Traditionally 'slow' or offline industries are undergoing rapid digitization, with deals and payments moving faster than expected.

Independent food sellers can now reach six or seven figure revenue via Instagram drops without a physical storefront.

“We actually have tons of six or seven figure businesses that are doing drops and selling food directly to their.”

Before Whatnot launched, customers were already using live video on social media to sell collectibles, but the experience was broken because transactions, shipping, payments, and discovery were not integrated.

“We saw our customers hacking social media in interesting ways and the way they was were trying to hack it by was selling like the selling items and live video but the experience was really broken.”

Stripe's new SaaS platform cohort in 2026 is 103% larger than in 2025.

“New SAS platform cohort is 103% larger than in 2026 than it was in 2025.”

Valar Atomics prioritizes customers who want reactor delivery within one year over customers planning 3-4 years out.

“We'll go to the customers who say you know and we want it delivered in a year, right? Not the customers who say oh we're thinking about this in 3 to four years.”

Industrial AI will automate multiple hundred-billion- or trillion-dollar industries.

“I outlined what industrial AI is and where it's going over time, it's basically multiple like hundred billion or trillion dollar industries that are going to get automated.”

Chess.com deliberately redefined what counts as a legitimate chess player by dropping the traditional 2000+ rating threshold and celebrating lower-rated players, which helped drive chess's mainstream cultural explosion.

“Cuz previously, you know, it was like you weren't really a chess player until you were 2,000 or above, right? Rated. and if you weren't that you weren't really there and you didn't you weren't really a chess player. But now everybody, you know, we kind of change the narrative and we celebrate your mistakes and when you hang your queen and when you know, if you're rated 500, that's fine. You're still a chess player.”