Why Founders Who Wait Around for a Playbook End Up Following One

June 16, 2026

The companies that survive misunderstood industries aren’t the ones that move fastest. They’re the ones that reduce confusion, build trust early and create standards before they’re forced to.

He Built a Knicks Championship Team Out of NBA Players Others Overlooked — Here’s the Lesson for Any Leader

June 16, 2026

Knicks President Leon Rose bet on undervalued players others passed over. The strategy ended the team’s 53-year title drought.

SpaceX Hits $2.5 Trillion. Retail Investors Bought as Much of It as the Entire Stock Market.

June 16, 2026

Elon Musk is now worth more than three times the world’s second-richest person.

Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple

June 16, 2026

African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as investor and partner.

DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’

June 16, 2026

The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.

Plaud says its software business topped $100M in ARR after shipping over 2M AI notetakers

June 16, 2026

Plaud is trying to make a mark in a crowded market full of AI-powered meeting notetakers.

Robinhood’s note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn’t cutting it

June 16, 2026

Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robinhood’s CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no mention of AI in his note about layoffs.

SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T

June 16, 2026

SpaceX’s valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.

Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI

June 16, 2026

Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.

The Download: the first brain implant power user and South Korea’s AI obsession

June 16, 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This man with ALS is the first “power user” of a brain implant that lets him speak Casey Harrell has had a set of electrodes embedded in his brain for almost…

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