TIL that marble bust at Stripe Sessions was made Monumental Labs, which builds 'AI-enabled robotic stone carving factories to unleash a renaissance'

Pricing is 85% less than hand-carved:
Life-sized bust: $6k
Life-sized figure: $32k
Monumental Figure: $95k

The best consumer AI hardware product is severely underhyped: The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.

If you wear glasses, you should try them. The most useful product is the one that is with you.

Mine cost ~$350 with transitions rx lenses.

What's Jake and Sheel Mohnot's fintech investing strategy at Better Tomorrow Ventures? Don't buy into the hype cycles. Why? A lot of these biz models are things the incumbents have largely already won. They tend to be games of marketing spend and cost of capital, not games you can win as…

1. Don’t worry about scale, just get to PMF. At the earliest stages, it doesn’t matter if you’re built to scale; the only job is to get to PMF. Building a company at the earliest stages is a journey of learning. In it, you will discover what you need to do to scale.

We had a great panel on all things early-stage GTM at Themint, featuring a group of awesome founders: Trent Hedge from Pylon, Travis Hedge from Vouch Insurance, Gautam Sivakumar, MD from Lunar, + Yoseph West from Relay. Here are some of those insights + learnings:

Etihad is flying the A380 to the US again

Most luxurious cabin in commercial aviation. The Residence has 3 rooms (living/dining, bedroom, bathroom/shower)

Prices for dates I searched were ~$12k OW JFK > Abu Dhabi.

You have to book first class and then change seats to 1A & 1C