2026-02-08
Congrats @ereborbank & @PalmerLuckey on earning their national charter today. My favorite quote from the WSJ article: “You can think of us like a farmers' bank for tech. Most farmers' banks won't claim that they're the best bankers in the world, but they do understand farmers” [image]
Wall Street Journal
Palmer Luckey's Erebor becomes the first newly created bank to receive a national charter under the second Trump administration, launching with $635M in capital
2026-02-07
Congrats @ereborbank & @PalmerLuckey on earning their national charter today. My favorite quote from the WSJ article: “You can think of us like a farmers' bank for tech. Most farmers' banks won't claim that they're the best bankers in the world, but they do understand farmers” [image]
Wall Street Journal
Palmer Luckey's Erebor becomes the first newly created bank to receive a national charter under the second Trump administration, launching with $635M in capital
Erebor founder Palmer Luckey was one of the tech industry's early Trump supporters and is known for his penchant for Hawaiian shirts
2025-02-01
Congrats @antoniogm & @spindl_xyz on the @coinbase acquisition! Antonio messaged me in 2022 saying he was starting a new company. I had admired his work for years. We became the “first investor” & they built a category leading product. Thanks for letting us be on this journey.
The Block
Coinbase acquires Spindl, the on-chain advertising platform founded by Antonio Garcia-Martinez, an ex-Facebook staffer and the author of the book Chaos Monkeys
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2023-06-06
Vision Pro use cases that Apple has pitched: Enterprise Gaming Entertainment Video/Photography Social The GTM is literally everything & it doesn't feel crazy.
The Verge
Tim Cook unveils Apple Vision Pro, a “spatial computing” headset controlled with the user's eyes, hands, and voice, coming to the US for $3,499+ in early 2024
Apple has announced an augmented reality headset called Apple Vision Pro that “seamlessly” blends the real and digital world.
2022-09-01
Flow is the ecosystem that gets the least Twitter hype, but has the most traction with mainstream partners who bring new users into crypto. With Ticketmaster alone they've minted 5 million+ NFTs for event organizers. Keep building @roham & team🤝 https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Live Nation's Ticketmaster partners with Dapper Labs to issue ticket NFTs on the Flow blockchain and expands its NFL deal to give NFTs to attendees of 100 games
2021-08-05
Congrats to the @Superhuman team. The easiest investment I've ever made & the product I use most in my life. “People will never pay for email” was true until they built the best designed software ever for the category. https://twitter.com/...
Forbes
Email service Superhuman, which charges $30/month and hasn't formally launched, raises $75M Series C led by IVP, source says at a $825M valuation
2020-12-17
Feels like an open source product retrospective. Props to Twitter for sharing data from an AB test they are rolling back. More companies should do this. https://twitter.com/...
Mashable
Twitter says it will stop prompting users to Quote Tweet, restoring the standard RT functionality, and says QT use increased but overall sharing dropped by 20%
Well, it was worth a shot. — Twitter announced Wednesday that it will cease prompting users to quote tweet in lieu of the standard retweet.
2020-08-20
We are seeing the “unbundling of Silicon Valley” happening with a new headline every single day. The articles are easy to dismiss as single instances — but the compounding effect will be massive & is impossible for us to quantify today. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Denver Business Journal
Palantir lists Denver as its headquarters on its website, after Alex Karp said in a May interview that Palantir was considering moving out of Silicon Valley
but the compounding effect will be massive & is impossible for us to quantify today. https://www.cnbc.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The exodus from the Bay Area is anothe...
2020-02-16
HQ Trivia shutting down — few lessons: 1. Don't take talent for granted - Scott will always be the �� 2. Appointment viewing hard in mobile. Asynchronous easier to grow 3. New content formats get tired. Must keep innovating. Hollywood knows this Hope someone makes this work.
CNN
HQ Trivia, the company behind the once popular live mobile trivia game, is shutting down
New York (CNN Business)It's over for HQ Trivia. — The company behind the once popular live mobile trivia game is shutting down, CNN Business has learned. HQ will part ways with ...
2020-02-15
HQ Trivia shutting down — few lessons: 1. Don't take talent for granted - Scott will always be the �� 2. Appointment viewing hard in mobile. Asynchronous easier to grow 3. New content formats get tired. Must keep innovating. Hollywood knows this Hope someone makes this work.
CNN
HQ Trivia, the company behind the once popular live mobile trivia game, is shutting down
New York (CNN Business)It's over for HQ Trivia. — The company behind the once popular live mobile trivia game is shutting down, CNN Business has learned. HQ will part ways with ...
2018-01-26
Robinhood announcement is huge for crypto: 1. Competition for Coinbase. As Robinhood releases new coins, puts pressure on Coinbase to do the same. 2. Millennials will see little difference between public equities & crypto. 3. New audience will be addicted to the crypto drug.
TechCrunch