On this day in 1985: AOL was founded. At its peak, it was worth more than Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, Starbucks, Nvidia, Adobe, Costco, Disney and McDonald’s combined.

Who are the best journalists who cover cybersecurity startups?

In 2022, the "Sold a Story" podcast explained how many schools failed to teach kids to read, and then compounded that by teaching the kids to pretend to read by looking at pictures and guessing at words. Now the San Francisco school system seems to want to extend this type of

How to be a 90th percentile startup investor: - Wire money on time - Share launch announcements on social - Reply with words of affirmation to the occasional investor update - Do nothing to harm the company That's all it takes!

I have a VC friend and a hedge fund friend who shadowed each other at their respective firms: attended IC meetings, diligence sessions, & team meetings. The VC left awed and impressed at how well run the hedge fund was. In his words, "these guys go to a level of detail &

🎙️ Kobie Fuller on the Something Ventured podcast. His insights on the #AIRevolution. AI’s slashing RFP time to 2 mins & boosting billable hours. Also...VC is buzzing! open.spotify.com/episode/7yvV3z… #VentureCapital #TechTrends (cue gratuitous Grok AI image!)

“I’ll invest if you find a lead” is the single lamest thing an investor can say.

One of my husband Robert's favorite quotes comes from Horace Greeley, a newspaper man who founded the New York Tribune so many years ago. I think of it often: “Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.”

SFUSD pauses ‘grading for equity’ plan amid backlash sfstandard.com/2025/05/28/sfu… via The San Francisco Standard

Are there any good AI note taker apps ?

Are there any professors of dishonesty who were only pretending to be dishonest?

This is how you show-up to NYC Tech Week … live from Times Square; go on the big screen, or go home!

Impart Security Raises $12M Series A for Production-Trusted AI Security Platform - businesswire.com/news/home/2025…

"Now, as a bipartisan effort to repeal the Section 174 change moves through Congress, bigger questions are surfacing: How did a single line in the tax code help trigger a tsunami of mass layoffs? And why did no one see it coming?" qz.com/tech-layoffs-t…

"The Section 174 change “significantly increased the tax burden on companies investing in innovation, potentially stifling economic growth and reducing the United States’ competitiveness on the global stage,” according to the tax consulting firm KBKG." qz.com/tech-layoffs-t…

On June 11, 1997, at the time of the culmination of the first browser war, Netscape released Netscape Communicator 4.0, a web application suite. It included Netscape Navigator 4.0 web browser with CSS 1 support, Netscape Messenger email client and more. #InternetHistory

✨New chapter unlocked: @chime is joining the Nasdaq Exchange family! 🎊

Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs. Today it IPO’d at $14.5B. | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/chi…

San Francisco in 1849