terminal Bet.

I want to do justice to strongly held opinions. I want to register them here and watch each one play out across time. I’m in awe of people who believe in something with such conviction, that they put the scarcest resource in the world on the line: time.<br>I’m especially intrigued right now, as these may be the last bets we ever get to make.<br>Making something great is a ~decade-long commitment. By 2035, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone in an AI lab who isn’t betting on AGI.<br>So with that…

I’ll go first.

I am betting that we’re all going to be in the same line of work soon: Investor .<br>The future of wealth won’t be about using your labor to outrun AI. Nor will it be about waiting for companies to hit a trillion dollars before they go public. It won’t be about buying a house and living in it until you’re old. And it definitely won’t be about trading candlesticks against algorithmic agents who don’t ever need to blink.<br>The rules of investing are about to change in a way that none of us fully appreciate.<br>A handful of trends living beneath the surface, have convinced me;<br>Everything is being “financialized” — from Pokemon cards to startup equity. America wants to be the world’s marketplace. They want everything investable, no matter how niche, to be priced in USD and available on a US exchange to investors all over the world.

Everything will soon have a “perpetual” price. We’re in the final days of stock prices shutting off at 4pm and over the weekend. Everything financialized will be accurately priced around the clock. You won’t need to guess what the market thinks the price of a Mini Kelly should be. You will always know.

You will be compensated in dressed-up tokens called “points” (like basis points). Startups already distribute equity. Soon those shares will land in a digital wallet. Weekly at first, then daily. This will extend well beyond startups. Anything made investable (which will be everything) will be able to transfer ownership (basis points) to anyone, anytime. Ownership promotes alignment. Don’t sleep on this.

AI will create many more companies, each with their own tokens. More people will build. More agents will help. And everyone will need a ledger of who did what, and a scorecard that proves it was something people wanted. You should expect all kinds of new arrangements to be invented.

If more people earn equity, equity is more freely exchanged, and there’s an explosion in what you can exchange it for, then we will all have the job of a capital allocator .<br>For some, “capital allocator” may already be their identity. For others, the thought of having capital to allocate may sound like a pipe dream. But it’s coming… fast.<br>In 20 years of allocating capital, I’ve picked up a few things that I think can be helpful.<br>Above all else though, that investing rarely starts with companies. It starts with perspective. A view on some small part of the world and where it’s headed.<br>People don’t naturally think in ticker symbols. There are far too many already and there will be orders of...