Nevada is savage for this one

Everyone out here analyzing burn rate and revenue forecasts, completely ignoring the company's proven track record of summoning an unstoppable army of immortal ghosts

Me to the homies after I come out of my k hole:

3. Not once in 20 years did we ever worry about booking anyone as a condition of how we conducted our interviews. See Zuckerberg. See Fiorina. See Semel. And yet we managed to thrive and make millions in profits annually. Good lord, is making CEOs all comfy my job? It is not.

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'The scholar, the pragmatist, and the rainmaker:' How three Bloomberg Beta VCs bet on AI before it became a buzzword (Darius Rafieyan - @businessinsider) redef.com/item/6508dd0ee…

“Roy is like, do you want to meet the Secretary of Treasury?” Thanks to Kieran Snyder for capturing our partnership so crisply and to Darius Rafieyan for his profile of us. businessinsider.com/bloomberg-beta…

(And thanks to Anthony Cheng’s dad for having technical manuals for the Lisa back

Insider on a Times Square billboard 👀

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Has anyone ever had the experience of trying to see a therapist, being told one price by your insurance, starting care, and then months later being told that the price is actually much higher? If so, I would love to talk to you.

What you’re gonna want to do is meet an alluring but inscrutable blue-haired woman on the beach, spend months falling in love with and then eventually coming to hate everything about her, then erase her from your memory. Can’t recommend it enough.

Ok. If you're interested in a little case study of how much reporters hear, and how very high the bar is for confirming/publishing, read on🧵
-Heard about Elon Musk and Grimes having a third baby via surrogate last year.
-Started poking around. Some small anecdotal things seemed

A group of SV elite (Moritz, Andreessen, Hoffman, Collisons Jobs, etc) spent $800M acquiring land to create a new city in the Bay Area, one that would be “as walkable as the West Village.”

It’s a neat idea- the area is mostly uninhabited but close enough and with warmer weather.

More than 150,000 people were arrested for drug offenses in CA last year, the idea that the west coast has “decriminalized” drugs and “stopped enforcing” drug laws and that’s what’s causing the addiction crisis is nonsensical and disingenuous

NEW: Travis Kalanick's hot restaurant tech company promised to turn nobodies into superstar salespeople.

Instead, half didn't make it through a two-month sales bootcamp.

Of the ~300 who started, fewer than 20 are still employed 🧵

w/Darius Rafieyan

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Yes! End the lawlessness! Crack down on wage theft (3x larger than property crime) and tax evasion (60x larger than property crime)

This is your daily reminder that tax evasion is 63x larger than property crime

Microsoft's VC unit has been selling some of its $1 billion startup portfolio. The discounts are pretty big: businessinsider.com/microsoft-vc-a… via @businessinsider Ben Bergman Ashley Stewart Darius Rafieyan