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Shaun John

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I've heard the comparison that a startup is like a baby you love & develop over time, with the human analog taking 9 months to gestate. But seeing startups like Lovable grow from conception to unicorn in under 9 months is...immaculate? https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/lovable-becomes-a-unicorn-with-200m-series-a-just-8-months-after-launch/
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Humble beginnings and a mustard seed of funding -- Thinking Machines Lab raised their $2B seed round to ship their MVP publicly. Heady times 🙃 https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-is-worth-12b-in-seed-round/
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As the illustrious poetry troupe M.O.P. once said, "How About Some Hardcore!?" CoreWeave acquiring Core Scientific for $9B in stock is surely an ante up on their hardware roots, from crypto mining to high-performance compute. "It's the perfect timing, you see that man shining"
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The GENIUS Act is bringing stablecoin infrastructure out of the stable & Agora’s $50m round led by Paradigm is the latest example https://www.nftgators.com/paradigm-leads-50m-funding-for-stablecoin-issuer-and-infrastructure-provider-agora/
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“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice” — Borge Brende, WEF President & CEO
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In 2013, Robinhood launched its zero commission trading platform and following initial resistance from other brokerage houses, the industry largely adopted the shift. Now with tokenized stocks, Robinhood is facing governmental regulatory pushback, particularly in the EU. Standing by for post-friction market adoption... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robinhood-faces-review-eu-over-161324297.html
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At the end of 2023, Adobe abandoned plans to acquire Figma, moreso due to regulatory hurdles than price concerns at a target of $20B. Now, $FIG is aiming to hit that number on the NYSE in the public markets 🤞
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Generally a big fan of all of CB Insights published work, but how is "M&A Probability" calculated in this AI 100 release? Kalshi? https://research-assets.cbinsights.com/2025/06/26120123/AI100StatsGraphic-062025-v3.png
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What are the odds of any startup banned in America and other countries becoming a unicorn? 🦄 The answer is on Polymarket & is Polymarket! 🎲 https://cointelegraph.com/news/polymarket-set-for-200m-raise-1b-valuation-reports
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"You could have a north of 3x fund if you sold everything at the B" -Precursor Ventures’ Charles Hudson, after an LP exit modeling exercise https://open.spotify.com/episode/6UBgEKIH1HwtDxwLSZRSRS
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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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