Interesting to see the growing use cases of Ethereum

Kia Ora New Zealand! What a fun week meeting our founders and VCs in the ecosystem. Huge thank you to New Zealand Trade and Enterprise for hosting us on Tuesday for a panel with GuyHorrocks. Now I’m off to explore this stunning country of yours! 🤗 🇳🇿

Queenstown Flat White Meetup, tomorrow 8.15am at Mountain House, 85 Beach Street. …wnflatwhitemeetupjan18.splashthat.com

Biden calls for Congress to pass his proposal for a billionaire minimum tax. “No billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a school teacher or a firefighter” trib.al/82BdC7b

This Friday in Auckland Flat White Entrepreneur Meetup with Cameron Priest of TradeGecko …flatwhitemeetupfeb10th.splashthat.com

Monday's emojicast:          🌧️            🌧️              🌧️🌧️             🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️          🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️              ☁️🌧️🌧️                    🌧️🌧️                       ☁️                🌤️☁️           🌤️🌧️         🌤️🌤️🌤️                   ☁️       🌤️☀️   🌤️☀️☀️ 🌤️🌤️☀️    🌤️

TNT currently has warriors and kings within single digits with minutes to go tied 2-2 but we are all on NBATV watching jimmy butler become michael jordan

Runway Gen-2 can now transform images into videos. And the results are mind-blowing! Here are the best 10 creations I’ve found in the last 48h (ALL NEW):

Not to be alarmist but…this is what’s called a six-sigma event, now unfolding in Antarctica. Otherwise known as a once-in-7.5-million-year event. Hang onto your hats. HT Prof. Eliot Jacobson

Barbie’s opening weekend was $337M. That’s nearly 2x Oppenheimer’s $174M. Warner Brother's insane ”Operation Barbie Summer” is a big part of that success. These are 50 of the team's most amazing marketing stunts: 1. 3D ad in front of Burj Khalifa

Get to know GuyHorrocks – Innovation & Entrepreneurship Award Ambassador. Guy’s career in tech started at UC when he won the 2006 Entre Entrepreneurial Award. He worked with brands like Sephora, HBO, Dreamworks, CNN and Expedia. If that seems impressive, Guy started the first

What did I just watch? Star Wars x AI Mind blown, creative humans using AI to dream up a very different Star Wars. By douggy & osymyso

It still blows my mind that you can build your own AI text and image generation app in ~1 hour 🤯 With no coding background. And no developers. All you need is the right instruction. Here's a simple course that shows exactly how: nocode.mba/ai-projects

“Maybe you’re holding it wrong?” Says ghost of Steve Jobs Mohit Verma

How can Wayne Barnes admit to Savea he made a mistake but let Pollard kick the penalty? If #AllBlacks lose the #RWCFinal    by 3 points or less surely that's a mad call #RWC23Final #Springboks 🏉 #waynebarnes

No stopping this Joseph Parker charge 😤🇳🇿 #Boxing #ZhangParker #JosephParker #KnockoutChaos

This is Scott Wu. 10 days ago, he launched "Devin", the first-ever AI software engineer & it's insane. It took the tech world by surprise. Here are 7 most-shocking things Devin can do:

Fire in NY this morning, can’t find any details online which is strange given the level of smoke. #nyfire

Thanks Jeff Lawson for buying the Onion so we could get this great zoom in on electoral coverage. No other news source has gone to this level of detail.

"Rapid unscheduled disassembly" is the best understated euphemism I've seen for "exploded" in ages. Actually laughed out loud when I read that. Masterful. The descent stage was particularly beautiful, though. Like an apocalyptic meteor shower, or an alien invasion.