Open-weight models now rival frontier model performance while giving operators direct control over the underlying weights, decoupling capability from vendor dependency.

Solo founders accounted for 63% of new C-Corps formed in Q2 2026, an all-time high, per Stripe Atlas data.

The Federal Reserve discovered in late fall 2025 that reserve balances had been reduced as far as possible and subsequently had to begin growing them again.

Guy Oseary makes 90% of his decisions within the first 5 minutes.

The Gusto product team operated with no meetings, no text specs, no Figmas, and no written docs throughout the build.

Solo founders accounted for 63% of new C-Corps formed in Q2 2026, an all-time high, per Stripe Atlas data.

Over the past 12 months, S&P 500 earnings growth (32%) has outpaced the S&P 500's price return (22%).

The Trace Research Institute will be launched in summer 2026 to pursue Hoffman's research on consciousness and the foundations of reality.

Gusto Copilot is enabling small business owners to build automations outside of payroll and HR (such as weather alerts for tour operators), suggesting it is expanding into a general-purpose automation layer for SMBs.

Osirion is building end-to-end olfactory AI infrastructure, including a human-nose-level sensor, a 6-billion-molecule chemical space map, a 5.43M-sniff training dataset, and a high-throughput fragrance robot.

“Consensus 2027 EPS change for AI infrastructure stocks. Insane. 42%.”

“If you live in a state where there is an arbitrary power who can have you put to death, you are a slave.”

“The moon's gravity on Earth is the same no matter what the phase of the moon is.”

“If I had a death wish, I would have just gone and done it. I would have spent nine years training for it.”

“Walt's line on this was that ABC needed the show so badly that they bought the amusement park with it.”

“Cocoa is to cocaine what potatoes are to vodka.”