I am humbled and excited to announce that @step has been acquired by @Beast. Together we are focused on closing the financial literacy gap, amplifying the Step platform and bringing more groundbreaking products to the World. Let’s do this @MrBeast!
I've spent the last week reflecting on a milestone that deserves more than a single day of celebration.
Ten years ago, we started @CREXinc with a straightforward mission: fix what was broken in commercial real estate. The industry was stuck. Deals took months when they should have taken weeks, information sat behind closed doors, and access depended more on who you knew than what you could do.
We believed transparency shouldn't be aspirational. It should be operational. A decade later, we've powered over $1T in transactions and helped millions of professionals research, market, transact, and auction properties on one platform. But the number I'm most proud of isn't the transaction volume. It's the access we've created. CRE is no longer a closed system. It's an open marketplace.
As we enter our next chapter with the recent release of Crexi Vault and continued AI innovation, I'm energized by what's ahead. The fundamentals still matter: trust, credibility, transparency in how information flows. But now we have the technology to deliver on those principles at a scale we couldn't have imagined ten years ago.
To everyone who's been part of this journey (our team, our users, our partners), thank you. You didn't just help build a platform. You helped change an industry.
Here's to the next decade.
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This morning, @axios broke the news:
@aryahealth_ has raised an oversubscribed $18.2M Series A.
This capital is fuel for accelerating our mission of using AI to bring humanity back to healthcare delivered across homes, communities, and screens.
In a world obsessed with AI, we wanted to remind everyone that behind every algorithm, there are still people - the ones building it, and the ones it’s meant to help.
So I asked my 9-year-old daughter Arya - the namesake behind the company - to help me tell the "human story".
The story that somewhere along the way, we've made providers really busy with all the "chores" to be done around delivering distributed care.
Forms. Portals. Calendars. Clicks. Text Reminders. Desperate phone calls.
So busy that they don't have enough time-or resources-for what matters. Connecting deeply with those in need of care. And with those delivering care.
We built Arya Health to fix that.
Because the most urgent job for AI right now isn’t to become smarter than humans - it’s to make space for more humanity.
And for that, it needs the best humans - the builders, dreamers, and doers who believe that technology should make people feel seen, not replaced.
If you’re a provider and feel like busywork is keeping you from the humanity in care, please reach out. We'd love to help.
If you're a builder and want to build AI with a focus on humanity, please reach out. We need you to move faster.
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Special gratitude to:
1/ @aikeho (@ACME ) for leading our Series A round,
2/ @byronling1 (@twelve_below), @Rosenrosen (@ridgevc) and many other early backers for doubling down on their conviction in Arya,
3/ @ColinEvans34598 (@OpenAI ) for seeing and backing our AI-powered vision,
4/ Industry leaders Fred Johnson, Chris Gerard, Sandra Bell and @guyfriedman for putting their trust in Arya as a customer,
5/ Melinda Phillips for hanging up her home care CEO gloves to come build the future with us,
6/ Arya's co-founder and CTO Arun for being the perfect yin to my yang,
7/ @FinnMurphy12 (@Nebularvc) for reminding me that it's my job to take big bets
8/ Joshua Rahn (Oceans) for reminding me that it's OK to be human
9/ @zachweinberg (Operator) for reminding me that it will take great pain, time and commitment to build the "next Flatiron Health" in NYC
10/ My partner in life Goksu Dogan for reminding me that if this was easy, anyone could do it...
11/ And my little Arya for reminding me every day that building a business is never "just business". It's personal. Especially in healthcare.
My new book The Art of Spending Money is out now.
You can buy it here: https://t.co/LLkOYe2vsM
I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
The @BuffaloBills win probability was as low as 1.1% with 8:37 remaining in the fourth quarter trailing 40-25.
This was the most improbable comeback by the Bills with Josh Allen at QB, and the 13th-most improbable comeback by any team over the last decade.
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“There are some things that are too important to not try. Loyal would be among those,” says @vkhosla, a long-time Loyal investor.
We’re honored to be included in this year’s @Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startup List.
Figma lore I haven't seen mentioned: Evan Wallace built the precursor to Figma in 24 hours at the April 2011 hackNY Hackathon. He made a website that adds filters to images with WebGL.
He won 2nd place and that project became Figma.