One lesson of DOGE is that a lot of federal govt spending is sent to old ppl (social security, Medicare) and affluent individuals/orgs (defense, health spending) but the spending with the highest “lives saved per dollar spent” tends to go to v poor people or to scientists working

DOGE is such a massive stain on Musk’s reputation. Not because he failed. But, because he did not even try to accomplish anything. And he quickly lost interest and gave up. A spectacular display of hubris and incompetence.

The president wanted pricing less than OECD. Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company delivers. Get rid of the big PBMs that stop us from working with brands , and we can do this on just about every drug.

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With that stock pop, now would be an excellent time for Figma to go on the offensive with acquisitions.

Personally I stopped investing in German startups as an angel a long time ago. As a fund we are still open to it as fund admin AngelList takes care of the notary process for us.

Congratulations to Dylan Field Dylan Field, Praveer Melwani and the rest of the Figma team on their incredible IPO yesterday! No other company in Silicon Valley has this much love from everyone! ❤️ We can't wait to see Figma join the S&P 500 in the future! Beyond honored to have been

More like death by Softbank

SPV summer

The fact she got rejected by almost every top college and doctoral program is proof of the sclerotic, conformist academy. We still do not have enough spaces that celebrate nontraditional intelligence

Planning for travel is sometimes more fun than traveling

if only most conversations were this easy

Book Adam Wharton’s place on that plane to the States next summer immediately. 3 Wembley appearances in a row vs Aston Villa, Man City & Liverpool that he has made game-changing impacts in. Yet he isn’t being given chances to play at Wembley for England. Well that should change.

A few years ago, SFUSD was busy renaming schools. Today we have a balanced budget and algebra is back. The difference? A competent Board of Education majority (which we need to keep). Interested in running? Start here: growsf.org/news/2025-08-1…

the latest new heights podcast from the kelce brothers with taylor swift is excellent, highly recommend

Just over two years ago, most VCs were turning down intros to Bending Spoon. Now, I get several emails a month asking for intros to the Bending Spoon team. 😅