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@pmarca says it’s time to build… perhaps it’s time to build together!

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@TarunAmasa @OpenAI would love an invite for myself and my colleagues

It’s official. We’ve raised $14m led by @OpenAI Startup Fund to bring AI to Excel. Endex is the first AI agent to live inside Excel. For the past year, we've been working with financial firms. Today we’re releasing it to the world. Our capacity is limited; comment below for an early invite 🧵

@pplpleasr1 @maciej_kuciara @TelevisionAcad 🔥 congrats!!!

OH MY GOD PROBABLY NO ONE WILL SEE THIS BC MY TWITTER ALGO IS COOKED BUT WHITE RABBIT IS AN EMMY FINALIST @maciej_kuciara @TelevisionAcad

We did a new thing @ukengames x @Mattel ! businesswire.com/news/home/2025…

@arasakik @TimSweeneyEpic is a straight up g 🙏youtu.be/477qF6QNSvc?si…

what a hero every mobile developer was at the mercy of apple’s opaque whims - it was incredibly frustrating. i felt like a serf in apples fiefdom i also remember how fruitless it seemed when epic first challenged apple in court good guys do win

@GamesBeat @deantak congrats @deantak & Gina!

We’re excited to announce that GamesBeat is an independent media brand. Under new leadership, we welcome Gina Joseph and Dean Takahashi @deantak as our CEO and Editorial Director, respectively, to this new era of GamesBeat. bit.ly/3RsL0Le

@skanwar Nice! 🇨🇦 ❤️

From Toronto, with love to Canada. 🇨🇦

@skanwar Is a more apt comparison SF and non-SF? The Toronto tech scene would seem comparable to other non-SF cities for tech (with the exception of NY).

What Canadian tech and venture is competing against:

@kennandavison Icon

Excited to introduce Icon, The First AI Admaker. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund & execs of frontier AI labs like OpenAI, Pika, & Cognition. Icon (icon.me) is like ChatGPT + CapCut, but for making winning ads with AI in minutes. How it works: 1. Icon looks at your video library & tags scenes (e.g. "close-up," "unboxing"). These scenes become reusable clips used as lego blocks for making ads. 2. Prompt Icon’s AdGPT to generate scripts focused on specific angles & audiences. 3. Icon finds perfectly matching clips for every script scene & generates an ad that is 80-99% complete. 4. Make edits with our CapCut-like video editor until you're happy. 3-person creative teams make 30 ads per month. With Icon, they make 300. We co-built Icon with $100M+ revenue brands like Ridge, Jones Road, Immi, Backbone, & MUD\WTR to solve big pain-points: 1. Making lots of ads is extremely painful. Icon helps you automate the tedious parts of scriptwriting, scene matching, video editing, audience research, UGC creation, & more. 2. AI-generated ads look like trash. Icon remixes your existing footage into new ads, matching your production quality & maintaining brand aesthetics. 3. Existing solutions charge $2K-$30K/month for: 🔍 Competitor ad spying & cloning 📈 Creative analytics 📹 Custom & stock avatars for AI UGC 👥 Audience research 📁 Video storage & tagging Icon does scriptwriting & video editing on top of everything above for just $999/year (their margin is our opportunity 😉). If you’ve made it this far, we have a surprise for you 👇🏻

@awilkinson Dropbox sign

I just found out how much we pay for DocuSign and my jaw dropped. What's the best alternative? Is there something free or stupid cheap?

@naval h/t @arasakik x.com/arasakik/statu…

The currency of life isn’t money. It is not even time. It’s attention.

