“As you move through this life & this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life —& travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.” - Bourdain
2026 is a BRUTAL grind in VC. You start in Davos, freeze in Aspen, hit Upfront, survive Milken, then it’s straight to Paris for the French Open. Briefly back in NYC for the Knicks. Then, total blur: SuperReturn in Berlin, Founders Forum in London, then back stateside for the World Cup, back to Paris for Raise AI, Idaho for Sun Valley, quick respite in Mykonos, then the Goldman tech gauntlet, Slush in Finland, NeurIPS in freakin’ Sydney… and *boom*, a productive year of thought leadership and adding value is over, and you’re a wreck.
June 3, 1984: CBS reports that Jack Nicholson flew from Boston to Los Angeles on the same commercial flight as the Boston Celtics after Game 2 of the NBA Finals.
The in-flight movie was Terms of Endearment, starring Nicholson—seen here, courtside, smoking a cigarette at 0:14:
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“Money usually just makes you get a whole lot more of what you got before.”
“People raise early partly because they were not tight with money. Then you get a whole lot less tight with money at a larger scale, and it gets really bad.”
”In the beginning we had no money. None. Zero. Really zero.”
“I didn't take a salary for four years.”
@tobi says at one point, his wife’s father had to cover Shopify’s payroll and they lived out of her childhood bedroom just to keep costs low.
Now, with huge seed rounds becoming normal, he’s glad Shopify was forced to stay tight with money:
“I worry sometimes with all these really big seed rounds”
“Money usually just makes you get a whole lot more of what you got before.”
“People raise early partly because they were not tight with money. Then you get a whole lot less tight with money at a larger scale, and it gets really bad.”
"Permanently cease & desist from any & all use of Mr. Gilgeous-Alxander's NIL…including the board game…Unethical Hoops"
–– SGA's attorney wants Underdog to destroy all copies of their Shai-flopping version of Operation
Perks of working on the Triumph Marketing Team:
- Monthly Aura Farming with Celebrities
- Crashing cars wrapped with Triumph branding
- Giving money to strangers
- Free Protein Snacks
We need someone exceptional at organizing IRL events to work with our head of partnerships. Will be the most fun you've ever had at work I promise.
Lmk if yall wanna job
You dont want a yacht. You dont want a big house. You dont want a super car, a $40,000 watch, or shoes you worry about getting dirty. You want free will.
You want to wake up naturally on a Tuesday and you want to go to bed when you’re done having fun. You want to say yes to everything that excites you without having to request time off. You want to go to the the gym at noon, in absolutely no hurry. You want to spend 18 hours a day doing what you love. You want to be exactly where you desire being, always. You want to spend as much time with the people you care about as possible.
You’re saying you wanna be rich? In what?