Dara

Product, design, stories. @netflix @browsercompany @microsoft ++

[Brandon Hill • Vori.com @IamBrandonHill]

Grocery is a $1.5T domestic market — bigger than restaurants, bigger than hotels. But it's running on technology from the Reagan administration.

We just raised a $22M Series B for @VoriHQ to make every supermarket in America autonomous.

[Dara @daraoke]

Congrats to the Vori crew! 🎉🎊

[Brandon Hill • Vori.com @IamBrandonHill]

Grocery is a $1.5T domestic market — bigger than restaurants, bigger than hotels. But it's running on technology from the Reagan administration.

We just raised a $22M Series B for @VoriHQ to make every supermarket in America autonomous.

[What Kept Me Up @WKM_Up]

Filmmaking brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri have landed a distribution deal with acclaimed company NEON for their upcoming film, Clarissa.

Shot on 35mm from Nov-Dec 2025, the sophomore project moves between Lagos and Abraka, Delta.

Read the full story. https://t.co/8hfPKWGsqk

[Obinna @obinnaokwodu]

Stablecoins are emerging as the clearest view of what a dollar actually costs in frontier markets.

Over the past year, I’ve been looking closely at how stablecoins trade across 20+ frontier markets. Here's what I found:

[Obinna @obinnaokwodu]

https://t.co/eKhSDsoK7j

[Brandon Hill • Vori.com @IamBrandonHill]

2025 wrapped: We crossed $355M in payments volume at @VoriHQ 🚀

Grocery is the most important consumer spend category on the planet—and Vori is building its AI-powered infrastructure.

• +$22M in incremental sales for grocers
• 1.26M lbs of bananas sold 🍌
• 577k+ cost changes detected by Vori AI
• 50+ teammates building this every day
• Live nationwide — Seattle → Staten Island

2026: escape velocity. $2B+ in payments.

Buckle up.

[Dara @daraoke]

@abidibidibambam 😭 1,2,3 🎈

[Dara @daraoke]

@LukaMarr @soleio Strong co-sign on this.

[Dara @daraoke]

@bria_sullivan @hankgreen Go Bria! 🎉

[Dara @daraoke]

@jeffand_ @shapingelements Thanks Jeff!!

[Dara @daraoke]

Looking for a 3D artist who specializes in physical product design, such as homewares and objects. Anyone have any recs?

[Dara @daraoke]

Thanks for the recs, y’all! Just to clarify - this is for a physical product, not digital/CGI. Looking for someone who can do CAD-style modeling for fabrication, not visual/CG art. Thank you!

[Dara @daraoke]

This. I’m increasingly pro local & open source LLMs. Holding your own memory is both privacy and leverage.

[Willem @vanlancker]

Holding a private repo (memory, metrics, IP data) offline may be one of the last real edges.

Handing it to LLMs is replaying media’s fatal mistake: trading content for reach… until the platforms no longer needed them.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

The most notable thing in today's market isn't what's happening in stocks, it's that bond yields went up despite what's happening in stocks.

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

You can, simultaneously:

- Dollar cost average, remain long-term optimistic.
- Not panic.
- Enjoy the outdoors, kids, good food, etc.
- Realize how unbelievably destructive and unnecessary this is.

[Dara @daraoke]

@_KarenHao Can’t wait to read this, congrats Karen!!

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

Some news years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at https://t.co/i5rNJ45fNo. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/

[Dara @daraoke]

@brunostasse This is so good! 👏

[soli @solisolsoli]

Reader by Simon Leclerc

[Daniel Burka @dburka]

I’m happy to share that @elycecole and I have founded a not-for-profit called Hard Problems to help tech people to find meaningful work on the hardest problems facing the world — challenges like public health, climate change, and good government.