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Yuri Sagalov

@yuris
32 posts
2025-02-07
Hypothetically speaking, if carried interest is taxed and tips are not taxed, can VCs just ask their LPs to tip 20%? Asking for many friends.
2025-02-07 View on X
TechCrunch

In a meeting with GOP lawmakers, Donald Trump proposed taxing carried interest as ordinary income, a policy that could sharply increase the tax bill for VCs

On Thursday, President Trump asked Republican lawmakers to end tax breaks on carried interest.  —  The tax break allows private equity …

2025-01-24
I *love* stories like this. * Founder starts a company as a Show HN in 2009.* * 16 years later sells it for $200M. * Completely bootstrapped. “I seriously don't think I would have been an entrepreneur had it not been for Hacker News” [image]
2025-01-24 View on X
TechCrunch

PE firm Everstone acquires Delhi-based Wingify, whose flagship product Visual Website Optimizer helps businesses improve online conversion rates, for $200M

Manish Singh / TechCrunch :

2024-12-22
“OpenAI's new o3 model represents a significant leap forward in AI's ability to adapt to novel tasks. This is not merely incremental improvement, but a genuine breakthrough, marking a qualitative shift in AI capabilities compared to the prior limitations of LLMs.” @fchollet [image]
2024-12-22 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025

12 Days of OpenAI: Day 12 Naomi Li Gan / Tech in Asia : OpenAI unveils AI model for advanced reasoning Bojan Stojkovski / Interesting Engineering : OpenAI unveils o3 reasoning AI m...

2024-12-21
“OpenAI's new o3 model represents a significant leap forward in AI's ability to adapt to novel tasks. This is not merely incremental improvement, but a genuine breakthrough, marking a qualitative shift in AI capabilities compared to the prior limitations of LLMs.” @fchollet [image]
2024-12-21 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025

OpenAI announced its new o3 models on Friday.  —  In a tweet ahead of its final livestream for its …

2024-03-22
Reddit is not the first YC IPO but it feels like a particularly important one. The first company from the very first batch.
2024-03-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Reddit closed up 48%, at $50.44/share, in its NYSE debut, valuing the company at ~$9.5B on a fully diluted basis, just shy of its $10B valuation in August 2021

even for y'all. Rat King / @mikeisaac : apparently Reddit's IPO included the first bell-ringing carried out by a “non-human entity” — in this case, the alien Snoo [image] Trevor Sc...

This is lovely. Congrats Reddit!
2024-03-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Reddit closed up 48%, at $50.44/share, in its NYSE debut, valuing the company at ~$9.5B on a fully diluted basis, just shy of its $10B valuation in August 2021

even for y'all. Rat King / @mikeisaac : apparently Reddit's IPO included the first bell-ringing carried out by a “non-human entity” — in this case, the alien Snoo [image] Trevor Sc...

This is lovely. Congrats Reddit!
2024-03-22 View on X
Y Combinator

Reflecting on Reddit's history: Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian pitching a food app, wanting to use snoo.com, and seeing traffic explode after Reddit launched

2024-03-21
Reddit is not the first YC IPO but it feels like a particularly important one. The first company from the very first batch.
2024-03-21 View on X
CNBC

Reddit priced its IPO at $34 per share, the top of its expected $31-$34 range, raising $519M and valuing the company at nearly $6.5B, ahead of its market debut

In this photo illustration a Reddit logo is seen displayed on a smartphone.  —  Reddit, the 19-year-old website that hosts millions …

2024-03-14
@snowmaker Yup! Had this conversation with a friend when they asked me which I prefer. I'll happily wait for the Waymo, but I actually get stressed with an Uber 10+ min away. Not just because I prefer the Waymo product (which I do), but also because who knows if the Uber will even make it.
2024-03-14 View on X
TechCrunch

Waymo plans to debut its Waymo One robotaxi service in LA on March 14, gradually onboarding from a 50K+ waitlist, and in Austin commercially by the end of 2024

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :

