Jon Carden

S-tier marketing

@mattstasoff Writing the subheadline of that article with AI is hilarious.

very The Cut coded

@austin_rief @mkobach This was obvious at the time, too, FWIW.

@mkobach yes. i am biased, but think they bought the wrong one

The biggest tech <> media miss was Robinhood or SoFi not buying Morning Brew. It was a no-brainer in 2020 and even more obvious today.

A sign that human creativity is a bottleneck is that this year everyone can generate almost any image or video they can think of for nearly free and the April Fools posts are basically just as bad as any other year.

@dansemperepico And in some ways, its feature set is starting to outstrip Claude Code (eg Dispatch).

I don’t understand why Claude Cowork exists other than as a marketing wrapper to get non-technical people using agentic AI that we’re scared of trying Claude Code because they thought you have to be technical. There’s nothing I can think of that Cowork can do that Claude Code can’t and I’ve had at least one experience where Cowork failed to do a non-coding task that Claude Code could do

Fundrise CEO @BenMillerise says their new venture fund VCX is “super disruptive to the venture industry.” “They’re going to want us and hate us at the same time.” “To the private companies: we’re a venture fund.” “There’s no difference except our capital is evergreen. It’s forever capital—low-cost and passive.” “To me, as a founder and a builder—that’s the best money around. I’d rather have that than ‘value add.’” “I think we get to a place where, structurally, an allocation to passive long-term money becomes—the best companies get it, and the best companies want it.”

SpaceX. OpenAI. Anthropic. Databricks. All onchain. xStocks has partnered with @Fundrise to tokenize VCX, bringing tokenized exposure to some of the world's most sought-after private tech companies through a single asset. Private markets, now onchain. blog.kraken.com/product/xstock…

@RealProducerBen @MeekMill @tbpn I hope I don't regret making this.

Manifesting @MeekMill on @tbpn

Retail is the future of finance.

@itsolelehmann This app gets approved but my astrology for dogs app is flagged as spam? GTFOH.

making 300k MRR with a manifestation app is proof that manifestation works and the universe listens lol

As we watch things spin out of control in the Middle East I can't help but recall, and I've said it many, many times before and I'll say it again: one human being should not be able to have all this power. The Founders didn't want it that way and they were 100% right.

First the Russian officer assassination and now this. @Strava is probably playing a much bigger role in global espionage than it assumed it would.

cfo.com/news/the-6-am-… A lot of free @WHOOP advertising from @alisonstaloch in here @willahmed.

In 2011, I pitched a top securities attorney in New York on democratizing investing. After hearing me list all of the ways I believed retail investors were disadvantaged by the financial system, he just looked at me and said: “Why would you bother with the little guy?” Today, 15 later, we’re listing the @fundrise Innovation Fund on the NYSE under the ticker $VCX. The financial system has a structural problem that most people can feel but few can name. The most valuable private technology companies are worth hundreds of billions, even over a trillion dollars, and they’ve never gone public. The wealth creation that used to flow through public markets—enabling everyone to participate—now happens behind a wall that excludes everyday investors. AI compounds the urgency. The companies building the most transformative technology in a generation are growing at rates we’ve never seen before, and the gap between who owns that growth and who benefits from it widens every quarter. We started working on the Fundrise Innovation Fund in 2021 to test whether a public venture capital fund could work. Over 100,000 investors now own a portfolio concentrated in the leading private AI and technology companies, making VCX one of the largest funds of its kind to ever list on a major exchange. No accredited investor requirement. Now available in any brokerage account. When that attorney asked me why I’d bother with the little guy, I told him: because they’re getting screwed! But I believe today marks another step in building a better financial system for the individual investor. Onward

@NationalsPark @Nationals It's truly a new era for the Nats. First caring about velocity for pitchers, now this? 🚀

it's beautiful 😭🌭 nationals.com/promos

Emmanuel Clase punching the air right now.

@CalebMaxVA10 @kaiarhodes 👀

@kaiarhodes I’ll be there too. Love the work you are doing!!

I will be in D.C. for Hill and Valley next week, then fly back to Atlanta to tour factories with our partners before returning to D.C. to meet with the Department of the Interior.

@kaiarhodes You should consider grabbing a breakfast taco from Republic Cantina while you're in town. I have other taco and non-taco food recommendations if helpful, too.

Team USA has arrived to the World Baseball Classic Final in GAME-USED United States Men's National Hockey Team jerseys.