F3ck it. I signed up.

Time to have some fun again. For nearly two decades, I’ve been deep in the startup + tech world. Along the way, I’ve collected stories—some wild, some ridiculous, and some that probably shouldn’t have happened. I'm writing them down in CTRl+Z, my bi-weekly newsletter Rewinding

Sat down with Mews CEO Matthijs Welle. Incredible journey from zero to 2+ billion valuation and a great guy. Good vibes, listen via Spotify (it's in Dutch) open.spotify.com/episode/0fv7AT…

Drafting the 1st edition of CTRL+Z, my bi-weekly newsletter that drops every other Sunday. subscribe via rumicat.com/s/patrick

Thuisbezorgd / Just Eat / Takeaway is taken private again by Prosus! Big announcement and ZERO inside info trading (which is actually awesome to see for once). Congrats (although prob mixed feeling after soo many years) Jitse Groen P.S. love that Just Eat Takeaway is using

Second chances are rare, but Billy McFarland actually has the balls to initiate FYRE Festival 2. The event organizer in me respects the ambition, even if the risk is insane… If he pulls it off, it'll be one of the greatest comeback stories in event history. YOLO 🎟🔥 #FYRE2 -

What's a great AI image upscaler to casually upscale one image?

🔥 looking forward to the 1st edition of houseofbitcoin.xyz !! 🕶️ A-list panelists to chat about #Bitcoin: Richard.near Muirhead.eth (Fabric VC) Michaël van de Poppe & Jos Lazet (CEO Blockrise) 👁️ Who: Bitcoin-curious (tech) entrepreneurs 📅 When: Thursday March 6th (5pm-7.30pm) in

In dark times it’s great to hear projects moving forward and continue to build. Some interesting stuff in here. x.com/i/spaces/1BdGY…

Planting a tree…. Just by streaming a song by Don-Diablo.ETH on Spotify 🤪 open.spotify.com/track/6M0RLlET…

The fact that Whatsapp is messaging this to their users tells me that they are seeing a lot of peeps moving to Signal

Archive feature is live, so here you go (2 whole newsletter in the archive already :) CTRL+Z rumicat.com/archive/patrick

The upcoming CTRL+Z is another banger story from the early days of the interwebs. No money. No traction. A startup idea nobody understood. So we did something… unconventional. What happened next turned into one of the weirdest (and most successful) launches I’ve ever pulled

This is getting out of hand. 19 Dutch VC funds are joining Open Office Hours. openofficehours.xyz

This story happened exactly 10 years ago. Sent to my newsletter subs today: rumicat.com/archive/patric…

I'm opening booking for founders during the OpenOfficeHours - Amsterdam edition in a minute. Status: ✅ 20 confirmed VC funds ✅ 60+ startups signed up ✅ Fully booked chaos incoming 😄 Let's see if we can reach 100 meetings booked 🤷‍♂️

Ok... 100 meetings booked in 1 hour 👀

Congrats Yoni Assia and the eToro team with the IPO! I have many fond memories of working with you all. Enjoy the moment and back to work :)

Lol, found this in my archives. Crashing the Reddit 1-year anniversary party You cleaned up nicely Steve :)