GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Lulu Cheng Meservey and Gaby Goldberg on Halloween communications, startup launches, and strategic PR
• Aydin Senkut on Felicis Ventures: early Google, 53 unicorns, and why generalists beat experts in VC
• Shreya Murthy on Partiful: building the social layer for Gen Z events and the future of offline connection
• Shishir Mehrotra on Superhuman: proactive AI that acts before you ask
• Karri Saarinen on Linear: how AI is reshaping software development workflows

NEWS

• Mag 7 earnings recap: Amazon rebounds, Meta's $15B tax charge, Tesla trails Waymo
• Coinbase's Brian Armstrong trolls prediction market by reciting every bet-on word at end of earnings call
• OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter per Microsoft filing; hosts parse capex vs. true losses
• Palantir sues ex-employees for stealing source code to build rival AI firm backed by General Catalyst