BREAKING: XB-1 has completed its second flight at the Mojave Air & Space Port in CA. XB-1 retracted and extended its landing gear for the first time and successfully demonstrated a new digital stability augmentation system. We continue to target year-end for supersonic flight.

One of the most striking charts this year: China’s startup ecosystem has almost completely collapsed in the last 5 years.

Look at United’s response. This is why companies should pay more to get social media managers with judgment and good instincts. What a missed opportunity by United. They had MKBHD in the comments, interested in their big Starlink announcement…and they whiffed it. Would’ve been

How to effectively raise funds (for your main competitors). The only way this makes sense is if the truly dangerous competitor was left off the list!

User error or bad design? Anyone else dread opening Peet's Coffee bag?

For early stage investing, large portfolios (~100 investments) outperform small portfolios (~30 investments). The goal for pre-seed or seed GPs is to invest in a large enough number of companies to maximise the chance of finding outliers (about 2% for ~50x, 5% for ~15x according

I've always wanted to know which companies create the best product managers. I finally have answers. I teamed up with Live Data Technologies to see which companies’ PM alumni go on to see: 1. The most promotions 2. The fastest immediate promotion 3. The fastest rise to leadership roles

Not ashamed. Love this!

Fun fact. Apple uses a consistent corner radius of about 38 pixels across ALL its products, including iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. A strategy that helps all their devices look and feel connected. This is a demonstration.

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"At Stripe, you can't move on to question 2 until you nail question 1." In product reviews, most teams rush to show features. But when Tara Seshan led 0-1 products at Stripe, she used a different approach: 12 questions, answered in strict order. Sometimes teams only get through

> be me > airpods pro > see device trying to connect > lmao nah > okay fine, left earbud only tho lol > jk disconnected again > randomly switch devices mid-song weeee > left bud: 100%, right bud: dead af shrug > surprise volume max-out! ears 💀 haha > bored. randomly summon siri

My sources inside SpaceX tell me that "you just need lots of Formula SAE [a college formula one style competition] new grads" to vertically integrate manufacturing. They aren't going to Asian manufacturers / equipment builders -- but have learned from them.

Tim Cook explaining why Apple manufactures in China and not the United States. Hint: Tariffs won’t fix this.

Most goods imported from China (unless you are Tim Cook) are now 55+% not 10%. The legacy tariffs stack. An item I care about (a specialty plywood): historical tariff 3.2%, Section 301 tariff (Trump 2018) 25%, Fentanyl tariff 20%, reciprocal tariff 10% = 58.3%. There is no

Seen on the beach today in Gold Coast (Aus). Dredger Trud R replacing some of the 4 million cubic meters of sand removed by Cyclone Alfred. 5 megawatt peak power using 1200 liters/hr diesel. No worries, mate.

21 RMB for Peking Duck delivered to my hotel in Dalian, China. That’s 3 USD nominal and 5.78 USD PPP. Meituan platform. How possible? High volume for the shop, pre-made, delivered to automated locker (in hotel lobby), and yes, wages under 30 RMB/hr. Lunch for 6 next day from KFC

I have so many thoughts on this, as someone who has run large EPD orgs. One of the toughest parts about doing an AI operating transformation inside a prod/eng/design org is that people start operating out of their lane and it stresses SO MANY PEOPLE out. PMs can vibe code

"hyper precise prompts to describe what you want", is absolutely the BEST strategy. 🔥 Many YCombinator AI startups prompts are super detailed (e.g. 6+ page prompts) with XML tags and meta-prompting techniques. e.g. Parahelp's customer support agent prompt is 6+ pages,