My other takeaway from the Shopify summit: the employees are really really kind and humble. It’s not usual to be in a convention center with over 6k people and everybody is walking around smiling, laughing, chatting with strangers. The vibes were 1000000/10. 💚🫶💚

This is the next big step in the ‘shop while you watch’ era of commerce. Today, all eligible Shopify Plus and Advanced merchants in the US can sign up for the YouTube Shopping affiliate program. Shopify merchants can now work with thousands of YouTube creators who then can

A rare role is opening up at Partiful: our first marketing hire. We're looking for a creative, scrappy, insanely organized generalist who loves the product & can articulate all the ways it's valuable (including to niche audiences), crafting strategy but thriving on execution.

Looking for (actually) quality early stage deal flow? Investors requested 280 intros to startups that other investors shared on my 60th deal flow call last month. Every single deal we talked about on the call had intro requests. If you are an active early stage investor who

Waking up to the reality of another Trump presidency is devastating. To all the other NYers I see wearing black today on the street and in the subway … I see your pain and stand in community and solidarity with you.

More merchants are coming to Shopify across geographies, verticals, and sizes. This quarter alone, we had 16 enterprise launches. Brands like Hanes, On, Off-White™ and Victoria's Secret all came to Shopify. It’s clear: we aren’t just the ecommerce company for domestic

Perplexity Shopping: a one-stop solution to both research and buy products. We’re excited about the transition from just providing answers to enabling native commercial transactions within Perplexity, starting with everyday shopping.

Bringing the products and merchants on Shopify to Perplexity … 🤝the future of commerce is evolving right before our eyes

Black Friday set an incredible stage for the weekend: Shopify merchants did a record-breaking $5B in sales and at its peak, sales were hitting $4.6 Million per minute. People are buying from the brands they love, which are powered by Shopify. We are living in a new golden age

Shopify: The Boring Edition. We focused on the hard and unsexy work of nailing the basics, getting all the parts of Shopify to work seamlessly together, and run at tip top performance. You've got to sweat the details. Some of my favorite updates 🧵

Join the effort to protect public media Protect My Public Media! Sign the petition now to safeguard your local public media stations. bit.ly/450C2uw #ProtectPublicMedia

Absolutely packed (and very peaceful!) protests today in NYC on #NoKingsDay 👊

dropping new features faster than you can say "hey Sidekick"

As a materials innovation nerd, I loooooove seeing NYC get behind more of this development! edc.nyc/press-release/…

Since diving deeper into product, I've come across this awesome analysis of insighttimer. As a new user (22 day streak!) I've been loving the community flywheel effect of this simple meditation app. It's already boosted my daily wellbeing. gopikak.substack.com/p/insight-time…

your outie rides the subway

We just launched something new at First Round - Applied Intelligence, a new publication sharing how companies are actually using AI in production right now. Not theory. Not demoware. Real workflows with real results. Our first piece is with Shopify and it's 🔥👇

I've spent the last two years studying consumer AI trends. Yesterday, our team a16z published our latest report on the top 100 AI products (by usage). My biggest surprises - and what to learn from them ⬇️

AI Creative Tools: State of Play ✨ I spend most days testing the latest AI models & workflows across all forms of creative content - images, video, audio, 3D... For the first time, I'm dropping slides on where we're at + which tools I use for each task 👇

there’s a bunch of REALLY negative people on this app (and this planet) and it’s toxic 1. they’ll make fun of the browser company for selling for $650M 2. they’ll say an AI launch video is super “cringe” 3. they’ll joke about a founder pivoting ("guess it didn’t work”) i know