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Today, we are announcing an agreement to acquire ADT.
Home security has the qualities we look for in the businesses we own: an essential service built on specialist expertise and earned trust.
We see an opportunity to build on that foundation for decades, investing in its people and technology to deliver the best outcomes for customers.
Our ambition is to help ADT define the next era of trusted home security.
thriveholdings.com/thrive-ho…
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What a lot of companies don’t understand about good design:
You can hire the best designers in the world and still produce terrible design. The quality of the work is often a reflection of the culture that produced it. Good design begins long before anyone opens a design tool.
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Choosing the right AI model is an operating decision.
Today, we’re sharing our first set of benchmarks drawn from work across the 75+ accounting and IT services firms that make up Thrive Holdings.
We believe the field needs more benchmarks tied to economically valuable work, so builders can understand where models are useful in real-world environments.
We use these tests to help us compare model configurations and choose which models our systems run on, with the goal of delivering better service to our customers.
We’ll add to the benchmarks as we build new products and expand to additional industries.
evals.thriveholdings.com/
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LoveFrom, Vogue World
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200TH EPISODE: “I’m trying to do the maximum with the minimum. I don’t want to clutter the world up. There’s a lot of music in the world, so I want to tell the story with the minimum amount of material.” @maxrichtermusic
0:00 Max Richter: Composers in Search of New Colors
9:25 Electronics & Orchestra as One Instrument
18:14 When a Piece Is Finished & "Daylight" Origins
26:40 The Blue Notebooks & Live Audiences
30:57 Influences, Synth & Reworking Schubert
37:53 Studio Rituals, Meditation & Beauty in Music
43:10 Devotion, Folk Roots & Regional Styles
50:43 Meditation, Collaboration & The Beatles
57:09 Recording, Favorite Records & The Sleep Project
1:08:01 Spirituality, Sacred Spaces & Math of Music
1:19:48 AI, Streaming, Film Scoring & Closing Reflections
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The PISA 2025 results are out today. Some quick insights.
- The major story is very significant global decline. The last PISA study was in 2022, and saw big declines in reading and maths scores from 2018. Obviously the pandemic played a part.
- But this 2025 round has seen further falls even from the 2022 lows!
Things haven't gone back to normal post-pandemic - they've got worse.
Every generation thinks the generation below is less smart - but this time they might be right!
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In the early 1990s, the accounting firm RRBB owned four computers for a staff of around 30. They called them “lunch boxes”: 30-pound machines that auditors lugged through airports and into client offices.
The New Jersey firm was founded more than 65 years ago and has adapted through each new wave of technological transformation, from writing tax returns on green ledger paper to asking software to auto-sort numbers. In 2024, they became the first firm to join our accounting platform, Current.
The firm’s history is less a story of computers replacing practitioners than of practitioners repeatedly learning what a computer can’t do on its own.
This is the first in a series about the people and firms rethinking professional services around AI. Here is RRBB’s story: thriveholdings.com/the-pione…
Immensely inspired by the thoughtfulness and care this team brings to everything they do.
We’ve raised over $2B in additional capital from investors including D1 Capital Partners and Altimeter Capital.
Holdings now owns and operates 70+ businesses across accounting and IT services, where our engineers build and deploy AI products used every day to serve tens of thousands of customers.
We’re also launching a new platform focused on the technical and regulatory work behind physical assets. We want to make it easier to modernize and build America’s infrastructure.
thriveholdings.com/thrive-ho…
RT @ThriveHoldings: We’ve raised over $2B in additional capital from investors including D1 Capital Partners and Altimeter Capital.
Holding…
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The Ambrook design team is hiring
Product Designer & Builder - prototype your vision of the future
Design Engineer - raise the ceiling for craft in prod
Design Systems Engineer - scale good design for devs and agents
If these click with you, send me a DM
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Hiring for operators under the one and only @haversang (ex-@tryramp) to deploy frontier AI into the businesses we acquire @ThriveHoldings 💪
If turning tokens into real P&L impact at SMBs across America is interesting to you, please DM me!
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Hiring contracting role for design systems at @OpenAI. Please reach out with your portfolio!
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we’re hiring a special first-in-role designer at @turbopuffer!
we want someone both hardcore + whimsical to world build with @Sirupsen (and me). someone who understands how important search is to build great AI, but also sees the full potential of the puff 🐡
“We shall build good ships here; at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must — but always good ships.”
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A routine all you can eat sushi lock in session and @deobfuscately casually mentions he got featured in an article…
>Its a full feature expo in WSJ
>used cat memes to socially engineer
>reverse engineered their backdooor
>pivoted that into mapping ~2M infected res proxy devices
>caught it midterms week
>notified relevant authorities
>U.S DoJ brings charges and shouts him out
>kimwolf gets kneecapped
>back to spicy tuna like nothing happened
A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled. A college student armed with a cat meme helped solve the mystery. on.wsj.com/3O3sxqz
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My conversation with @frankjguzzone, the Head of Design at Thrive Capital.
Frank’s career journey is an unconventional one. He started as a medical scribe at a hospital center outside of DC before switching careers and moving to New York City to work with some of the largest global brands, and most recently building the design function at Thrive Capital from the ground up.
His design philosophy blends scientific rigor with creative intuition. In his mind, the best design feels effortless, but you should sweat every detail to get there.
Frank is an incredible designer and an even better person. We discuss his life story, the mechanics of great design, how to name a company, his work at Thrive and much more.
Hope you enjoy!
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:57 Hospitality and Hard Work
03:06 Choosing UVA Over Art School
07:37 Early Creative Outlets
13:49 Oscar Health
23:02 Going Viral on Instagram
25:06 Freelancing for Apple, Rimowa, and More
31:32 Building Thrive's design function
37:52 How to Name a Startup
42:12 Design as an expression of Thrive's values
47:20 Why Good Design is Invisible
48:48 Design Fellowship
57:08 Work-Life Balance
59:43 Adaptation is a Superpower