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I've long been skeptical of the potential of prediction markets. A huge source of their recent growth, sports-related contracts, seems to rest on precarious legal grounds since non…

Using valuation as a measuring stick is a bit silly given how much valuations can be inflated based on a pre-revenue idea and the pedigree of the company founder(s). When Mira Mura…

This came from the NLRB's McLaren Macomb case.

The first batch of reviews for Vinfast's US vehicles were awful. I can't imagine this going well for them, though the stock will very volatile due to the low float.

I agree regarding leaving VC as an associate. Many of these positions are not partner-track. Also, in a world in which term sheets were being signed in 48 hours, it isn't clear wha…

Interesting to see what the impact will be on crowdsourcing annotation companies like Scale AI, especially after reading this article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/…

Scale AI has long struck me as one of the worst examples of the excesses of the recent startup boom: - An extraordinary amount of hype and handwaving over what is essentially a bus…

I think it's the latter. If anything, this will negatively impact Mercury and Brex in the long run as companies will favor safety above all else.

I was a competitive chess player in my youth and am currently ~2300 on Lichess. Here are key aspects of any training regimen: * Tactics - I did thousands of tactics puzzles using a…

The college student behind the account also tracks the private jets of other prominent individuals, including Bill Gates, Trump, Bezos, and a slew of Russian oligarchs. It should b…

I stand corrected on this point. Bloomberg is reporting that SBF's Robinhood stake was apparently held through Alameda and may have been used as collateral for loans.

This is absolutely wild and unprecedented. Imagine being a victim of Madoff's ponzi and - after already being traumatized by the unveiling of the fraud - discovering that the rest …

SBF personally owns a 7.6% stake in Robinhood worth ~$700m at the current price.

The Sacramento Kings' old arena was called the Power Balance Arena in 2011-12. Power Balance went bankrupt in 2011, and the arena naming rights went to Sleep Train the following ye…

Selling game/item codes is a grey area on eBay. eBay restricts the selling of digital goods to approved sellers, but it is theoretically possible to circumvent this by physically m…