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[Ary Vaidya @AryVaidya]

Earlier in the year, @gauravahuja and I went looking for a concise, visually striking chronicle of the breakthrough moments that shaped modern technology -- and couldn't find one. So we made it!

Incredibly excited to publish Artifacts to the world today. The book is a walk through time, distilling the catalytic “why-now” shocks that turned fragile ideas into enduring platforms, from vacuum tubes to quantum leaps. We believe that knowing where we came from is the best way to imagine where we can go, and every category-defining company we admire can trace its roots to one of these moments in time.

This book is a love letter to the technological breakthroughs of the past century and an ode to the moments that became Timeless.

We're proud to share it today with the people who will write the next pages. Check your mail soon!

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@AmanKabeer11 🤣

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@brexton Hahaha

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@harshavramesh Special team, special biz!!!! Go @PillarHQ

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@jstwng Banger. Go Justin

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@ahall_research Incredible op!

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@arshdilbagi Incredible arsh!!

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@BhathalTanvir0 @pay_pilot_ai Sick

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@abhiadesai 🎯🎯🎯

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A really special and important project

[Jason Zhao @jasonzhao]

We built a "Wikipedia for Careers."

- Get personalized job recs & compare career paths over decades
- Find 100s of job postings and training programs in your local area
- Compare AI resilience scores to understand career trajectories

100% free and open source.

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@SabrinaHalper @isabelleboemeke So good !!!

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@mahdiofalltime Its written in the stars

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@marklxu1 @amspector100 @bfspector Epic !!!!!!!!!!

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@zebulgar @chetanp Hero

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Banger from one of the best in the robotics game @vincentjliu. A prophecy for the future of machine intelligence

[Vincent Liu @vincentjliu]

In the last month, 1X, Skild, and Physical Intelligence all signaled a shift to human data.

Robotics is caught in a tug-of-war between quality and scale, where reality is the referee. This essay explains why the robot models that best navigate the “Data Pareto Frontier” will win in 2026.

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@nikhilvnamburi hahaha

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During orientation for the international students at Stanford, I remember our counselors continually pointing to two exemplary Brazilians and the fintech company they’d built as a beacon for what was possible from moving to the US.

@hdubugras and @pedroh96 continue to inspire myself and an entire generation of entrepreneurs who followed in the path the paved. The Brex mafia will be studied for many generations to come.

Congratulations to the entire team!

[victor lazarte @victoralazarte]

Today, Capital One is acquiring Brex for $5.15B, the largest bank–fintech acquisition ever.

Great CEOs build great companies. What most people don’t know is that by age 29, Pedro had built two different companies, each generating $500M+ in revenue, with his partner Henrique—something that had never been done before.

I met Pedro and Henrique when they were 16, building Pagar me, which later became one of the largest fintechs in Brazil (inside NASDAQ: STNE). I knew very little about fintech then, but it was immediately obvious how exceptional they were.

I’m grateful to have been Brex’s first board member and to have invested at a $10m seed valuation.

What Pedro cares about most is to build things as they should be so the things we build can outlast us. Pagar me changed the Brazilian financial system and Brex + capital one will change the American.

Thank you for having me on this 9 year ride, and thank you for exiting at over 500x the initial valuation I invested in. Cant wait to see all that you will continue building.

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Inevitable people build inevitable businesses. In awe of my friends @samir_vasavada & @RunikM for staggering numbers this year — @viseinc is a special business!!

[Samir Vasavada @samir_vasavada]

We grew @viseinc 673% to $50B+ in platform assets in 2025 by solving wealth management's impossible tradeoff:

Personalization OR scale.

Turns out, you can have both.

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@ejaldrich Banger