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Perhaps Plume will be the next company to be sued by Texas...

tl;dr The author discovers the wild world of financial engineering and "float". Instead of settling usage changes for it's image service with a single charge, Cloudflare settles it…

Your investors need liquidity and private markets won't give you the valuation that you need. So get Google to buy Wiz for their nascent services play and plow the cash into this. …

A master class in enterprise software sales fit into a single comment. Bravo!

However, scaling will get you your next round led by Nvidia... I mean Microsoft... I mean AWS...

If Figma continues along this path I worry that they are doomed. Generally, there are three paths to profitability: 1) increase pricing, 2) decrease expenses, or 3) offer new produ…

Weirdly, they don't preference contracts for shell corps owned by, say, poor white trash from Middletown, Ohio -- despite these people meeting your definition of "someone who histo…

From subpoenaed communications we even know that certain figures who publicly denounced the lab-leak theory, privately believed the theory was plausible or even likely. https://www…

I forgot that we're playing the demo games now. Well I'll see your demo, and raise you another demo https://x.com/sean_moriarity/status/1760435005119934862 Except that demo was don…

Weird... Things are starting to smell a lot like 2020, again...

Exactly -- and CZ was always the fall guy. Yi is the mastermind.

Some stories don't have a hero.

What a wonderful way to cut headcount/expense and lock-in profitable margins on healthy annual revenue. Can only work when you have the advantage of being the dominant product in t…

Not really. There were things like Purdue, but that wasn't fentanyl. The fentanyl epidemic is the result of market developments in the illegal drug trade.

So here's a little brain teaser about what you have to do when dealing with potential nation-state actors. This scenario is for the folks who are calling "hyperbole" when the actor…

Nice post! Couple things that might be useful: 1. While JCH will usually be the most performant hashing method, naively, removing a node will affect all nodes of higher order. This…

Losses have to be paid by someone. Whether they're paid by "you, the taxpayer" or "you, the bank customer", they will be paid. Just remember that some losses matter more than other…

For some additional context, here is an excerpt from the hearing: https://twitter.com/SeidlerCorp/status/1636518949872451584?s... Here is my question: Certain individuals have argu…

This is a significant simplification of the matter. I doubt it works in reality. Replace the words "VC firm" with "Sequoia" in the previous statement and see if it rings true that …

When the smoke has cleared, it would be interesting to quantify whether this event affected a (statically significant) higher percentage of YC offspring than other incubator offspr…

Requirements aren't the only way to steer someone to a product. Google pays Apple billions to be the default search engine on iOS. Nor does the lack of a requirement indemnify some…