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BREAKING: Canada has been invited to join the European Union as its first associate member.
JUST IN: Canada's banking regulator OSFI just confirmed tokenized deposits are legally no different from traditional bank deposits, giving federally regulated banks a green light to build on blockchain without a new regulatory category.
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Harsh truth:
University might get you a higher-than-average salary, but it won’t make you rich.
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SaaS down trend continues?!
Airtable just got acquired for $1.285 billion. It was once valued at $11.7 billion at the peak of no code era. It raised $1.4 billion.
Most pre-revenue founders get ghosted because they pitch investors who need traction to believe.
no traction
no MRR
sometimes no finished product
here are 5 funds (part 2) built for conviction before metrics:
6. @mtf_vc (@robby_mtf) - SF, $500K-$1M, dev infra, $22M solo fund
7. cleo-ventures.com (Antoine Veret, @maxime_ledantec) - Paris, €300K-€1M, AI, €30M Fund II
8. twintrack.vc (Nicola Sinclair) - London, £150K-£500K, dual-use defense, NATO-backed
9. @COTUVentures (@afarha) - MENA, $500K-$1.5M, inception of an idea, $54M fund
10. @ZeroShotFund (@AndrewMayne) - SF, $2M-$5M, $100M ex-OpenAI fund
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Your greatest growth won't happen when you're surrounded by applause. It'll happen when nobody's watching and you choose not to quit.
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JUST IN: Nearly half of Gen Z workers admit to “sabotaging” their company’s AI strategy.
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You're a fucking miracle. Do something with it. Stop fucking around and take advantage of your life.
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Character can't be faked forever. Time eventually uncovers everyone's true intentions.
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I've gotten into YC twice and raised ~$100M.
I've never given a powerpoint presentation. I've never emailed a pitch deck.
Find a customer who hates what they're buying. Make something they love.
That gets you into YC, funded, and profitable.
🪦 Slides.
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AI is moving into the physical world.
We're excited about a new wave of startups rebuilding the systems that power the real world, from education and healthcare to defense, finance, infrastructure, and work itself.
ycombinator.com/rfs
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I want to write more $100k - $250k checks to founders that are heads down building.
So we're opening applications. but there's a catch: you can't send us a pitch deck, resume, or even what school you went to.
Instead, we just need you to show up for 5hrs and build what you're building in front of us.
So this Friday, we're hosting Night Hack for the third time.
We're selecting the top 80 teams to see what they can ship before we leave.
We'll have prizes/insane credits, food, access to our space, and of course the possibility of coming back and calling our campus your home.
If you want to ship something crazy + attend: luma.com/nighthack
However be warned, you may be outshipped...
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A competitor can copy your winning angle. But if you have ten winning ones, it makes copying it impossible.
AI can help you find those 10 angles. And then to create funnels for each one. This is insurance against volatility.
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JUST IN: Netflix $NFLX says it used generative AI for ~300 movies and shows.
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✅ Confirmed. Hiring a human can be waaaay cheaper than AI!
A badly-managed AI agent can cost $7,000 an hour.
According to a16z, that's 77x the price of the same task done right.
Freelancer developers have built the same working chatbot for a fraction of that cost.
👉 Hire someone who won't loop:
freelancer.com/ai






















