For VCs and founders, building in public is about filling the top of the funnel
Getting enough people to pay attention to you and to your thesis can help beyond raising money.
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YouTube’s New Tool Lets Politicians Hunt Down AI Deepfakes of Themselves — Before They Go Viral
The technology launched last year for 4 million YouTube creators and is now expanding to a pilot group of government officials and candidates.
Apple Music shuts down its Siri-only Voice Plan nearly two years later
Apple Music just shut down its cheapest option—the Voice Plan. The subscription, which launched in 2021 and cost $5 per month, featured a Siri-only experience; the only way to access Apple Music’s catalog is to request a song, genre, album or artist by using voice commands. While Apple didn’t officially announce that it was discontinuing […]
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The demise of Twitter Circles left a void that Instagram Close Friends can’t fill
When X’s Circles feature shut down this week, the app formerly known as Twitter turned its back on the best product it’s shipped since the Quote Tweet. Like an Instagram Close Friends story, Circles allowed users to post to an exclusive, hand-picked group of up to 150 people, where they could be themselves without worrying […]
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The Founder of Lululemon Is Spending $100 Million to Try to Beat the Super Rare Disease That’s Destroying His Muscles
Wilson was given the diagnosis of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, or FSHD, in 1987 when he was 32 years old.
Billionaire CEO Flies Over 1,000 Employees and Their Families to Tokyo Disneyland for Concerts, Parties, and Park Access
Citadel and Citadel Securities founder Ken Griffin treated 1,200 employees in the Asia-Pacific Division to a delayed celebration for the company’s 20th and 30th anniversaries.
Why Entrepreneurs Still Need To Leverage People (Even With AI)
While AI might be a useful tool in some circumstances, it is not a wholesale replacement for labor.
November Stock Market Outlook
October was quite spooky for investors even with a late month mini bounce. Yet with stocks still pinned under the 200 day moving average for the S&P 500 it is…
A researcher critical of X under Elon Musk will fight for his account in court
A Berlin-based software developer is fighting back after X suspended his account, claiming that research he conducted on the platform violated the company’s terms of service. Following Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of the platform, Travis Brown‘s research figured heavily in reporting that painted X, formerly Twitter, in an unflattering light. Brown worked on open source […]
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Ford snaps up EV power startup to boost its charging tech
Ford is buying and burying Auto Motive Power, or “AMP” for short. The secretive energy management startup once claimed to power “most of the world’s top electric OEMs,” though as far as we can tell it never disclosed its customers publicly. Following the deal, Los Angeles-based AMP will cease to exist. Instead, Ford will scoop […]
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Armed Delta Co-Pilot Indicted After Threatening to Shoot Captain ‘Multiple Times’ Mid-Flight
Jonathan Dunn was indicted on October 18 by a Utah grand jury.