The Split 🍌

The newsletter read by 23,000 startup founders, investors, and everyone in between. Brought to you by @BananaCap_

[Reid Jackson @reidjjackson]

The 👑 @TurnerNovak

[Ryan Wiggins @rywiggs]

Thanks for shoutout @TurnerNovak!

SAFEs launch has been huge so far. Hundreds of startups are raising money using it, including a bunch of the YC companies going through Demo Day 👀

[Micah Friedland 🎗️ @micahf]

Scientists have found psychedelic drugs reopen the social reward critical learning period,

#HT to @TurnerNovak. When he's not making us life on Twitter, he's making us think in The Split

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[Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak]

An upstart platform just poached one of Twitch’s top streamers with a $100 million deal.

But there’s more to the story than what meets the eye - I dug into it in @TheSplit_ today

https://t.co/1PPzuGsHvs

[Zack Hargett @zackhargett]

Hope to see more teams and leagues make their content available for free. Watching games without cable is a terrible experience today.

(from this week's @thesplit_)

[Uttam @uttamkumaran]

Crushed it this week @TurnerNovak
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🍌 Apple’s New “TV”https://t.co/QvMj1YCNJd

[eric pelnik @pelnike]

A little over our skis h/t @TheSplit_

[Rex Woodbury @rex_woodbury]

For the first time ever, New York leads the country in Seed and Series A rounds

h/t @shaig @TurnerNovak for sharing

[Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak]

I teamed up with @signatureblock_ to dissect their Q1 '23 Emerging Manager Report:

- 91% of EMs struggling to raise
- 32% decreased target fund sizes
- 26% are solo GPs
- Valuations are down, deal flow up
- AI, web3, climate perceived as most overhyped sectors

Full write-up 👇

[Ethan @ethanf_17]

Super cool to get my tweet featured in @TurnerNovak’s substack post! I’ve got some more fun stats I’ll be posting about @AngelList in the next couple days 👀

Recommend giving Turner’s piece a read https://t.co/iTSEFrTHYV

[Two Natural Capital @two_natural]

Enjoyed @TurnerNovak's most recent post on Liveblocks. So many lessons to learn from Figma and the collaboration it enabled. @get_cord is another interesting startup operating in this space.

https://t.co/tBjaXctgrl

[Shomik Ghosh @shomikghosh21]

🔥 deep dive by @TurnerNovak into the story of @liveblocks

- Founding Story
- The 🌊 of collaborative apps
- CRDTs
- How composable APIs enable devs

👋 @stevenfabre @guillaume_slls

Highly recommend subbing to Turner's newsletter 👇
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[Extend & Pretend Cowboy @Cashflow_Cowboy]

In-N-Out family office hiring a junior position. Found in
@TurnerNovak's newsletter for @BananaCap_. Follow, like, and subscribe.
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[Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak]

Can S*bstack save the social network?

With public trust in incumbent social media platforms at an all-time low, it evolved from a simple tool for writing online to an entirely new type of network of 35 million subscribers.

Here's its story and how it can win:

[nandu 🦦 @nanduanilal]

this graph is pretty crazy — brings together some of the broadest changes in society, tech, religion

(h/t @thesplit_)

[Rex Woodbury @rex_woodbury]

A few of my favorite newsletters:

@thefutureparty
After School by @caseymlewis
Daily Consumer by @damirbecirovic
The Generalist by @mariogabriele
Investing 101 by @kwharrison13
The Split by @TurnerNovak
SatPost by @TrungTPhan
@chartrdaily
Lenny’s Newsletter by @lennysan

[Michelle Fang 🌁 @michelleefang]

y'all @TurnerNovak is giving you the best vday gift to travel w/ Safara 👀💸 if you're not subscribed to @TheSplit_ you're missing out!!

[Josh Elman @joshelman]

One of my favorite newsletters right now is @TurnerNovak’s The Split. Today’s post on Toutiao is a fantastic look inside a major product people don’t know enough about

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Click this link and sign up (for free!) so I can get a banana hat please.

[Danielle @DLVermeer]

American teens are sad

Female & LGBTQ high school students reported record-breaking levels of feeling “persistently sad or hopeless”

In @TheAtlantic, Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) explains the 4 mains reasons why…

(h/t @TurnerNovak’s newsletter)

[Rex Woodbury @rex_woodbury]

In 1990, zero states had obesity rates above 20%.

In 2018, zero states had obesity rates *below* 20%.

(h/t @TurnerNovak)