❤️ At Abridge, feedback is our oxygen—and the most heartfelt feedback we get finds its way into a special internal channel we call "𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀."
This holiday season, we asked Abridgers to share their favorite 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀.
𝗪𝗮��𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝘀.
We had an amazing HackWeek at Slope last week! ⚡
Thank you to our amazing judges:
Anthony Guo - Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder, @retool@cjc - Chief Operating Officer, @linear (prev. Partner at @firstround, Head of Platform & Partnerships at @NotionHQ, and Head of Corporate Card and Treasury at @stripe)
@illscience - General Partner, @a16z (Board member of @deel, prev. GM at @creditkarma)
Congratulations to our winners:
🏆 Grand Prize - “Deep KYB”: @alexdwu1
🥈 2nd place - “EZ Policy”: Bryant Chen, Jason Huang, CFA
🥉 3rd place - “One Stop Shop”: @jmckellogg, Himanshu Mehta, @gpsmsn
🚀 Most Ambitious - “Matchmakers”: Zach Hoogerland, Himanshu Mehta, @gpsmsn
Excited for the next one!
Today's a good day to make sure you're paying for at least one news subscription.
If the last few weeks are any indication, we need robust newsrooms to keep up with this insane news cycle.
Context for @washingtonpost buyout program announced this morning, per interim publisher Patty Stonesifer. Since 2021:
--Audience: down 28 percent.
--Subscriptions: down 15 percent (to around 2.5 million).
--Print revenue: down 10 percent.
--Digital ads: down 30 percent.
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As a former journalist, I know a good, authentic story when I see one.
It didn't take long to know I'd found one I wanted to be a part of with @alicevdeng and @LawLM.
We're in the early chapters, but it's been better than I could've imagined!
At @slopepay, we’re excited to announce our $30M round led by @USV with major participation from @sama - bringing our total equity/debt funding to $187M. Since launching in Aug ‘21, we are over 8 figures in ARR and are a lean team of 18. In the midst of this excitement, I wanted to share color on what it took to get to where we are. A 🧵
@garrytan@garrytan lots of top notch journalists at the @sfchronicle. They need subscribers though to keep doing strong journalism, and most of the city doesn't care to do anything but complain about it. I'd also recommend @sfstandard.
I ride my bike by this building every day and did pre-pandemic as well. It appears to be getting worse at 7th and Mission, UN Plaza, etc.
@mattdorsey, what's being done? Abandoning buildings doesn't seem like a solution that will enable SF to recover.
Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advised hundreds of employees in San Francisco to work remotely for the foreseeable future due to public safety concerns.
https://t.co/Naw0zBgdYS
We are excited to launch SlopeGPT and publish our blog post on it. SlopeGPT is the first payments risk model powered by GPT-4. Read more on: https://t.co/N1tf6hj3wE
.@karaswisher to @charlottetklein: “I really hate that journalists don’t understand business. If you don’t understand the economics of what’s happening, you’re fucked.”
https://t.co/cc05z0vPA8
We're so stoked to announce the launch of Pay Now which we believe is a game-changer for B2B payments. We're excited about taking one step closer to our mission of bringing the world’s B2B economy online.
We just launched on Product Hunt: https://t.co/hRnZ74MYll. Please upvote!
We’re excited to announce the launch of Pay Now! B2B merchants can integrate Pay Now in minutes to accept credit card, ACH, and cross-border payments in a sleek UX through API or utilize our no-code invoice links. Other features include Same-day ACH, Milestone payments, and more!