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i'm betting everything on building media companies

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

much respect to the man, Elon

if i lost this kind of weight, i'd probably be thinner than air right now.

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: SpaceX lost $1 trillion in market cap since last week

[broadglow @broadglow]

noam shazeer is kylian mbappe for people who import pytorch

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

is it still worth it growing a brand here?

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

some of the biggest Seed and Early rounds raised last week:

@ClarisHealth raised $11.6 million in seed funding
@KyberNetwork raised $5 million
@PramaanaLabs raised $27 million in seed funding led by @khoslaventures.

and many more here arranged by stages here: https://t.co/Kz4u6WQjmR

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

im building two media companies while running multiple jobs.

and i know that the best way to grow my startups is to be damn good at my job.

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

never hire, friends.

[EP @eptwts]

never hire friends

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

top tech, startup, and business news from last week:

- @amazon dropped Sam Altman’s biopic
- @NoamShazeer joined @OpenAI
- @Snap launched Specs

and many more here: https://t.co/NMaDpzojjs

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

@mariyav4leva i think 'obsession' is what differentiates founders/startups who scale from those who don't.

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

@gohrabbas how do you make people 'feel' why it matters?

these are my go-to for engineering emotion that drives conversions:

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

to my Gen Z founders:

evoke emotions in yours users by having an archetype.

like @cluely plays the villain.

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

@itsolelehmann yo, see: https://t.co/mZZDB2EQtE

[Shortcut ‎ @shortcutdotnews]

Happy Tuesday.

In today’s news:

– SpaceX × Cursor 🤝
– Threads 500M users 📈
– IBM turns 115 🎂
– @gs_ai_ launches Eno 🦾
– @NousResearch × @stripe ⚡️
– @lennysan × @markpinc 🎙️
– @MollySOShea × @clairejyz 🎙️
– @Bencera YouTube mini-series 🍿

Sending out in 15 minutes ✉️

[Shortcut ‎ @shortcutdotnews]

Happy Monday.

In today’s news:

– @AnthropicAI Fable crackdown 🚫
– @salesforce × @fin_ai 🤝
– Fox × @Roku 🤝
– UK social media ban ✖️
– @MrBeast 500M subs 🥇
– @satyanadella: A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable 📝
– @paulg: How to earn a billion dollars 📝

Sending out in 10 minutes ✉️

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

top tech, startup, and business news from last week (that isn’t SpaceX’s IPO or Anthropic shutting down Fable):

- @Waymo launched a $29.99 monthly loyalty program
- @Disney is pushing streaming employees to use AI tools
- @Meta has cut off Manus from its internal systems

and many more here: https://t.co/HOihHgui3K

[Shortcut ‎ @shortcutdotnews]

Happy Friday.

In today’s news:

– SpaceX record IPO 🚀
– @JeffBezos's Prometheus ⚙️
– @framer 3.0 teaser 👀
– @coinbase for agents 🪙
– @Waymo Premier 🚘
– @LightconePod: @sdianahu, @harjtaggar, @garrytan, @snowmaker × @pedroh96 🎙️
– @myfirstmilpod: @thesamparr + @ShaanVP break down SpaceX IPO 🍿

Sending out in 15 minutes ✉️

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Never. Ever. Buy a tech product based on the promise of future software updates.

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

'included until June 22'

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Anthropic offically releases Mythos-class model Claude Fable to the public.

[signüll @signulll]

this is absolutely incredible.

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

@litcapital nope, this is the cloths section. they’ll probably have a data center section too post IPO.

[Darius | Startup & Tech News @dariusogenyi]

some of the biggest Series B and growth rounds raised last week:

- @FirstClubIndia raised $55 million in Series B
- @Coralogix raised $200 million in a Series F
- @suno raised $400 million in a Series D

and many more here arranged by stages here: https://t.co/bkE0sarPAE