If you’re a single dude at a group trip, you’re paying the same amount as everyone else for the vacation rental but you’re sleeping on a couch, bunk bed, or just on the floor in the corner. This is called paying the single tax

It’s annoying when SaaS products have a maximum number of seats on their non-enterprise plan. Enterprise procurement process takes a lot of time and I just want to use the software. The alternative is using shared logins which is bad for security and also bad for the SaaS.

My save bookmark/read bookmark ratio is like 20x

My brunch cost estimation technique is to look at the price of the eggs benny, double that, and use that as the approx. cost per person. Surprisingly accurate.

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To commemorate Mercury’s 5 year anniversary we took a full page ad in the Sunday NYT. Thanks to all the 615+ incredible people for their continuous dedication to the product and customers. And for making it a great place to work.

Can’t believe we are five years old already!

The o1 models might be impressive, but the REAL update is that the actually good GPT-4 model is now not one but two clicks away. It’s expensive for OpenAI to run it so they don’t let you default to using it. And now they buried it even further.

Today, we’re announcing a $300 million Series C in a mix of primary and secondary funding at a $3.5 billion valuation. We’re excited to bring on @Sequoia as our lead investor in the round, with participation from Spark Capital, Marathon, COATUE, CRV, & a16z.

We are starting to do 2026 planning for @Mercury What features/products would you like us to build? Anything you need us to fix/improve?

Seems like Paul Allen’s purchase of the Seattle Seahawks was (almost) as good an investment as $MSFT over that same period.

1/ Mercury 2025 Annual Letter @Mercury 2025 stats: * 50% YoY growth in customers to 300k * 59% YoY growth in transaction volume to $248bn The theme of the year was expanding beyond startups: we saw 73% of new customers came from outside AI or tech startup category 🧵