Father of 5, Technologist, Futurist & Seeker of truth. #Author, #Speaker & co-founder @finicity, #FDX, @trustoverIP & @bluetooth. Opinions are my own.

Orem, UT
Joined July 2007
Bending Spoons is worth $24 billion. It trades at 8x ARR and buys B2B companies at 2.3x to 2.7x ARR. 5 learnings from its first 102 days as a public company: #1. Revenue grew 126%. Organic growth was 3%. Nearly all of the $393M of added revenue in Q2 came from six acquisitions. The CEO says he doesn't optimize for organic growth. He optimizes for EPS, which grew 167%. #2. R&D is 8% of revenue. Sales and marketing is 10%. HubSpot and Datadog each spend about 70% of revenue on those two lines. Bending Spoons spends 18.6%. About 60 people run Vimeo. The core team is under 700 people, at $4M+ of revenue each. #3. Miro sold at 2.3x ARR, five weeks after Airtable at 2.7x. $1.08B of ARR for $2.64B, signed 37 days apart. Miro was valued at $17.5B in 2022. Bending Spoons underwrites to a 25% unlevered return. At its 54% margin, that supports about 2.2x ARR. #4. 1,830 people came with AOL, Eventbrite and Vimeo. Only a few hundred were kept. Airtable arrived with 935 employees, more than Bending Spoons’ entire core team. Reorganization costs were $51M in Q2 alone. #5. AI writes 90%+ of the code. Customers pay about 10% more for the AI features. The CEO says a customer who paid 100 will now pay about 110. The AI gain shows up as capacity: the same 60 people on a business four times the size. If you're at $300M to $800M in ARR growing under 25%, this is the buyer most likely to at least call. But ... the only do a handful of deals a year. Its own stock trades at roughly 7x to 8x revenue. Your revenue is worth about 3x more inside Bending Spoons than it is in your hands.
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-#allinsummit 2026 was a waste of money for attendees. Big fan of the pod, but we essentially paid $$$$ to listen to 4 double length live podcasts with great guests. The important content was online the same day.
If I could only go to one conference a year, or listen to one podcast a week - the answer to both would be ALL IN This year’s speakers were great, look for these as upcoming episodes… Satya Nadella Dina Powell McCormick (META) Jared Isaacman (NASA) Jensen of NVIDIA (with a Trump call) Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt Gwynne Shotwell and Elon Adam Foroughi (AppLovin) Luca Ferrari (Bending Spoons) Blake Scholl (BOOM Supersonic) Brad Gerstner (Altimeter) Martin Shkrelli VP JD Vance Bill Gurley Nick Shirley Chainsmokers Congrats @friedberg on curating a great one
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Optimizing the value our financial accounts/policies/services 24/7... Agentic commerce in action.
Yesterday I uploaded my auto insurance policy to Meta @Muse and asked for a better rate with identical coverage. In ~5 minutes, it found a policy saving me $3,500 /year, bought it, and canceled my old one. I knew I was overpaying. I’d abandoned several attempts to switch because insurance websites and aggregator portals are so painful. Why fill out forms, compare quotes, and field sales calls when an agent can finish the entire job in five minutes? Killer product.
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Epic moment today with Jensen and Pres Trump @theallinpod #allinsummit
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Wild moment at the All-In Summit today. Jensen Huang’s phone rings onstage. It’s President Trump. Jensen puts him on speaker. Trump’s AI message was clear: • Don’t slow development • Don’t overregulate • AI “taking over” is overhyped • Robots aren’t taking over • Data centers = economic investment • Losing momentum helps China Jensen’s response: America should make sure every industry, company, state and person wins from AI. The bigger story: the U.S. AI debate is rapidly becoming a choice between acceleration and precaution. And increasingly, AI policy is becoming economic policy + industrial policy + national security policy. That may be one of the defining policy debates of the decade.
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NASA is getting its swagger back. That was my biggest takeaway from NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman’s talk—and it was about far more than space exploration. #allinsummit Isaacman laid out an unapologetically ambitious agenda: • Return American astronauts to the Moon by 2028 • Establish humanity’s first permanent outpost on another world • Use the lunar south pole as a proving ground for Mars • Develop nuclear-powered spacecraft for deeper exploration • Rebuild NASA’s experimental flight capabilities • Create a Space Academy to develop the next generation of astronauts, engineers, technicians, pilots, and leaders But the most compelling part of the talk was his diagnosis of what went wrong. NASA spread resources too broadly. Partnerships sometimes became ends in themselves. Programs grew too expensive to fail—and too complicated to succeed. Activity, process, and political accommodation gradually displaced outcomes. Isaacman’s answer is focus, urgency, accountability, and extreme ownership. He also framed space as a great-power competition. China intends to land astronauts near the lunar south pole by 2030, where access to water ice could shape humanity’s long-term presence on the Moon. There are only so many strategically valuable “parking spots,” and whoever establishes a sustained presence first could influence the technologies, standards, alliances, and economics that follow. One line captured the stakes: Our children will inherit either the confidence of a nation still capable of the extraordinary—or the memory of one that used to be. That applies well beyond NASA. Great institutions rarely fail because they lack talent or resources. They lose their edge when complexity replaces clarity, consensus replaces accountability, and protecting the process becomes more important than accomplishing the mission. Isaacman’s message was refreshingly direct: choose the objective, concentrate resources, accept calculated risk, and execute. Go back to the Moon. Stay this time. Then go to Mars. That is the kind of ambition—and institutional leadership—America needs. #NASA #Leadership #Innovation #SpaceExploration
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Day 1 included a photo op with the Besties (pic coming), meetups with old friends (epic), the swag bag (lame), trying out the massive quantities of food (good), and getting the lay of the land for tomorrow's content. #allinsummit
Day One of the All-In Summit is officially in the books. Tomorrow, the stage takes over. Stay tuned to catch it all in real-time. #AllInSummit
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Excited for the All in Summit 2026 Researching AI & Financial Services. Reach out if you're attending!
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Giving Grok Bot a Phone 00:19 Installing Dialbot 00:54 Bland voice setup 02:39 Why use a calling agent? 03:20 Live demo call 04:50 Reviewing the transcript and cost 05:38 Chaining bots @Bot can do anything you can - this is one way to make calls
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In 14 minutes, this Anthropic engineer who wrote "Building Effective Agents" will teach you more about building them right than most developers figure out on their own in months. Bookmark this for the weekend. Then read the builder's guide below.
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Agent-led growth... the next game
Growth is shifting from product-led to agent-led: tools like Claude Code now pick your stack (Supabase for DB, Vercel for hosting) instead of making you decide ~ Sequoia partner @sonyatweetybird Agents have infinite time to read docs, reviews and comm
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I’ve never been more thankful to be an iPhone user. Due to the lack of cell service, EVERYONE in Asheville NC right now on iOS 18 has been able to get messages out and in with the Satellite messaging feature. This is literally saving lives @Apple.
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Walked into Northern Arkansas Regional Airport and was greeted by a robot who makes your coffee! As we stood there it moved from one of us to another Waving!!
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I cannot stop watching this.
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My closing message to my fellow governors. In light of the assassination attempt on Pres. Trump, I think it’s more important today than it was two days ago. It’s about building and optimism and hope. It’s about loving our country and doing the hard work of bridge building. I make mistakes all the time, but I’m trying to be better. I hope you will listen.
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Second Winter Olympics could spark $6.6B in economic output for Utah, new report finds | KSL.com ksl.com/article/51065248/sec…
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