Randa

[Abhilash Shukla @AbhilashShuklaa]

Making it more interesting 👇 by adding the year of initial product release and a brief description:

🇯🇵 Sony → Rice Cooker (1946, Early version of electric rice cooker)
🇫🇮 Nokia → Toilet Paper (Early 1900s, Involved in various industries including forestry)
🇰🇷 Samsung → Grocery store (1938, Started as a trading company dealing with groceries)
🇩🇰 Lego → Wooden Toys (1932, Handcrafted wooden toys before famous interlocking plastic bricks)
🇯🇵 Nintendo → Playing Cards (1889, Produced handmade playing cards for a game called Hanafuda)
🇺🇸 Nike → Track Shoes (1964, Initially known as Blue Ribbon Sports selling Onitsuka Tiger shoes)
🇮🇹 Lamborghini → Tractor (1948, Manufactured tractors from military vehicle parts post WWII)
🇺🇸 Colgate → Soap and Candles (1806, Started as a starch, soap and candle business)
🇸🇪 IKEA → Pens (1943, Initially sold pens, wallets, picture frames, etc. via mail order)
🇰🇷 LG → Facial Cream (1947, Started as a cosmetic company called Lucky Cream)
🇺🇸 Tiffany & Co → Stationary (1837, Started as a "Stationery and Fancy Goods Emporium")
🇯🇵 Toyota → Automatic Loom (1924, Toyota Industries Co., Ltd. started with automatic loom invention)
🇺🇸 Amazon → Online Bookstore (1994, Started as an online marketplace for books)
🇺🇸 Apple → Apple Computer I (1976, Hand-built computer by Steve Wozniak)
🇺🇸 Google → Search Engine (1998, Web-based search engine)
🇺🇸 Intel → Memory Chip (1969, Produced world's first commercial microprocessor chip)
🇩🇪 BMW → Aircraft Engine (1917, Initially produced aircraft engines)
🇯🇵 Canon → Camera (1934, Released Kwanon, Japan's first 35mm focal-plane-shutter camera)
🇺🇸 Coca-Cola → Syrup (1886, Carbonated soft drink invented by John Stith Pemberton)
🇺🇸 Ford → Quadricycle (1896, Four-wheeled prototype vehicle)
🇺🇸 Harley-Davison → Racer Motorcycle (1903, The first production motorcycle)
🇺🇸 HP → Audio Oscillator (1939, Precision audio frequency oscillator)
🇯🇵 Honda → Bicycle Auxiliary Engine (1946, Manufactured small two-cycle motorbike engines)
🇫🇷 L'Oreal → Hair Dye (1907, Innovator in hair dye industry)
🇫🇷 Renault → Renault Voiturette 1CV (1898, Light and small horseless vehicle)
🇺🇸 Hoover → Leather Products (1908, Started as a leather goods business)
🇺🇸 McDonalds → Hot Dogs (1940, Fast food restaurant initially serving hot dogs)
🇺🇸 Pixar → Image Computer (1986, High-end computer hardware for graphics professionals)
🇨🇭 Nestle → Baby Formula (1867, Henri Nestlé developed a milk-based baby food)
🇺🇸 Wrigley → Soap & Baking Powder (1891, Originally sold soap and baking powder, free gum given as incentive)

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[Moritz Kremb @moritzkremb]

ChatGPT was only the start.

Over 1000 new AI tools were released in May.

Here are 8 insane AI websites that will save you hundreds of hours:

[Moritz Kremb @moritzkremb]

I went from 0 to 10,000 followers using ChatGPT (in 40 days).

AI allows you to be 10x more productive.

Here's how you can create content like a 10-person team:

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

The last few days in AI development is insane.

Google X Adobe
ChatGPT new UI
Midjourney 3d model
ChatGPT Plugins release
Coca-Cola new Ad with AI
Google new Universal Translator AI
Claude gets better than ChatGPT-4

Everything you need to know & how it'll change many things:🧵

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

Google is in trouble.

I got early 'Alpha' access to GPT-4 with browsing and ran some tests.

Here are 8 crazy things I found:

[Tyler Stambaugh @ProfessorStam]

I worked in bank liquidity and treasury for the better part of the last decade, and there is one very interesting risk factor from the SVB collapse that I do not think we have ever witnessed before in modern finance, a 🧵:

[Randa @Randa0213]

@mrjasonchoi A lot of founders may not be aware the implications / the conflicts arising from that

If the lead investor wasn't a lead in the competitor's investment and only wrote a small cheque, it may not be too much of an issue

[Laura Shin @laurashin]

Absolutely loved this profile of @CryptoHayes by @jenwieczner, who I feel like has gotten to do a majority of the fun crypto stories of the last ~8 months … I was wondering WTF was up with the photo … until I discovered Arthur is a fan of stuffies?! 😂
https://t.co/mv5MCPYCED

[Aleksandr Volodarsky @volodarik]

ChatGPT has crossed 1M+ users in just 5 days.

To compare, it took Netflix 41 months, FB - 10 months, and Instagram - 2.5 months.

But many haven’t yet realized its full potential.

Here are the 10 mindblowing things you can do using it right now:

[Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA @GRDecter]

I read the 30 page FTX Bankruptcy court filing.

How bad were FTX's internal controls?

Here are the worst examples 👇

[Jon Wu @jonwu_]

I just read FTX's Chapter 11 First Day Affidavit.

In it, the appointed restructuring CEO John Jay Ray III, who oversaw Enron's bankruptcy proceedings, calls FTX's case the worst of his career.

Its contents are shocking.

Here are the highlights:

👇

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

1/82

I'll be pinning this detailed timeline, as my final piece covering this topic, as now the case is closed in my mind.

This was a crime plain and simple and I'll put no more wind in this criminals sails:

FTX: Meltdown.

The definitive and chronological thread.

[Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi]

The Definitive Thread on FTX

I met SBF before FTX started, and witnessed their rise and fall. I can't stand @nytimes's puff piece.

If anyone wants to know what happened, send them this.

[wassieloyer @wassielawyer]

1/ Had some time to think things through more thoroughly so here are some further thoughts on the current state of play, factors influencing whether the Binance acquisition of FTX will be completed and what happens if it doesn't.

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

This afternoon, FTX asked for our help. There is a significant liquidity crunch. To protect users, we signed a non-binding LOI, intending to fully acquire https://t.co/BGtFlCmLXB and help cover the liquidity crunch. We will be conducting a full DD in the coming days.

[BackBone Labs Hub @BackBoneLabsHub]

Was today the first major coordinated attack on $UST? Maybe.
Will it be the last?
Probably not.
Will lunatics continue to defend the peg no matter who or what comes at us?
Damn right we will.
#KeepThePeg