Was reading the WSJ article on Canada's strengthening relationship with the EU and dug into the GDP/capita data Remarkable... - EU is where the US was in 2010 - Canada is where the US was in 2014, flat/down over past four years Significant divergence

For the first time today, I was on the other side of receiving redlines from a @crosbylegal customer. The redlines were clear, sensible, and had succint comments attached for each change. A lovely experience as a counterparty.

We just crossed $500B in assets under management tracked on Standard Metrics (@metrics_co)! Behind that number: over 150 firms trusting us with their portfolio management, and more than 10,000 portfolio companies trusting us as a key investor relations partner. A growing share of those companies report to multiple investors on the platform. In other words, $500B is a marker of our network effects in action. As our network grows, portfolio management gets better for investors, reporting gets faster and easier for portfolio companies, and AUM managed on platform grows alongside it. It’s been a fun last few weeks, but we’re even more excited about what’s to come. Just getting started!

Last week, we announced that Standard Metrics raised a $20M Series B led by 8VC. I first met the team at 8VC back in early 2020 when I was still an investor, and we had immediate vision alignment around how software would transform the private markets in the decade to come. The team at 8VC had experienced similar challenges around portfolio management as I had at Spark, and they built their own internal system. That system ended up turning into a company called Quaestor, which we renamed to Standard Metrics in 2022. We grew that idea into a real platform, closed our Series A, and kept building. Then two years ago, AI made a bet obvious to us that wasn't obvious to everyone: portfolio management needed an AI-native rebuild. So that's what we did. Last week, that bet got a lot more fuel behind it. We've grown 20X since our Series A, and we now support over 10,000 portfolio companies and 150 firms managing more than $400B in AUM on our platform. I'm incredibly grateful to our amazing team that has worked hard through market booms and busts to take us to where we are today. I'll share a link to our blog post in the comments. Please reach out if this resonates with you, or if you want to talk about how the private markets will continue to evolve with AI in the years to come. @metrics_co @8vc @JTLonsdale

I don't get car sick working on my laptop in the back of a @Waymo because it drives so smoothly It's quite a cozy little office Sometimes if I'm not in a rush, I wish my Waymo would just drive around a little more and let me keep cranking

Hearing a lot of people saying "load bearing" out loud these days Good example of how LLMs will increasingly start to influence the human language Honestly not loving it, but it's definitely happening