“Founded by Ben and Felicia Horowitz, the Paid in Full Foundation honors the hip-hop immortals whose artistic contributions far outweigh the financial remuneration they received in return.” “As Ben described Eric B. & Rakim’s debut masterpiece, the foundation’s namesake Paid in Full: ‘I bought it for $10 and got at least $5 million worth of value out of it. It needed to be paid back.’” “Each honoree receives a five-year grant with no strings attached. Inspired by Quincy Jones’ work with the Jazz Foundation, the grants have allowed past recipients, among them Rakim, Scarface, George Clinton, Roxanne Shanté, Grandmaster Caz, Kool Moe Dee, Grand Puba, and Kool G Rap, to purchase homes, pay off medical bills, and finish long-delayed creative projects.” “Of course, a few grants a year can’t repay an entire generation, but they’re a start. Paid in Full refuses to let these cultural giants languish in our midst, and its grants have fundamentally changed the artists’ lives, though still not as much as the artists changed ours.” Full piece from acclaimed music journalist Jeff Weiss on the Paid in Full Foundation’s 2026 Hip Hop Grandmaster Awards: @Passionweiss

Founders send decks with no net revenue retention, no burn multiple, and a market slide that says $100B TAM. Then they wonder why no one replies. Run your deck through the SaaStr AI pitch deck review and see which numbers you left out:

Founder & Indie Hacker, 30 Almost at 2k followers! Scaled Crescitaly to $37k MRR and building other projects too. Looking to connect with more builders 👋 SaaS, AI agents, automations, indie hacking, vibe coding, whatever you're shipping. Let’s connect 🤝

FOUNDATION WARNS OF NEW WAVE OF PHISHING ATTACKS @FoundationHQ says attackers are sending new waves of phishing emails from compromised domains belonging to other companies. The emails are not being sent from official Foundation domains.

Founder, @atumhq, @petecooling, said that AI Agents Will Create a Neural Network of Payments⁣ ⁣ "I have this thesis that payments are going to follow the same exact trend as high frequency trading did."⁣ ⁣ "You used to pay $20 a trade, and you couldn't place a trade for a stock unless it was probably buying $2,000 worth of it to make it worth it for the fee."⁣ ⁣ "So we've built effectively high frequency trading for payments."⁣ ⁣ "I think agents and AI and everything that we're seeing today is what drives that."⁣ ⁣ "They're gonna be able to move your money efficiently across all of these different systems, across all different endpoints."⁣ ⁣ Every agent delegated a task becomes a new endpoint transacting on its own, so payment volume scales with automated decisions rather than human clicks.⁣ ⁣ 🎙 Listen to the latest episode on Tokenizedpod(dot)com

Founders should take some money off the table. I read someone saying take 10% every round. That’s too much imo. It should be enough that you don’t need the company to pay for your life but not so much that you’ve mentally cashed out. If you're bullish on your company, even a small % seems like an opportunity cost.