Dylan Collins
@MrDylanCollins
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Builder/Investor at 10xHumans + LFG Holdings. Previously founded SuperAwesome (a/b Epic Games), Jolt (a/b GameStop), DemonWare (a/b Activision). Rap devotee.
Joined January 2010
Over the years I've realised that @seanblanchfield has an uncanny knack to be building exactly the right thing at the right moment, mostly because he started when everyone else didn't get it.
Today’s pod ep — a journey through the life of Sean Blanchfield, one of Ireland’s most interesting and recurring tech entrepreneurs. Phorest, Demonware (with @MrDylanCollins) and now Jentic. Also, AI’s impact on jobs, our lives and the state of society https://t.co/ntliJ44UiB
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What is AGI?
no one knows what it means but it’s provocative it gets the people going.
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Spending Bitcoin should be a breeze — not a tax nightmare. Tell your legislator to pass a de minimis tax exception for Bitcoin so we have the freedom to pay how we choose. Sign the petition now.
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Bobby versus @bendingspoons
Still waiting on my new domain to be created, and until it is I'll keep adding features here. I actually think this is going to kick Evernote's ass. So many cool features planned. up today: 1. auto synch across all devices (EVERYTHING) 2. take a pic of something and use AI to
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So much of our ancient history is below the sea. A lot of dates are going to get pushed back…
Wow! “French marine archaeologists have discovered a massive undersea wall off the coast of Brittany, dating from around 5,000 BC”. https://t.co/LdS8XHrWAQ
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If you aren't bidding on Mariah Carey's demo tape, will you really have accomplished anything this week?
waxpoetics.com
In partnership with Arthur Baker & Brenda K. StarrA incredible opportunity to own a truly unique piece of music history from the beginning stages of the career of one of music's most influential...
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Fascinating.
We can see from ancient wolf DNA that during the Ice Age, wolves almost went extinct and were reduced to a breeding population of a few thousand in a refuge in Beringia. Toward the end of the ice age, they recovered and repopulated the world, including migrating to the Americas
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Big vision? Big startup? Big domain. 💥 The right name: Sparks excitement Draws customers in Powers your growth Find the domain that fuels your idea.
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🚨Archaeologists make 'extraordinary discovery' in Orkney - but won't say what it is They say it is like nothing else ever found at the site, and is "without parallel in Atlantic Europe".
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Also, you can actually maybe buy a short position in this story because there’s a publicly listed fund which owns a chunk of one of the acquired companies. Haven’t looked deeply at their NAV calcs
This story just keeps getting better. To re-cap: -buys a bunch of companies at silly prices but for paper -announces they've raised $3b from mystery investor -announces the investor who in turn counter-announces they're not the investor -rebrands as Napster -claims they are
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This story just keeps getting better. To re-cap: -buys a bunch of companies at silly prices but for paper -announces they've raised $3b from mystery investor -announces the investor who in turn counter-announces they're not the investor -rebrands as Napster -claims they are
Metaverse startup Napster earlier this year claimed to have raised a massive $3 billion round from one, unnamed investor, valuing it at $12 billion. Now it claims the money never landed and its working with law enforcement as a “victim of misconduct”. https://t.co/SNhOvglbLj
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An interesting and uncomfortable (for many) read for the weekend.
Chinese LLMs are winning Western market share. Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky recently revealed that Airbnb’s customer service chatbot is largely powered by Qwen models because they're good but also fast and cheap.
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Introducing YouBase. The complete production backend for vibe coding for just $20/month. One prompt → Full backend → Live on your domain. Start building
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Probably every newish founder should read this
as a seed investor, there a four strategies invest in sectors that Series A firms are interested in, which is extremely limited & ~30 firms are the most active invest in sectors independent of the 30 Series A firms focus & have a lot of follow on capital reserved for them
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This is pretty true BUT it does open up a market for creative dealmaking (for those with the right mindset)
M&A exits are just gone for most I talked with two different companies last week who are trying to sell (board is pushing them) They have been trying to sell for nearly 1 year. Zero interest They are ZIRP darlings but are now between $20-$50M ARR with ~20% growth. One is near
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The ancient world was so much more connected than we generally realise
theartnewspaper.com
New research comparing stone tools found at sites across the US and on Japan’s northernmost island suggests a different timeline and mode of travel for the first humans to arrive in North America
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Have long said someone was going to break the dumb consensus that you need 500m ARR to go public and start the sub 1B market cap listing club - retail want upside and I think if you give them a cheap entry price they will buy
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For one ViaCord parent, the decision to choose ViaCord for preserving her baby's cord blood was a clear one. Discover the importance of cord blood banking, the reassurance that comes with ViaCord's expertise, and how vital decisions can be made with the correct information.
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This would be both awesome and instantly banned by the UK for contravening its directive on not having any heating/cooling technology that is superior to Victorian times.
Actually, a whole home networked heat pump system would be awesome. Kinda of like the heat router system that's in the Tesla Model 3, but applied for residential comfort and efficiency.
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I think a very viable third outcome (which I’m seeing a lot of) is that application developers add more consulting functionality and become hybrid AI enablement companies, using both first and third party tools
Seems to be accurate
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Fellow Power Broker nerds will be extremely interested in this excellent long piece by Jim Waterson on what the Mosesification of London might have been (and nearly was) cc @tylercowen
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