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FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Rillet raises $70M Series B co-led by a16z and Iconic to replace legacy ERP for SaaS companies

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Marc Andreessen on AI product strategy, open source risks, Apple's innovator's dilemma, and M&A climate
  • Harley Finkelstein on Shopify's Q2 blowout: $87B GMV, 12% US e-commerce share, and agentic commerce infrastructure
  • Anton Osika: Lovable hits $10M ARR with 15 people in two months, bets on personalized web
  • GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke: 150M developers, 1B repos, and Copilot driving the next platform shift
  • 137 Ventures' Alex Jacobson on why SpaceX-style private liquidity beats public markets for employees

NEWS

  • Cerebras runs OpenAI's GPT-O1 at 3,000 tokens/second — fastest ever achieved in production
  • General Matter signs DOE lease to build first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US
  • SiriusXM cancels Howard Stern show after paying $100M/year; $8.6B revenue company trades below 1x
  • Figma IPOs at $36.3B; Ramp raises at $22B; Clay raises at $3.1B

COMMENTARY

  • Google's Genie 3 world model: research breakthrough in search of a product strategy
  • The five-level robotics autonomy framework: where humanoids actually stand today