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Travel bookings provider Webjet has posted a sharp jump in full-year profit and flagged a likely demerger of its WebBeds wholesale bookings business from the consumer facing business capitalbrief.com/briefing/we…

Why do so many of my fellow Americans hate infrastructure so much? Genuine question? I didn’t play that many city building games but intuitively roads are one of the first things you build? That’s one of the main things that keeps your cities poor because you can’t really transport in or out much goods if you don’t have high quality roads? As your roads get better your trade increases etc? “The Yaxi expressway is expected to play a key role in helping millions of Tibetan, Han, Yi and Hui people out of poverty, by supporting sustainable local economic growth in western Sichuan, an area rich in natural resources.”

Most major US owned social platforms are blocked in China - why should it surprise anyone when US pushes for similar / equitable approach. #tiktokban

Microsoft Launches Copilot If you don't use it, you're falling behind Here are 20 features of Copilot helps to boost 10x Productivity & earn $$$/m

.@Ryanair CEO: Michael O'Leary: "Joe, the day Airbus comes in 5% cheaper than Boeing, we'll be speaking French. Actually, funny enough, I mean our passengers when they're booking flights don't worry too much about the patriotism they just want to know who's got the cheapest airfares."

Fascinating thoughts from a Chinese-American founder who’s working on AI in global markets re: disruptive power of this new tech: “996, labor-intense, low salary companies might be a concept of the past, when you pay only $50,000 for an engineer …

This needs to be said: Jewish New Yorkers have stood by Muslim communities time & again, I experienced it first hand after 9/11 when it was easy to demonize us, after Ground Zero Mosque controversy, after so many major incidents time & again that demonize whole communities. ❤️❤️

Nice swing in the wings for APAC, once China 🇨🇳 recovery takes off; big-3 carriers expected to land in the black this year with an estimated aggregate net income of ~CNY5.5B. #Aviation

“do the obvious things well” sounds so…obvious, but it was one of my biggest takeaways from watching YC companies succeed or fail

This should be the most mindblowingly significant storyline of 2023, that India’s population will surpass China in mid April. There are hundreds of stories to be told, nuances & implications of this to be unearthed, this alone can be a whole journalism beat or two by itself.

AI tools that didn't exist one year ago: ChatGPT Whisper GPT-3 Codex GitHub Copilot InstructGPT Text-to-product AI slides DALLE API Midjourney Stable Diffusion Runway videos Email AI AI chrome extensions Replit Ghostwriter No-code AI app builders Ben's bites 😉 what else?

I’ve been a buzz killer at many cocktail parties for saying the same thing.

Back at HIC in 2023! Top Indonesia focused hospitality conference of the year. #hotelrevenuesummit

Catch @keishibata and I speaking on superapps and e-commerce marketplaces increasing role in travel distribution and marketing.

Everyone is saying the "VC freeze" is just at Series A and beyond. This might be controversial, but I think we should be transparent with founders on what is really happening. Pre-seed/seed is mostly frozen too. Here's what I'm seeing 🧵

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Here's the new Sequoia doomsday deck for founders: content.fortune.com/wp-conte…

This is a big step forward in Asia Pacific. Momentum is growing - in the Philippines🇵🇭, Thailand🇹🇭 and New Zealand 🇳🇿. We urge other governments to follow!