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Daily Hard Tech Headlines:
- Unmatched Ventures has launched. The VC firm was founded by Todd Gitlin, Simon Casuto, Aaron Zeeb, and Holly Rockwell with a strategic focus on supporting founders' talent and... See more
🚨Big announcement today: Bolt raises $393M.
Wow.
A couple years ago, I didn’t know if we were going to make it.
Now we have $500M+ on the balance sheet.
I wanted to share a bit more about where we've been, but more importantly where... See more
Usage-based billing on @stripe is now quite good.
- Credits: customers pay upfront, burndown on usage (ships next week)
- 100,000 events/sec (+1000X this year)
- Set usage limits by customer, get alerts
- 99.999% uptime, at scale
- <1 minute e2e... See more
Jeff Weinsteinx.comThe theme of the second annual Uber Elevate wasn’t actually flying cars. The cars have already arrived. Instead, the theme of the second Uber Elevate was the path to scale. And the more critical point: That path is a lot shorter than many suspect.
Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler • The Future Is Faster Than You Think
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RevenueCatx.com
Create August 2023 Performance Update
• Grew topline to $545K (+17% MoM)
• Increased marketing efficiency to 2.55x (+6%)
• Grew Amazon channel to $89K (+181%)
• First month of "Contribution Margin" profitability
• Launching Gummy2.0... See more
The NYT had an exclusive on the OAI funding round.
- OpenAI has raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation, months ahead of schedule
- The round was five times over subscribed
- ARR is now $13 billion, up from $10 billion in June projected to surpass $20 billion by EOY
- business users... See more