Wild: A female Australian news anchor just called the 49ers the 69ers on live television.
"We’re watching some footy game in America, the Rams and the San Francisco 69ers play some rubbish game."
😭😭😭
🚨 Thierry Henry on Alexander Isak finally looking like himself at Liverpool:
🗣️ Henry: “I was laughing watching Isak against Ipswich because suddenly everybody is saying, ‘Ah, this is the Isak Liverpool paid £125 million for.’
Maybe Isak is standing there thinking, ‘Yes. And this is the Liverpool I thought were paying £125 million for me.’
A striker can make runs. He can show you where he wants the ball. But eventually somebody has to find him.
Look at his first goal. Gakpo gets the ball, Isak is already moving. The pass comes, one touch, finish. Very simple.
Then a few minutes later, again. Give him the opportunity and he scores.
That’s the Isak I watched before Liverpool. Sometimes he can disappear for ten minutes and then you give him one proper situation and the game changes.
People were discussing the price, whether he was adapting, whether he looked sharp enough. But I always ask one thing: how many times did you actually put him somewhere he could hurt the goalkeeper?
Today Liverpool did.
Two goals in nine minutes.
Isak didn’t suddenly remember how to score today. Liverpool remembered why they paid £125 million for him.”
@PM_nepal_ Please add exchange rates.
Also please send the thank you email acknowledging their contribution, I can't see the email, and I am unsure if it is sent indeed.
Also, https://t.co/pFIhMSlkrq would have been better, people might not trust https://t.co/EgfnPLXQ2O too much!
I was born in Simikot, a remote Himalayan town in Nepal.
As a child, I moved across the country, leaving my family behind to attend a residential school on a scholarship.
Until high school, I had almost no access to the internet. I had never met anyone working in tech. I did not even know that building a startup was a possible career.
Grade 11: My biggest ambition was to get into a good engineering college in Nepal and study civil engineering.
Grade 12: After preparing for 1.5 years, I ranked first in the national Olympiad and earned the highest score among the Nepali participants at the International Olympiad in Poland.
January 2024: I started my college applications late and spent weeks pulling all-nighters trying to finish them.
January 2024: On the night of the MIT deadline, I almost gave up. I still had several essays unfinished and such a bad headache that I went to sleep believing the application was over.
A few hours later: My friends kept calling until I woke up. We finished the essays together.
I submitted my MIT application with 23 seconds left.
March 2024: I got into MIT.
Fall 2024: I arrived at MIT and felt behind classmates who had been coding and building things since childhood.
2025: I became obsessed with text-to-video, especially videos that could teach. I believed that could open up an entirely new way for people to learn, so I dove into building them.
December, 2025 – Jan, 2026: I slept inside MIT’s entrepreneurship center and innovation headquarters (IHQ) for nearly 40 nights while building Lamina Labs through the winter break.
Numbers were impressive.
February 19, 2026: @laminalabs became the first Nepali founding team ever accepted into @ycombinator
February 2026: I left MIT to build Lamina Labs full-time.
2026: We moved to San Francisco and raised $4.8 million to build Lamina Labs.
The point is not that persistence guarantees success.
It does not.
But nearly every major change in my life came after a moment when giving up felt completely reasonable.
Sometimes persistence is not working harder forever.
Sometimes it is simply refusing to let your worst moment make the final decision.
This has been the defining lesson of my life.
P.S. We are building Lamina Labs, the fastest video infrastructure for LLMs. Our first product, Simi, lets you generate explainer videos from a single prompt or documents in under a minute.