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My First Million · 2026-06-24
Lloyd Blankfein oversees billions in assets yet opts for Netflix's cheapest ad-supported tier. Growing up poor leaves a financial anxiety that no amount of wealth can fully erase.
Noclip · 2026-06-23
Once estimated to take a decade before anyone unlocked Jedi, Raph Koster signed off on a core design change during a tired late night — and players cracked the full algorithm on the forums within hours.
Acquired · 2026-06-23
When a publisher stripped Walt Disney of his IP and animators in 1928, the humiliation turned him into a lifelong copyright obsessive — and inadvertently built the entire Disney flywheel.
Google DeepMind · 2026-06-23
The vast majority of AI agents run on a handful of dominant models, making their decisions highly correlated. When something goes wrong, the cascade could dwarf a stock market flash crash in both scale and speed.
a16z · 2026-06-22
Jason Calacanis warned Geoff that partnering with Jake Paul would destroy his career, but a16z partners became the fund's first LPs anyway — committing on the very first call before Geoff even had his pitch ready.
Theories of Everything · 2026-06-22
After losing his funding, Bateman found that a minimal modification to the Born rule—letting quantum states inhabit Krein space—eliminates a core assumption string theory depends on. Quantum gravity may not need extra dimensions after all.
20VC with Harry Stebbings · 2026-06-22
Palo Alto Networks ran its Mythos AI against its own codebase for six weeks, surfacing vulnerabilities that would have taken five to six years to find manually. The catch: a 30% false-positive rate means every patch still needs human review and sandbox validation before it ships.
Diary of a CEO · 2026-06-22
Studies show 23% of women have clitoral adhesions, a condition that can be resolved with a simple in-office procedure and improve orgasm quality by 60–70%. Yet it's almost never screened for in routine exams.
Lenny's Podcast · 2026-06-21
Anthropic engineers are shipping 8x more code per quarter, but a new bottleneck has emerged: verifying that code submitted by designers and PMs actually works.
20VC with Harry Stebbings · 2026-06-20
Ryan Petersen experienced it firsthand: after politely declining one VC, three other funds he was simultaneously pitching called within the hour. The leak came through a cross-firm WhatsApp group where assistants share founder intel.
Founders Podcast · 2026-06-20
After losing nearly all his sight to a detached retina at 40, Pulitzer never set foot in his own newsroom again — yet he commanded America's highest-circulation newspaper for two more decades through hundreds of dictated telegrams a week.
Patrick Boyle · 2026-06-20
The so-called jailbreak flagged as a national security threat turned out to be asking an AI coding assistant to read code and fix bugs — literally the first feature advertised on Anthropic's own product page.
a16z · 2026-06-19
Traditional media training tells you "never be interesting," but in the new media era, brand is personal — founders must discuss the world like Alex Karp, not pitch their company.
Y Combinator · 2026-06-19
Webflow co-founder Bryant Chou's new product Ploy can deconstruct any website's design system and rebuild all its components in 75 seconds — 12% of the current YC batch is already using it.
20VC with Harry Stebbings · 2026-06-18
SpaceX surged exactly 19% on its first day of trading, commanding a $2.7T valuation on just 4% free float. That same week, Anthropic became the first AI company ever hit with a U.S. government export control over model capabilities.
My First Million · 2026-06-18
Zach Duke had never played soccer but publicly challenged himself to make the U.S. national team. He failed, but his videos outperformed eight actual starters in views — and the journey reshaped his life.
No Priors · 2026-06-18
Tan stabilized Intel's balance sheet with a 'crawl-walk-run' playbook. Jensen Huang's $5B bet has ballooned to $25B, and agentic AI is shifting the CPU-to-GPU ratio from 1:8 toward 1:4.
Diary of a CEO · 2026-06-18
A woman who got pregnant at 13 and never finished middle school pulled Vance out of a chaotic childhood with her no-nonsense brand of tough love, becoming the anchor without whom he says he doesn't know where he'd be.
Tim Ferriss · 2026-06-17
After interviewing over a hundred AI insiders, Sebastian Mallaby concludes that Anthropic shapes model values like a parent writing a last will — putting it in a league of its own when it comes to imagining how to control frontier intelligence.
Dwarkesh Patel · 2026-06-16
Exiled and broken, Machiavelli refused to serve any foreign power. Instead, he wrote The Prince from a desolate village as a job application — begging the very regime that tortured him to let him serve Florence again.