Duolingo's taco shop makes almost $700k in revenue. 

Wendy’s is planning to introduce surge-pricing like Uber.  

Dick’s Sporting Goods raised its dividend by 10% on Thursday.

Frontier Airlines has a new upgrade that lets you block the middle seat.

Shake Shack’s Danny Meyer is betting millions on indoor golfing experiences. 

Trump asked Elon if he wanted to buy Truth Social in 2023.

The 3-3-3 perk at the cloud security company Verkada pays for any 3 employees to go out for food/drinks after 3pm.

Donations at store checkouts contributed $749M to charities in 2022 alone, almost double the amount raised a decade prior. 

Restaurant industry has a 150% employee turnover rate.

Virgin Voyages is testing a cruise subscription service for remote workers, starting at $9,990 for a 4 month-long cruise.

Vending machines are the internet’s hottest passive income scheme (make $525/machine/month)

Google's annual catering budget is $72M, 2x what it’s costing Musk to make humans multi-planetary with SpaceX’s Starship rocket.

Pfizer is betting big on cancer drugs to turn its business around.

TSA has a new airport security prototype that is like a grocery store self-checkout.

Liquid Death closed $67M in financing at a $1.4B valuation.

Remote driving startup Phantom Auto is shutting down after raising $95M.

Defense tech startups since 2021 have received $100B+ in VC funding, yet VC-backed companies have only been awarded <1% of the $411B in DoD contracts in FY23.

Chamath Palihapitiya's VC firm hired a law firm after firing two partners.

This website tracks high-profile founders who just launched companies, recently raised funding, or are operating in stealth mode.

Radiant makes a portable nuclear reactor the size of a shipping container. 

Ocado Group is automating online grocery order fulfillment with a unique robotic warehouse design.

Telotruck makes an EV pick-up truck with the footprint of a mini cooper designed for urban living and weekend adventuring. 

Empty Fasting is an app for tracking intermittent and religious fasting.

Radio provides AI blind spot and collision warnings for 2-wheeled vehicles.

NewBrew is the first non-alcoholic beverage with effects you can feel.

Mindy is an AI chief of staff you communicate with via email similar to a chatbot, capable of taking actions such as scheduling meetings.

David is a high-protein, low-calorie, blood-sugar-friendly protein bar company created by the founder of the RXBar.

Savor makes an animal-free and sustainable cooking fat made from captured CO2.

Somatic created an autonomous cleaning robot for buildings that operates unassisted. 

Mesodyne developed a new power source with no moving parts created at MIT.

Quthero is developing a gel for post-surgical scarring prevention.

Covariant is building ChatGPT for robots that allows them to think more like people. 

Furno makes a portable carbon-neutral cement plant.

Inside the DEI hivemind at Google that led to its AI-chatbot disaster. TWITTER

Robotic kitchens and restaurant tech with Sweetgreen's CEO. PODCAST

Paul Graham’s famous essay on “How to do great work.” FULL ESSAY, VIDEO SUMMARY

The Pentagon’s Army of Nerds: Why the military needs Silicon Valley, now more than ever. THE ATLANTIC

Trump launched a CIA covert campaign on Chinese social media back in 2019. REUTERS

Bernie Sanders proposed reducing Americans’ workweek to 32 hours. NYT

The SaaS metrics that matter. DAVID SACKS

a16z partner Chris Dixon on Crypto, AI, and Web3. PODCAST

OpenAI’s racial bias when screening resumes with AI. YOUTUBE SHORT

Stonk Madness is a March Madness bracket for stocks.

529 account leftover assets can now in 2024 be rolled over into a Roth IRA with no tax consequences and no income threshold.

Having an internship in college makes you 49% less likely to be underemployed after graduation. 

Current high schoolers are the most pessimistic generation since the 90s. 

The Ritz-Carlton is launching a luxury yacht experience starting summer 2025.

Student Loan Payments can now be matched by employers as 401(k) contributions starting this year.

iPhones offer a senior mode with just three functions: call, camera, and messages.

Russia’s presidential election is underway with Putin likely to stay in power for another 6 years.

Why it's bad to raise children in a big house.

Singapore negotiated with Taylor Swift to be her only stop in Southeast Asia.

Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras. 

Bordbar turns old airline beverage carts into mini bars.

Ghost kitchens are delivering food from restaurants you know but under new names.

New updates on the Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing in 2014.

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