2025-08-01
Figma is going public today. Trading under the ticker FIG. Huge congrats to @zoink — I remember reading his application for the thiel fellowship in 2012, the first meetings about creating some collaborative design tool in the cloud...incredible teamwork and leadership to today
CNBC
Figma's stock closes up 250% at $115.50, after Figma sold shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$68B valuation; Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition fell apart in 2023
Figma's stock more than tripled in its New York Stock Exchange debut on Thursday, a day after the design software company sold shares at $33 in its IPO.
2024-09-11
“Lastly, as we expand our Azure Quantum compute platform, we are excited to announce that Microsoft and Atom Computing are coming together to ultimately build the world's most powerful quantum machine.” Great news from 1517 port co @Atom_Computing https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
Ars Technica
Microsoft says it has demonstrated, with Quantinuum, logical operations with the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet, and partners with Atom Computing
Microsoft Quantum and Quantinuum demonstrate the first combination of computation and error correction in quantum computing, creating 12 highly reliable logical qubits. Plus, HPC,...
2023-11-20
Pretty amazing that the world's savviest investors & MSFT didn't see any red flags in the roasted malodorous turducken of corporate governance + non-profit structure that is OpenAI. Delaware C-Corp is one of man's greatest inventions. It will get us AI & it will get us to Mars.
TechCrunch
Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI
Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …
2020-05-08
Sayonara. The hype was great while it lasted. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
The Information
Sources: Zoox, which has raised $1B, is in talks with automakers about a potential deal or financing, as the self-driving car startup contemplates a sale
Amir Efrati / The Information : Tweets: @filippie509 , @william_blake , @fmanjoo , @kateclarktweets , @amir , and @amir Tweets: Filip Piekniewski / @filippie509 : I've seen that m...
2020-05-01
And Larry Summers said the Thiel Fellowship was the most misguided bit of philanthropy in the 2010s... https://twitter.com/...
Forbes
Design software startup Figma raises $50M Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2B valuation
Alex Konrad / Forbes :