Trailer Park Group Closes US Division, Cuts Hollywood Staff
Excl: Trailer Park Group, perhaps the biggest company in movie trailer marketing, is shutting down its US trailer division and enacting layoffs. It's also closing its Hollywood office. https://t.co/7YggpYE5Bb
Brookfield, Qatar to Earn $273M From 2 Manhattan West Refi
Spectacular $273M to accrue to #Brookfield, #Qatar on refi of #2ManhattanWest. Yes they have to pay it back but that's years from now+refi sh/be an option. 97%-occupied+avg in-place rent a nosebleed $132/sf. #realestate #CRE #mortgage #NYC #ManhattanWest https://t.co/BTu6KOSQar
Japan's FX Intervention Powerless Against Massive Carry Trade
This is why Japan's intervention efforts won't work. The MOF - via BOJ - are trying to fight risk appetite and a healthy carry trade. That represents a vastly larger pool of wealth than Japanese authorities have in FX reserves to...
Brands Can Pre‑Invest in YouTube’s New Creator Shows
Tomorrow at #Brandcast, we’re unveiling our first-ever slate of Creator Shows. YouTubers are the new stars and studios. To ensure @youtube remains the home for their most ambitious projects, we're shifting our model to connect @youtubecreators and brands more directly....
Master Cart Abandonment: 5 Rules to Maximize Revenue
Most ecom brands set up their cart abandonment flow once, then leave it running on autopilot for years, even though it recovers more revenue than any other automated flow they run. Here are 5 cart abandonment rules you need to know: →...
Back Bold Founders; Crazy‑smart Often Looks Crazy
Can't agree more with Adam (yet again) As I always tell my team, "there is a very fine line between 'crazy smart' and 'crazy' and when we're writing a very early check we have to be willing to get this wrong...
AI Empowers Talent to Exit and Build Independently
Too many companies are confusing gravity for disloyalty. Your best people are not leaving because they stopped caring. They are leaving to build the thing they kept pitching you to do. AI changed the math. One person with the right tools does...
Your Calendar Reveals the Real Limits of Success
Hand me your calendar for 30 seconds. And I'll tell you why you're hitting your ceiling. Your calendar can’t lie. It tells me who actually owns your time. Your clients. Your team. Your inbox. And the brutal truth? More discipline won't fix...
Counteroffers Delay Departure but Don’t Solve Underlying Issues
Most people who accept a counteroffer leave within 12 months anyway. Not because the money wasn't real. Because the money was never the reason they wanted to leave. The manager's still the same. The (lack of a) growth path's still the same....
Join USV Analyst Program: Launch Venture Capital Careers
We're hiring analysts at @USV. Some truly incredible people have come from prior cohorts of the program, including: * CEOs who's companies are worth in the billions of dollars * Founders who have sold startups to publicly traded companies * GPs who lead...
Commodities Enter Super Cycle as Copper Hits Record High
As I've said, "You want to be long commodities." COMMODITY MARKETS = ENTERING A SUPER CYCLE. https://t.co/G6PcKZlg6y
Removing Scaled Content Boosts Organic Traffic After Google Penalty
Scaled content -> hit by Google -> started mass-deleting scaled content -> starting to see a small uptick in organic traffic https://t.co/TTINSiZfnM
Questioning the Future of the Venture Capital Model
Is this the end of the VC model? This Week in Startups with Alex Wilhelm and @Jason https://t.co/0yIfdvkReA
Verify Real Publish Dates with Wayback Machine Extension
I used to use Chrome extensions to pull in the Schema for "date published," but now that so many sites are faking date published/date modified, I am also using the Wayback Machine Chrome extension to see when the page was...
Act First, Refine Later: Embrace Messy Execution
Take action first. Build the perfect process second. Too many people wait until the process is perfect before they start executing. Start messy. Iterate toward clean.
More Money Fuels Bigger, Costlier Projects, Jevons Paradox
The real Jevons paradox is in capital markets: the more money we create, the more expensive and ambitious the projects we invent to absorb it.
