Prayers up for the person on Wall Street Bets who tried to buy $BRK.A during the -99% glitch yesterday
The good news: they got their order fulfilled
The bad news: they paid $648k for the stock
The really bad news: it was all on margin
What do I hate? Stairs. What did I do? Climbed be equivalent of 97 floors to get to the mountain top and witness this gem. Was it worth it? 100%! Will I do it again? Probably not.
Came across an app that lets you track your travels and tells you how much of the world you’ve seen. Really cool concept that helps put the vastness of the world in context.
I’ve only visited 43% of the country I was born in!
@inkara1@alexmedick I think it holds the same significance as it does in the US.
It’s not my middle finger tho. But as long as I don’t show my scar, I can pretend it is and get away with flipping the bird!
Emergency hand surgery due to nerve damage, which could possibly lead to loss of sensation in a finger forever, was not on my bingo card for 2024.
What’s your year been like so far?
VC firms invested $2B in European fintech startups in Q1 2023. The venture funding pullback impacted fintech startups in the region the hardest, with funding in the recent quarter declining 83% from $9.7B in Q1 2022.
Inside writer @djs12321: The U.S. labor force participation rate (LFPR) - which measures the number of working-age Americans who are employed or looking for a job - rose to 62.6% in March.
TikTok parent ByteDance is by far China's biggest unicorn by market valuation.
The company is building a language model and chatbot that will be backed by plenty of money, resources, and talent.
Tesla has announced that it is going to build a new Shanghai Megapack factory. The plant is the next step in the company's mission to expand its energy business.
U.S.-based AI startups secured $11.7B of venture funding from $100M+ rounds so far, making up 45.3% of total investment. Fintech and biotech sectors trail behind at second and third spots.