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Banana Capital 🍌🧢 retweeted
Hanover Park has crossed $40 billion in assets!
Thank you to the clients who partner with us to push the frontier of AI and finance.
Our only goal: make every client a "raving fan".
And we're just getting started. $40B is less than 0.03% of the $147 trillion assets globally.
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Flex Elite now live. Great day for business owners still running on Amex!
Today, we're opening Flex Elite to the public.
The personal credit card from Flex (@flexsuperapp).
Invite only. Built for high spenders. Up to 5% cashback on everything*, no annual fee.
More than two years in the making. Members get:
> Up to 5% cashback on every category*
> 24/7 travel concierge
> Top hotels through our own partner network: Aman, Dorchester Collection, Rosewood, Eden Rock St Barths and more
> Flights, private jets, villas, yachts with our travel advisory team
> VIP access to Flex-curated experiences: Monaco F1, Art Basel, the Super Bowl and more
> Personal and business finances in one dashboard, one login
Founders who run their personal and business finances through Flex get the highest rewards tier in the industry.
Request your invite: flex.one/elite
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Build data pipelines with a prompt @artie_labs
Standing up a production CDC pipeline used to mean designing source access, replication, backfills, destination writes, schema-change handling, monitoring, and recovery.
Now, it can done with a single prompt: “Create a pipeline from the staging Postgres database to Snowflake.”
With Artie MCP available in Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, an AI agent can use Artie’s tools to configure and manage that workflow. So engineers can start with what they need, instead of spending months assembling and maintaining the pipeline themselves.
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New launch from @liveblocks
Introducing LiveText, part of Liveblocks Sync.
Our new data type for collaborating text editing, and a replacement for Yjs.
→ lblcks.io/livetext
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Banana Capital 🍌🧢 retweeted
Proud to share Flex has 4x'd its annualized total payment volume (TPV) since the end of 2025, adding $10B in just a quarter.
Grateful for our team's ambition and velocity!
We are hiring. Come join one of the most cracked teams in all of tech today.
We hit a new milestone at @FlexSuperApp: $20 billion in annualized payment volume.
We ended 2025 at $5B, reached $10B just four months later, and have already doubled again to $20B.
We’re incredibly grateful to our customers for continuing to trust Flex and making this growth possible.
On to $50B, then $100B, then $1T.
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Banana Capital 🍌🧢 retweeted
AI-native services is the platform shift of this era. No one wants another SaaS tool that they can build with Claude in a day.
Long Lake co-founder @varunshenoy_ explains why the most valuable layer of the AI stack may not be chips or models:
"You look at the whole AI value chain. You start at the compute or chip layer. There's many players there today. I don't know who's going to be the winner in 10 years, in five years. I wish I could index it."
"If you move up the stack, there are the foundation models. OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, Gemini. If you move even further up, there's infrastructure, inference, all the neo clouds."
"What you start to realize is you basically want to index everything happening in AI. If you move all the way to the top of the stack, what you have is a services business that fundamentally owns the most valuable part of the entire chain, which is the relationship with the end customer."
"As the chips get better, as the models get better, all those micro-optimizations allow us to provide much better service to the final customer."
@llmh
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“Get paid to get jacked”
This is the team that will be shipping some of the coolest consumer hardware designed in San Francisco.
If you’re passionate about building at the intersection of wellness and technology, we want you @Fort. Bonus you get paid to get jacked
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Using real-time data is the best way to escape the permanent underclass
We filmed three data engineers in their natural habitat.
Not shown in the doc:
> Monitoring a pipeline that was 'definitely fine' five minutes ago.
> Reading logs like they’re a crime scene.
> Doing recovery math while someone asks if the dashboard is up to date yet.
Moving data is easy. What’s difficult is keeping data correct and current, and knowing how to recover when pipelines restart, schemas change, or data falls behind.
That’s why Artie now has a Free plan: so anyone can run real-time replication without building and operating the infrastructure themselves.
Deploy a pipeline and watch your data replicate in real time.
Try it: go.artie.com/free-plan
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Banana Capital 🍌🧢 retweeted
New @ThePeelPod with @alfromnexhealth
Today @nexhealthHQ infrastructure serves 89 million patients and 81% of new AI healthcare startups are built on it.
But at one point, the company had $4k in the bank, a maxed-out Amex card, and was on the brink of running out of cash.
I sat down with Al to talk about why 75% of dentists still run a server in their closet, the reason innovation is so hard in healthcare, and why AI value will accrue to chips, models, and the action layer.
Full episode here + links below.
