Matt Janiga 💥♻️
@regulatorynerd
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Legal nerd at Trustly! Former Stripe, SQ, BlueVine, Lithic, Cap One. Views are mine, and not my company's.
California, USA
Joined February 2016
Be careful about PE owned companies with shitty cashflow and piss-poor attitudes on reinvesting for growth!
Three major Wall Street investors — Fortress Investment Group, Ares Management Corp. and Blackstone — are set to get completely wiped out on a deal for a portable toilet company put together by Platinum Equity. The trio is set to lose a combined $1.4B on United Site Services as
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This makes sense and is very generous of Disney. The parks and Disney+ are both so expensive, soon most families will only be able to afford to see Disney characters in ad supported ChatGpT.
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NEAR 40% UP - HAS STIL ONVER 250% ROOM TO GO ! $NXXT $NVDA $TSLA $AMC $GME
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All of this is correct and Block is going to be a huge beneficiary of Gen Z’s desire for an alternative to traditional banks. Consumers under 30 want different products and use money differently. Jack, Owen, Kristen, Miles, etc all get that and are building for it.
Long post incoming… There was a recent post on $XYZ on reddit with a lengthy reply that highlighted a lot of skeptical points about Block. I tried addressing on reddit but don’t have proper posting rights on the forum (or I’m a reddit noob and didn’t do it right, you be the
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Ok it's getting truly banana town in VC and startup land. And, I think the people who will get HURT the most in this might be the early employees. So here are some things you must absolutely know and questions for you to ask as you enter job hunting season in January.. 1)
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What does the “26” on this Ramp sweater in the background mean?!? Is it a hint of an IPO?
Why is private credit having such a big moment? We asked @apolloglobal co-president John Zito: "Historically companies had to go public to get access to money. Now everyone’s staying private way longer." "Companies discover private credit, realize they can finance long duration
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He’s right about this use case. It’s like how I’m using prediction markets to hedge against the risk that I’ll read a dumber tweet in the next year.
Here’s an example of a positive externality of liquid prediction markets: Software engineers & truck drivers today are at meaningful risk of being automated into obsolescence, but they have no way to price that risk & hedge against it. Prediction markets fix this
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Legit problem, btw — I missed a payment one time and they made me start coaching 8U. I owe one of them $40 and know they’re going to keep the juice running on me.
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Oh no! Venmo is down! How am I going to pay the softball moms!?!
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Great insights about how Beam has been integrating into Modern Treasury.
a little over thirty days ago, i joined Modern Treasury through the acquisition of Beam. as Beam’s integration into MT nears completion, i am more confident than ever that we are building a generational payments infrastructure company. the proof will be in the pudding, but for
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What black magic voodoo is Dick’s conjuring to place so high on this list?!?
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What are the major uses for predictions markets aside from sports betting and betting on election outcomes? Is there something else driving their volume?
Kalshi raised $1B at an $11B valuation. A decade ago, only a few thousand people knew what a prediction market was. Eighteen months ago, most prediction markets were banned - until we overcame the government to set them free. Over the past seven years, our community has opened
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Wife is out of the house at a work offsite, so thinking of inviting Dwarkesh, Dylan and Sholto to come hang in our empty bedrooms for the week.
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Benioff and the measure your nighttime erections guy being friends is another pebble on the scale saying we live in a simulation.
I’m taking magic mushrooms and livestreaming it on sunday. + 6 hours Live + 10am PST, Sun 30th + 5.24 g mushrooms, dried + 28 mg of active psilocybin + Strain B+ (psilocybin cubensis) + 2nd dose (3 total across 3 months) We’re measuring 249 biomarkers to determine the effect on
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My cousin ran into this. Back end of the funnel was too leaky so best he could do for college was a second tier school like Penn.
The admissions officers have to start asking about D30 and D90 cohort retention
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Feel like this one is for @AlexH_Johnson — is it predatory gambling when my football picks win me upsizing and extra bacon on my sub @jerseymikes?
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Important read if you use Posthog, Zapier or Postman in your code base and have recently deployed their code.
@micnubinub We're still investigating but some details are here:
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The irony of JPMorgan Chase, the country's largest bank & a beneficiary of gov't-sponsored safety net (deposit insurance, FHLBs, Fed discount window, etc.) & being too big to fail, saying "the free market worked" as it forces open banking fees on consumers...
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This is a story about how skin substitutes, materials used to improve healing of complex wounds, grew from a niche product in 2019 to scamming taxpayers and patients out of $10 bln/year, not because of a medical breakthrough, but from billing abuse. It’s a case study in how hard
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
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Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, wants to examine how the nation’s largest bank handled the reporting of more than $1 billion in suspicious transactions.
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Amusing: Google does not allow its devs to use its newly launched IDE, Antigravity, for development. They can only use an internal version called Jetski: also built by the Antigravity team, with Google-speicfic features (eg monorepo support, docs search etc) Using Antigravity
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