Steven Larsen

Partnerships @Netlify @Sisense @Xero @Zendesk

[Steven Larsen @stevenlar]

@FitnessDadx Gut

[Steven Larsen @stevenlar]

RIP

[Casa @getcasa]

After two years of building under wraps, today we're announcing Casa – your personal property manager. We've raised $27M to redefine the homeownership experience from the ground up.

We believe your home is your most treasured asset, emotionally & financially. It shouldn't also be a second job.

Most homeowners are on their own – expected to have the time, expertise, and relationships to keep things running. Finding a plumber you can trust. Remembering when the HVAC was last serviced. Knowing what's actually wrong before someone shows up to fix it.

Casa gives every homeowner what used to be reserved for the few: a dedicated team that knows your home deeply, handles the work, and stays in your corner. We're enabling this by building a deep, technical understanding of every home we serve – something that's never existed before, across 100 million single-family homes in the country.

For $199/mo, membership includes:

- A complete inventory of your home, built using specialized hardware & software
- 1.5 hours of handyman time every month (and it rolls over)
- Unlimited Concierge requests to take on virtually any home project
- Custom, proactive care plans built specifically for your home
- Weekly package and donation pickups
- Scheduling and payments for your regular vendors
- Utility and property tax monitoring

…and we’re just getting started, with more benefits on the way to make the experience of owning your home as magical as it always should have been.

Available now in the SF Bay Area and Los Angeles. Reserve your spot everywhere else.

→ https://t.co/vTUSR000fC

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

This is WILD.

Peter Thiel just bet $2 billion on a collar that wraps around a cow’s neck.

The company is called Halter and it has a proprietary algorithm that runs the entire operation.

They actually trademarked the name for it and called it the Cowgorithm and here's how it works.

A farmer opens an app, taps a button, and 600,000 cows across three countries start walking toward the milking station on their own.

No farm dogs, fences or physical labor, it's just a solar-powered GPS collar sending sound and vibration cues to each animal.

The collar does more than move cows around.

It monitors digestion, fertility cycles, and health patterns in real time, 24 hours a day, using machine learning trained on the behavior of hundreds of thousands of animals.

Halter was founded by a rocket engineer who built spacecraft at Rocket Lab before deciding that farming was the bigger unsolved problem.

US ranchers alone have already used the technology to build over 11,000 miles of virtual fencing, roughly the full perimeter of the continental United States, saving an estimated $220 million in physical fencing costs.

Halter's previous funding round valued the company at $1 billion.

This new round, led by Thiel's Founders Fund, doubles that valuation to $2 billion before the new money even hits the account.

And they charge farmers between $5 and $8 per animal per month on a subscription model, meaning the more cows they collar, the more locked-in the revenue becomes.

The most powerful venture capitalist on earth just decided that the future of food and farming runs through an algorithm named after a cow.

He might be right.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 12 hours?

> A CEO of a $200 billion company said on camera that 35% of new grads won't find jobs. He didn't even flinch saying it.

> Meta made $165 billion last year and is still firing 15,000 people because apparently record profit isn't profitable enough.

> Some random guy in Florida sold his entire house in 5 days using ChatGPT. No real estate agent, no commission, no experience. Just vibes and a $20 subscription.

> A man in Australia cured his dying dog's cancer with AI after every single vet told him there was nothing left to do. Built a custom vaccine from his couch.

> The guy who created Uber and left 300,000 taxi drivers broke is back. Building robots now because apparently ruining one industry wasn't enough.

> Tinder wants access to your camera roll. Your drunk photos, your 3am notes app meltdowns, your deleted selfies. They're calling it a "vibe check."

> Naval, the man who made hundreds of millions investing in software, just said software is dead. Four words and the entire industry felt it.

> And Anthropic removed the limit on how long their AI can think and then doubled everyone's usage for free. Because when the product is addictive enough you give the first taste away.

All of that happened today. Not this week, not this quarter. Today. A random Saturday in March.

