I redeemed my points for an Adidas gift card back in May. The promo code is not valid at Adidas.com. What am I missing? Are the gift cards supposed to be used elsewhere?
silly season’s gonna be wild with all the focus on Max, but honestly
what I’m most curious about is a Perez–Bottas pairing at Cadillac 👀, whatever the hell Alpine ends up doing, and pretty sure both Yuki + Lawson will be out of contract
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can’t believe how lazy crypto media is sometimes.
“$10B in crypto VC in Q2” sounds big, until you realize it’s mostly funds raised for BTC acquisition strategies.
that’s not VC. that’s a treasury strategy.
VC = backing builders.
16mo daughter still not walking. Crawls like a maniac, walks great holding hands — just refuses to go solo. She’s a big girl (90+ percentile heigh & weight), so maybe just taking her time. Ped suggested PT soon if we wanted but feels a rushed. Anyone else skip PT and let it play out?
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More Verstappen-to-AM rumors — apparently “basically done” per Daily Mail. Still feels like smoke, but it keeps resurfacing 👀 👀.
I see it close to impossible but if it ends up happening, can’t imagine Horner or Marko keeping their jobs…
www.planetf1.com/news/team-fo......
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Really recommend Gurley’s latest pod with Patrick O’Shaughnessy. One of the few who speaks clearly and cuts the BS. Loved the shoutout to crypto as a way to break the cycle of companies staying private forever.
![Bill Gurley - The Gift and The Curse of Staying Private - [Invest Like the Best, EP.427]](https://wrpcd.net/cdn-cgi/image/anim=false,fit=contain,f=auto,w=600/https%3A%2F%2Fi.scdn.co%2Fimage%2Fab6765630000ba8a19fe342f1756efdb18ef8036)
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Carta just dropped its Fall fundraising data (software). Valuations closing-in 2021 levels driven by AI (75th percentiles look rich). No deal count specified for Series B and C but growth rounds continue to be scarce
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Crazy stat. 18 years for VCs to get fully liquid. I don't think it's sustainable. Secondary markets will become much more robust and liquid if incentives for going public don’t change in the medium term
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Great presentation by @DSBatten made for family offices on Bitcoin and the environment. This type of narrative clarity & delivery is what's needed for normies' sentiment to change.
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Latest report from Carta on funding rounds. Median startup is raising every 18 months which is intuitive. What's interesting is the dispersion across each funding round (e.g. 4% of startups inc. in 2021 already raised a Series D)
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Best CRM for LP Fundraising? I'm looking for something lightweight that can complement my current stack (Gmail + Sheets + Notion). I'm between www.pipedrive.com (more established, robust analytics) and www.folk.app (more flexible, less robust). Any tips?
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I'm halfway through Nate Silver's On the Edge. The book's a bit tribal and self-aggrandizing for tech, but Nate is a measured guy and the tone is ok. Without being too antagonistic or bashing, he does a cool comparison between risk-takers & the professional managerial class and the implications at large. Worth the read
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