Axel Ericsson
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1/ There is so much to be said about the bank charter, the approval and how we’re re-thinking clearing for the AI era. But first, I wanted to take 2 minutes to talk about why “Augustus”.
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Which are the most common everyday phenomena that we don't properly understand?
Off the top of my head:
• Lightning (how does it happen?)
• Sleep; dreams (why do they exist?)
• Glass (thermodynamics of formation)
• Turbulence (when does it start?)
• Morphogenesis (how does a creature know what should go where?)
• Rain (it seems to start faster than models would predict)
• Ice (dynamics of slipperiness)
• Static electricity (which material will donate electrons?)
• General anaesthetic. (And the mechanism of a lot of drugs, e.g. paracetamol.)
Patrick Collison@patrickc
Some progress in lightning: quantamagazine.org/what-causes-li….
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TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI!
The show is staying the same and we’ll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday.
This is a full circle moment for me as I’ve worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious logjam during a critical funding round a few years later. When I took my second company through YC, he was president at the time, and then when I joined Founders Fund, the first deal I saw in motion was the post-ChatGPT round in late 2022. And as we started growing TBPN last year, he was the very first lab lead to join the show.
Thank you to everyone that has been a part of TBPN until now. The last year has been the most fun and rewarding part of my career and we’re excited to have more resources than ever going forward.
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Today, Listen crossed $100M in funding.
Building is easy now. Knowing what to build isn't.
Our AI finds and talks to your users so you don't have to guess.
See how Sweetgreen, Microsoft, and Replit use it:
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We've raised $6M from General Catalyst, EQT Ventures, and founders of Lovable, Hugging Face, and Supabase.
Here's why the browser is the greatest platform for running AI agents 🧵
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All companies run on IT.
But almost all IT teams are underwater.
The ones that aren't run on Console.
Console raised a $23M Series A led by DST Global Partners and @ThriveCapital to help leading companies like @scale_ai, @tryramp, and @webflow automate 50%+ of their tickets.
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Introducing a new type of civic tech made possible by AI. Every citizen should have a live, systems view of their government and today we bring that to SF!
Track gov entities, spending, news, and more in real time. With LLMs, we can bring this to every city. Who's next?
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Incredibly excited to share that Cognition is acquiring Windsurf. What an insane weekend - from first call after 5pm on Friday to a signed definitive agreement this morning. There’s a lot to build!
Cognition@cognition
Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf. The acquisition includes Windsurf’s IP, product, trademark and brand, and strong business. Above all, it includes Windsurf’s world-class people, whom we’re privileged to welcome to our team. We are also honoring their talent and hard work in building Windsurf into the great business it is today. This transaction is structured so that 100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially. They will also have all vesting cliffs waived and will receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date. At Cognition we have focused on developing robust and secure autonomous agents, while Windsurf has pioneered the agentic IDE. Devin + Windsurf are a powerful combination for the developers we serve. Working side by side, we’ll soon enable you to plan tasks in an IDE powered by Devin’s codebase understanding, delegate chunks of work to multiple Devins in parallel, complete the highest-leverage parts yourself with the help of autocomplete, and stitch it all back together in the same IDE. Cognition and Windsurf are united behind a shared vision for the future of software engineering, and there’s never been a better time to build. Welcome to our new colleagues from Windsurf!
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Sharing an update on @figma: we publicly filed our S-1 with the SEC today, and have applied to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FIG.”
figma.com/blog/s1-public
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Ladies and gentlemen, I've officially posted my way to the top:
I'm joining @X as Head of Product.
𝕏 is the most important social network in the world. It's where internet culture originates and where the world's most influential people convene.
Finding my community and building an audience on 𝕏 has impacted my life more than any single thing: it's unlocked friendships, professional opportunities and it's even where I met my girlfriend.
While I already spend every waking hour on this app, I'll now be spending that time helping others unlock that same value. And we'll certainly be leveraging the power of Grok to create hyper-relevant timelines and help people understand everything that's happening.
Thanks @elonmusk and the 𝕏 team for inviting me to work on the product that I live and breathe.
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After it took days to book an HVAC appointment in the sweltering heat, I built @Netic_AI: the AI revenue engine for businesses that keep America running.
Silicon Valley ignored essential services for too long, so we raised $20m from @foundersfund, @greylock, @mavolpi to fix it.
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AI writes your code. Now it talks to your users.
We raised $27M from @Sequoia to build @ListenLabs.
Listen runs thousands of interviews to uncover what users want, why they churn, and what makes them convert.
See how @Microsoft and @canva use it:
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I am deeply humbled and honored by @realDonaldTrump’s announcement that he will nominate me to serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark.
Representing our great nation abroad is a profound responsibility. I know first-hand the power of diplomacy to advance American interests and strengthen alliances, and I am grateful for the opportunity to return to Europe to promote the President’s agenda.
I look forward to working with the dedicated teams at U.S. Embassy Copenhagen and U.S. Consulate Nuuk in Greenland to deepen the bonds between our countries. 🇺🇸🤝🇩🇰
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We randomly decided to make Swedish Christmas food this year.
Swedish meatballs with egg noodles, and mashed potatoes - and for dessert, a prinsesstårta (princess cake).
God Jul! 🇸🇪
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@empireenjoyer10 They could all live in one mega skyscraper
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Pitbull equivalent of hearing bacon sizzling on the griddle
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