person

Mike Solana

Pirate Wires founder; tech contrarian

Founder of Pirate Wires, a contrarian tech newsletter. Influential voice in Silicon Valley anti-doomer / accelerationist culture.

current Founder, Pirate Wires

@micsolana

Strategy positions

Accelerationendorses

Build faster; delay costs more than capability

Frames AI safety advocates as captured by political and economic incumbency. Pro-acceleration cultural voice.

The 'AI is going to kill us' people are remarkably aligned with the 'AI should be regulated by us' people. Convenient.

✍ blogPirate Wires· Pirate Wires· 2024· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Mike Solana's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Aditya Ramesh
shared 1 · J=1.00
OpenAI DALL·E creator
Albert Gu
shared 1 · J=1.00
CMU; Mamba and structured state-space models
Alec Radford
shared 1 · J=1.00
OpenAI; lead author of GPT, Whisper, CLIP
Ashish Vaswani
shared 1 · J=1.00
Co-founder Essential AI; lead author of 'Attention Is All You Need'
Brian Chau
shared 1 · J=1.00
Executive Director of Alliance for the Future
Charlie Snell
shared 1 · J=1.00
UC Berkeley; LLM efficiency and inference compute

Record last updated 2026-04-25.