Blas tylercowen gave me some good advice: In the AI age, piroritize whatever will help increase your network fastest. It is one the last remaining differentiators. (sorry if I am butchering your quote Tyler)

In the last quarter alone: • AWS: +$1.3B in new cloud dollars • Azure: +$949M • GCP: +$602M These Bernstein numbers point to an all-out competition for cloud workloads. AWS and Azure have traded the #1 spot for 8 quarters in a row. Both companies have indicated AI workloads

Have heard the phrase "Cursor for X" three times this week

Imprint made the Forbes #Fintech50! This is a great validator in our mission to modernize the co-branded space. And we’re just getting started… You can see the full list here: forbes.com/lists/fintech5…

Is he giving… business advice?

Gavin Baker H100 Pricing at AWS rising and rising (from Bernstein)

Imprint Payments has grown revenue 3x+ every year: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024. 2025 will do so again. $15M —> $70M revenue from 2023 to 2024 I have never felt more confident in the level of talent joining us. We would love to meet you. My DMs are open 🤙 imprint.co/careers

How many employees just realized their Slack search history was being recorded

9,347 part iterations, 32 research studies, and 1,167 days later, I’m proud to introduce Backbone Pro. The last gaming product you’ll ever need. What's the future of gaming? For 3 years, we’ve obsessed over this question, and built a team from Apple, Meta, and Google. Our

"AOL charged its users an hourly fee until December 1996, when the company changed to a flat monthly rate of $19.95...Within three years, AOL's user base grew to 10 million people." - Wikipedia Maybe we will one day also laugh at having had to pay $20/month for AI chatbots

Ask from a founder friend: - Hiring a VC Principal (or similar) to lead and build BizOps / Finance functions - Unannounced healthcare software startup (SF-based) - From $0 to $10M+ revenue in under a year - Just raised a large Series A from a top-tier venture firm DM please

Robinhood is turning into a 'bank' No longer just trading revenue Revenue mix: trading was 77 % (’21) → 56 % (’24); interest income up 3× Lending revenue is the next leg A) Gold Card: hundreds of thousands live, 2 million+ on the waitlist B) Mortgages: pilot now live

Coinbase: shift to non-trading revs

Imprint + Rakuten cnbc.com/2025/07/22/cre…

Mecka AI is one of a few startups looking to offer picks and shovels, via data creation and labeling, to robotics shops and model labs. It's an upstart category with doubters. Investors include Neo partners Ali Partovi and Suzanne Xie, SV Angel, Gaurav Ahuja and Kevin Hartz.

Excited to announce our $8M seed round led by Neo to further our work as the data layer for robotics Heres why we bet early on human data advancing autonomous robotics: