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Netflix hired former Apple Podcasts executive Steve Wilson to lead podcast content acquisition, sharpening its push into the category as YouTube reportedly offers creators large sums to stay put — podcasts are still a small slice of Netflix's $20B content budget.
First-time financings are hitting a record pace: an estimated 8,625 US startups closed their first-ever venture round through Q3, already beating 2021's full-year record with a quarter still to go, per PitchBook data cited by SaaStr.
Funny papers: What will we say in 10 years? @AnthropicAI filed its S-1 for a Nasdaq IPO (ticker "ANT") reporting $16.3B in first-half revenue (up from $1.2B a year ago) against an $80.7B net loss and a valuation around $2T, which would make it one of the largest listings ever!
Liftoff with Mike Link, COO of Kami Vision. Computer vision built for home security is moving into elder care, starting with fall detection. We got into privacy, earning enterprise trust, and why Kami sells through partners. liftoffwithkeith.com/
Liftoff with Raouf, CEO of CTRL ENERGY: VCs passed on his repairable batteries because they might sell less. He bootstrapped instead and builds them in local microfactories. Subscribe free: keithnewman.substack.com/sub…
Recorded Liftoff with Max Hoffer of Stack Finder. 60-90% churn usually means you're targeting the wrong audience, not that the product is broken. Most companies aren't ready for AI because their data is a mess. Episode coming soon. Subscribe free: keithnewman.substack.com
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John Legend: "When Vivek Ramaswamy hears of an indicted child abuser who fled the state rather than face charges, instead of siding with the victim, he takes the side of the abuser…Do we want a man with this sort of depraved moral compass to lead our state?"
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FACT!
This is peak insanity! Trump is so desperate that he's using people who cannot even vote to tell others they should vote RED!
Check out Hammerhead.ai
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Wow, Stewart Butterfield had just ONE HOUR of total face time with Marc Benioff before Salesforce announced its $27.7B acquisition of Slack, the second-largest software acquisition in history at the time.
“My last meeting with him was cut short because McConaughey arrived.”
Stewart left the company after 18 months; he says the tipping point came when he was invited to Davos to represent Slack and Salesforce. Thinking he would be there to talk to customers, he instead found himself scheduled on a panel about innovation with will.i.am, another of Salesforce’s celebrity spokespeople.
“It was so fucked up.”
Fun read into the culture clash between Slack and Salesforce.
Latest (and probably penultimate) Building Slack post is up: buildingslack.com/salesforce…
What it's like being eaten by the whale
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We just raised $5.7M for @PolarBrowser, the AI browser that beats Anthropic and OpenAI on every major web agent benchmark.
- 4,500,000+ actions taken for users, automating sales, recruiting, and ops
- One company cancelled Clay and saves 25+ hrs/wk per person
- Team is from MIT, YC, Prod, Citadel, Jane Street, Perplexity, Modal, and Apple
100 hours of work. From 30 seconds of typing.
Download the world's most powerful AI browser: polarbrowser.com
Startup New$$ - Anthropic is reportedly on track to file its S-1 this weekend targeting a mid-November Nasdaq listing ahead of Thanksgiving, with 2026 revenue of $16.3B against a net loss of $80B - a serious test for how public markets price unprofitable AI growth. #Liftoff
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Nancy Pelosi made 200 stock trades in her entire 40-year political career.
Donald Trump made 28,700 stock trades in just 1.5 years as president.
MAGA likes to scream about Pelosi's stock trades but not a word about Trump using the presidency to enrich himself.
@grok verify
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If Musk crippled Starlink/Starshield leading to dead Ukrainians, then that is justification for a federal takeover. No matter his fabulous wealth, Musk cannot have veto power over life or death.
