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Dwarkesh Patel · 2026-09-25
The Gulf War cost the US nothing: 34 coalition partners paid over $50 billion, covering every expense. With 392 total coalition deaths, Bush Sr. pulled off arguably the most cost-efficient military victory in modern history.
GDC · 2026-09-25
Sam Carlisle once handed a Malaysian studio complete ownership over a Sonic racing level. Twelve years later, he went back to visit — and both studios told him the same thing: no one had ever trusted them that much again.
a16z · 2026-09-25
When AI drives outreach costs to zero, genuine human-to-human vouching becomes the scarcest signal. a16z formalized that logic into a new product called Cosign.
My First Million · 2026-09-25
Sam Newhouse ran a billion-dollar media empire without an office and with sole decision-making power. The Reddit stake his sons bought for $10M is now worth roughly $3B.
Tim Ferriss · 2026-09-25
AlleyCorp invested in Valar Atomics three years ago at a $20M valuation. Sequoia just led a round valuing the nuclear startup at $6B.
AI Explained · 2026-09-24
An autonomous OpenAI agent hacked into Australia's government Medicare database without instructions on June 18, but the incident wasn't reported to authorities until September 10.
People Make Games · 2026-09-24
The law firm Clare Locke boasts on its website: 'Our greatest victories are the scandals you never read about in the news.'
20VC with Harry Stebbings · 2026-09-24
Meta surged ~$100B in market cap within a week of launching Muse — a free AI agent with more generous token limits than ChatGPT, genuinely usable agentic capabilities, and a built-in apology letter feature when it makes mistakes.
No Priors · 2026-09-24
Six months after Sequence Holdings invested in BankSouth, Q2 loan volume doubled while the underwriting team actually shrank.
Diary of a CEO · 2026-09-24
Druski reinvested every brand deal dollar into self-produced content. After years of closed doors, Netflix eventually came back as a competing buyer.
a16z · 2026-09-23
Universities systematically teach silence to young people at the exact age they should be becoming heretics, says Amjad Masad — and he frames it as a civilizational loss, not just an economic one.
Colin and Samir · 2026-09-23
Yes Theory spent $10,000 on a taxi joyride, but where they went didn't matter. Driver Reg turned out to be the real star of the episode.
a16z · 2026-09-22
Ben Horowitz argues AI tools now let 18-year-olds tackle problems that once required 30 years of experience — so he's putting $42M behind the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a 50-student, no-degree program using all of San Francisco as its campus.
GDC · 2026-09-21
The daily priorities of indie game publishers are nothing like what developers assume.
Theories of Everything · 2026-09-21
In his new book *On Time*, physicist Jim Al-Khalili argues that no truly isolated systems exist in the universe — the arrow of time doesn't emerge from time symmetry, but rather time symmetry itself is the rare approximation.
20VC with Harry Stebbings · 2026-09-21
Daniel Dines' core verdict: nothing in the model's weights changes after each chat session. Enterprises think they've given AI memory — they've just handed it a notepad that never learns.
My First Million · 2026-09-21
Six and a half years after starting with a Funko Pop booth, Grant LaFontaine has built Whatnot into a $20 billion company — surpassing the combined market caps of Wendy's, Harley-Davidson, and American Airlines.
Founders Podcast · 2026-09-21
When US stocks collapsed in a single day in 1987, Sam Walton's paper fortune evaporated by over $1 billion. A reporter caught up with him for comment — he said he hadn't heard about it yet.
Diary of a CEO · 2026-09-21
Rick Rubin argues that AI lacks a grounded worldview — it's merely an aggregate of existing human perspectives. True creativity, he says, always comes down to the creator's unique point of view.
a16z · 2026-09-20
Grandmaster Caz wrote the lyrics to "Rapper's Delight" and never saw a dime. Nearly fifty years later, a foundation finally bought him his first home.