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the thing about the phrase "software is eating/ate the world" is that its not true aggregate enterprise software revenue is like $700B thats a fraction of US GDP, never mind global software won't eat the world. vertically integrated tech enabled industry newcos might, though
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> Hollywood thinks it is safe bc content is king > Netflix says no, aggregation and retention win on the internet, we have more customers, we own distribution, we'll just buy the content > YouTube slowly ups the ante, surpasses Netflix in consumer time spent *with content it paid
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Netflix is driving the Hollywood end game, likely confident it can increase the value of IP, and fend off YouTube.
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Increasingly of the belief that these are the only two questions that matter for any investment decision: 1. Is there truly original thinking present in the pitch? 2. Through what experience or primary work was that original thought achieved?
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After months of evaluating CRM options (as both user and investor), I think there are precisely zero options that will currently give you the “post AI” / agentic experience you seek *right now*
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Comodo 84 / Rewind my Heart I made a song and a video spot, at least some part of it. I spent credits though, is it worth buying more credits or not?
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One of the hallmarks of working with great people (investors, employees) is *NOT* always feeling the need to ask “I wonder what they are really thinking” If you find yourself consistently asking that question, it likely says as much about you and who you attract as anything else
VC rejection excuses: • No moat • Too much competition • Valuation is too high • TAM is too small • Get a co-founder • Not enough traction • Your retention sucks • You’re too early Translation: I don’t believe you’ll win. Your reaction: Watch me.
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The DMV this morning has some absolute banger signs hung behind check-in “Nothing will kill a great employee faster than watching you tolerate a bad one” The irony
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The way in which most people (even health nuts) continue to ignore this is fascinating Supplements, smart mattress, Whoop/Oura, NA beers, Hyrox etc etc…and then three hours of scrolling per day to nuke cognitive and mental health Wild levels of cognitive dissonance
The most dangerous addiction today isn't a substance. Research on 100,000 people confirms that heavy short-form video use is just voluntary cognitive decline. We are actively training our brains to fail at hard tasks. If you can simply sit with a problem for 10 minutes without
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This is less a commentary on Harvey and more a commentary on the general phenomenon of best-in-class growth companies raising successive rounds at higher and higher valuations: most of these financings make no sense. Growth equity capital is very expensive. “Dilution is low” is
Private markets are the new public markets. It's notable that in many of these rounds, companies are only selling 2-3%, and it's likely secondary. These rounds aren't really fundraising," they are valuation signaling and liquidity. Deep pools of private capital are desperate
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Robotics is NOT a data problem. Atleast not the way we think. For a long time, my world model was: whoever deploys robots at scale first wins. Get the units out there, collect the trajectories, train on the data, repeat. The fleet learning flywheel. I'm starting to think this is
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Hottest new (but old) zip code is in G Suite Docs/slides/sheets are going to punch back so hard over next few years
"CODE RED" FT/Sensor Tower show Gemini at ~68M app downloads in Nov vs ~101M for ChatGPT, but users now spend more time per visit in Gemini than in ChatGPT or Claude & Similarweb/Deedy Das data show ChatGPT web traffic slipping about 6% in the two weeks after Gemini 3 launched
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I think the most agreeable thought among 30 somethings in their first few years of multiple children is “how did I not take over the world in my 20s with all of that free time”
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If I could point to one concept that has generally led to the downfall of the single manager hedge fund community, it the religious adherence to traditional valuation benchmarks - which is a fancy way of saying overweighting the value factor and shorting the growth factor.
David explains why markets struggle to price sustained growth: "Above 30% growth, the market still doesn't fully value the growth rate. It is so hard for any investor to build a 5 or 10-year model where high growth persists. It's just not natural. No one built a financial
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See also: most "AI roll-ups"
Aiming for $2b valuation after 15 years and ~$300m in funding Great product, but just hard to achieve outlier success when betting on val methodology shift for tech enabled versions of established business models History repeats (D2C, fintech, proptech) https://t.co/pkydKFbqGj
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Aiming for $2b valuation after 15 years and ~$300m in funding Great product, but just hard to achieve outlier success when betting on val methodology shift for tech enabled versions of established business models History repeats (D2C, fintech, proptech) https://t.co/pkydKFbqGj
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Automated digital wealth management firm Wealthfront is targeting a valuation of up to $2.05 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, it said on Tuesday, becoming the latest to test a trend of...
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Payroll funds => Cash Rewards 😮 👏 Modern finance teams shouldn’t have to accept waste, especially the hidden cost of idle payroll cash. For years, many CFOs have viewed this as an unavoidable part of running payroll. Today, there’s a better way. @niuralHQ , the
Why let payroll funds sit idle when they could be working for you? Imagine a silent revenue stream that grows your funds while you’re paying your team. Growth-stage CFOs are tasked with scaling fast and expanding globally, but they’re not in the business of letting millions in
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