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Fintech (and Baseball) @MotivateVC

[Jackson @bubjacks]

I dug into the Chicago tech scene going back ~50 years. How many successful tech companies were founded here? Who is behind them? How much value have they generated? I struggled to find good data, so I did some research...

Chicago Tech’s $100M List: https://t.co/T8gXJMj4l7

[tweet davidson @andyreed]

pronouncing gen ai like forrest gump

[Justin Lopas @JLopas]

Just spent two days in Chicagoland.

So excited to be operating there - lots of challenges but even more opportunity.

[nugget chef @jayhaykid]

Me when the MLB version comes out:

[Fried Egg Golf @fried_egg_golf]

No better way to kick off Memorial Day weekend than a couple days in Southwest Michigan with Fried Egg Golf Club.

If there's a better 48-hour trip than Lost Dunes, Journeyman Distillery, and Dunes Club, we’ve yet to find it.

[Jackson @bubjacks]

👀

[Sian Beilock @sianbeilock]

Ben Rice '22 played 30 games in 3 years at @Dartmouth. The @Yankees drafted him in the 12th round. Now, he’s leading the team in home runs with Aaron Judge.

I've spent a career studying why we choke under pressure. Ben is a study in the opposite. Go Big Green! https://t.co/ZW3KuPE2qO

[arian ghashghai @arian_ghashghai]

since the fundraising environment is nutty even compared to 2021, some unordered, random, practical advice for founders raising (esp first-time):

> Momentum is everything (everyone knows this), but it's as easy to kill it as it is to build it (a lot of first-time fundraisers don't think about the downside case when strategizing)
> A fund being "interested" does not mean anything (esp in this market) until there is a written offer on the table, and there is a very big delta between "interested" and offer (i.e. re-organizing your round because Fund X is "interested" is likely to blow up in your face)
> The vanity game of raising on high SAFE caps does not mean your business is actually more valuable than a peer that's raising on a lower cap (just FYI). SAFE caps are *not* valuations (in a literal sense), and in fact raising at stupidly high caps can wreck your business down the line (in more ways than one)
> Turning an investor down because their "cap is too low" and you're gamesmanshiping by telling them you have a big round lined up at a higher cap for next month, note that 1) this is usually not true (even if you think it is, see point on "interest") and 2) this totally destroys your credibility if you don't actually raise the round you purported to raise (investors talk, and it looks bad i.e. there was no actual market interest in your company, and you become ice cold)

[Not Gaetti @notgaetti]

Not enough people talk about Alfonso Soriano

• 412 HR, 1159 RBI, 289 SB, 2095 H, .500 SLG
• In 2002, led league with 209 H, 128 R, 41 SB
• Reached 30 HR 7x, 100 RBI 4x, 40 SB 3x
• Reached 40 2B 5x, 320 TB 5x, .525 SLG 5x
• 7x All-Star, 4x Silver Slugger, 2004 ASG MVP
• 105 out of 100 on @baseball_ref HOF monitor
• Top-60 all-time in homers (412) and XBH (924)
• One of just five players ever to record a 40/40 season (Canseco, Bonds the Younger, A-Rod, Acuña)
• One of just three players with at least four 30/30 seasons (trailing only Bonds the Elder & Bonds the Younger)

[Not Gaetti @notgaetti]

Not enough people talk about Derrek Lee

• .281/.365/.495 (.859 OPS), 122 OPS+
• 1959 H, 432 2B, 331 HR, 1078 RBI
• 2003 WS Champion with Florida
• 2005 NL batting champ (.335)
• Played at least 155 games 7x
• 2x All-Star, 3x Gold Glover
• Reached 20 HR 9x, 30 HR 4x
• Silver Slugger, MVP-3 in 2005
• Drove in 90 runs 5x, 100 runs 2x
• 34.6 WAR (22.6 of them with CHC)
• Career 28 HR, 90 RBI per 162 games
• Unspeakable numbers vs Jeff Suppan
• Hit 12 grand slams, 3 walk-off HR, 2 ITP
• Received zero HOF votes (of 442 ballots)
• Best clean season of the PED era in 2005:
• .335 BA, 1.080 OPS, 50 2B, 46 HR, 107 RBI
• Led league in H, 2B, BA, SLG, OPS, OPS+, TB
• Also led in oWAR and had 23 intentional walks
• 1 of 2 players in @Cubs history with at least a .900 OPS and a minimum of 4000 PA with the team (along with Sammy Sosa)

[Jackson @bubjacks]

@MrRazzi17 @helloericsf @cimentoai 👀

[Louisville Bats @LouisvilleBats]

Sit back and enjoy the sounds of Nothing Night 🎵

[Jackson @bubjacks]

@teddypowday Legend. One of the great hitting pitchers as well.

[Jackson @bubjacks]

@TheStalwart Try a miniamericano. Espresso cup. Double shot. Rest is hot water. Apparently it’s called a Cafe Zorro.

I like my espresso diluted a touch, but not as much as a classic americano. Its too much water.

[Jackson @bubjacks]

#this

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

The @Cubs are the first team in MLB history to have 2 separate 10+ game winning streaks and a 15+ game home winning streak all before the end of May.

[Andrew Reed @andrew__reed]

what inning are we in? the game hasn’t even started yet. it’s years earlier. we don’t even know what baseball is. tomorrow is our first day of tee ball. we just wrapped a ball in our new glove with a rubber band and shaving cream.

[Jackson @bubjacks]

👀👀👀

[Jon Heyman @JonHeyman]

Viewership for national exclusive MLB games through the first weekend of May is 2.28 million, a +44% increase over last year and the best start in 9 years

[Frank Michael Smith @frankmikesmith]

I made a sports geography game where you're asked to pinpoint locations of 5 questions. I'd appreciate if you gave it a shot

https://t.co/sI14JX9Arc

[Bartolo Colón @BColon40]

@Mets I might have more in the tank.

[New York Mets @Mets]

10 years ago today, the impossible happened.

@BColon40 | #LGM

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

"HOT DOGS" right into an absolute bomb. Peak baseball

[PsiQuantum @PsiQuantum]

Full speed ahead. America’s largest quantum computing project continues to take shape at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park on Chicago’s South Side, where the shell of PsiQuantum’s first building—spanning over 65,000 square feet—is now complete.