Cofounder @felixpago, @manueljgodoym said they build Felix around users, because users don’t care about crypto rails⁣ ⁣ "They trusted deeply going to physical stores, and they really couldn't care less how the money got to the other side. I always say that it could be a donkey carrying the money to the border."⁣ ⁣ "As a native Venezuelan myself, I witnessed how a centralized government can destroy a currency, you essentially very easily understand the value of crypto."⁣ ⁣ "We extremely value this world in which you have fiat and stablecoin working together because fiat is not going away."⁣ ⁣ "Now seeing all these being live, like this launch of Mastercard and BVNK partnership and platform, it's gonna accelerate the adoption of stablecoins. Users are gonna win. They're gonna see lower fees, faster money movement."⁣ ⁣ Before stablecoin sandwiches existed, Félix built its own fiat and stablecoin rails side by side, splitting trades across both to cut costs and pass the savings to users.⁣ ⁣ 🎙 Listen to the latest episode on Tokenizedpod(dot)com

Skims cofounder Emma Grede came across completely unbothered when TMZ asked her about the backlash over the brand’s $148 advent calendar. Her reaction came just one day after Skims apologized and started offering customers refunds.

Axios cofounder @roylschwartz says Fortune 500 executives are worried AI is creating more work for employees instead of making them more productive: "Work slop, right? The problem is everyone now has access to AI. They're writing longer emails." "They're writing more reports. They're doing more presentations, and then they're sending it out to all of their colleagues." "Everyone feels like, 'Oh, I'm gonna sound great. I'm gonna sound super smart, and I'm gonna use AI to make my point.' And so everything just gets longer, and unfortunately, in the short term at least, more complicated." "We've talked to CEOs, executives at Fortune 500 companies, and their biggest worry right now is AI slop and it creating more work for their employees." "A report that gets generated using AI that might be twice as long as it needs to be." "Information now has to be presented in a way that's far more efficient than ever before." @axios

StackAI cofounder @BernAceituno predicts over 90% of enterprise LLM usage will soon shift to open-weight models as companies gain greater control over their AI agents: "OpenClaw is probably the first one that comes to mind there. Enterprises try. I think they're very afraid of security." "The key governance, residency, the key data controls and role-based access controls, they're not there." "When it gets there, the first choice will be to pick an open-weight model because for them it's a very easy trade-off. They have a level of performance that they can trust. They have absolute control on where it's hosted." "It's very similar to Linux vs Mac and Windows. Probably very soon upwards of 90% of enterprise usage of language models will be open weight." @stackai @asana

Palantir cofounder “@elonmusk made a great point when I was involved as a kid at PayPal: whenever you turn off fraud or grift, the people who would scream the most were the fraudsters.”

Ripple cofounder and billionaire Chris Larsen says California should allow low-cost Chinese 🇨🇳 EVs for lower-income buyers. He pointed to BYD’s ~$10K Seagull, saying, “we’re never going to make that stuff” at those prices.