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Netflix Director Mike Cessario sold $130M worth of water last year. His company Liquid Death is dominating the water industry with edgy branding and masterful storytelling Here's how it grew to a $700 valuation overnight

Think text-to-image is cool? Tons of research came out in the last 2 months that will blow your mind: 🗨️speech-to-text 🔊text-to-audio 🔊audio-to-audio ⏯️text-to-video (2x) 🕺text-to-motion (2x) 🧊text-to-3d (3x) 🧠 brain-to-text (2x) Check these out 👇

”The arc of history only bends towards justice when people of goodwill grab hold of it and wrench it in the direction of justice.”

I worked in bank liquidity and treasury for the better part of the last decade, and there is one very interesting risk factor from the SVB collapse that I do not think we have ever witnessed before in modern finance, a 🧵:

Wise Interest launched in 6 EU countries🇳🇱🇪🇸🇫🇷🇫🇮🇦🇹🇱🇺 Hold ultimately 100% government-backed assets, keep spending like your current account and earn variable rate after fees. £ - 3.43% € - 1.87% $ - soon capital at risk of governments defaulting, interest rates going negative.

This is the current level of homemade deepfake video. Even though Atmaca did this with a single Nvidia RTX, the end result is still convincing enough (except that I don't speak Turkish). youtube.com/watch?v=_jtfaz…

These last weeks reminded us again how banks work. Give a bank your money for free, they lend it for profit and might not have it when you need it. This is why we built Interest with Wise Assets. How it works and why is it safer than banks?

The Tesla Bots Uprising! It legit blows my mind that I can make this whole video in an hour 🤯 Breakdown of my AI creation process: 1. Make Skynet inspired visuals in Midjourney 2. Separate Tesla Bot video into clips using "Scene Edit Detection" in @adobe Premiere Pro 3.

Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year. Today, they went a step further with a tool that shows the $$$ cost of holding meetings. I spoke to Kaz Nejatian (Shopify's COO) about meeting bloat and protecting craft time. Here are 6 spicy takes from our interview 👇

You won't see this very often. Presidential election winner Alexander Stubb drops in on supporters' gathering of runner-up Pekka Haavisto & the 2 election rivals share warm words & thank each other for the journey shared during campaign. #Democracy at its best. #Finland 📸 れいぜ broadcast

This is how you market yourself in the age of AI taking jobs.

Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer. Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. Devin is

In grad school, I worked part time at lululemon (retail, not corporate). I learned more about business from that part time job folding & selling yoga pants than any other job I had. ❤️ Here’s what they did differently:

In 2009, Stanford business professor Tina Seelig split her class into groups and issued a challenge: Each group had $5 and 2 hours to make the highest return on the money. At the end, they'd give a short presentation on their strategy. What happened next was fascinating:

The European company landscape is ran by dinosaurs and today I studied it so I can produce you with my evidence 🦖 🇪🇺 80% of top EU companies were founded before 1950 🇺🇸 Only 36% of top US companies were founded before 1950 🇪🇺 Median year top EU companies were founded is 1913

3D capture is dope for media & entertainment, but the utilitarian applications might be even more impactful - literally x-ray vision making the unseen seen. With tools like Pix4D + RTK GPS (cm level accuracy) you can capture critical infrastructure, and overlay it at real-world

THE DEFINITIVE STATE OF ECOM REPORT: Over the past 2 weeks I met with 100+ founders in NYC and SF. These 100+ brands represent BILLIONS in GMV across all of ecom. Here is what is really happening in ecom in 2024...

Built an AI phone agent that calls hotels and gets better prices (and it actually works lol) Prior coding experience: almost 0 My stack: Bland API PHP MySQL Claude, gpt4o, DeepSeek Coding pose © @levelsio First heard "AI haggling" idea on GREG ISENBERG podcast w/Michael Karnjanaprakorn

Shopify merchants will be able to sell directly in ChatGPT. We’ve been working with OpenAI for quite some time so people can search and buy products in chat, and it’s something we’ve had a hard time keeping quiet. Rollout is coming very very soon.