Excited to share that Vesto has joined @tryramp . We started Vesto with a simple vision: give finance teams one place to manage all their cash. Since then, we’ve helped hundreds of teams bring their treasury operations across banks, entities, and countries into one platform. I’ve long admired what Ramp is building, and as I got to know the team better, it became clear that joining forces would let us bring this vision to life at a much greater scale. At Ramp, we’re now building one place for finance teams to manage their cash alongside their spend, no matter who they bank with. We’re starting by bringing bank connectivity, cash flow reporting, and forecasting together, giving teams a complete view of their cash in the finance platform they already use every day. To the customers who’ve trusted Vesto over the years: thank you. Building for you has been the best part of this journey, and your feedback continues to shape what we’re building next. I couldn’t be more excited to keep going with the team at Ramp. Job’s not finished.

My conversation with @EricJorgenson, author of The Book of Elon (@elonmusk). 0:00 Book Reveal 0:39 Build Useful Things 2:19 Engineering Talent Edge 4:26 Wired for War 6:47 Tip of the Spear 8:47 Burn the Boats 13:13 Facing Fear 15:16 Origin Story Myths 18:19 Know Business A to Z 22:17 Simplify and Fail Fast 25:35 Reality and Physics 28:18 The Algorithm Begins 30:34 Delete and Simplify 34:25 Starlink War Room 36:52 Repetition as OS 38:18 Step Three Simplify Optimize 38:43 Question Every Requirement 39:13 Tesla Battery Pack Delete 40:43 Repetition Installs Ideas 42:02 Step Four Accelerate 43:26 Design Org for Speed 46:06 Step Five Automate 46:29 Control and Clean Sheet 48:54 Vertical Integration and Costs 50:47 SpaceX Incentives and Mars 57:11 Frontier Unlocks Starlink 1:00:26 Time as True Currency 1:03:58 Speed Triage and Bottlenecks 1:10:11 Internalized Responsibility 1:12:56 Avoid Serialized Dependencies 1:14:31 Aligning the Team 1:15:07 Time Is the Constraint 1:16:00 One Metric Focus 1:18:03 Directional Predictions 1:19:06 We Must Make Stuff 1:25:39 Manufacturing as Moat 1:26:23 Speed and Direct to Customer 1:28:41 SpaceX Feasibility Study 1:33:07 Edge of Sanity Leadership 1:37:10 Bottlenecks and Integration 1:40:01 Design and Simplify 1:45:15 Catch the Rocket 1:48:14 Capitalism and Closing Includes paid partnerships.

Nine years ago, I launched Founders (@FoundersPodcast). Today, I'm launching a new podcast called David Senra. The first episode goes live this Sunday. Subscribe wherever you watch or listen to podcasts. Founders will still come out every week. @scicomm // @hubermanlab

IN NEWS: Cubby raises a $2.75M seed round. We spoke with founder @trumansacks1 about the product and why law students will pay for it. “Law school is a knockout, drag-out fight… firms see the rankings.” “The mindset is: I’ll invest in my future. Anything that helps me do better is an investment.” Cubby is the AI teaching assistant for law school students, trained on thousands of practice exams and case briefs, with a Duolingo-style experience calibrated to your course and professor. “We built an experience that mirrors how your specific professor teaches, because that’s who decides your grade.”

Excited to share we’ve raised $2.75M for @CubbyLaw from @LudlowVentures, @SamHinkie, and @PSUMVC. We’re building the first AI teaching assistant for law students, powered by our own legal intelligence model trained on thousands of professors’ syllabi, past exams, outlines, and grading rubrics. Cubby started as a horizontal AI research tool, but when law students began adopting it fast, we went all in. Law school prep is broken: • Curve-based grading • 100+ hrs building outlines • Legacy tools students still pay thousands for Cubby brings it all into one connected workspace: case briefs, outlines, and practice exams, calibrated to how your professor teaches and tests. Law school is our first step toward a new era in legal tech.

Excited to launch Ludlow Fund 5 with @BrettdeM. We are beyond blessed to work with incredible entrepreneurs and amazing LP’s. I hope we get to do this for a very long time. techcrunch.com/2024/06/28/al…

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