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Founders are pitching Trump administration connections as a core competitive advantage
“In the past, I'd never seen anybody pitch, like, a core part of their pitch as being, I'm close to administration. I've heard so many pitches about that now, which is kind of sad, honestly, but it is what it is.”
On-demand food delivery startups like Sprig wasted roughly one-third of their food
“And the problems are, one, they're wasting a ton of food. Like you cannot predict how much food you need on any given day. And they were like, yeah, we have this AI model, like we're going to Predict if there's a Giants game, it's this, if this, it's actually …”
Sheel Mohnot claims there is no evidence Yelp extorts businesses over reviews
“I never found any evidence of that actually happening, though. Like, people have been, like, Provide me evidence, and I don't think there's actual evidence of that happening. There is with the Better Business Bureau, by the way, but not with Yelp, from what I …”
SF longevity WhatsApp groups were trying to buy EMS suit maker Katalyst
“I'm in a bunch of like these longevity groups in San Francisco and WhatsApp and people are, People were, like, trying to buy the company.”
Almost 80% of median US retiree net worth is home equity
“So even today for when people retire, the median American, when they retire, Almost 80% of their net worth is the equity in their home.”
Deep Lawn uses satellite AI to instantly generate lawn care quotes
“A buddy of mine who has a company called Deep Lawn. All they do is they help lawn companies quote. And so the lawn company you put in the address, it looks at satellite imagery. Using some AI to determine how much grass you have, comes up with a square footage…”
Surrogacy in the United States costs roughly $150,000 to $200,000
“Yeah, so it costs roughly, 150 to 200,000 dollars.”
Early Facebook monetized by selling campus sidebar ads for $10 daily
“And at this time, Facebook was limited to college campuses. And the way that they monetize Facebook at that time was you could set up a flyer. So like I went to Carnegie Mellon, I could pay 10 dollars a day to have the sidebar at Carnegie Mellon. And it was ba…”