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THE DROUGHT HAS ENDED! BACK WITH A NEW PIECE ✍🏾

@Abdulhameed_007 maybe cowries were the inspiration for the yeezy slides

Cowrie clog (may) !!!!! Work in progress…

ai tokens being more costly to companies than employees should be a relief for devs lowkey.

@PsudoMike what was the reason for the toronto team not being able to get canadian enterprises to trey their products?

CentML sold to Nvidia for $400M. Before that, the Toronto team couldn't get a single Canadian enterprise to try their product. Bay Area companies had no problem. The founder said it plainly at Toronto Tech Week: you don't even get in the door here. Not even with connections. We keep asking why builders leave.

@ka_shyy @XXL i appreciate it thank you

@isco_vision @XXL what a nice article thanks for this

⬇️ TODAY IN HIP-HOP ⬇️ 2014: Dr. Dre officially sells Beats Electronics to Apple for $3 billion 💰

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Apple paid $3 billion for headphones that cost $17 to make. The acquisition has since generated over $100 billion. A pair of Beats Solo HDs retailed at $199. An engineer tore them apart and found $16.89 in total materials. The two speakers cost $1.80 combined. 30% of the weight came from four tiny metal pieces whose only function was making them feel heavier in your hand. Audiophiles ranked them near the bottom of their price class. Beats held 70% of the premium headphone market anyway. Wall Street read this as Apple overpaying for a fashion brand. The actual acquisition produced three separate businesses. First: Apple absorbed Beats Music, killed the brand, and relaunched it as Apple Music in June 2015. That service now has over 100 million paying subscribers and generates more than $10 billion in annual revenue. Second: Apple kept the Beats hardware line running as a separate brand targeting a younger demographic. Still a billion-dollar product line twelve years later. Third, and this is the part nobody priced in: the Beats audio engineering team helped build the W1 chip that shipped inside AirPods when they launched alongside the iPhone 7 in 2016. Apple killed the headphone jack the same year, making wireless audio a necessity instead of a luxury. AirPods cumulative revenue crosses $100 billion in 2026. A product that generates roughly $22 billion a year on its own, more than Spotify, Nintendo, or eBay make in total. Apple paid $3 billion. Got back Apple Music ($10B/year), AirPods infrastructure ($22B/year), and the Beats brand. The acquisition pays for itself roughly every five weeks now. Dre walked with $750 million pre-tax from his 25% stake. He just hit $1 billion on the 2026 Forbes list, twelve years after Tyrese prematurely declared him hip-hop's first billionaire in a leaked video that reportedly shaved $200 million off the deal. The whole thing started because Dre complained about plastic earbuds in a meeting with Jimmy Iovine in 2006. Iovine told him to stop complaining and build something. That conversation generated more wealth than his entire discography.

@TheOGPurist_ for sure. they bought the culture back and their ip and killed the competition. i wrote a piece on it.

We couldn’t see it back then but Apple bought he’s company just to make sure AirPods stayed untouched

@thdxr @skanwar oh you were there too?!

it is crazy to what extent he refuses to wear sleeves

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@sibyog13 le temps en train de douter

On parle beaucoup d’argent… mais quelle est la chose la plus chère que tu as perdue ?

@berdyn transportation infrastructure across the country

If Canada just fixed a few problems we’d be the best country on the planet Every Canadian knows it.

not that i wanted to ask questions but they should have created more interactions between the speakers and the crowd during the toronto tech week.

imagining reaching a point where ai agents will be the one being paid and not you directly.

@sibyog13 non les choses arrivent au bon moment dans la vie. tu es là où tu dois être.

Vous pensez que votre vie aurait changé si vous aviez eu un bon mentor plus tôt ?

@trewknowledge @sineadbovell she dipped so quickly unfortunately.

[#TorontoTechWeek] “What system of work are we entering into?” @sineadbovell raised an interesting point about how #AI may reshape not only jobs, but the structure of organizations themselves. If workflows, knowledge, and required skills continuously evolve, companies may shift away from rigid hierarchies and toward more fluid teams built around adaptability, capability, and problem-solving. @TOTechWeek 🇨🇦🚀

@TOtechweek i see you 👀👀

Watch Homecoming LIVE starting at 9:00AM ET today. 🇨🇦 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@cohere @MarkJCarney i see you 👀 @TOtechweek

"If you don't know who Cohere is, you will" - Prime Minister @MarkJCarney 🇨🇦

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@sibyog13 @sibyog13 pour répondre plus sérieusement je pense que former les gens et leur donner une vision c’est le meilleur impact que quelqu’un puisse avoir

@sibyog13 l’égoïsme

Quelle compétence peut littéralement rendre quelqu’un riche en Afrique dans les 5 prochaines années ?

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