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Engineers are being misled by companies playing games with metrics. One company claims "$80M ARR, valued at $1.5B." Look closer: - "$80M ARR" = last month's usage billing × 12. No contracts. - 75%+ of that revenue appears to pass-through to other providers. - "$1.5B valuation" = an acquisition offer they say they received. No transaction at that price. The honest pitch would be: "We're at ~$18M of annualized net revenue and grew 20% last month." That's a great business. Why pretend it's something else?

Was just discussing this with a friend who runs a huge construction firm. If not for data centers, their business would be in freefall right now, and all their trade contractors would be looking for work

Part of the long tail of the asinine Mangione spectacle is that now when you see a headline like this, you can predict what the comments will be. I also think it’s a choice to describe Erin as a BoA VP, and not, as she was, a new mom who’d just returned from maternity leave.

NYT attack on @JTLonsdale: he's an outsider, tough on violent criminals, defends capitalism, rails against the status quo, and isn't politically correct. Also NYT: somehow he's the most effective change agent in homelessness today.

Indiana & Michigan Power (I&M) has asked Indiana's state gov if they can lower rates because they're making so much money from data centers and they want to pass savings on If the state approves, customers will see $100 cut from annual bills, which they'll freeze for three years

Literally Idiocracy playing out. High IQ demographics (incl Chinese, South Korean, Japanese) have had far fewer children for decades. So much that the total number of high IQ people (not just the ratio of smart to dumb) has collapsed worldwide.

Doing an AMA over on /r/ExperiencedFounders, come join in Would love to talk to any founders who are early building, future founders who are figuring out what to build, or anyone curious about building an entrepreneurial career.

I actually agree – passing a CA wealth taxwill bring capital and high paying jobs to many non-California communities in America! Great founders should invest in communities that want to build the future, not harvest the past The 2020 wealth tax proposal trigged my move to Austin. Not because I would be affected, but because it was clear they didn't want great things being built in California anymore

A competitive insurance broker was lying about us while we were getting off the ground. Bad enough that we had our lawyer send a C&D letter with evidence. But it really pissed us off! Just learned he went out of business ¯\_(ツ)_/¯