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Europe’s best funded start up of all time, Northvolt, finally bit the dust and filed Chapter 11, zeroing a staggering $15bn of funding.
ESG aura + “Trust me, bro” operational skills + Pigeon-brained oversight = Ponziverse magic! No SPAC deal to dump this on the public, sadly. https://t.co/kLGR7pwALk
Charlie Songhurst and I are drafting (pls spot errors) a list of investors who started funds without working in VC:
1. @ItzSuds: SF1 (2025)
2. @gefkovicz, @benmtaft: Genius Ventures (2024)
3. Fiona Leng: Xtal (2024)
4. @kokoxsu, @carloagostinel2: Nova (2024)
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Did a double-take at our neighbors new SUV. Looks a bit like an OG LR Defender but obviously isn't.
It's an Ineos Grenadier.
Fun story:
Ineos is the 4th largest chemical co in the world, >$20B revs.
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under 2,000 pounds and under $2,000”—were
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Just a few months ago Goldman claimed to investors they had made 4.3x on Northvolt. Now, their funds will write down their $900m stake to zero.
Reminder that many PE & VC valuations are purely fictional. But they make people feel better, as the values don’t fluctuate daily. https://t.co/HbByvzg80E
Aston Martin V8 Vantage (2005–2017)
Design credit for the car is disputed — officially attributed to Henrik Fisker, Aston Martin's design director when the car was introduced; former design director Ian Callum claims the majority of the work was done before Fisker's employment.
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Contrasting automotive manufacturing with software startups, focusing on high upfront costs and the necessity for day-one product robustness.
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Going back to the Rivian story being a bit unlikely, the other thing that seems to me is getting reliable production going is. really hard. And again, it feels like the first cars that roll off the line should be super janky and unreliable and everything like that In preparation for this episode I been stealing my wife Rivian I been really
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