2.5 years ago I bought a dog ramp business for $300,000. Since then, I’ve sold $35,000,000 of dog ramps. I’m going to explain Why I bought it How I scaled Why I bought a business vs built from scratch But first...dog ramps? 👇

Excited to announce the successful pricing of Founder SPAC's IPO (NASDAQ: FOUNU) Thankful for the decacorn founders that teamed up to make it happen - Hassan Ahmed, Jack Selby, Steve Papa, Rob Theis, & Allen Salmasi. Osman H Ahmed Manpreet Singh Jefferies lnkd.in/dyHhFP_H

Solana Ecosystem Map from Solanians h/t to Darren Lau 🙏 More detailed full map: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Thank you @oishii.berry for gifting these insanely delicious Omakase berries, a rare and exceptional variety once only found seasonally in the Japanese Alps, to Nikhil Kalghatgi. Oishii replicated the idyllic conditions with an indoor vertical farm. #indoorverticalfarming

"composability is to software as compounding is to finance." - Chris Dixon to Naval on Tim Ferriss pod

SCOOP: Expensify's IPO could make nearly all 140 employees paper millionaires, after the company surprised them with a 10% stock grant on listing day. "I think I'll just hold on to it," one employee told me. businessinsider.com/expensify-ipo-…

I’ve been writing a series of articles about personalization for TechCrunch+ and @beautymatter, and the latest one is a feature in BeautyMatter today — “The Brave New World of Personalization & Privacy” beautymatter.com/articles/the-b…

Congrats to Ali Hamed and the rest of the Crossbeam Venture Partners + CoVenture team on the new $70M fund! forbes.com/sites/rebeccas…

Yes! Reema for Congress #NY3

The person you should have known all along: Ron Fisher. Not just the 27-years driving SoftBank's meteoric rise, but one of the kindest and highest intregrity leaders in business. axios.com/softbank-steps…

there is a online sneaker company currently valued at $10B 🤯 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"you either die an altcoin hero, or live long enough to be a bitcoin maximalist"

sending this to friends that are hungry for exceptional content josephcwells.com/curations/essa…

If you like The Profile, then you’ll love our new book, HIDDEN GENIUS. It’s a compilation of all the lessons writer @polina_marinova has learned from successful people over the last 5 years. Here’s the story of how this book came together: theprofile.substack.com/p/hidden-geniu…

How to avoid a life of regret. The Paradox Map. What it is and why everyone needs to know it:

We used ChatGPT to WRITE and DIRECT a film in a weekend. What does it mean to use AI to DIRECT a film? A thread 🧵...

Of course that’s your contention, you’re a new VC who just expensed a meal at Nobu and saw a Toast card reader for the first time when you paid. You started down the Vertical SaaS rabbit hole, probably just read the Bessemer Toast memo. You’re gonna be convinced of that until…

Thrilled to announce that Skin Dossier, a Precision Beauty Health Advisor & recommendation engine, is coming out of stealth mode! Even more thrilled that we built our product without any outside funding. Although the market dynamics aren’t great for beautymatter.com/articles/perso…