Loan forgiveness and straight As for everyone.

The question with “thin layer” startups is whether the startup can make the layer thicker fast enough, which ultimately comes back to being a question about whether the team is great at building.

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A lot of startups and investors incinerated cash during ZIRP, but a few used their war chest to build compound startups that would be impossible to get funded today.

I’m not convinced these startups would be able to exist without ZIRP even though they will be amazing businesses.

LanceDB is a specialized database for multi modal AI and they are already used by some of the most important AI companies (like Midjourney and Character.ai).👇

Mayday! Mayday!

Checkout our new look at lancedb.com

PS - DYK the call for help “mayday” is just an anglicization of the French word “m’aider”, meaning “help me” ?

There’s a quiet reshuffling happening in cloud spend and Microsoft is the clear winner.

They were *years* behind AWS and now it looks like they’ll surpass them within the next 12 months.

More valuable than any airline status. I will switch all of my flights to whichever airline implements this at scale.

A frustrating type of investor is the one who is on your cap table and whispers 'aren't you tired? maybe you should sell' to a team that's excited to keep going.

US banking:

Silicon Valley Bank is owned by First Citizens Bank, which is not to be confused by Citizens Bank, where a bunch of First Republic Bank employees went, which should also not be confused with Republic Bank which is now owned by another bank.

'what kind of wizardry is this' → my reaction when trying the browserbase.com playwright cloud runtime for the first time

The mind-boggling mirror trick shot from Robert Zemeckis' CONTACT.

Abbreviations that grind my gears:

San Fran
Portco
YComb

Congrats to Rubrik on their IPO today.

I met Bipul Sinha 14 years ago when I was raising my seed round and he was a VC at Lightspeed.

I doubt he would remember me, but he made a lasting impression on me, mostly because he really didn't feel like a VC (I mean that positively).

next play Stripe lesson: hang out with Yuri Sagalov, get invited to good BBQs

Go Yuri Sagalov! I've known Yuri over this journey from founder of AeroFS, to YC partner and now running his fund Wayfinder Ventures. He's one of the best, give this episode a listen!