2024-01-03
.@fredwilson put together a great list of things that matter going into 2024: * Applied AI * Web 3 * Energy transition (nuclear, fusion, solar, etc) * Climate All four of these areas are as exciting as they've ever been. It's time to build. https://avc.xyz/...
2024-01-03 View on X
AVC

2024 predictions: AI will help make Web3 usable in mainstream applications and Web3 will help us trust AI, Web3 regulatory clarity, flat VC investing, and more

As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher.  The Fed has taken interest rates as far …

2023-11-22
POV: You're Helen Toner. Your interests at Georgetown include “military-civil fusion.” Your group at Georgetown has published things like “Harnessed Lightning: How the Chinese Military is Adopting Artificial Intelligence” And this is your viewpoint: [image]
2023-11-22 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.

2023-07-03
From a global town square to a gated community 😕 https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-03 View on X
Waxy.org

A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits

For anyone keeping track, this isn't even the first time they've completely broken … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Tweets Are Now Login-Walled  —  Like Šime Vidas, I have often linked o...

2023-07-02
From a global town square to a gated community 😕 https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-02 View on X
The Verge

Twitter no longer lets users browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web without logging in, redirecting Twitter URLs to the sign in page

From a global town square to a gated community 😕 https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-02 View on X
Waxy.org

A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself due to a bug in Twitter's web app, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits

For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …

2023-03-14
There's one big positive benefit for founders with YC's wind down of Continuity: YC's objective from the earliest days was to be completely aligned with founders from the moment it invests. It's hard to do that when founders are also trying to pitch you for growth capital. This... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-14 View on X
The Information

Sources: Y Combinator will not raise another Continuity Fund, which backs late-stage startups, and the two partners who led the fund plan to leave the company

Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator won't raise another continuity fund, which backs mature private tech companies, two people familiar with the matter said.

2023-03-12
Etsy seller Owen McKinney, who runs Kentucky Country Home laser engraving business, said the deposits delay would have a “catastrophic” effect on his business. This is who will get impacted if SVB depositors are not made whole. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
2023-03-12 View on X
Bloomberg

SVB draws support from 300+ VC firms, including General Catalyst, while 1,200+ founders and CEOs sign a Y Combinator petition asking the US Congress to act

More than 100 venture capital and investing firms have signed a statement supporting Silicon Valley Bank, part of mounting industry calls …

2023-03-01
This is a great post and a must read for both growth and early stage founders. Many startups that cut burn last year and extended runway are going to be in an unfortunately tough spot in the next 12-18 months. Can't hide from it so must face head on. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-01 View on X
Elad Blog

Mid-to-late stage tech startups will likely face a reckoning in late 2023 to 2024, as companies run out of cash from “free rounds” fueled by low interest rates

The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation.

The only caveat I'd add is that in the current regulatory environment, M&A may not be a real option for a growth-stage startup. The only safe path is to try and get default alive. https://tomtunguz.com/...
2023-03-01 View on X
Elad Blog

Mid-to-late stage tech startups will likely face a reckoning in late 2023 to 2024, as companies run out of cash from “free rounds” fueled by low interest rates

The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation.

2023-02-08
Amongst all the recent layoff announcements, @ericsyuan's announcement today is one of the only examples of “As CEO, I am accountable” where that accountability is followed by personal action. https://blog.zoom.us/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-08 View on X
CNBC

Zoom plans to cut ~1,300 staff, or ~15% of its workforce, offering US employees up to 16 weeks severance, including salary, health care, and bonus; ZM jumps 5%+

Ashley Capoot / CNBC :

2023-02-04
It's hard to overstate just how important the right distribution channel can be to a product's success. GPT3.5 became available in May/June, but it wasn't until OpenAI released the chatbot half a year later that it took off overnight. https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-04 View on X
New York Times

Inside ChatGPT's rushed launch, as some OpenAI executives feared rivals upstaging them; Sam Altman worries about a regulatory backlash and inflated expectations

Kevin Roose / New York Times :