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Congrats to James C, chris doman and team on their next chapter - from the first time I met it was obvious they were building something special!

Excited to welcome Maki People to the Blossom family as we lead their $28.6m Series A! techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/as-…

The irony of consumer rights magazine ⁦Which?⁩ using dark patterns to stop subscribers from cancelling

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A lot of SaaS security teams will be running statistical analysis on their Slack logs today

23andme’s problem was fundamentally the same as Instant Pot, it’s a one time purchase for the majority of its users. Compare to Ancestry (a $1B ARR business) where the DNA testing product was essentially leadgen for their much more lucrative consumer subscription business.

It’ll be interesting to see it coming to dating apps. Avoid some of the issues associated with photos while preserving the core of what users look like.

We're building superintelligence of the mathematical kind. Announcing Harmonic's $100M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Paradigm and many other great investors Welcome Ilya Fushman ... excited to partner (again) businesswire.com/news/home/2025…

Weird to single out Perplexity—every major AI company is playing this game. Cloaked crawlers are the rule, not the exception.

Everyone’s talking about an AI slowdown after GPT-5. But even if model progress stopped dead, we’ve still got decades of AI driven growth ahead—just by turning today’s AI into products that reshape how we live and work.

How hard is consumer hardware? In three decades of consumer hardware startups, only a single one is still public with a $1B+ marketcap. That's not to say you shouldn't do it, but it's definitely the harder path.

It’s hard to envisage a scenario where lab-grown meat doesn’t replace farm-grown in the long term. Once it becomes functionally identical and cheaper, market forces will make it mainstream.

ChatGPT trip planning hack: Don’t just say where you’re going - say who you are. Give it lots of details on the kind of things you love to do (and those you hate) and you generally end up with something much more tailored rather than a generic itinerary.

IATA RP 1706d This annoyed me enough I went and looked it up once. IATA never included terminal in their recommendation because their key principles were: (1) info should be universal (not all airports have terminals) (2) info should be under airline control (not true)

Hard for American VCs to comment without it seeming like sour grapes, but Time’s ‘top US VC firms’ list is truly incoherent (e.g. missing Sequoia Capital entirely). Feels like it was put together by someone with zero understanding of the startup ecosystem. time.com/7309945/top-ve…