NYC tech is eating the world. Fifteen years ago, raising a New York seed round meant booking a flight to San Francisco. Today the numbers run the other way: • +64 % tech-job growth (2014-24). 4× faster than the city’s private-sector average. • 41 % of all post-pandemic

The population of people who end every sentence with “right” is increasing at an alarming rate.

Next Wednesday NYC will have one of the best gatherings of founders of 2025, I can almost guarantee it. I'm also just happy I get to co-host with some of the best - Brett and ami - and bring our communities together. First part: rooftop dinner with 20 of New

Was back and forth with a fund finding time to chat about a time sensitive (already oversubscribed) deal - they pushed meeting times twice before sending a cal invite for AUGUST… The best vcs won’t do this, but it happens, and way too much (particularly during the summer). Not

BREAKING NEWS: Soham Parekh fired from top 20 YC jobs, offered 3 term sheets @ 30M to 'get jobs everywhere' and gearing up for TBPN interview.

The INVEST AMERICA ACT. Passed July 4, 2025. Accounts established & funded July 4, 2026. Because every child deserves to share in the upside of America. Happy birthday America! Never perfect. Always rising.

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The good ending. Shoutout both teams for getting this done within 3 days of previous news. Feels like two very complementary halves coming together

We're drunk on our stupidity, again. Bribing founders with homes? Free secondaries as % of investment? Celebrating founders who leave the team out to dry? Counting GMV, bookings, distribution contracts, and equity raised as "ARR"? Manufacturing positive GM by burying COGS?

It's scary how excited I see some investors get about gambling ("prediction markets" included) and sports betting startups. Invest in them, but don't claim they're net positive for humanity. The goal of expanding 'spend per customer' and getting more of the general public into

STAY OUT OF MIDTOWN - ACTIVE SHOOTER. Stay inside, incident at Park Avenue between East 51st and East 52nd Streets. Police on site.

Startups calling themselves “prediction markets” to get around the mental hurdle of gambling for consumers and their investors is a bit funny. Not too funny.