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Introducing Account Collaboration in Centralize 🚀
Turn account strategy into team selling. Assign outreach, involve executives, and manage tasks in Centralize or Slack, or in Claude or ChatGPT via MCP.
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10 years ago I wouldn't shut up about how important distributed GPU infrastructure would become. 7 years ago, I joined Crusoe as their third engineer.
A year ago, I co-founded @AranyaInc. Today we operate $500M+ of compute, and we've raised $11M to date to go much further.
$9M seed led by @firstround, $2M pre-seed led by @asylumventures.
Blog post link: aranya.tech/blog/the-missing…
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Today marks the European launch of PRIMA, the first and only treatment to be commercially available that restores functional central vision to patients with geographic atrophy caused by dry age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.
The first European commercial implant of PRIMA is expected soon.
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Today we launched Welles.studio
An ai native screen recorder that embeds directly into your GTM stack.
The most flexible, and powerful product in the space. This is our first product offering through welles.
Try it today! 🎥
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For 45 years, Berkeley built virtually no new housing. By the mid-2010s, it was the most expensive college town in America. Shortly thereafter, YIMBYs took over and kicked off a building boom. Today, nominal rents are below 2018 rates—remarkable progress on affordability.
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day 395 of building @trycandleapp, a game to help friends and couples connect more :)
another mini milestone today, we just hit 20k live users on the app :)
can you handle this load @parthematics. pause
pair with someone td
day 165 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships
today we hit another mini milestone, 10k+ users live on the app! next goal is 1m live users
shoutout again to @Amplitude_HQ for the real time graph
download the latest update below👇
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Made an AI native recording software for demos, training material, etc.
Teams can now record, edit, share, and send product demos from the command line.
welles.studio/
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"You don’t get rich by diversifying into 50 mediocre assets. You get rich by finding 2 or 3 asymmetric home runs."
— Stanley Druckenmiller
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So much of SF culture is abstracting completely normal and ambient behaviors into first something that someone can claim takes organization skills and capacity as a resumé item, and secondly force an attempt to commodify it
The IRL connection economy is a $400B+ market.
And companies are racing to own it.
In the last 6 months, $800M+ in capital was deployed on "IRL" bets.
@Tinder invested $60M into a new Events feature for connecting matches in-person. They're pivoting to IRL and offering experiences such as speakeasies, raves, and pottery classes.
@222place: raised a $10.1M Series A to curate blind social experiences for Gen Z. Personality-matched groups sent to hyperlocal nightlife events.
@JagermeisterUSA launched BestNightsVC - the only venture fund in the world dedicated solely to nightlife and IRL connection. 16 portfolio companies across 4 continents.
@timeleft: dinner with 5 strangers, every Wednesday. €18M ARR. 6,500 dinners/week across 200+ cities.
Dion: members-only social app where the first move is buying someone a real drink, redeemed IRL. 10K members, 30K+ on the waitlist founded by @revekkapal.
Pie: Bonobos founder @dunn built an IRL friendship app. $24M raised. 130K+ MAU.
@weroad_official: group trips for 20-30 year olds who don't know each other beforehand. $150M valuation.
Matchbox: is an algorithm-powered matching platform for IRL events and has powered over 100,000 connections. founded by @liamjmcgregor (prev @MarriagePact)
New dating apps like Known @Celesteamadon, Cerca @MylesCerca, and Ditto @AllenWangzian are aiming to improve connection amongst young people.
Billion-dollar companies are paying $$$ for community and events leads:
- @AnthropicAI: Marketing Events Manager ($255k)
- @tryramp: Community Manager ($223k)
- @tryramp: Events & Culture Manager ($181k)
- @duolingo: Senior Community Manager ($193k)
- @NotionHQ: Community Programs Lead
Everyone knows the more time we spend online, the more valuable real-life connection becomes.
The question isn't whether IRL wins.
It's who facilitates it best.
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Allbirds is not pivoting. They have always made the commodity hardware startups run in
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I think, in hindsight, we will come to view the development of AI as more akin to a Eukaryotic Revolution than an Industrial one.
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The Cuomo campaign ended here:
It kills me that Curtis and Zohran will address each other moderately cordially, but every time Cuomo speaks they’re both like “OH SO NOW THE SEX OFFENDER WANTS TO CHIME IN?”
#NYCMayoralDebate