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"Be guided by beauty"

We are thrilled to lead Stitch’s Series A, and honored to make this our first investment in Saudi Arabia. @StitchHQ is building an operating system for modern financial institutions, starting in the Middle East. Its API-first platform enables banks, fintechs, and non-financial institutions to launch, scale, and operate financial products across a modular stack. In the last six months alone, more than $5 billion has been transacted on the Stitch platform. Customer numbers grew 10x in 2025, revenue grew 20x, and Stitch has seen pull beyond the GCC into Africa and Southeast Asia. Mohamed, Stitch’s founder, has the rare combination of relationships, sales instinct, and grit to win in a market where trust and distribution matter as much as product. After years building conviction around the global fintech infrastructure opportunity, we believe Stitch represents the clearest expression we’ve found of what the next generation of this infrastructure looks like. @arampell @jamdac

@MoOueida Back to work!!!!!!!!!

Proud to have such great customers and partners. Back to work…

Stitch raised a $25M Series A, led by @a16z, with continued backing from Arbor, COTU, Raed, and SVC. Grateful to our customers, who trust us with the systems that run their business. Financial institutions still run on infrastructure that should have been left behind 20 years ago. Every other industry is being transformed by AI. Financial institutions are falling behind. Not because they don't want to. The infrastructure underneath won't let them. @StitchHQ fixes that with a single operating system for financial institutions, unifying the ledgers, primitives, and workflows. One stack to build and run financial products on. Thrilled to have @arampell, @jamdac, @dhaber, and the a16z team alongside us. And thanks to @ArborVentures1, @COTUVentures, @RaedVC, and @SVC_SA for the continued support.

what if everything goes right

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would've said faster horses" - Henry Ford

If he wanted to he would've

@NTFabiano @grok give me a summary of this study

Source: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

2 weeks without smartphone internet significantly improved sustained attention. The effects were similar to being a decade younger.

Just spoke with the acting Supreme Leader of Iran He has agreed to temporarily put new GDPR-compliant cookie warnings on all government websites This is an important step towards peace in the region

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

Bridgit Mendler is proof that you really can do anything if you put your mind to it

Greatest athlete of all time

got a buddy who is praying for world war 3 so he can win $390 on polymarket

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” -Isaac Newton after losing a fortune in the South Sea Bubble in 1720

@rabois @Gobos_ @mhdempsey Did you just compare yourself to michael jordan 😂

@Gobos_ @mhdempsey see virtually every successful person. start w Jordan Rules.

I think criticizing ideas or even companies as entities is fine and healthy but I often wonder just what is going on in someone’s life for them to immediately move to criticizing the person ~100% of the time. cc’ing @rabois cause I am genuinely curious why someone as theoretically smart as him doesn’t just win on debating merit of idea.