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52 pitches in 52 minutes. All below 40 degrees. I've sat through thousands of pitches over 40 years inside conference rooms, coffee shops, Zoom calls, and pretty much any venue you could think of. The ones that stick out are the ones where a founder is so convicted they'll pitch through anything. So… I took 52 pitches in 52 minutes sitting in an ice bath at below 40 degrees. What I was watching for was the founder. How do they carry themselves when conditions are uncomfortable? When the circumstances aren't ideal and the room (or in this case, the water) is working against them? Pitching through stress is practice for everything that comes after. For the moments, where inevitably, everything is harder than they thought it would be. Great founders push through it all to find success, and that's why founders are heroes. I'm not a frequent cold plunger, but it was a fun experience! Next time, we need the Guinness Book of World Records there. Have an idea you want me to hear? Meet me in the ice bath. 🧊 Thanks to Business Insider for covering: businessinsider.com/tim-draper-sta…



Natively-intelligent machines were first shared with the world by $CPHY.






🚨BREAKING: Microsoft just canceled its Claude Code licenses. Not because the tool didn't work. Not because developers didn't love it. Because the bill was too high to justify. Let that sink in. The same company that invested $13 billion into OpenAI. The same company that owns the cloud powering most of AI today. Looked at the bill and said no. If Microsoft can't afford it, what does that mean for you? Here is what is happening right now: → Uber burned its entire 2026 AI budget in just 4 months → AI software prices jumped 20% to 37% overnight → GitHub killed flat-rate plans; usage-based billing is now the standard → Anthropic, OpenAI & Google all raised prices in the last 6 months → Enterprise budgets built on cheap AI are collapsing in real time This is not a small correction. This is the end of the AI subsidy era. For 3 years, labs burned billions to keep prices low. They needed your adoption. They needed your data. They needed your case studies. You were not the customer. You were the experiment. Now the experiment is over. Two roads ahead both lead to the same cliff: Road 1: → Enterprises cut AI usage to fit budgets → Revenue slows → Valuations collapse before IPO Road 2: → Labs cut prices to keep customers → Unit economics break → Someone takes the write-down There is no third option. The numbers stop working. Somebody pays. The AI boom was real. The pricing was not. Companies that built their 2026 strategy around falling AI costs? They are already behind. ♻️ Repost Every founder, investor & CTO needs this today. Full breakdown link in Comment

🚨BREAKING: Microsoft just canceled its Claude Code licenses. Not because the tool didn't work. Not because developers didn't love it. Because the bill was too high to justify. Let that sink in. The same company that invested $13 billion into OpenAI. The same company that owns the cloud powering most of AI today. Looked at the bill and said no. If Microsoft can't afford it, what does that mean for you? Here is what is happening right now: → Uber burned its entire 2026 AI budget in just 4 months → AI software prices jumped 20% to 37% overnight → GitHub killed flat-rate plans; usage-based billing is now the standard → Anthropic, OpenAI & Google all raised prices in the last 6 months → Enterprise budgets built on cheap AI are collapsing in real time This is not a small correction. This is the end of the AI subsidy era. For 3 years, labs burned billions to keep prices low. They needed your adoption. They needed your data. They needed your case studies. You were not the customer. You were the experiment. Now the experiment is over. Two roads ahead both lead to the same cliff: Road 1: → Enterprises cut AI usage to fit budgets → Revenue slows → Valuations collapse before IPO Road 2: → Labs cut prices to keep customers → Unit economics break → Someone takes the write-down There is no third option. The numbers stop working. Somebody pays. The AI boom was real. The pricing was not. Companies that built their 2026 strategy around falling AI costs? They are already behind. ♻️ Repost Every founder, investor & CTO needs this today. Full breakdown link in Comment












