Tag: Finance
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Demo day is coming up for YC’s W25 batch. This morning, I picked out the coolest startups in the group. Let’s see who I need to meet! Pave Robotics This one is insane — robots that fix cracks in roads! We could certainly use this here in Jersey, which has…
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Google’s Gemini just dropped 3 cutting edge new models. This morning, I tried them all. Are these new models really better? Let’s find out… 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental This new model is designed for multi-step reasoning. I’ve been trying to learn about missile defense recently. So, I had the model…
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YC recently released its Request for Startups. This morning, I decided to do my own. Here are the top 5 startups I want to see: 1. Easier Ways to Navigate Zoning. Housing costs in this country are obscene. Restrictive zoning is the main factor driving these costs. I want to…
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Open your mailbox. Inside: a check for $1,000. “I wonder what Elon cut this time?” you wonder. “Ahh, DEI programs…awesome!” The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has already saved about $1 billion a day in federal spending. That’s enough to send every man, woman and child in America a check…
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Cyan Banister is one of the greatest investors of all time. She goes to a lot of weird conferences. So I’ve decided to do the same. To that end, I’ll be hitting New York Build in March. I know nothing about real estate or construction. I have 0 involvement with…
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Valuations for early stage startups jumped in 2024, according to a new report from AngelList. Pre-seed valuations are up 20% while seed prices rose 18%. Median pre-seed valuations hit $10 million pre-money. Seed reached a heady $20 million. This marks a big increase from 2023, when the median pre-seed was…
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This weekend, I was chatting with a friend who’s a psychiatrist. She often deals with patients in crisis. I sometimes deal with founders in crisis. So I got to thinking… How can I apply what psychiatrists do to my work investing in startups? Some founders I meet with are in…
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I usually help startups by introducing them to other investors. But lately, I’ve been working on a new way to help… It started when I got an e-mail from the founder of one of my companies. He asked the investors to test the product, a great SaaS tool. “Hmm, that’s…
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“From this moment on, America’s decline is over.” Watching President Trump’s inauguration today, I felt an incredible sense of relief. I felt comfort and trust. But I also felt trepidation. “Will this work?” Our country faces huge problems right now. Fixing them will take enormous effort. We have to believe…
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I used the world’s largest computer cluster to make a picture of Donald Trump eating ramen. Good thing engineers worked day and night on this. But seriously, xAI’s Colossus computing cluster is an incredible sight. With 100,000 GPU’s, the cluster is 2-4x larger than anything else on earth. A computing…
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