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I dug into the Chicago tech scene going back ~50 years. How many successful tech companies were founded here? Who is behind them? How much value have they generated? I struggled to find good data, so I did some research... Chicago Tech’s $100M List: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

THE PROFESSOR IS IN ✅ Kyle Hendricks received 94% of over 36,100 votes and is now officially inducted into the Hall of Pretty Good. 👨‍🏫

Pretty insightful from Rolapp on CNBC this morning. Asked about his biggest downside surprise since taking the job and starts talking about the media rights market. Notes the U.S. market is at $30B and the NFL takes up $12, a number that likely will increase substantially in its new deal. Seems to be inferring the tour will be potentially getting less than its current $7B

@AlexH_Johnson "I'll have the Pilsner and, uh, can you throw my account up on that TV over there? Need to monitor my positions on the big screen"

@bubjacks "I'm going to be home late, babe. Me and the boys are at the bar, monitoring the FOMC meeting."

This sounds like IRL Twitter, which is to say that it sounds like Hell on Earth.

@brettcalhounn @redbudvc @ryanlawler @axios 👀

Super pumped to announce that we raised a $25M Fund II to continue backing outsider founders @redbudvc with $250k-$500k Pre-Seed checks Big thanks to @ryanlawler at @axios for the write-up axios.com

More big moves for @tryramp in the sports world as the presenting sponsor of the World Baseball Classic Championship game. Putting the ~$1B they raised in 2025 to good use!

Looks like yes. Which is great, because we happen to have created the perfect bracket! I posted it on our new site: every-bracket.com/mens You'll have to scroll a bit to find it (or you can search for it in the "create" tab), but I promise it's on there! @HoopsForecast

Ronald Acuna Jr and Maikel Garcia leading the way for Venezuela. They’re cousins, and part of a group of 5 families (60 players!) who signed pro contracts. All from one 3,000-person town called La Sabana. "Tierra de Peloteros.” The Land of Ballplayers." mlb.com/amp/news/ronal…

Big day for VC-backed PGA sponsors... @PaloAltoNtwks getting lots of airtime as a sponsor of Sudarshan Yellamaraju. He's a PGA Tour rookie who is currently tied for 5th in the Players Championship. He had the second best round in the field on Saturday (-6) on has the best round going on Sunday (-5) through 16 holes.

Looks like @WeAreLegora's partnership with Ludvig Aberg is already paying off. They're getting a lot of airtime as Aberg leads The Players Championship on Sunday afternoon. Reminds me of @tryramp's deal with Neal Shipley just weeks prior to him winning Low Amateur honors at the 2024 Masters.

It’s with excitement that we announce Maplewood Brewery & Distillery and Half Acre Beer Co will join to create a premier Chicago beverage company. We combine as individually strong, complementary businesses that share similar visions for the future of our industry and city.

Nasdaq takes one step closer to tokenized stock trading with token launch. A few big things: - More control for issuers - Bridges on-chain and off chain markets - Partnering with Payward (Kraken)

Broadridge CEO at Raymond James Investor Conference… Insight into how large financial technology companies are thinking about AI and defensibility…. In short, regulatory compliance is a barrier to entry and network effects are defensible

New addition to the Chicago Tech $100M Club... @LetterAICo raised a $40M Series B led by @BatteryVentures. Chicago firm @lightbank led their Series A in 2025. Co-Founder & CEO Ali Akhtar went to UChicago and worked at McKinsey, Samsara, and P44 in Chicago prior to starting LetterAI. This addition grows the list to 152 tech companies founded in Chicago worth $100M+

Summer 2026 ⚾️😎

"Baseball is different from any other sport, very different. For instance, in most sports you score points or goals; in baseball you score runs. In most sports the ball, or object, is put in play by the offensive team; in baseball the defensive team puts the ball in play, and only the defense is allowed to touch the ball. In fact, in baseball if an offensive player touches the ball intentionally, he’s out; sometimes unintentionally, he’s out. Also: in football,basketball, soccer, volleyball, and all sports played with a ball, you score with the ball and in baseball the ball prevents you from scoring. Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park. The baseball park! Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium. Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything’s dying. In football you wear a helmet. In baseball you wear a cap. Football is concerned with downs – what down is it? Baseball is concerned with ups – who’s up? In football you receive a penalty. In baseball you make an error. In football the specialist comes in to kick. In baseball the specialist comes in to relieve somebody. Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary roughness. Baseball has the sacrifice. Football is played in any kind of weather: rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog… In baseball, if it rains, we don’t go out to play. Baseball has the seventh inning stretch. Football has the two minute warning. Baseball has no time limit: we don’t know when it’s gonna end – might have extra innings. Football is rigidly timed, and it will end even if we’ve got to go to sudden death. In baseball, during the game in the stands, there’s kind of a picnic feeling; emotions may run high or low, but there’s not too much unpleasantness. In football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you’re capable of taking the life of a fellow human being. And finally, the objectives of the two games are completely different: In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy’s defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! – I hope I’ll be safe at home! George Carlin. With his daughter Kelly.

One of the coolest visualizations I've ever seen-- the evolution of the MLB strike zone from 2007 to 2025. The zone has changed dramatically-- going from vibes to nearly matching the rulebook definition perfectly. They're remarkably good. reddit.com/r/baseball/com…