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One of our LPs, on why companies are staying private: The private market values you by the highest bidder. The public market values you by the average bidder.

Build an app for $400, sell it for $32k. On the latest Village Global Podcast, Amjad Masad, Yohei, and Ben Casnocha discuss how to start building with AI agents, and how vibe-coding is creating value for builders and enterprises. Link to the full conversation below.

Never underestimate the power of the opportunistic f-bomb.

Singapore is hot + humid year round, so their hermetic air conditioning infrastructure is superb. When New York melts under heat, you realize how shoddy and incomplete the A/C is. Logical because it's not a year-round problem. If the planet keeps heating, Singapore -- with

Brad has been one of my closest mentors in life, from age 14 onwards. I'm honored to be featured in this book, alongside many other colorful anecdotes and stories from Brad's career about the power of this philosophy: "Give First means you are willing to put energy into a

Yes, it's an IPO Renaissance: 🚀52 new U.S. IPOs priced so far in 2025—up 62.5% over the same period last year. 🫰Q1 2025 saw 59 IPOs raise $8.9 billion, a 55% increase in deal count versus Q1 2024. And performance since IPO for '25 batch + 3 B2B IPOs from '23-'24: ⏫Circle

This is how bot farms exploit existing narrative frictions to undermine our social cohesion. From Pal Action, to Just Stop Oil, activists are tricked into thinking they're part of a larger movement and motivated to take action. They believe they're doing "good" - they're not.

A lot of New Yorkers today: “Is accepting a free Turkish Airlines flight really such a bad thing?”

"The S in MCP stands for security." Overheard in a Village Global event on MCPs from David Sneider 🎆

Sometimes the AI hallucinates but at least it apologizes afterwards

“You must be willing to be bold and chew glass for a moment - see revenue go down, see customers leave - to allow yourself to sprint to the future.” Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit ⠕, and Ben Casnocha discuss how the Innovator’s Dilemma is becoming especially acute in today’s rapidly

Sometimes it’s important to sacrifice the present for the future.

TIL: “Greenland sharks have the longest lifespan of any known vertebrate, estimated to be between 250 and 500 years. They are among the largest extant shark species, reaching a maximum confirmed length of 6.4 m (21 ft) long and weighing over 2,200 lb. They reach sexual maturity

The LLM bias to positivity is interesting.

“YES CHEF” he exclaimed while sliding the frozen chicken tikka samosas from Trader Joe’s into the microwave.

Vibe code your weekend project into an IPO? Move fast and break things? Airtable co-founder and CEO, Howie Lui, spent years building before shipping. Howie Liu and Ben Casnocha discuss how a slow start can be a strategic advantage and when you should play to win the endgame.

And the era just prior to this, the OG blogging era, was such fertile and supportive terrain to form an intellectual worldview. Today’s Twitter can’t hold a candle to these prior two eras of internet intellectual culture.

The person said, "I'll ask ChatGPT that question." And then they pulled up Claude. Will "ChatGPT" become the Kleenex (tissue) or Xerox (photocopy) of our time -- synonymous with generic AI tool?

Top pay in the Singaporean government is kind of crazy. Base salary tied to the top 0.02% of earners, and bonuses tied to macroeconomic aggregates.