When working in tech, It’s easy to forget that 1/3 of the world population still don’t have access to the internet Distribution and teaching people great new tech is so hard and we get bubbles around tech thinking that everyone knows and uses AI and some crypto It takes

If banks had crypto UX

NO FEES on web transactions. Game over for the Apple Tax. Apple’s 15-30% junk fees are now just as dead here in the United States of America as they are in Europe under the Digital Markets Act. Unlawful here, unlawful there. 4 years 4 months 17 days.

this is such a great convo. the overt orientation towards numbers in silicon valley & tech in general is so insidious. there are many places now where your *opinion* is treated as heresy. ironically, it’s kinda funny that this talk would’ve been way better suited for figma

New ATH for Aave. $25B TVL. See you next at $50B.

Wild stat: Airlines collectively generated ~$23.5 trillion in revenue since 1985 and lost ~$47 billion in total

There is literally no overlap between Tron blockchain users and users of this social network And yet Tron is exploding in growth

10/10 post

yes bro eat excel take it away

Pretty crazy that I've been renting out a few of my Mystic Axies for over a year now at 2.5 or 3 USD per day on LootRush - rent items, buy/sell gaming coins! Just claimed 9 K USDC. Enough to pick up a Mystic. Learn more about Mystic Axies here: blog.axieinfinity.com/p/the-2024-axi…

Lately I’ve been thinking about how we judge brands by the way they use AI. Not consciously, but instinctively. Just like we do with design, writing, or taste. When AI is used to create something that wasn’t possible before, it feels premium. When it quietly improves the

Love this

Can’t wait until they unify all the apps into a new app called cable.

Ads are a net positive (!!) especially for small businesses. Great targeting drives growth, lowers CAC, and levels the playing field Display ad targeting could still be 10x better.

Comms and marketing start strong for a high percentage of companies that grow quickly but scale poorly due to a committee mindset

If you tell your friends you're burned out, they'll always prescribe the same thing: "You need to take a vacation". But it never works. Burnout is completely misunderstood. This new article by Blake Scholl 🛫 is the best explanation I've seen.

5 years later and this continues to be one of the most important and relevant blog posts published by a prominent tech CEO

For decades, human genome editing has been limited to small, localized modifications. Today, in a new paper published in Science Magazine, researchers from the Patrick Hsu lab show that bridge recombinase technology is capable of large-scale genomic rearrangements in human cells.

I just banned committees (or even worse “steering committees”) at Amplitude. Distributed ownership = no ownership. What happens when there’s something unexpected? Who is supposed to solve it? You also get the average of lots of opinions vs a point of view focused on winning.

Valve, the makers of Steam, Half-Life and CounterStrike, made ~$17B in revenue this year with ~336 employees. That's >$50M per employee, the highest for any (non-crypto) company in the world. The average pay is ~$1.3M/person. One of the most efficient businesses of all time.