Susan*MacTavish*Best

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Susan*MacTavish*Best

@MacTavishBest

Founder of Posthoc. We host salons too.

NYC, LA & Elk Katılım Şubat 2008
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Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz·
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Ali Kashani@ahkashani

2025 was a big year for @ServeRobotics. We grew our fleet 20X! We now operate in 20 cities across 6 major metros, reaching 3.75 million people, and serving more than 4,500 restaurants (10x growth). I’m truly proud of what our team has delivered. Our progress was reflected in our Q4 results. Quarterly revenue increased 400% YoY and we exceeded our full year revenue guidance. Our AI flywheel is working, our platform capability and market opportunity has expanded to hospitals, and we’re just getting started! I’m about to jump on our earnings call now, and I have a lot more to share about what we achieved last year and our vision for this year. See you there.

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Balaji
Balaji@balajis·
This is the first AI cut. And it will send shockwaves. Remember: Jack is one of the greatest founders of all time. He created this platform that we’re all on, and has been early to many technological shifts. And Block was doing very well as a business. So, for him to cut 40% of headcount in this way is a signal to everyone in tech: get good now. Become indispensable. Work nights and weekends. Learn the AI tools and raise your game. Or you might not make the cut, as an employee or as a company. I know. That sucks. But capitalism is natural selection. The market is unforgiving, because you are the market. After all, it’s not like you’re buying some random gallon of milk from the store; you’re always buying the best product at the best price. So too for apps: your customers are always installing the best piece of code they can get. And because AI is going to create new winners, if you aren’t the best in your market, someone may become better with AI. Particularly with the new agentic workflows. To be clear: Block’s severance is generous by any measure. 20 weeks of pay, six months of health insurance and vested equity, all of that goes far beyond any typical package. Jack did his level best to cushion the disruption. The laid off are a temporarily unfortunate class, as opposed to a permanent underclass. But had he not leaned into the AI transition, he might have had to lay off more people, slowly, and over time, as faster competitors went after his market share. How would they do that? Sure, AI isn’t a panacea by any means, but the closer you are to software engineering the more aggressively you need to embrace agentic workflows. The AI companies are already doing that, and places like Stripe, Shopify, Coinbase, and now Block are pushing hard on this area. There will be overcorrection. But the fundamental technical innovation is real. And you need to either disrupt yourself or get disrupted.
jack@jack

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

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Citrini
Citrini@citrini·
We’ve removed the paywall on 26 Trades for 2026, our annual year ahead report that was published on December 17th, 2025. Check it out! citriniresearch.com/p/26-trades-fo…
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Susan*MacTavish*Best@MacTavishBest·
We @PosthocSalons ran a poll of 5000 people- HOW TRUSTWORTHY IS THAT CEO? Where would you trust a CEO more? Media interview? live event? In an ad? Didn't expect these results - 19% trust CEOS in the media. 18% trust CEOS in an ad. Live journalism, hullo. thesalonhost.com/how-trustworth…
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Susan*MacTavish*Best@MacTavishBest·
LATEST SALON -- > The Geopolitics of Rare Earths: The Shadow War for Technological Supremacy ---- You can listen to my interview with Jim Kennedy about REES and America trying to play catch-up here: open.spotify.com/episode/1AnI9z…
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Susan*MacTavish*Best@MacTavishBest·
@Citrini7 oh yea, this is totally a thing. women love the AI boyfriend ... started in Asia, trickled over to USA. (there's a handful of pods on this). also, same for getting relationship advice.
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Citrini@citrini·
recently learned from speaking with an ai engineer that the ai boyfriend market is currently much larger than the ai girlfriend market
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Alex Konrad
Alex Konrad@alexrkonrad·
News: Handshake CEO Garrett Lord has declared a "refounding" around AI. The 11-year-old startup is laying off 100 people, about 15% of staff, as part of the push. “Winners and losers are being defined right now,” Lord says. “If we don’t go all-in, we are going to get lapped.”
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Steve Hou
Steve Hou@stevehou·
With @MacTavishBest talking rare earth minerals with Jim Kennedy
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Citrini
Citrini@citrini·
i got @dreamtemple_ to make us 50 citrini shirts but we only have 6 employees so 44 of you are getting shirts. for the first five - what’s your best macro trade for the next month?
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Steve Hou
Steve Hou@stevehou·
I've been plenty critical of China's economic mgmt and political regression. But, honestly looking back at YT videos of the smog-covered streets of Beijing and an economy defined by knockoffs from 10 years ago, China has seen a breathtaking makeover that's impossible to dismiss.
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Dan Case
Dan Case@danwcase·
@alexrkonrad Pay-to-play rankings are the fastest way to erode brand integrity. There is no way the sponsorship dollars justify the loss of public trust. I've never understood the strategy here.
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Susan*MacTavish*Best@MacTavishBest·
This @tracyalloway . In the 80's if you had a friend from SF, they'd fly East with a loaf of sourdough as a cherished present. Then we entered Bay Area/SV culture creep for 25 years, with a final bready push during Covid. Same has not happened for cheese curds or scrapple.
okradingle@okradingle

@tracyalloway When San Francisco became the most admired city in the country. People also enjoy our “computers” and software and software and so a lot of our culture has been expropriated.

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