One and half year ago on our 1:1 with Paul Graham , before ChatGPT came out; PG said this: “Every company will start their product with Monterey AI. If they don’t, they would lose the competition”

Building a reliable ai product for high stake decision is hard. But we are making…

Friend in venture: “I think half of the mania in venture growth is explained by young deal makers who want to just jam shit in the portfolio and make a name for themselves.

There’s a nice good business that’s single digit ARR, 3x’ing this year, and ahead of plan. But…

Legend swag

Coinbase crushed it in Q1 2024

- Revenue: $1.6B (+72% vs Q4)
- Opex: $0.9B (+5% vs Q4)
- Net Income: $1.2B (+331% vs Q4)
- Adj. EBITDA: $1.0B (+213% vs Q4)
- Cash: $7.1B (+24% vs Q4)
- 2x USDC on platform vs Q4
- 8x Base developers vs Q4

you can now create movies of yourself and your friends on Eggnog AI ! go crazy

Holy shit just setup Coinbase 🛡️ smart wallet in a repo and connecting to an app + getting money into the wallet is stupid easy

Game changer

This is what most users will come to expect when using an app.

So smooth and quick to go from creating a wallet to transacting

Amazing

He who labels the data controls the narrative

How did the Social Radar become the Social Radar? This is the untold story of Jessica Livingston

youtu.be/oYFjKml9ptk?si…

Learning from the legend today Paul Graham the visionary behind Y Combinator.

CEO doesn’t rest on the weekend. 🐐

I had to say no a lot. It was the only way to maintain a streamlined, focused search experience. It wasn't popular but was necessary.

This onchain analytics dashboard was published by VISA yesterday.

Yep.

The largest payment network in the world is now savvy enough in crypto they're creating stablecoin dashboards that work better than anything i've seen.

We've come so far.

You're not bullish enough.

It's time to build.

In this ep of the Lightcone, we dive deep into the major trends from the most recent batch of YC using data we've never shared publicly before.

It's a glimpse into what might be the most exciting moment to be a startup founder ever.

youtu.be/e1Yhs9BEOSw

YC Winter 2024 Batch: AI Dominates as Tech Startups Embrace a New Era

What could be good data to indicate the direction of the tech industry? By looking at the statistics of each Y Combinator Batch, we can get an overview of the current direction the tech industry is pointing.…

To young future founders starting out:

Mentorship touted by big tech recruiters is a scam to make you enslaved

If you want to make a successful startup, the only real mentor is the customer

Crypto is back. @Stripe will start supporting global stablecoin payments this summer. Transactions instantly settle on-chain and automatically convert to fiat. Join the waitlist stripe.com/use-cases/cryp… and watch the demo (h/t @Solana) from Sessions.

YC S23's VectorShift is a no-code generative AI platform that lets you build workflow automations with drag-and-drop components.

With their launch today, you can now also place a chat assistant directly into your workflow.

ycombinator.com/launches/KuV-v…

With fume.dev you can ask your AI software engineer to fix bugs while your self-driving taxi takes you to the office. Imagine saying that to yourself 12 months ago.

In Gensler's first three years as SEC chair, the agency has been sued for abusing its rulemaking powers more times than the SEC was sued in the prior 10+ years (spanning the tenure of three long-serving chairs combined).

I thought this was a really good thread comparing Rippling's original investor memo from our series A, vs the latest version today.