Today we begin a new chapter at Backer with our Series A raise and acquisition of Saving For College. I’m super excited to partner with the team at WndrCo (@chenliw @JustinAWexler et al), an incredibly inspiring group of hands-on builders.

o3-pro: go deep.deep research: go broad.4o: voice mode.o3: everything else.

RT @harjtaggar: Commuting in a Tesla with FSD while talking to Grok on voice mode is going to be hard for any other car company to beat.

RT @lulumeservey: My favorite edits:. - changed “a people” to “one people”. - changed “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable” to….

RT @lulumeservey: Mission and vision DO matter. This post is itself is a victim of narrative fallacy. It relies on the availability heuris….

RT @fintechjunkie: Think of AI like having a genius mentor available 24/7. The value isn't in the first answer - it's in the conversation t….

RT @RobertMSterling: Reminder: Profit is a good thing. This should be an obvious statement. But, since our youngest and most educated citi….

The best meal kit service by far: @tovalafood. Delicious, fast, affordable. Almost never misses. And I’ve tried them all.

I’m not a grammar purist, but it’s painful to watch otherwise smart people litter this platform with misplaced apostrophes – confusing plurals and possessives. Very tempted to launch an anonymous reply-bot styled after @bryan_johnson’s weirdly charming evidence-backed health.

RT @chrisman: Tim Apple: I don't know about this design. I can't read anything. Designer: If the customers don't like it, they can just b….

RT @JamesSurowiecki: One quarter of all startups with billion-dollar valuations have a founder who came here on a student visa. If we had e….

RT @paulg: LLMs prove that writing is not an epiphenomenon — that what we write matters. They're trained mostly on writing, and yet people….

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Trump’s 2025 budget bill introduces “MAGA accounts” – giving EVERY American newborn $1,000 to save for college, a home, or starting a business. This plus a massive expansion of 529 qualified expenses could transform how millions of families build wealth. Soon, you'll be able to.

Absolutely bananas set of @stripe announcements: a payments foundation model, consumer card issuing, and stablecoin-powered money management in 100+ countries. Crypto dreams of reinventing money, but Stripe is quietly achieving the “programmable money” vision first – by deeply.

RT @aryelipman: Highway 1 in Big Sur has been closed for 838 days. In that time China has built 3500 miles of high speed rail, and Californ….

RT @AlecStapp: Lmao so the new “ambitious plan” for California high speed rail is to take another 20 years to build it and then still not e….

I find the new @eightsleep app design utterly unnavigable and aesthetically challenged. @m_franceschetti can you explain what was wrong with the old design and how this fixes it?.

RT @zoink: o3 is my favorite model since Opus. Don’t rely on it for reasoning or learning. Instead treat it as a somewhat self-aware spa….

RT @sfchronicle: Mayor Daniel Lurie introduces legislation to create a special financing district that he says will unlock thousands of new….

RT @DouthatNYT: Someone needs to reconcile the narratives (and they may be reconcilable!) about the impossibility of making yourself stand….