“In the last 2 years, 31,832 people applied to be a product manager at Whatnot. We hired one.”

Akemi Tsunagawa on profitable Japanese companies going out of business for lack of successors.

Pete Buttigieg on the Democratic Party's backward-looking language and the risk it poses to future readiness.

On why fully permissionless trading of tokenized equities is a regulatory non-starter.

Pete Buttigieg on the US tax code structurally subsidizing job automation over human labor.

Nathaniel Whittemore drawing the sharpest contrast between the current data-center debt situation and 2008-era subprime risk.

On why tokenized equities held at scale will demand real ownership, not SPV debt instruments.

Nathaniel Whittemore on why AI stock weakness may be a market structure artifact rather than a fundamental signal.

On the long-term economics of crypto protocols: small fees on a vastly larger financial system.

Pete Buttigieg on social mobility statistics pointing to Denmark over the United States.

Harry Stebbings on AI evaluation being the single biggest deployment bottleneck.

Harry Stebbings on GPU hosting margins being compressed to the cost of electricity.