Tesla Model S Plaid just set official world speed record for a production electric car at Nurburgring. Completely unmodified, directly from factory.

Congrats to the team GrubMarket (YC W15) on their $120M Series E! Grubmarket is aiming to consolidate the American food supply chain through software -- they're now at a $1B annualized run-rate, having grown revenues 300% over the last year. techcrunch.com/2021/09/13/gru…

Very proud seed investor - I will follow up with a few lessons from this in due course. I have always said this will be one of the most valuable startups in the world and this is just the beginning

I meant to publish this post a few weeks ago, as promised here are a few lessons learnt from investing early in Canva which is now one of the most valuable private software companies in the world medium.com/jigsaw-vc/prof…

JUST IN: China Evergrande Group announces its shares will be suspended from trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange on Monday without giving a reason trib.al/hkqiw1E

‘Impossible’ material is twice as strong as steel and as light as plastic independent.co.uk/tech/material-…

One of the most lasting consequences of the Russia/Ukraine conflict will be new European urgency around renewables. 2020’s is likely to be the decade when green energy takes the greatest leap forward, globally

History will not be kind to Merkel.

Germany 🇩🇪 should shut down #Nordstream1 immediately. Not a single cent more for Putin’s war machine. RT if you agree.

the Apple II was built with just 25 employees. since then, we’ve slid into tech incrementalism. today, most software companies are fundamentally unambitious, but Rippling is hiding in plain sight. I wrote about how Parker Conrad is bringing ambition back: luttig.substack.com/p/rippling

"Rippling has over 50 former founders within the company, many of whom are running various product divisions" luttig.substack.com/p/rippling?s=r

Some news: We just raised a $250M Series D at an $11.25B valuation, co-led by Bedrock and Kleiner Perkins. We’re very thankful for the trust of our investors, partners, and customers, and the hard work of our team. Read our announcement here: bit.ly/3yqTyd9

11 years ago today Gary Speed took his own life. Bryn Laws was his best friend and this Sky Sports interview is absolutely heartbreaking. Don’t forget to check in on your friends and family ❤️👇

Breakthrough in nuclear fusion energy announced bbc.in/3YeXI2t

Let’s go Jitter - awesome product and brilliant team with bags of domain expertise. Proud early investor 🚀🙌🤗

Revolut just posted 2023 financial results and they are insane 🤯 - $2.2B revenue (+95% YoY) - $428M net profit, up from $7M in 2022. - A record 12M new customers in 2023 - $22.7B in customer balances on the platform (+38% YoY) The crazy part? 70% of new retail customers

Next Insurance gets scooped up by Munich Re for $2.6B tcrn.ch/4hmhgdD

Our founder Parker Conrad is known for his candor: "Whenever founders ask for my advice, I tell them: 'Don't start a company. It's a terrible idea.' The journey is soul-crushing and harder than most people realize." But if you're already on this path, the last thing you need is

Space fact: In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet.

Rachel is absolutely right. The fact that Revolut still can’t get regulated in the UK over a decade after founding is a failure of state capacity. This is the first UK-founded company likely to surpass a $100bn market cap—and yet the country has systematically missed the