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Let’s get into what else you missed over the weekend.

TL;DR:

• 📰 News

• 🔗 Links

• 🐥 Tweet

• 💰 Funds

• 📶 Recs

• 🗳 Poll

HEADLINES
Space tech investing mainstream ☄️

• Investors Once Again Star Gazing — Space Tech Funding Jumps (Crunchbase)

• Startups are getting fined, or sometimes banned, by individual states (TechCrunch)

• Start-Up Investors Push Back Against Venture Capital’s Bigger-Is-Better Mantra (NYT)

• The 10 most active VC investors shopping for e-commerce deals (Pitchbook)

• ‘Doomer’ agenda: VC, founder opponents to California AI safety bill weigh in (Pitchbook)

• Where Miami’s Party Goes Next (The Information)

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LINKS

🧐 How LinkedIn Became Interesting: Tower Cohen, LinkedIn CPO, shares insights on product strategies, and the evolution of LinkedIn’s feed

🗣️ The Original Growth Hacker Reveals His Secrets: Sean Ellis, a pioneer in growth hacking, discusses PMF, activation strategies, AI’s impact, and more from his career at Dropbox and Eventbrite

🚫 Six Popular Growth Tactics—That Don’t Actually Work: Elena Verna explains why 6 growth tactics that seem logical and tempting, rarely drive the growth you’re hoping for

✍️ Write a Great Product Strategy: Lessons from Ravi Mehta, former CPO at Tinder, Director at Meta, VP at TripAdvisor

🙌 32 Fast-Growing YC Backed Startups, Hiring for Remote Roles, All Have 50-100 Employees: Ben Lang provides the lists and links

TWEET

FUNDS

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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 Safe Intelligence news?

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not shocked - being an OpenAI co-founder warrants that kind of premium (12)

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Shocked - that's so much money ... (7)

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ I can't keep up with AI stuff anymore (11)

30 Votes