2025-12-31
SoftBank will make so much money when OpenAI goes public. Masa struck an awesome deal to have a delayed draw to fund.
SoftBank Group Corp.
SoftBank says it has completed a $22.5B investment in OpenAI, finalizing its up to $40B investment commitment announced in March and taking its stake to ~11%
SoftBank Group Corp. ("SBG" or the “Company") today announced that it has completed an additional investment of $22.5 billion …
2025-08-05
Maybe we shouldn't feel bad for @zoink and his shareholders because it's his company and his money and why is everyone pocket counting these new billionaires and millionaires. If you go IPO, you can go negotiate with your ibanks and charge a higher list price.
Bloomberg
Source: Figma considered a higher IPO price, but CEO Dylan Field wanted to bring on board certain long-term institutional shareholders and approved $33/share
Should You Chase the Surge or Wait for a Pullback? Fortune : Tech industry insiders share their picks for the next startups who will ride the IPO wave after Figma's blockbuster deb...
Maybe we shouldn't feel bad for @zoink and his shareholders because it's his company and his money and why is everyone pocket counting these new billionaires and millionaires. If you go IPO, you can go negotiate with your ibanks and charge a higher list price.
CNBC
Figma's stock dropped 27.38% to $88.60 on August 4 after last week's IPO pop; its fully diluted valuation sits at ~$56B, still almost triple Adobe's 2022 offer
Figma shares dropped 27% on Monday, cutting into the gains the design software company posted after hitting the market last week.
2025-07-15
Excellent move. Congrats @ScottWu46 and the @cognition_labs team for relentless execution towards making software available to everyone. @antifundvc proud to be an early investor!
New York Times
Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date”
techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/c... [embedded post] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The AI acquisition moves fast. First, OpenAI ditched its Windsurf deal after clashing with Microsof...
2024-04-07
RIP Mahbod. We were YC S11 batchmates, and I think @bradflora, another batchmate, captures it nicely. Mahbod was the biggest personality in the batch and definitely made an impression on me as a 21/22 year old novice founder right out of school.
TechCrunch
Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, passed away in March at age 41, according to a post on Genius attributed to his family
Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial, never-boring co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, as well as an angel investor …
2023-11-18
@princeghosh97 ... I don't think @elonmusk retained any governance or shares in the resulting entity, and why would the Board listen to him given that @sama objectively launched the best consumer software product in history.
OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn't “consistently candid in his communications with the board”
The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities …
2023-02-02
Longtime $meta shareholder, and happy about the earnings report this evening, after a brutal few quarters. Zuck is a visionary technologist and has been through the ringer. Less than a handful of CEOs have had such a trial by fire. Back amazing people. Seed through public. https://twitter.com/...
Meta
Meta reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to $32.2B, net income down 55% YoY to $4.7B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 2.96B; stock jumps 24%+
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022.
2022-01-09
Incredible to watch @pmarca @bhorowitz @cdixon @vijaypande @ChrisLyons @alive_eth @DavidGeorge83 and the good people over at @a16z build. Innovation is happening across the entire sector of technology, including and especially capital. https://twitter.com/...
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz raises $9B across three funds: a $1.5B Bio Fund, a $5B Growth Fund, and a $2.5B Venture Fund
2022-01-08
Incredible to watch @pmarca @bhorowitz @cdixon @vijaypande @ChrisLyons @alive_eth @DavidGeorge83 and the good people over at @a16z build. Innovation is happening across the entire sector of technology, including and especially capital. https://twitter.com/...
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz raises $9B across three funds: a $1.5B Bio Fund, a $5B Growth Fund, and a $2.5B Venture Fund
Ben Horowitz / Andreessen Horowitz :
2021-07-21
Inspiring to watch @joshbuckley move. He is one of the best in the new breed of venture capitalists that break all lines across founder, venture capitalist, private equity buyouts, and distribution. Watch out old people 🛥🛥🛥 https://twitter.com/...
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