@alexlin @valhalla hny!

happy new year @valhalla community! 2024 was rough, but we’re still here and we'll keep marching forward. in 2024, we've played a lot of defense. in 2025, we'll stay locked in as community, play offense, and accelerate. we’ve never stopped building, and brick by brick, together we will build something great. 2025 is the year we take @valhalla to valhalla

@blader ❤️‍🩹

this is a long read, but i had some time to think over dinner and wanted to share a few thoughts and provide a plan forward: 0. i’ve had a lot of very memorable days on the internet over the past 30 years, but this one tops them all. my wife yi and i are unbelievably grateful to the SOL community. as a reminder - 100% of every penny we've made from this, across every kitkat/memecoin, including LP fees will be going directly to rare disease research (minus any tax obligations). i will work on a way to verify this commitment transparently with the community in the form of donation receipts. thankfully the chain is already publicly auditable. 1. a lot people seem very upset that early traders made a lot of money off of $MIRA. i don't get this at all. they made a good investment early, and got rewarded for it. good on them. when we originally started our gofundme, we were hoping to contribute maybe $2-300K or so beyond what we donated early this year to hankinson lab for christmas. now, even if we don't sell a single token more, we're going to send them at least $1M this christmas. that's INCREDIBLE - and it makes such a huge difference. the reality is if those early people didn't make these moves, the lab would be worse off. providing more funding for research is the only thing that matters to me here, full stop. how much degens make or lose money in the pvp trenches of pump is not something that is any of my business. if you made a lot of money, i'm genuinely happy for you - but please consider donating some of your profits to hankinson lab., if you lost a lot of money, i’m very sorry - but magic internet money is magic internet money. 2. at least a few crazies in mentions think that i was somehow on the “inside” and this entire thing has been some kind of conspiracy - if you're one of them, i just don’t know what to tell you. i have a day job and it is not degening magic internet money. i run a company funded by a16z called runway.com, and we work on non-crypto finance software for cfos. nowdays, by night i do deep research into craniopharyngiomas and related brain tumors. i literally didn’t have a personal SOL address until yesterday. crypto wasn’t even a payment option outside of gofundme until folks asked me for one, and when i gave them one it was my ENS. the idea that i would have the time and even know how to do something like this is wildly unbelievable. 3. i am not elon - between running a growing startup, dealing with my daughter’s medical condition, and other obligations, i simply don’t have the bandwidth to manage a crypto anything. so my constraints on a path forward are: 1) to maximize support to rare disease research by providing predictability / trust 2) to do so in the most transparent way possible that helps me sleep well at night 3) to do it in a way that doesn’t take very much of my time to manage. so here’s the plan: starting in about 12 hours, i will be liquidating $1,000 worth of $MIRA every 10 minutes, perpetually. no more and no less than that. if i change this schedule, i commit to announcing it 24 hours in advance. if you want to rug it to $0, go for it - at the end of the day we set out to raise $200K and we will end up with at least $1M towards rare disease research. no matter what, this has been a win for the world. but if it moons, then hankinson lab will get the SOL’s community support for much longer, and that really makes a big difference. so that’s it! hope that's all pretty simple and reasonable. yi, mira and i are so unbelievably grateful to you all - each and every one of you. christmas magic was made real this year thanks to all of you. forever grateful.

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@pplpleasr1 @ethereum @EFDevcon 🙌🙌🙌

two and a half years later... it started with the @ethereum community and will conclude at @EFDevcon our baby White Rabbit is complete - we will be playing it from start to finish for the very first time. catch us on the Main Stage on November 13th, 6:30pm see u in bangkok!!!

@hubble_network 🚀

🚀 We just did the impossible: the first-ever Bluetooth connection to space! This milestone is a crucial step in our ongoing efforts to build the world’s first truly global, battery-efficient, and cost-effective network. techcrunch.com/2024/05/02/hub…

@sundeep Congrats! Exciting road ahead!

Some news! :) wow.groq.com/news_press/gro…

@ameetshah @GoldenVentures 🚀

🚀 🚀 🚀 Excited to unveil Golden Ventures V - a huge thank you to all of the founders, LPs, ecosystem partners and to our amazing team @GoldenVentures!

@chamath try @withmantle from @avarma !

Can someone please make an AI generated clone of cap table management software? Make it simple, secure and $1000/yr. There are apparently 40k customers waiting to adopt it rn…