After 11 years of admiration and friendship, I relished the live studio session in London, together with the legendary @HarryStebbings @twentyminutevc!! We covered the gamut! Including why you need to really love each investment, how "the right kind" of nepo baby can make an exceptional founder and why photonic computing may be the next great computing platform ... piped.video/watch?v=PDaGwInq…

I was so lucky to participate in the seed funding for Trialpay (sold to @Visa) - courtesy of these 2 exceptional founders @terryangelos @arampell @a16z. They have both gone on to do even more amazing work! 🙏🙏👏👏 This is tee'd to listen tonight!

This conveys a normalcy which is so abnormal. Chillingly so. Very fast paced (need to watch again). Even more disturbing if watched since Chapter 1. An absolute labor of love from @ronnieapteker & his team in @Ukraine Kyiv of Mine : Chapter 4 – The light that remains piped.video/5kOTmNxKRnY?si=ocZo… via @YouTube

Our CEO @MikeyShulman made @TheAnkler's first Future of Entertainment 25 🎶 “Mikey sees a major shift coming, one ‘where people move from passively consuming content to actively creating it,’ in music and every other form of entertainment.” Read the full list 👇 theankler.com/the-future-of-…

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Proud Short King here! Five funds in <$100M. Our analysis shows the median exit outcome of the past 25 years is ~$2.7B of the TOP 500 EXITS. Sure you can raise a huge fund to get the top 3-5 outliers which are bigger than ever. That is a highly risky strategy for all but a few. Everyone else is just trying to emulate a low probability game. I think some are trading power law for power ball ;) nitter.siddz.com/fcollective/status/207…

Drug discovery is where frontier AI can matter the most. Today we're announcing @Chaidiscovery’s collaboration with @GSK, following a successful wet-lab evaluation of our models. Using Chai-3, @GSK found binders to every target tested. AI is entering its proof-point phase.

More than 10 years old, more relevant than ever: waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artif…

We’re building in Australia, with Australian partners, for missions at home and around the world. At #LandForces2026 in Perth, we showcased V-BAT, Hivemind, Aechelon and Vision Systems, backed by a local team of 100+ that we expect to double over the next year. We also announced our work with Innovaero to bring Hivemind mission autonomy to the Australian-designed OWL-B. We welcomed leaders from across Defence, Army, government and industry to our booth, including David Nockels, First Assistant Secretary for Defence Trade, Regulations and Industrial Collaboration, and Major General Chris Smith, Deputy Chief of Army. Mark Palmer also took the stage to share lessons from Ukraine and how they apply to Australia’s operating environment. Autonomy for the world. The greatest victory requires no war.

A Letter to the World’s Leftists and to Righteous People : 7th of October. There are days history writes in ink, days it writes in tears, and days so terrible that history writes their names in blood. October 7 was such a day. The morning came quietly. Some were sleeping. Some were praying. Mothers were beside their children. Then Hamas terrorists, the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, entered homes in Israel. Blood. Fire. Screams. Women were raped. Children were burned. Families were executed. Babies were kidnapped. Jews were hunted and murdered. Homes that once held prayers, laughter and children's footsteps became places of death. Beds became graves. A mother's arms became empty. A child's room waited for a child who would not return. There are no words large enough for such grief. Only the silence afterward. The silence of a mother waiting for her child. The silence left when evil has finished screaming. Once again, Jews were murdered for being Jews. An ancient nightmare suddenly had a date in the present tense. The old hatred had found new mouths and new excuses. From my country, the United Arab Emirates, a Muslim Arab country, came a voice within minutes calling it by its name: A terrorist attack. No excuse. No ideology can make rape resistance. No slogan can make burning a child justice. No flag can make kidnapping a baby freedom. And yet, London. Paris. Toronto. You would have expected tears. Instead, people celebrated while Jewish families searched for the missing and children remained with kidnappers. People waved the flag of the kidnappers of babies instead of demanding freedom for the babies. This was another wound of October 7. Innocent people were murdered, while others had forgotten how to mourn them. It felt as though civilisation had turned backwards. Back toward 1936. Back toward the old darkness. That was where morals failed. I have travelled to universities around the world and stood beside Jewish communities attacked simply for being Jewish, to tell them: You have a friend here. When the Holocaust happened, I was not there. I cannot go backwards and stop the trains or take one terrified child by the hand. But I was alive on October 7. And I had a choice. One day my children may ask: Where did you stand? I want to tell them: I stood with the baby, not his kidnapper. I stood with the mother, not her rapist. I stood with the murdered, not the murderer. I stood with the Jew hunted simply for being a Jew. When people found sophisticated words to excuse barbarism, I chose humanity's simplest word: No. No to rape. No to kidnapping. No to burning children. No to terrorism. No to antisemitism. Hamas, the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, may have lost in Gaza, but an ideology does not die because it loses a battlefield. Look at the streets of the West, universities, some parliaments and city councils. Too many young minds have become hostages to propaganda for Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran's proxies in the West. When you become silent about an October 7, you do not guarantee that October 7 will remain in the past. Hatred begins as a sentence before it becomes a scream. Extremism begins as an excuse before it becomes an act. Evil first asks to be tolerated, then excused, then normalised. Remember October 7. Remember the empty beds. Remember the empty arms. Remember the kidnapped. Remember the murdered. Remember Jewish families hunted in the one place every human should believe is safe: home. Be like my country, the UAE, where antisemitism is not an opinion to celebrate. It is a crime. Where the Muslim Brotherhood is banned, not romanticised as activists. History will ask something simple: When a child cried, where did you stand? On October 7, I knew my answer. With the baby, not the kidnapper. With the mother, not her rapist. With the innocent, not the terrorist. And when my children read this chapter of history, I want them to know: Their father did not look away.

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The 5 next big things from small companies for 2026: fastcompany.com/91612620/sma… Grateful earliest investor @AranyaInc @cbondaatje

So psyched for @GeneralMedicine @tjparker @elliotcohen. This is @PillPack bring-back-the-band on steroids. So grateful to have @fcollective invested at the getgo. I love this team

Excellent AI update/summary and appreciate the @chaidiscovery mention 🙏 @gradypb loom.com/share/c016702964a04…

I have said this before. This is 2021 on steroids. Yes, amazing companies are being built, faster than ever. But 99% are not and venture has never been less disciplined. This will not end well for most.

Mad respect for Founders who we ask so much of: - be visionary… but start practically 🌅 - be confident… but have humility 💪🏼 - be decisive… but take feedback ⚖️ - move fast… burn slow 🔥 - be focused… but do everything 🦹

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The only way to fix healthcare is to make the customer the most powerful participant in the system. Period. End of story.

Investors are betting the $5 billion AI music startup Suno will be the next Spotify bloomberg.com/news/features/…

This is wild, amazing and beautiful! Turn up your volume!

Welcome to the v6 era. Our best models yet, built in partnership with artists and producers. Here’s how the family works 🧵