Remote Work Boosts Overall Productivity, Says Top Expert
Worth noting @I_Am_NickBloom, probably the leading global expert on remote work, thinks it is boosting aggregate productivity https://t.co/7GCqegmGoC
Long Lake Executes First AI‑Driven $6.3B Take‑Private
Long Lake did the world's first (to my knowledge) AI-driven take private of a public company -$6.3B acquisition -100 year old Amex Global Business travel -Plan to transform it with AI Spoke w CEO Alex Taubman on @NoPriorsPod about it in his first...
Founders Are Constantly Selling: Hires, Product, Investors
As a founder, you're always selling. You're selling new potential hires on your company, you're selling your product to customers, and you're maybe selling to investors a piece of your company.
NYC Inflation Outpaces Nation, Fueled by Energy, Rent, Groceries
Data on inflation in NYC metro area out today. CPI up 4.6% here over past 12 months, compared to 3.8% nationally. Local price increases are being driven mainly by rise in cost of: * Energy (especially electricity) * Rent (up 4.3% here vs 2.8%...
Satirical 10‑point Plan: Labour Quit, Dollar‑peg, Technocratic Takeover
My totally outrageous and not at all serious 10 point plan to save Britain. 1) The entire Labour government does the honourable thing and resigns on the basis that remaining in office merely guarantees it will preside over the eventual loss...
Under Armour Forecasts Slight Sales Dip After Curry Exit
Under Armour said Tuesday that it expects sales to decline slightly this year due to the exit of the Steph Curry Brand-- otherwise, sales would be flat. More on the continuing turnaround at UA, which says it wants to do "much...
Only Elite Lawyers Join Our Global Support Team
We mostly hire support staff around the world, but we also have a select few staff lawyers. Only the best of the best get this opportunity.
Inflation Hits 35‑year High While Jobs Stay Strong
Here's the big picture of today's US CPI reading and last week's unemployment rate - the Fed's dual mandate. The 2.8% reading isn't high relative to the 2022 pandemic peak, but it is highest relative to the past 35 years....
Niche Banking Solution Scales to $250M ARR
2021: Building credit cards for sneaker resellers 2026: Hitting $250M ARR in 5 years Here's Slash 's $1.4B wild growth story👇 Victor Cardenas, a Venezuelan immigrant, dropped out of Stanford at 19. Kevin Bai left Waterloo the same year. They...
Leaders Trust Teams; Babysitting Signals Wrong Fit
Your team doesn't need a babysitter. They need a leader. If you don't trust your team to manage their own time, you either hired the wrong people or you're the wrong leader. Most likely both.
AI Fuels Younger Founder Surge, Reshapes Seed Investing
My guests on Uncapped this week are @kevinhartz and @BennettSiegel, co-founders of the early stage VC firm A*. They've backed companies like Notion, Mercor, Ramp, Decagon, Similie, and many more. They also announced a new $450m fund today. We discussed the state...
Google AI Overviews Now Ignore Self‑promotional Listicles
I believe Google recently changed how it answers some "best" queries in AI Overviews. Previously, using a listicle that ranked your own company as #1 was often sufficient to get recommended in the answer. Now, it looks like Google may be using...
Turn AI Agents Into Your Team's Priority Dashboard
Most people are building with agents faster than their team can keep up. So the bottleneck becomes communication. If you're running 5, 10, 20 agent-led projects in parallel, your team should not have to dig through Slack like raccoons in a dumpster...
China Ramps up Dollar Swaps to Curb Yuan Rise
Bloomberg is reporting a $3b (CNY 17.4b) increase in the use of PBOC swaps in Q1 ... Que forecasts of dollar doom In the first quarter China (PBOC and state banks) bought $180 of fx to keep the CNY from rising --...
Netflix Declines NFL’s Full‑season Streaming Package
“We're not bidding on whole seasons of sports, including the NFL.” Netflix head Ted Sarandos tells Fox Business his company doesn’t have interest in those sorts of packages. As @SBJ noted, NFL reportedly pitched Netflix on a Sunday morning package, but...
UK’s Rentier Economy Relies on US Approval
It is soon going to be revealed the degree to which the UK’s financial rentier model which subsidises the entire country is dependent on America’s cooperation and blessing.
High Inflation, Oil, Strong GDP: Bonds Remain Unattractive
Inflation running above expectations, oil holding above $90, Atlanta Fed GDPNow pointing to +3.7% GDP for 2Q'26 (thanks data center buildout)...difficult to make a bull case for bonds (or rate cuts) for the foreseeable future.
