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TikTok has not been sold for $14B but Trump signed an executive order to transfer TikTok to US owners... for less than 1x it's US revenue. It reminds me of the oligarchs in Russia,…

This article isn’t referring to ai generated music

Good post from Lenny Rachitsky on how to acquire your first users https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/consumer-business-find-fi...

Cali is tough- the regulator is really standing in the way of a functioning market and is driving insurers away... Allstate stopped writing new policies in Nov 2022 and said they w…

https://archive.is/2024.08.23-131621/https://www.ft.com/cont...

Semi-relatedly, I had my parents sign up for https://www.charlie.com/ There are a bunch of great anti-fraud features including one that lets me be a co-pilot on their account. Some…

Leo does a great job explaining why VC's want liquidation preferences. But founders/employees want them too! With all the crazy founder-friendly deals of 2021, I never heard of one…

For those not familiar: Common Paper https://commonpaper.com/standards/ seems to have the best free standard docs. Here's the post where they describe it https://news.ycombinator.c…

AngelList is great https://www.angellist.com/startups

https://archive.is/2023.12.12-110602/https://www.wsj.com/rea...

He had it listed on Craigslist a few years ago... for $550k. Anyone know the current status of it? https://www.autoevolution.com/news/get-yourself-the-iconic-j...

I've been there a few times & spoken to people who live there. It's beautiful but requires a LOT of maintenance. There are 20,000 bushes and 800 trees. Just maintaining the gardens…

Besides the point but visa actually gets about 0.14%

Mr. Rogers was my actual neighbor in Pittsburgh in 1999-2000, while I was at CMU. He would really go out of his way to have social interactions. He would always say hello and ask h…

I have a link to http://sheel.wtf (a public motion page) in my twitter bio. I’m surprised at how many people read it and reference stuff from it when we talk. I’m often on podcasts…

Http://sheel.wtf

I think the main reason the Bloomberg article got to the top rather than the source (theinformation) is that The Information is beyond a paywall that you can't bypass. Good questio…