lemmie go break my wrist

After nearly 10 years, Spotify can now show pricing + direct purchase links in our app for U.S. users.  This is a huge win for consumer choice and tech innovation. At Spotify, we’ve always believed an open internet is a much better internet - so we couldn’t be happier to see this

erica wenger🏕️ Terri Burns Maya Bakhai 🌶️ Sumeet Singh Good mix of real ideas and actual builders. More of this, less panel fluff.

congrats to the team for an amazing product and successful raise. i'm most excited about auto-posting notes to slack, a feature i've been waiting on! pumped

as soon as the software engineering girlies started becoming day in the life vloggers…….. i knew an era had ended

We’re thrilled to welcome Mel Williams, co-founder of TrueBridge Capital Partners, to our private reception at SuperReturn in partnership with Axios. Mel will join Lucinda Shen on stage for a candid conversation on founding TrueBridge and navigating private markets with conviction.

which publication has the best pre-seed and seed coverage and if it doesn't exist who's starting that substack

funding, hires, fires, swaps. first time founders. smaller rounds. stories with fewer trophies to date but great tech and just as much potential as the traditional high fliers

starting summer Slow Ventures. thx yoni rechtman!

vibe coding staaaays tricking me into actual coding

see you next week, berlin!

This week: - Prepped a portfolio company's relaunch. - Signed a term sheet for a new deal. - Fired up the hiring pipeline. ...and flew to Berlin to execute this event, months in the making. A good week. The work continues.

We made it, mom! Thank you TIME for including us as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies of 2025. And thank you to our incredible community of partiers: from milestone celebrations to all night raves to summer BBQs and cozy kickbacks—you make the real world worth living in.

🚀 we're finally introducing the swsh AI content dashboard swsh shared albums on the front end; AI content dashboard on the back end unlock every photo, video, and viral moment from your IRL events we are making the world's biggest IRL content hub (thread)

should i move back to sf

Founders starting companies are skewing younger and younger by the week. Unexpected observation is that they are far more disciplined on fundraising and care deeply about showing a viable path forward with an idea before demanding millions out of the gate. Refreshing.

I got into Ethereum after I learned about the idea of "consensus." vitalik.eth might explain it differently, but as a journalist, to me it means getting random people to agree on truth. In media, that's hard. So I decided to build an outlet on Ethereum as an experiment🧵

and just like that, swsh now powers the WNBA :)

going through old tweets of mine. brilliant, brilliant......

in sf next week :)