giving equity to employees is perhaps the key element to making startups work. it's amazing to me that some countries make this so hard (sometimes totally economically impractical) and then wonder why they don't have more successful startups.

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.Bill Ackman is right. There are two systemic crises underway right now: (1) Startup Extinction Event - thousands of startups and small businesses won’t be able to make payroll and will immediately need to furlow or layoff employees if the FDIC does not release at least a

For @wsj to say flat out that SVB could have failed because they added non-white men to their board shows how far behind the times (and certifiably stupid) this publication really is. It makes me so angry and very sad. WSJ readers and staff deserve better.

Interesting, but huge challenge to overcome when super wallets will have the ability to integrate API's for merchants to do the same thing that they are trying to attempt. tcrn.ch/3n9ewdt via TechCrunch

What a great proposal! Anyone in the region in the payments space building new rails should take a vantage of this. lnkd.in/gfiTQKfa

PSA: if you haven’t used your Twitter account for a while, better use it ASAP or you will lose your account

Vision Pro and @apple pay monthly will be perfect. Even for lower priced devices why would you downgrade? CNBC

The infatuation of Elon Musk with the name X.com goes way back. Here are some excerpts from my upcoming book, amazon.com/Elon-Musk-Walt… "When his cousin Peter Rive visited in early 1999, he found Musk poring over books about the banking system. “I’m trying to

Why is it so hard to find the downloaded music from Spotify USA on the iOS app. Why isn’t there a simple line that says “downloaded music”? The app is definitely turning more difficult to use than ever.

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“If you think the world is selfish and rotten, go to the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer overlooking Omaha Beach. See what one group of men did for another on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.” — Andy Rooney

We mourn the loss of war hero, history buff, family friend and FedEx founder Fred Smith, who died yesterday at age 80. At Yale, his economics professor nearly flunked his paper outlining the concept of what became FedEx. The early years were hard but he persisted, even using

FRED SMITH: AN AMERICAN LIFE. By me, for Arena Magazine Fred Smith died on Saturday, June 21. He was the founder of Federal Express, which became FedEx, one of the largest logistics companies on Earth. Smith was an entrepreneur in the truest sense of the word, and an American

Two moments stick out to me in the story of The Free Press. The first is me opening my phone to see Bari Weiss’s resignation letter in 2020. It felt shocking. Not her leaving the New York Times, but what she wrote, how she said it and when, during a summer of hysteria when very

I started a digital subscription to Arena Magazine Maxwell Meyer then this happened. Walked into my local Barnes & Noble saw the actual physical magazine. I couldn’t believe it! Bought it, went straight back home cancelled the digital subscription, ordered the three previous issues

The secret’s out! Arena Magazine is now rolling out for purchase at Barnes & Noble locations across the country. 🇺🇸📚

The counter-narrative just went mainstream. America’s premier techno-capitalist magazine just landed on Barnes & Noble shelves across the nation! Head to your local store and pick up your copy of Arena today 🇺🇸

In many parts of the world, WhatsApp is the core operating layer for daily life, where families communicate, businesses run, and increasingly, healthcare is delivered. But WhatsApp wasn’t built for healthcare, and physicians can lose hours navigating disorganized threads. Leona

Legends. Grateful to a16z for helping us scale @airbnb from early days