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Phew, crazy 24 hours. In case you missed it, @Zipline just announced our new home delivery service. We are reinventing instant delivery to make it 7x as fast as cars, less expensive, and zero-emission.

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Academic benchmarks are losing their potency. Moving forward, there’re 3 types of LLM evaluations that matter: 1. Privately held test set but publicly reported scores, by a trusted 3rd party who doesn’t have their own LLM to promote. Scale AI’s latest GSM1k is a great example.

Today, we’re announcing that Scale has closed a $1B financing transaction at a $13.8B valuation, led by Accel. Read the full announcement: scale.com/blog/scale-ai-…

Excited to ship 2 new features in our Beacon anti-fraud product. 1: Data breach reports. See when your users' personal data shows up in data breaches 2: Search by account + routing number These two products will be free to new & existing customers. plaid.com/blog/fraud-def…

Prediction markets have come a long way, and today is a critical milestone. The US government took an important step to ensure America is a leader in prediction markets: Kalshi just received approval from the government to be one of the rare clearinghouses in the US.

Switching to founder mode is the best thing I’ve done at Brex in many years. What it means for us in practice: 1) Having a single roadmap for the entire company, where I’m the editor of what ships in each release. 2) Eliminate people manager roles. Leaders must operate at all

having fun with this trend

We shipped a ton in December and January — check it out! Okay...back to building. column.com/changelog

Pretty insane how much a small team can ship. We might have shipped more software over the holidays than most companies ship in a year...

another month, another ship

Atomic Teams zachperret.com/2025/03/25/ato…

Realtime payments. Send, receive, and request dollars instantly. 24/7/365. Now available on Column. And ready for prime time in the United States of America.

Strapped with the DH Lawrence at the fintech banking conference just in case someone swings at me with some rationalist bullshit

Plaid has had a truly insane 5 years: - Acquired by Visa - Just kidding - Raise big $$ at big valuation - Expand into new businesses - Then fintech bubble bursts - Raises at lower valuation... but now with a more robust + diversified core business New ACQ2 with Zachary Perret:

Column is hiring a Product Engineer! We're a small team powering trillions in annual payment volume, have 9-digit annual revenue, and became profitable in under 5 years. If you have experience building products across the stack, reach out or apply. Link in thread :)

Tuning, sanding, tempering, tweaking... April changelog (ft. spectacular Solutions Engineer Maddie): -Simpler dashboard navigation -Custom user roles -Configurable statements -Larger file uploads -Ultimate originator fields -Adjustable FX rates

My note to Scale employees today—

After 4 years at Column, I'm excited to announce that I'm not going anywhere and in fact we're hiring a full-stack product engineer! Link down below sorry for the clickbait :)

New, improved, and Ollie-approved. May changelog: -Smarter check deposits and returns -Dashboard approvals for ACH and domestic wires -New types and tags for documents -Snapshots for frequent transfer filters -Pinned accounts and better email alerts column.com/changelog