This is worse than you being on meth.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

So good…

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

“DAD, HOW GOOD WAS TROY ‘TASMANIAN DEVIL’ POLAMALU IN HIS PRIME ON THE #STEELERS”

The most electric defensive back in #NFL history:
https://t.co/hKOb7nnb8k

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

A little girl’s father had gone missing. The girl drew a sketch of her father for the police. And as soon as the police found the man, seeing his actual photograph made the news anchors burst out laughing. 😅

[Steven Larsen @stevenlar]

Cool

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

5.000 drone show at Las Vegas celebrating Stranger Things' finale
https://t.co/LTcSlEHSPz

[Brady Harris @StormCat5_]

⚠️ An EPIC 48 hours are ahead for California as a powerful, 3 PRONGED storm delivers Catastrophic Flooding, extreme Mountain Snow, and widespread Damaging Winds.

🎅This event begins Christmas Eve, with the first storm moving onshore, followed by a second major system on Christmas Day.

🌧️ The biggest threat is flooding. Parts of Southern California, especially around Los Angeles, could see 10 inches or more of rain in a very short time. The National Weather Service has issued a HIGH RISK of excessive rainfall, meaning life threatening flooding is possible.

❄️ The Sierra Nevada will be buried. Some locations could see 100 inches or more of snow, over 8 FEET, near places like Lake Tahoe. Once the snow starts, mountain travel may become impossible for days.

🌬️ Winds will also be extreme. High Wind Warnings cover much of the state, with 60+ mph gusts in valleys and near 100 mph gusts in the mountains, raising concerns for power outages.

This storm needs to be taken seriously. It will not end the world, but it could be one of the strongest storms California has seen in years.

Merry Christmas my California Brotheren - wish i could have delivered a Sunny forecast for yall...🎅

[Steven Larsen @stevenlar]

Nice!! It’s going to be a great race

[Will Buxton @wbuxtonofficial]

Holy shitballs. What a promo.

[Steven Larsen @stevenlar]

Very cool

[Luke Metro @luke_metro]

holy pivot

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

NFL defenders trying to tackle Darnell Washington looks like a bunch of elementary schoolers trying to tackle mascots

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

But 𝕏 and Starlink didn’t skip a beat

[Pittsburgh Steelers @steelers]

This shot 😮‍💨

@AaronRodgers12 | @dkm14

[Steven Larsen @stevenlar]

Interesting thoughts about our future world with AI.  Definitely worth the listen.

https://t.co/SowZENXzRa

Thanks @TheoVon for asking the "basic" questions! :)

[Steven Larsen @stevenlar]

@bkwebster @altcap @InvestAmerica24 I believe he's referring to "Trump Accounts" included in the BBB bill signed yesterday. Unfortunately eligibility is very limited as only children born between 2025-2028 are eligible.

[Steven Larsen @stevenlar]

Excited to try @perplexity_ai new browser @PerplexityComet! Chrome has cookie / cache management has been painful the last couple years. Plus moving too slow to incorporate AI features.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

"I promise to not raise your taxes" and "I promise to not cut your benefits" are the two popular political promises that are inconsistent with the much more needed promise "I promise to cut the budget deficit to about 3 percent of GDP" that is required to prevent a big debt/dollar crisis. There is no way that the deficit/debt bomb problem can be sustainably dealt with unless there is a mix of tax revenue increases and spending decreases that are determined in a bipartisan way. Our representatives in Washington, DC, both Republicans and Democrats, know this is true. They understand the need to reduce the deficit by having those from both sides chip in a bit (e.g., a 4 percent increase in tax revenue and a 4 percent spending cut) which would lead to a supply/demand balance improvement for US debt which in turn would lower interest rates. Lower interest rates would help reduce the budget deficit as well as help the markets and the economy. But because politics have become so absolutist, they feel they can't go down this obviously best path because both their constituents and their parties will throw them out of office if they explored this more balanced approach. To me, that’s a tragedy.