Will Hackett

Interest has such accrual way of accumulating.

[Will Hackett @whacktt]

@kaiskhimji @blockitAI @sequoia Please add a feature where from globe keyboard key it can pull my availability in the timezone of the person I’m msging so I can paste into message. Make it look human so people don’t feel like they’re getting AI’d.

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

For the love of god please someone make this for the artificial intelligence moment right now

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

[Will Hackett @whacktt]

@pitdesi What about xiao long bao?!

[Will Hackett @whacktt]

@pmoe Doing this Sept-Nov with my young family. Love this thread🤞

[Will Hackett @whacktt]

@andrewchen What if you only had 3 months?

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

51% of Zendesk's revenue is international
47% of Cloudflare’s revenue is international
46% of HubSpot’s revenue is international
45% of MongoDB's revenue is international
38% of Asana’s revenue is international
34% of Twilio’s revenue is international
22% of Okta’s revenue is international

Go Global as soon as you have customers there

Pull ahead

[sam lessin 🏴‍☠️ @lessin]

The state of VC in 2023. Where we are, where we are going, and where to invest - here is the whole thing... https://t.co/dux39L3ODH

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

You can outperform most venture funds by buying LEGO.

I analyzed the last 20 years of secondhand LEGO pricing data, and found randomly purchasing sets will match most VC's returns

if you're somewhat intentional about what you buy-- you massively outperform even the best firms

[Matt Harney @SaaSletter]

My excerpts from @BatteryVentures's new "State of Enterprise Tech Spending"

Beyond obvious AI boom, their summary slide points to stabilizing market:

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[Will Hackett @whacktt]

@sytaylor Best product play since they first launched.

Their original ICP was travel and the rumour they were to acquire Skyscanner would have been a masterstroke. Instead they became a universal bank 😩

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

Go Global As Early as You Can

[Will Hackett @whacktt]

@FGraillot Is institutional blockchain the PC way to say digital assets?

[Grant♟️ @granawkins]

STANFORD TORUS MEGATHREAD
You’ve seen the pictures, but you probably don’t know the full story.

It's the result of a 10-week engineering study at Stanford University in 1975, funded by NASA and led by Girard O’Neill - the most thorough study on free-space settlement to date.
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[Anand Sanwal @asanwal]

To: My fellow data/info-biz nerds

This is a great summary and another reason why proprietary quantitative or qualitative data & insights are going to be so powerful in this generative AI / LLM future

h/t @joeobrien513

[Will Hackett @whacktt]

@AlexH_Johnson Bancorp

[Will Hackett @whacktt]

@daveg Take me to the promised land.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Been looking at the most expensive real-life film stunts ever.

Here are 9 wild ones.

1. MATRIX RELOADED (2003)

For this chase sequence, a fake highway was built at a dis-used naval base in California. The 1.3 mile loop highway cost $2.5m and was fenced by a 19ft wall.