Good morning 👋
And Happy Friday.
In non-venture-related news, Conor McGregor is teasing the idea of running for president in Ireland.
We live in a truly ridiculous timeline.
Switching gears.
Here are the biggest stories leading into the weekend.
TL;DR:
HEADLINES
Safe Intelligence raises $1b before launching 👀
OpenAI’s Sutskever and super-angel Gross land $1B for AI safety startup (Pitchbook)
Andreessen Horowitz shutters its Miami office after two years (TechCrunch)
VC Giants a16z, Union Square Ventures Get Subpoenaed by New York About Uniswap (CoinDesk)
Guide to VC Secondaries Buyers (Venture Capital Journal)
How Nicole Wischoff Won the Internet to Raise $50M (Twitter)
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🔟 Top 10 Most-Read Essays of 2024 (so far): Digital Native has written essays from Huberman to Seurat, Gen Z behaviors to AI Applications
🤖 The Fourth Industrial Revolution—The Intelligence Revolution: The data center’s role in enabling the intelligence revolution
💰 Paying Down Tech Debt: A guide for reducing tech debt effectively, and how to develop a mindset that welcomes the short-term benefits of eliminating it
TWEET
it’s called “founder mode” it’s about how to run your company as a founder and how that often goes against traditional management practices. it’s basically what i already do but paul graham created a cool name for it in his latest essay. you know who paul graham is? y combinator?
— #sophie (#@netcapgirl)
8:37 PM • Sep 2, 2024
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POLL
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- Clay
RESULTS
Here are the results from our poll question in yesterday’s piece:
What do you think about the idea of a country increasing the capital gains tax?
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I hate it: We are cattle for bureaucrats, and they will keep milking us until it runs dry (14)
🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ It's reasonable: It's fair within a reasonable range (but we're past that range) (8)
🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ I like it: I don't mind paying more taxes on post-tax savings (8)
30 Votes
