Amazing how in just a few months as CEO, sridhar has repositioned Snowflake as a key player in the LLM ecosystem.

SCOOP: A TikTok data scientist says he was assigned a Seattle-based manager on paper, while actually reporting to a Beijing-based ByteDance executive, who ordered him to regularly email U.S. data in spreadsheets to ByteDance workers in China during 2022. fortune.com/2024/04/15/tik…

.Sentry logs 'Rage Click' as an event when a user is furiously trying to click a button or link that isn't working.

Amusing event title but also a helpful thing to log!

Loved Mike DelPrete's interview of Megan Meyer Toolson on Opendoor. A very interesting overview of a very interesting business.

Megan puts it nicely: buying a house is one of the most important transactions people ever make: they spend all of their money to purchase the place

A rare and surprising design flaw from Apple: the brick power adapters are difficult to keep in wall sockets. I've gone back to plugging an extension cable into the power adapters (ht to my co-worker for the idea).

In the video, Maryam says IDF soldiers raped women in a hospital in Gaza. Murdered Palestinian children and fed their remains to their dogs:
tiktok.com/t/ZTLrUqnTH/

This video has received 3.2M views in the three days it's been up.

Amazing visual

Holy f'in s#!+

1. Trump needs 💰for lawsuits
2. Jeff Yass (Susquehanna) needs his 7% stake in TikTok ($30B!) to not be hit by law that will thwart China Communist Party from intentionally using TikTok to corrupt 🇺🇸 democracy
3. Yass 🎁💰 Trump SPAC
4. Trump 👎 on TikTok bill

There is already lots of evidence in the public domain. For example, using TikTok's own advertiser analytics platform, Network Contagion Research Institute showed topics sensitive to China don't circulate on TikTok (while they do on Instagram).

This full NCRI report is here (networkcontagion.us/wp-content/upl…).

And

TikTok is pushing (unserious) hit pieces against critics to silence them.

But that’s not all—they’re harassing members of Congress. They’re threatening to seize the assets of investors. They’re lying to the public.

In America, normal companies don’t behave like this. This is

News: a few DC policy orgs requested a full memo on the House TikTok divestment bill from constitutional law firm Cooper & Kirk.

They found that it passes legal muster — and doesn’t allow abuse against US platforms like X.

A few relevant sections below:

Loved this episode of Lenny Rachitsky's podcast.

So much leadership wisdom from Noam, who has led product teams successfully in so many different situations.

lennyspodcast.com/the-happiness-…

It is very concerning that The Intercept is parroting the CCP’s fabricated talking points.

One thing has become very clear in the last week: TikTok is mirroring the same behavior & tactics as the CCP: silencing critics by spying on journalists & seizing the shares of critical

When India banned TikTok, in 2020, people simply migrated elsewhere. “I don’t think that anybody has really complained about missing TikTok,” an Indian venture capitalist told Rest of World last year.
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

A sale would be a much better outcome. But interesting

Very nice article about my AIX Ventures partner Pieter Abbeel and his company Covariant in NYTimes:
nytimes.com/2024/03/11/tec…

'Faced with a choice between selling a profitable business for billions of dollars or closing it down and getting nothing, any normal business would choose the former. If TikTok closed down rather than relinquish Chinese control, it would suggest that political control is the

352: Yeas | 65: Nays

The TikTok Bill passes the House with overwhelming bipartisan support.

100% agree with this

'The best outcome is one in which TikTok survives. It is a source of competition and innovation, as well as fun. The bill before Congress allows ByteDance to sell up, rather than shut down.'

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'A Chinese company would not be allowed to buy CNN. Yet TikTok is fast becoming more influential.'
econ.st/3TdgfdS

The bill does NOT apply to all websites.

It has a very narrowly tailored definition that could only apply to social media platforms controlled by China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea that pose a national security threat.