You just have to immerse yourself in it. You should just constantly be building. That's what's going to give you the best chance of having the relevant skill set that is needed to make a difference in technology.
"Asia has more diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular patients than anywhere else in the world," Abrar Mir states, emphasizing the severity of the health crisis in the region.
In the AI era, it should be easier than ever for people to build new businesses. We want to build the services that enable this. This is important for ensuring that people broadly share in the prosperity created by superintelligence.
Within the first days of the year, the BNPL firm rolled out a series of announcements: a rent payments tie-up with Esusu, a bank charter application, debit-card-embedded BNPL through Fiserv, default checkout positioning with Bolt, and integration into QuickBooks invoices.
I keep telling people internally also that we are at a bitcoin $1 moment right now. You can see the excitement, you can see the revenue growth for everybody. This is when like, things are kind of just working. The industry could soon hit a massive inflection point, when software produced through vibe coding becomes more reliable and widely usable.
Rain - $250M Series C Rain, an infrastructure platform for stablecoin payments, has raised $250M in Series C funding led by ICONIQ Capital. Founded by Charles Yoo-Naut and Farooq Malik in 2021, Rain has now raised a total of $332.5M in reported equity funding. Proxima - $80M Seed Proxima, an AI-powered drug discovery platform for proximity-based therapeutics, has raised $80M in seed funding led by DCVC. Proxima was founded by Luca Naef and Zachary Carpenter in 2019.
Reid Hoffman doesn't do much in half measures. He cofounded LinkedIn, of course, and helped bankroll companies including Meta and Airbnb in their startup days. He has also fashioned himself, via books, podcasts, and other public appearances, as something of a public intellectual-a pro-capitalist philosopher who still insists that tech can be a force for good. Most recently, Hoffman has emerged as one of Silicon Valley's most prominent defenders of artificial intelligence.
AI has quietly unlocked some of the biggest opportunities I've seen in content and marketing. Inside enterprise, the shift is already happening. Massive budgets are moving into AI-driven writing, editing, and distribution - because results are measurable and speed matters more.
Most successful SaaS companies begin with strong intuition. Founders understand the problem deeply. Early decisions are fast, informal, and often correct. The closeness between insight and action creates momentum that is hard to replicate later. As companies grow, that intuition becomes harder to rely on. Teams expand, customers diversify, and systems become more complex. Decisions that once felt obvious now feel risky. Many organisations respond by pushing harder on the same instincts that drove early success. Rupon Anandanadarajah has seen where that leads.
Beast Industries, owned by YouTuber Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson, announced on Monday that it has acquired Step, a banking app designed for teens and young adults. The move comes a couple of months after Donaldson announced plans to start a new YouTube channel centered on personal finance and investing. His main channel has 466 million subscribers and has long been one of the most popular on YouTube, frequently featuring videos where Donaldson gives away huge sums of money.
