Matt Barnthouse

Our season ended today. Losing sucks. Proud of the fight. Hate that it ended. Going to miss a lot of great people.

the dream of 2017 is still alive

@Brandon93Smith I’m married to the exurb commute

A big chunk of guys just gave up. A smaller chunk are getting 90% of their needs met in less formal arrangements.

Ronald Moore delivered a “DOUBLE ORDER” of onions back in 2009. Now a coach at @PennMBB, Moore caught up with Bill Raftery to reflect on the iconic moment.

Not enough people put enough respect on the Theremin’s name.

03/20/54: Bobby Plump wins it for Milan at Butler (Hinkle) Fieldhouse

Kenny Blakeney (@PoopeeBlakeney) is a special person. This sport is lucky to have him

Cheekface- Emphatically No. (2021)

He said “You can’t stop Michael Jackson, I’m stopping Tito, Jermaine, Randy, & Marlon.”

@EthanDriskill Couldn’t say it better myself!!

This would only make sense if it were marketed toward SMB, but it’s not. A strategist, sales lead, or marketer at mid-market or enterprise level would be much better off having a designer on retainer for 3-7k a month who does literally everything beyond decks. Also “design tax”… the bad design tax is far more painful.

There's a hidden tax on every knowledge worker in the world, and nobody talks about it: The design tax. You're a strategist, a sales lead, a marketer. You were hired for what you know. But every meeting, every pitch, every proposal expects you to show up with something that looks like a designer made it. I lived this. Before Gamma, I spent time in consulting and investment banking. I spent more hours formatting slides than the analysis that went into them. When my cofounders and I started Gamma, we asked: what if you never had to be a designer in the first place? Five years and nearly 100 million users later, we've refunded billions of hours of the design tax. Today, we're eliminating it for good with our biggest launch ever. Gamma Imagine — a powerful, AI-native visual creation tool directly in Gamma. Posters, logos, infographics, visuals from a single prompt. On brand, every time. AI-Native Templates. Templates were supposed to save you from design work. Instead you spent the time filling them in. So we completely rebuilt the template experience. Modify a whole deck with a single prompt, with your brand and style intact every time. Gamma Connectors. You're already thinking in ChatGPT and Claude. Now Gamma sits inside the most popular work apps in the world. No more context-switching. You were hired for your ideas, not to resize text boxes. Let Gamma pay the design tax.

I’m not going to lie. I completely forgot Richie Saunders got hurt. Oh well.

@plzbepatient rover forever

This type of UI was terrible, unusable, but also extremely cozy and optimistic and fun

@plzbepatient Richard Scarry’s Busytown

Who in the right mind would trust fuzzy data for something like COMPLIANCE?!?!?? AI/LLMs/ quite good at being confidently wrong, even when right say 80% of the time. As investors— do you understand what fields you’re investing in? And why a tool may be useful or a liability?

My honest question for anybody in VC At what point do fundamentals matter? I understand that VC by nature is taking swings and missing. Some of these have so many red flags that it’s like “are you swinging at balls 15 feet outside the strike zone?”

It was an emotional postgame presser for @HUMensBB as Bryce Harris and Ose Okojie shared their final thoughts about Howard HC Kenny Blakeney and how's changed their lives. Their answers are almost ten mins long (which obvs speaks to KB), but here's a little snippet:

REAL

i’m crying.

This really is one of the coolest promos of all time