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Hot off the presses & fresh from Juneteenth is BLCK VC's "State of Black Venture Report" 📰 As the LP capital mix shifts across the industry, it remains that emerging managers need to raise from individual relationships long before institutional ones. https://www.sobvr2025.blckvc.org/
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Given the 68:30 bipartisan support in passing the GENIUS Act through the Senate yesterday, the entire payments landscape could be gearing up for a major shift, with steeper stablecoin adoption from corporates & consumers alike. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-vote-genius-act-crypto-stablecoin-bill/
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About half of YC's latest batch of 144 startups are all focused on AI. Though that's a strong signal of where the puck is, the distributed foci of the remaining half may tell more about where the puck is going irt startup innovation. https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/y-combinator-is-going-all-in-on-ai-agents-making-up-nearly-50-of-latest-batch
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Google Cloud to the internet-enabled apps we depend on yesterday🌐🛜📶
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"People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb would use in a couple of minutes" - Sam Altman
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As web3 went mainstream, proof of work consensus mechanisms had to face & adapt to the climate of the climate crisis. Now, it's AI's turn:
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Monumental deal alert, potentially one of the largest funding events EVER for a private company, AI or otherwise.💰 🚨 https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/08/meta-reportedly-in-talks-to-invest-billions-of-dollars-in-scale-ai/
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Circle's 168% NYSE debut surge signals why this could be 2025's top IPO - a proven web3/fiat stablecoin leader perfectly positioned for crypto's mainstream future. https://investor.circle.com/overview/
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"When the pressure is on, you don't rise to the occasion. You fall to your highest level of preparation." - Chris Voss, Former FBI Lead Negotiator & CEO of The Black Swan Group
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CTO frens, the role can be a unique one — a daily balance between being the best engineer & executive you can be, while seldom having the right resources to reach up or out to. Even CTOs need community: https://aws.amazon.com/startups/lp/cto-fellowship-q2-2025
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The share of U.S. adults who said they have invested, traded or used a cryptocurrency📈
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LoveFrom brought a ray of sunshine to HCI, but insights come from the trenches, particularly The Browser Company's latest learnings: 1. Webpages won’t be the primary interface 2. The Web isn’t going anywhere 3. New interfaces start from familiar ones https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025
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American Express. The last US major to serve as both credit card issuer and network 💳 No stranger to big bank owners, the Capital One <> Discover merger signals another chapter for Discover, whose last was Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Discover (1997 - 2007).
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Bitcoin keeps raising the ceiling on crypto's upward volatility & is worth celebrating loudly, while stablecoins have been quietly dominating value transfer & adding nearly a quarter trillion in financial stability. Money Talks. Wealth Whispers.
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Despite the "experience paradox" leading to junior roles being filled by senior ICs, remember: 1) Skipping junior hiring entirely risks breaking the talent pipeline and 2) Building multi-generational companies requires intentional development of emerging talent
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SignalFire's 2025 State of Talent Report did uncover some jarring startup labor market data, such as: 1) Tech companies have reduced new grad hiring by over 50% from pre-pandemic levels and 2) Startups now allocate less than 6% of roles to new grads https://www.signalfire.com/blog/signalfire-state-of-talent-report-2025
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eToro’s IPO priced at $52.00, opened at $69.69, and still holding strong💹 Wall Street analysts draw future comp lines into Klarna & Chime offerings. I’m keen to trend them against Coinbase & Galaxy, both making potential telltale market moves📈 https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-ETOR/
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"How will Galaxy's transition to a public company on NASDAQ impact its ability to expand its AI and data center infrastructure investments while continuing to bridge traditional finance and digital asset economy?" Best question goes to Karen O'Quinn🗣️ https://www.galaxy.com/glxy
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The 2026 Dubai Cashless Strategy is getting closer to reaching its 90% goal, should the cashless B2G transactions MoU with Crypto(dot)com fully materialize. https://mediaoffice.ae/en/news/2025/may/12-05/dubai-finance-signs-mou-with-cryptocom
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“In our own day, the church offers everyone the treasury of its social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor,”
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