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@BitcoinMagazine A good collaboration

JUST IN: Revolut and Trust Wallet partnered to enable instant #Bitcoin and crypto purchases in the EU with zero fees and self-custody. Bullish 🚀

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In AI, consumer beats B2B in monetization. The median consumer AI startup hits $4.2M ARR in year one, with the top quartile at $8.7M. That’s twice the same numbers for B2B AI companies. So, in fact, it’s consumer AI startups that are scaling revenue the fastest. @omooretweets explains:

RT @a16z: Tomorrow is a big day: @a16ztxo Spring 2025 Demo Day, as part of #NYTechWeek. For more information about this year's cohort, sta…

@GuntherEagleman @JesseBWatters 😂

🤣Looks like Comey can’t take any pushback. This is legendary. Shout out to @JesseBWatters for sending Johnny in for some questions.

@catena_labs @a16zcrypto Congratulations

1/8 Big news from Catena Labs! We've secured $18M in funding, led by @a16zcrypto, to build an AI-native financial institution. Why? Because traditional financial systems are unprepared and resistant to AI, hindering the growth of the agent economy.

JUST IN: $107,000 #Bitcoin 🟩

Sequoia on AI's trillion-dollar opportunity:

If you believe in the future, build it. “Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential.” - @pmarca

Team @a16z consumer On our way to lead your seed / Series A

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THE PERFECT #BITCOIN BREAKOUT! 🔥

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Last week we hosted our 3rd annual @sequoia AI Ascent, bringing together 150+ of the top founders and researchers in AI. Our star-studded speakers dropped hot takes and sparked inspiration for a standing-room-only audience: - jensen huang on token-generating AI factories as the new industrial infrastructure - @sama on the timeline to agents/science/robots and ChatGPT as Operating System - @JeffDean on how he's been trying vibes coding and his prediction on the timeline to an AI junior engineer (sooner than you might think!) - @btaylor on becoming Facebook CTO at age 29, pricing/packaging agents, and advice for application layer founders - @DrJimFan of NVIDIA on why simulation is the key to robots passing the physical Turing test - @ChaseLochmiller of Crusoe on the moving industrial bottlenecks to scaling AI: power, steel, real estate - @mikeyk of Anthropic on MCP, Claude Code, and on his framework for product-building when the models themselves are changing so quickly - @hwchase17 of Langchain on ambient agents and his vision for an "agent inbox" - @danintheory of OpenAI on how RL is going from the "cherry on top" of the pre-training cake to the main course, and what questions einstein-v1907-super-high might be able to answer by scaling reasoning compute - @gradypb on the new physics of distribution, the Leone merchandising cycle applied to AI foundation models vs application startups, and his advice to startups to "run like heck" - @Konstantine on the agent economy and stochastic mindset And many more. Thanks to our community for making this the best, most buzzy, content-rich AI Ascent yet 💚 Detailed session recaps to follow -- and replay videos dropping over the course of the week.

$BTC confirmed 4hr top

big news we’re teaming up with @Adobe Ventures to support founders building across tech, AI, and entertainment. the perks: - up to $1M in funding - full-stack support from the a16z team - resources from Adobe Express to sharpen your deck - curated event(s) like the one below 📅 apply by May 11 → sr.a16z.com 📝 mention Adobe as your referral and if you're in NY for @Techweek_: join us for an intimate chat with @scottbelsky & @andrewchen on AI & creativity RSVP → partiful.com/e/zRlTqIRZcv3V…

walking by the @a16z SF office with the @speedrun wraps gives me tingles applications close in 1 week! 🙌

Investors say this is ‘the toughest investment climate’ they’ve ever experienced trib.al/JIno21p

@realDonaldTrump DJT

Vertex shares fell in after-hours trading, as investors considered a stock trading near its all-time high with a longer wait for its next leg of growth. trib.al/8Rf4SBY