Venture investing (Managing Partner @fontinalis), sports (mostly @UMich & Detroit teams), random musings, occasional dad jokes, etc. Views & tweets are my own.
Detroit, MI
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Chris Stallman retweeted
S&P 1500 Software revenue per employee has gone parabolic.
If you are looking for evidence that AI is starting to impact the real economy, this is exhibit A.
Huge and growing market
A "1 of 1" team
Breakthrough technology
Incredible speed iterating and executing
...and now shipping!
🤯 Wow. Just wow. Congrats, team @Etched!
The ambition was always palpable with this one and it’s amazing to now witness something that is truly bar raising. Huge kudos for the incredible amount of work that went into reaching this point, team @Etched!
Love this video but the crowd pop was even more pronounced in-person. From the quietest to loudest moment of the night in the span of 2 seconds. Incredible moment to see live. 〽️
Detroiters care deeply about reindustrialization, and it’s inspiring to see that movement spread thanks to the team at @reindsummit
Can't tell you how many people I host in our Detroit office (about 1/5 mile east of where @jason took this photo) that are truly blown away when they look out our windows & see how *close* Canada is. For us Detroiters, US-Canada relations feel...intimate.
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If you were on X this past week or two, your timeline was flooded with Ghiblified photos. And if you haven’t been under a rock, you’re probably vibe-coding games or still trying to wrap your head around MCP.
But for ME, this whole timeline feels like a FEVER DREAM—because for the past 6 months, we’ve quietly been building an AI-native game that’s already found real traction and aligns exactly with where culture and tech are headed.
Sorry, not sorry—here comes a thread 👇👇👇
Fun conversation -- I always love hearing the behind the scenes stories of the early days (and all the twists and turns along the way) @Life360
.@ChrisHulls might be the only CEO to take the same company public in two different countries
Really fun convo on US vs Australian IPOs, plus fundraising in unsexy markets, competing against Sam Altman, advertising and hardware businesses, and almost getting cancelled on TikTok
22 years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend the University of Michigan on a Rogel Award of Excellence scholarship due to Richard and Susan's exceptional generosity. It's amazing and inspiring to see their continued giving to make important advances in key fields.
With a $50M gift to revolutionize pancreatic cancer care and research at University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center, the new Rogel and Blondy Center for Pancreatic Cancer will bring together researchers and clinicians to drive forward new treatments and improve outcomes for this challenging cancer. 🔗 michmed.org/DnRx9
It's stunning how much $$$ and attention flows into swing states. There's a major event within 30 mins of my house 3-5 days/week. Constant texts, calls, etc. Both campaigns' entire budgets ride on a few 10s of thousands of people in a half dozen states. A bit overkill.
Sad to see. I have fond(ish) memories of working in the photo department at Walgreens in high school. Disposable cameras were about 75% of our business, and I can still vividly remember the procedure for disassembling them and processing the film.
Walgreens will close about 1,200 stores over three years as the drugstore chain seeks to turnaround its struggling U.S. business. apnews.com/article/5df931861…
Sorry for delayed responses - I was slammed in a meeting* all afternoon yesterday with a key leader**
*The "meeting" was actually a Tigers playoff game
**The "leader" was an 8yo baseball fan I took out of school early to see the Tiger's first playoff game in 10 yrs
The heart of Detroit currently shows through in two teams--the Lions and Tigers--that are the most FUN to watch and root for (at least a little, regardless of where you're from or who your home team is).
Thinking about @newindustrials #Reindustrialization at an event set with the backdrop of the Ambassador Bridge in the foreground (25% of US trade with Canada!) and the new Gordie Howe bridge in the background (that was connected just 2 weeks ago!). U-S-A (& Canada)!
If one IPO is cool, what does that make *two* IPOs?
Congrats to the @Life360 team on this incredible milestone, and for a bright future ahead on the @NasdaqExchange! $LIF
I moved here 22 years ago; not long enough to have a personal connection to city's full history (both good & challenging) but long enough to have a clear appreciation for the things that make the city so great: the people and the spirit of what it means to be a Detroiter. (1/2)