Timestamps:
0:00 Healthcare skipped 3 platform shifts and went straight to AI
4:10 75% of dentists still have on-prem servers
10:05 How data interoperability holds back healthcare innovation
16:02 Why everyone blames Epic
20:15 Building the developer platform for healthcare
24:36 Why everyone fails to fix the problem
29:11 Fragmented markets enabled developer platforms
32:32 Working as a receptionist at a doctor’s office
36:13 Building a prototype on Twilio
39:15 How incumbents went from blocking to partnering
46:05 Canvassing Soho dentists door-to-door
53:47 Reverse-engineering 40-year old databases
56:21 Funding NexHealth with side hustles for two years
57:30 The scheduling wedge no one could match
1:02:20 Raising $391k from professors and customers
1:03:46 Running out of cash, why customers kept churning
1:07:45 $4,000 in the bank and a maxed-out Amex
1:11:12 The $36k pre-pay that saved the company
1:13:24 NexHealth’s three businesses today
1:20:18 Payments and the “admin-day” problem
1:26:15 72% sales win rate
1:28:27 The term sheet signed the week before COVID
1:30:26 Spending half the Series A on an acquisition
1:33:47 Raising $176M they didn't need
1:37:28 Why starting before 2022 is an advantage
1:42:22 Where AI value accrues: chips, models, the action layer
1:44:55 81% of AI products are built on NexHealth
1:48:24 Staying patient for three years after ChatGPT
1:51:25 Competitors building on their API
1:54:02 “We’re a tech company, not healthcare company”
1:56:09 Hiring from outside healthcare
1:58:34 Shoes, email over Slack
2:01:21 What AI changed inside the company
2:04:16 Inspiration from Microsoft in 1977 - 1990
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Banana Capital 🍌🧢 retweeted
Today, we're excited to welcome Michael Barrett as Flex's CTO.
Before joining Flex, Michael spent the last 6 years leading engineering at Chime, where hundreds of engineers reported into his organization.
During his time there, he helped build and scale the technology behind one of the world's largest fintechs. Chime serves over 10 million users and is an approximately $11B publicly traded company.
Michael led the teams responsible for building and deploying Chime's proprietary in-house fintech infrastructure, including its payment processing, ledgering, and core banking systems, reducing infrastructure costs by roughly 60%.
He also played a key role in launching and scaling Chime's card program, which now serves more than 6 million users.
We're incredibly excited for what's ahead.
Welcome to the team, Michael!
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Banana Capital 🍌🧢 retweeted
New @ThePeelPod with @itstonyhb
- the hidden layer of AI infrastructure
- why evals today are "batshit insane"
- building @inngest's own cloud to get 20x lower cost
- growing 35x YoY after AWS and Cloudflare copied them, and
- building a company without a personal brand
Timestamps:
0:00 The hidden infra layer every AI agent runs on
1:46 Building complex chains of logic
3:31 Why agent SDK's don't go far enough
4:49 Healthcare was the original event-driven nightmare
6:32 Storing traces on your infrastructure enables self-improving loops
14:26 Why Inngest was already in the right place for AI
15:49 Score agents off product events, not LLM's
17:31 The OpenAI copy-paste signal
21:24 Swap in LLMs and cut costs
23:44 How customers pulled the product forward
25:41 Orchestration belongs outside the sandbox
29:48 Building a neocloud to cut costs 20x
32:09 Most neoclouds just resell AWS
32:54 AI infrastructure is all converging
34:49 Why Claude can't just build your backend
36:44 How to build a software factory
39:12 Agents are a lottery you get addicted to
42:44 Loops must always exist
45:38 If models keep getting better, why orchestrate?
48:28 When incumbents steal your features
52:30 You can't vibe code infrastructure
55:54 Why Tony has no personal brand
59:38 Dev tools GTM without Twitter
1:03:20 Lessons from the founder of DuckDuckGo
1:10:39 Truth as a company value
1:13:08 Taking too long adapting to AI
1:15:10 Startups are 100% R&D
1:17:19 Ali from Databricks
1:19:03 Writing his own code, Voice-to-text with local models
1:23:53 Evals are batshit insane
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Banana Capital 🍌🧢 retweeted
Today, @FlexSuperApp, raised $70M Series B1 to launch The Full Financial Home for Business Owners. Making Flex officially a unicorn.
Led by @RyanQualtrics and @ryanjsweeney’s @halo_fund, with participation from existing investors.
And we're introducing Flex Global.
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Banana Capital 🍌🧢 retweeted
Cut the tape, use @hanoverpark
No CFO signed up to be human duct tape.
Today, we’re cutting the tape.
Introducing @hanoverpark's MCP - your investment firm's AI-native financial brain.
It brings source-of-truth accounting, portfolio, and LP data into the AI tools you already use.
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p.s. Yes, I actually got duct taped inside a sprinter van.
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Banana Capital 🍌🧢 retweeted
Best engineering team in fintech.
Join us.
fun stat about Flex:
25% of our engineering team are former CTOs at previous companies.
our engineering talent density is that of the highest caliber.
we’re always looking for more elite engineers at @FlexSuperApp.
drop a comment with your background and what you’ve built.
if it’s impressive, i’ll personally reach out to you.
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Banana Capital 🍌🧢 retweeted
Radical truth-seeking is the most important value at @hanoverpark.
I’m convinced that the most underrated trait in life is the willingness to change your mind. Certainty isn't strength. The most impressive people change their minds often in response to new information. It’s a software update. The goal isn't to be right. It's to find the truth.
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Banana Capital 🍌🧢 retweeted
I finally got my co-founder @NickPuljic in front of a camera... it took a film crew showing up at our NYC office to do it.
And I let the Hanover Park team do the talking instead of me.
Here's a behind the scenes look at the team we're building:
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