ESF Funds Favor Wealthy Allies,
if the $212b (counting ~ $175b in SDRs that Republicans historically haven't liked using) Exchange Stabilization Fund is going to be given to allies without a financial need (like the UAE) not everyone is going to be able to get...
Rapid Customer Acquisition Is the Core Lesson for Serial Founders
Almost all of my serial founders have figured out how to get customers super quickly, even sometimes pre-product. They learned from their first business that that was the primary problem.
Brand Values: Non‑negotiable, Public, and Consistently Lived
Talking about your brand values in your content is not some weird corporate values statement. They are what you refuse to compromise on... in public.... consistently.
Game Startups Demand Clear Customers, Tiny MVP, and Luck
My reply to someone considering starting a video game company: The distribution of possible rewards for starting a video game company are generally not very good today. The market is well served, and gaining a foothold requires strong execution on both...
Consistent Branding Signals Confidence and Credibility
I get this question a lot: "Why do you always wear your logo?"
How I Lost $50 Million and What I Learned
Here’s the wild story of how I lost $50,000,000
Turkey's Deficit Growing Pre‑Oil Shock, Targets $50B
I think the underlying issue that Bloomberg highlighted is that Turkey's current account deficit was rising even before the oil shock -- it stood at $35b in the 12ms to February, and was on a trajectory toward $50b even if...
Cleveland Fed Median CPI Jumps, 12‑month Rise Hits 2.8
The Cleveland Fed's median CPI was +0.40% in April, or 4.9% annualized. The 12-month median CPI ticked up to 2.8%, the first such increase since last summer. (The median CPI looks at the price change of the item sitting in the...
BLS Adds Secondhand Apparel to CPI Amid Rising Demand
Given consumer preferences shifting toward secondhand goods & expanding availability & improving quality control of secondhand apparel, BLS incorporated secondhand apparel into the CPI in early 2025 & is researching including other secondhand goods. https://t.co/VsgPCYfAYR
CIOs Shift AI Funding to Production, Reallocate Budgets
New report with our newest CIO survey data: How CIOs and CTOs are funding AI, where deployment is moving into production, and which vendor categories are exposed as AI shifts from experimentation to budget reallocation https://t.co/q8I4QW5HCo
Sanjay Mehrotra: From NAND Inventor To
Sanjay Mehrotra legendary LinkedIn work experience: > co-invents tech for NAND flash memory > co-founds SanDisk and runs for 28 years > sells SanDisk to Western Digital for $19B in 2016 > becomes Micron Technology in CEO in 2017 and market cap since grown...
U.S. Inflation Stubbornly Above 2% for Six Years
Crafting headlines is notoriously challenging, particularly when trying to balance competing considerations and objectives. With that important qualification in mind, it is improtant to note that America’s inflation challenge isn’t just about the gas pump. The economy is now in its...
Analyzing Upfronts, NFL Broadcast Push, and World Cup
I joined @PeterHamby's excellent The Powers That Be to dissect the upfronts, the NFL's broadcast push and the upcoming World Cup. #AmericasPodcastGuest https://t.co/IHDe5VRLRa
Series B Secures $50M, Paving Sales Future in Monaco
We're announcing our $50M Series B led by Benchmark. Founders Fund and Human Capital are tripling down in the round. We gave Benchmark a sneak preview of our upcoming GA release. They saw the future of sales. We had a term...
Pitch Insights, Not Products: Customer Acquisition Remains Key
I'm seeing a lot more businesses pitch multiple apps and even ideas, but the problem is still the same as in all prior decades: customer acquisition. Those are the insights to pitch, not the product.
From Twitch to $7.5M: Maya Higa’s Global Impact
Maya Higa's TED Talk is now available. The 10-minute talk covers how she got started on Twitch, has raised over $7.5M, reached millions globally, and how @alveussanctuary is the wildlife sanctuary you can visit from anywhere.
Scale AI Content Wisely: Avoid Penalties and Quality Pitfalls
Enterprise brands want to scale AI content, but data shows penalties and quality issues are real. Here's what to understand to scale the right way. https://t.co/a5RVSJXToq via @theshelleywalsh, @sejournal