Years ago I heard Airbnb's Brian Chesky say he'd want to enter the Iranian market someday. Hard to imagine, but maybe not as farfetched as it seemed when he said it ten years ago or so? semafor.com/article/06/24/…

Thank you Emma Goss & J. The Jewish News of Northern California for the great write up! Israeli podcasters are anchored in both Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley jweekly.com/2025/06/25/isr…

The scene outside Palantir's Palo Alto office today

Meanwhile, other Palantir news: Investors betting against Palantir are throwing in the towel bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Latest episode of What's Your Number... an interview with AI entrepreneur Yoav Shoham on the Israeli AI landscape and the role the country's startups - including his, AI21 Labs - can play in the broader AI arms race. Also, his rule of thumb for cofounders: Half his age and twice his

"Predatory Sparrow then 'burned' the stolen $100 million by sending the tokens to other digital wallets... These wallets’ addresses, which are made up of long strings of numbers and letters, contained profane phrases like “F—IRGCterrorists.” apple.news/AAjFdTSrtQTy-Q…

Sharing an update on Figma: we publicly filed our S-1 with the SEC today, and have applied to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FIG.” figma.com/blog/s1-public

Thrilled to share that I'll be contributing to CNBC on a regular basis, helping with their stellar coverage & analysis on tech (but of course!) from the Bay Area.

nyc: are we dating the same guy? sf: ARE WE HIRING THE SAME GUY???

Turns out the two camps in today's tech industry aren't Doomers and Boomers. It's those who hired Soham and those who didn't hire Soham.

- come clean, be sorry - be willing to laugh at yourself, embrace a good meme, cf: Worker 17 - feed the curiosity: what was it like, what’d you learn, don’t sugarcoat - show proof of actual skills and talent - optional: join forces with / pick fight with (either could work)

~80% of my X feed now made up of Soham + Zohran

Silicon Valley: Soon one person will be able to run a $100M company Also Silicon Valley: I’m shocked one engineer held multiple jobs at once

Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so cnb.cx/4lgDfoN

Can't wait for Tucker Carlson's sit-down interview with Grok.

100%. Tech reporters (myself included) have asked founders this question over the years to help gauge how they're growing. Probably need to retire that one from the mix.

The new acquihire is just the hire

Oy vey. Hacker Impersonating Elmo Makes Antisemitic X Posts nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/… via @NYTimes

Can now say I've been to South AND North Dakota ✅

We now have enough money to hire one part-time AI researcher