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Every year I make a list of predictions & score last year's predictions. Here are my predictions for 2025. The IPO market rips. ServiceTitan's success has revealed the retail & instititutional demand for high growth software. Stripe, Databricks & ...

From the pit lanes of Formula One to the secretive world of commodities trading, from the championship poker tables to storytelling competitions, I enjoyed a wide range of different books this year. Here are my favorites : Every Hand Revealed by Gus ...

Remember the first time you touched a computer screen instead of typing commands? We've lived through distinct epochs of human-computer interaction: the cryptic beauty of command lines, the intuitive dance of graphical interfaces, & the ubiquity of . ...

If you needed proof that every software company is an AI company, here's the evidence. 46% of all US venture financings in dollar terms in 2024 were AI. This revolution breeds in every corner of the startup ecosystem : 37% of Seeds, 35% of Series As, ...

"Feel Good Fun Mix" tops my recommendations on Spotify. Spotify has created over 6,000 such labels by hand. Amazon and Netflix attributed 35% and 75% of their revenue to their recommendation systems. This is a profound & counterintuitive shift in how ...

How often do you use AI? I tracked my Sunday workday to find out. Between 4:30-9:00 PM (with a dinner break), I monitored every AI interaction while handling emails, analyzing data, & writing. If the average American picks up their mobile phone 144 . ...

These are the top 10 posts of 2025. I like to do a roundup each year as a retrospective of how much the industry has changed through some of these posts from the beginning of the year. Some are outdated already & some presaged accelerating trends. AI ...

Ten years ago, I hired an editor to grade my blog posts as an AP English teacher might. Yesterday, I asked an AI to do the same thing. The verdict? A solid B-. Claude's Scorecard Grade: B- Strengths: The piece demonstrates a clear understanding of .. ...

In the bustling tech campuses of 2024, the age of passive AI - systems that merely respond to our queries - is giving way to something far more profound: the era of AI agents. As we look to 2025, we're about to discover what happens when algorithms . ...

Today, we're announcing our second fund of $450m to support our mission of partnering with early stage software companies that leverage technology discontinuities into go-to-market advantages. This marks the next chapter in our firm's evolution. ...