RT @Jason_A_Scharf: Is Austin’s ecosystem 4th or 6th in the US? 5th in the world or 16th? Both are true. Both are false. All shape how bets….

📈Look at that predicted revenue growth in 2025-2027 (consensus estimates). Guess the company :) It was a SPAC backed by @chamath

Taken from @dealroomco but made some manual changes: Crowdstrike, Tesla, Palantir were all founded in Bay Area but have relocated (Austin, Austin, and Denver)

💡 Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics, 1890, describing the cutlery industry in Sheffield:

Wait, where is New York in this picture? It's about Bay Area vs. Rest of World. New vs. Old Economy. $100B VC-backed companies founded since 1990:.🇺🇸 Bay Area 19.🇨🇳 Beijing 2.🇨🇳 Shanghai 2.🇳🇱 Amsterdam 1 🇪🇺.🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 1.🇬🇧 Cambridge (UK) 1 🇪🇺.🇨🇳 Hangzhou 1.🇺🇸 Los Angeles 1.

I wrote a little post about the Figma IPO here

Figma IPO’d at ~20x revenue, surged to 60-70x. Among biggest IPO pops ever: banker malpractice, or just low float and market distortion? Remember, the price of a stock is just the price of the last trade, as @skupor and @arampell say. Analysis shows 20-30x as fair

RT @hkanji: Index is becoming the new Sequoia. From humble beginnings in Europe to a US powerhouse.

2025 new unicorns by US state and Rest of World by country

Wowzers. @figma more than triples (!) in NYSE debut after selling shares at $33. now over $100 valuing the company at more than $60 billion! Let's see where it settles later today. Either way, huge day for Figma and @IndexVentures its biggest shareholder who's 66 million

Idea💡 for @lovable_dev and @cursor_ai etc:.An App Store that takes care of security and scalability for creators.

83 new unicorns in H1 ’25 of which 52 in the US (63%!). Rest of World: 🇨🇳7 🇨🇦6 🇬🇧6 🇸🇪4 🇩🇪2.Six other countries welcomed one each. Tech ambition knows no borders. Via @Dealroomco

Just six VC-backed companies created since 1990 (top 0.003%) have produced 46% of realized value. And the top 2% companies created 89% of realized value

Here’s something I learned only recently. If you’re in a role where you get asked a lot of questions (by clients, employees, board members) a key skill is to pause before answering the question and ask “is this the right question to ask?” Most often it’s not. And then reframe or.

RT @dealroomco: "Fossil fuels are already on their way to extinction". @yoramdw, Lorenzo Chiavarini & @adegeler talk through some of the f….

RT @dealroomco: How did we calculate the Global Tech Ecosystem Index?. Our live, interactive dashboard gives you access to every metric tha….

Lady Gaga performed for 2 million people in Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach, according to media. The entire Copacabana beach is 4km long, but this stretch in the image seems to be max 1 km long and 50-70 meters deep. This fits at best 250,000 people

Ever try to talk with someone when you don’t speak the same language? It’s painful for 15 mins until you end up talking about the deepest shit.