Jonathan

Moving 💰 at @EmpowerHQ; previously preventing breaches at @UpGuard. Low-key @NUSComputing alum. 🇸🇬 in 🇺🇸

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Drought free California from space.

What a sight.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Petal Card is getting acquired by Empower.

Originally a credit card for millennials underwriting cash flows, now is more focused on credit building.

Raised >$300M (Valar led the A,B,C), most recently @ $800M (1/22). Had been for sale for quite a while.

Empower has raised quite a bit less - $175M in Debt + Equity.

[Sam Elliott @samelliottsam]

🚀🔥 Super excited to announce that Empower has signed a definitive agreement to acquire @petal!

With this acquisition, we're able to take a giant leap forward in our vision to underwrite the next billion people in the world.

[William Rudenmalm🇪🇺 @w_hgm]

This HN comment hits the nail on the head for AI safety

[gaut @0xgaut]

the San Francisco mind cannot comprehend this

[Jonathan @jyehowtan]

Destiny.

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

ARGENTINA ARE WORLD CHAMPIONS!! 🇦🇷

#FIFAWorldCup | #Qatar2022

[Himanshu Pareek @Sports_Himanshu]

Mbappe after 70 minutes today:
#ArgentinaVsFrance
#FIFAWorldCup

[Jonathan @jyehowtan]

🙃

[Empower (Tilt) @EmpowerHQ]

Ranking #55 on the 2022 @Inc5000 list >>>>>

What an honor. Congratulations to our whole team! Let’s. Go. #Inc5000

[Kelsey Glamour ✡️🇵🇸 @Wiglette]

Back when AirBnB started it was like natural hosts renting out their cute homes and being like, "There's craft beer for you in the fridge!" and now it's someone's 80th rental property with plastic Ikea furniture and it's also out of soap.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Over 60M Americans have credit scores under 700, and 45M are literally credit invisible: they have no score. Access to credit is a key, so this is a big problem.

I sat down with @warrenhogarth to talk about how his startup @EmpowerHQ fixes this.

https://t.co/TaafQFrIix

[Christina E. Cox @ChristinaECox]

Today, when introducing WWI, a student raised her hand and brought up the death of a certain archduke. Nobody knew his name, so as a hint, I offered that he shares his name with a band.

Gentle reader, my students asked if there had perhaps been an Archduke Metallica.

[ℳatt (matttomic.bsky.social) @matttomic]

Fun little trick in the Sunday New York Times crossword yesterday: the central theme clue was "The better of two sci-fi franchises", and regardless of whether you put Star Wars or Star Trek, the crossing clues worked

[Jonathan @jyehowtan]

@NedumgottMoney @ejames_c @vaughn_tan I believe it's The Way Of Kueh by Christopher Tan https://t.co/0IdUAFhDnH

[Cain Maddox @ctrlshifti]

by 2040, 90% of coders will be making productivity software. the other 10% will be making productivity tools for the people who make productivity software. when the sea levels rise we'll float through our cities on kanban boards like venice while discussing new agile practices

[Ming Zhao @FabiusMercurius]

🧐How to Read 10Ks Like a Hedge Fund🧐

“Fundamentals don’t matter anymore!” I’ve heard this a lot lately on Fintwit.🙄

But, for those who’ve diversify beyond $GME and $DOGE, here’s a primer on what metrics fundamental buy-side PMs look at and why:
(real examples outlined)
👇

[Jonathan @jyehowtan]

Been a while since we had a Friday night out

[Jonathan @jyehowtan]

Biggest frustration and regret from the entire time being back home in Singapore is signing up for Google Pay.

[Jonathan @jyehowtan]

@burnflare Level 5 is max flex