Prince as Christmas trees. A thread.

Any startups with bad news they’ve been holding on to… now is the time

Patrick Collison, Stripe CEO, on why quality matters: "If Stripe is a monstrously successful business but what we make isn't beautiful and Stripe doesn't embody a culture of incredibly exacting craftsmanship, I'll be much less happy. My intuition is that more of Stripe's

Social distance sign at #TsukijiMarket. #Tokyo #tuna #Japan

Working for a startup means taking risk: crazy work hours, high uncertainty, often lower salaries. In return you get to create the future, build something new and take responsibility. Until now, Germany has made it extremely cumbersome for companies to grant stock options to

At 3:45, as the transplant team was prepping the OR, a doctor came to Carole's room. She had terrible news. Cigna Healthcare, Carole's insurance company, had just denied her claim. They'd made a mistake, they said, in initially approving the procedure. They were now refusing to pay for it.

Kyoto University allows students to wear anything they want for graduation

🇬🇧 Farfetch tycoon bids to take fashion site private after failed float bit.ly/40Ykqxs

In 1959, 9yo Ronald McNair was told he couldn't check out his books from Lake City's segregated library. He went on to become Karate champion, earned an MIT PhD in physics, and became a NASA astronaut. Today that library is named after him.

We talked last week on The All-In Podcast about looking at long term multiples in SaaS and our friends at Meritech Capital sent us this chart that they keep looking all the way back to the Salesforce IPO in 2004. Bottom line is that 6x NTM revenue is the 20 year trend. If you run a

A 15-month regulatory process forcing Adobe and Figma to give up on their deal, when Generative AI completely changed the design game in the meantime anyway 🙄

This is incredible.

The full story here: nytimes.com/2023/12/18/bus…

Looking at high school internships. There is NOTHING, nothing in the UK/EU. Meanwhile in the US: NASA, Ford, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos, MSFT, Meta.

Who's having Chinese tonight?

Rabbit sells out 10,000 units of its R1 pocket AI companion in one day trib.al/bMFnYub

Today I’m excited to announce Hero! Hero helps you sell stuff faster with AI. You can now identify, price, and list items for sale in seconds. Pretty cool to see how good these AI models have become... Rolling out the beta soon. Sign up for the waitlist below.

Excited to share: Figure raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation + OpenAI & Figure signed a collaboration agreement to develop next generation AI models for robots Below are the details:

Alex Rodriguez asked a question. Reggie Jackson answered it. (Shouts to the producer and rest of the desk for staying out of Reggie’s way and just letting him talk. I doubt they expected this answer. But it’s a great few minutes of television.)