One of The Scariest Hackers I’ve Ever Met — Pablos Holman

Zero Effect

“Oh, totally good movie. It's a good movie. It's awesome. Go watch it. And I don't even watch movies, but trust me, this one's good.”— Pablos Holman

WarGames

“And War Games. Those are the two movies in the world to watch. War Games, the only defensible movie on hacking. Only defensible hacker movie ever.”— Pablos Holman

Oakley titanium frame glasses

Oakley

“These are the best glasses ever made, which is why I started wearing them. they're made of titanium alloy. Oakley made them in their heyday.”— Pablos Holman

Breakneck

“there was a book Tyler Cowan recommended. There's a book called Breakneck. one of my employees is reading it and recommended. He said it's an amazing page turner.”— Tim Ferriss

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson (inferred)

“Snow Crash, Metaverse. I mean, when did Cryptonomicon come out? Which I love.”— Tim Ferriss

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson (inferred)

“if you're any kind of nerd, Neil is a demigod. Snow Crash, Metaverse.”— Pablos Holman

Apple II

Apple (inferred)

“I got one when I was like 9 years old. One of the first couple thousand Apple 2s ever made. So I had a computer in the cold”— Pablos Holman

Schlage locks

Schlage (inferred)

“Schlage locks, the kind that you likely have in your front door, your house, can quickly be opened by banging a file down key with a small mallet.”— Tim Ferriss

AirSnort

“One of our buddies had made a tool called Air Snort to crack Wi-Fi. And we were cracking Wi-Fi and stealing passwords for fun.”— Pablos Holman

Nvidia GPUs

Nvidia (inferred)

“All these hyperscalers have woken up this year to the fact that a chip from Nvidia needs a ton of energy and we've been burning gas to get it.”— Pablos Holman

Tesla

Tesla (inferred)

“we have a team that's developing cargo ships that are autonomous. You duct tape a Tesla to the front and it can drive across an ocean.”— Pablos Holman