Ali Donaldson

Reporting on startups, founders + the consumer economy for @Inc @WGAEast. Alum of @ColumbiaJournMA @BloombergTV @Business @CNN @UVA. Virginian. Wahoo.

[Ali Donaldson @AliCDonaldson]

In the past 18 months, @xx_xyathletics has become a prominent and polarizing symbol, appearing at school board meetings, youth sporting events, and the U.S. Open.

Founder @JenniferSey says critics have helped her athletic brand grow even faster.

For @Inc
https://t.co/TA2Y72AtJH

[Ali Donaldson @AliCDonaldson]

Wait you’re telling Bloomberg retired the soup of the day??

[New York Review of Finance @nyrfinance]

#covered #it #first #in #print

[Ali Donaldson @AliCDonaldson]

@MuyaoShen Did this replace the daily soups?

[Ali Donaldson @AliCDonaldson]

@brunellaism But do they still take away the bread after breakfast? The real ones know to take the bread during breakfast and use it to make a fresh nut butter banana sandwich for lunch.

[Ali Donaldson @AliCDonaldson]

As an intern in the DC office, I used to do my grocery shopping in the pantry.

I took home whole avocados, kiwis, every snack you can imagine.

[Brunella @brunellaism]

Everyone wants to tell me how great their office pantry is but after the Bloomberg pantry nothing can surprise me. The Bloomberg pantry is the size of a small regional airport. The Bloomberg pantry has a fresh peanut butter machine and matcha on tap. The Bloomberg pantry makes the Thrive Capital pantry look positively soviet. Its memory will drive you to tears whenever you visit another newsroom

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

it's insane that the world's biggest retailer can't just figure this stuff out

[Sujeet Indap @sindap]

Moody’s and S&P rated this company as investment grade and its debt is going to be all over retirement and annuity accounts:

[Trent @Trenciarte]

The Atlanta Braves got 19 outs from a former 7-Eleven employee and a 21 year old rookie to beat the billion dollar Dodgers.

Baseball is a beautiful sport.

[claire de lune @ClaireMPLS]

idk who needs to hear this but facing adversity is when you like, overcome being on food stamps or have to rehab after a car accident

it’s not sexually assaulting dozens of women, settling out of court, and then continuing to play football

[Ali Donaldson @AliCDonaldson]

@RentYourStocks @grok Charlottesville, Virginia!

[I Sell Options Guy @RentYourStocks]

Show me a better college town, I'll wait...

[Ali Donaldson @AliCDonaldson]

Serious question: Why would anyone use AI to check into a flight? This is already a one-click task. It’s not hard.

[Nicolas Bustamante @nicbstme]

This is my thesis: no one uses AI. I repeat, absolutely no one. We live in a bubble.

Even among my friends who pay for it, when I ask them to open ChatGPT and show me their queries, it’s the same handful of basic things.

Most don’t even know they can upload a photo and ask questions about it. Connecting Gmail so an agent can read and send emails blows their minds. An agent opening a browser and checking them into a flight? They’ve never even heard of it.

The massive challenge right now is adoption, and then getting people who already signed up to actually use what they’re paying for. Most have absolutely zero clue what’s possible.

Imagine the compute shortage when everyone starts using AI like the top 1% of users do today.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

Jesus hates Virginia Tech and so do I

[one dozen bats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I would give almost anything to have been in the room to watch the guy whose job it was to convince a Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas graduate that his boss has successfully matched God and created a soul.

[Eric Wallerstein @ericwallerstein]

will AI kill us in 10 years… buddy, the bond market is going to kill us next week.

[Mina Kimes @minakimes]

If athletes create less value, then surely universities would be comfortable letting the free market decide, no?

[Ali Donaldson @AliCDonaldson]

Coming from someone who was in a sorority, these institutions are not worth saving.

Even though I had a positive experience and made lifelong friends, the negatives from Greek life far outweigh any positives.

Greek life only persists because of all the fraternity alumni

[ali @alibrooke4ever]

my cornell take is that social frats and sororities need to be abolished from every last college campus. the only reason they haven’t despite the numerous lawsuits across the country is because of rich alumni

[Ali Donaldson @AliCDonaldson]

@TheLastNeocon It’s because sororities are governed by a bunch of 80-year-old alumni who run the national organizations and set insanely archaic rules. Sorority houses essentially have the same rules as women’s colleges in the 1950’s: no boys, no alcohol, and absolutely no parties.

[Shawn (with an NBA title) @shawnwithaW_]

God help you all if New York holds every single professional basketball trophy at the same damn time.

[Josh Rogin @joshrogin]

Kim Jong Un broke off his friendship with Rodman after the last visit where Rodman allegedly got super drunk and allegedly defacated on the hotel room floor. He can’t help Trump with North Korean diplomacy anymore.

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

Our girl Caitlin Clark is wondering how she ended up in this