SVB Founders I’ve pooled together funding partners for emergency capital. Funds with >$5B to: → Lending new money. → Buy deposit claims outright. Apply for help:

Everyone will be able to be anyone soon. MegaPortraits by SamsungLabs uses new neural architectures that produce high-quality avatars from medium-resolution videos and high-resolution images. Deepfakes are getting scary good.

This Reddit post made me smile. Time period selfies 📸 (AI-generated) 1. Polynesian Warriors:

I'm not claiming experienced founders are humble. In fact a certain amount of overconfidence is probably a prerequisite for the job. But even in the best case startups knock you around so much that no experienced founder has anything like the arrogance some founders start with.

The Office for Budget Responsibility assessment of the sustainability of the UK government's debt is off-the-charts alarming. It paints a picture of shocking Treasury incompetence over the past fifteen years in managing the debt burden - which has left the UK's public finances much more exposed to

6 months ago it looked like AI / LLMs were going to bring a much needed revival to the venture startup ecosystem after a few tough years. With companies like Jasper starting to slow down, it’s looking like this may not be the case. Right now there are 2 clear winners, a

The US 🇺🇸 economy and the EU 🇪🇺 were roughly the same size in 2008. The US is now nearly twice as big 📊

I’ve been a hospital chaplain now for eight years at hundreds of deathbeds. I want to tell you something I’ve witnessed. Most people, at the end, realize they’ve spent a lot of their life hiding. Sometimes by choice, or because they could not safely choose to be themselves. ➡️

This might be the best email I've ever read: • Steve Jobs email to himself 13 months before he died. We stand on the shoulders of giants everyday. Next time you speak to a cynic, ask them these 10 questions: 1. How does the electricity grid work? 2. If you tried to

"Jobs to be done" in a nutshell

People like to talk about the importance of "vision," but ultimately running a startup is like doing science: you have to follow the truth wherever it leads. Vision is only valuable insofar as it predicts where you'll find truth.

So week 4 of our fantasy record label opens tomorrow. Sign up here to check it out. We are giving away $1,000 in prizes (and a bonus $100 for the best label name) drop.vault.fan/fantasy

"I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time." — Charlie Munger

It’s been 10 years since the original unicorn analysis (when we accidentally coined the term)🦄 So, our Cowboy Ventures team dug into new data. The tech industry has changed a TON! ✨ From 39 to 532 unicorns ✨ Pendulum swung HARD from consumer to enterprise ✨ Business types,

I appreciate Fox News for affording me the opportunity to make the case for American repair and reconciliation. “Angertainment” would have us believe we are more divided than we really are. Just have to get off our screens and convene. 🇺🇸

Think culture is a nice to have? Think again. Great entrepreneurs & leaders know the importance of using culture as an advantage. In this article for Forbes I talk to rahulvohra, @TomGriffiths, Mary-Catherine Lader, and Kim Scott about how to build culture forbes.com/sites/alisacoh…

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As I bid farewell to Congress today, I depart more deeply in love with my country and more deeply disgusted by the dysfunction of our government. We can and must do better, and my mission to awaken America's exhausted majority and make common sense cool again is just beginning.

Steve Jobs : how to design perfect products.