Really incredible to see what’s going on across dioceses in the US this Easter. The Lord is truly at work, bringing so many back to Him and to experience His love right now. As we see firsthand at Hallow the impact of what so many priests, sisters, Church leaders, and more are doing across parishes in the US, it’s beautiful to see the fruits of their labor and the ways folks are reaching for the Lord. It’s been our mission from the beginning to introduce folks to the love the Lord has for them and lead them into a better relationship with Him through His bride, the Church - an honor to get to partner with so many parishes, schools, and dioceses that are doing just that. hallow.com/blog/catholic-chu…

People say the NIL ruined college hoops. I say: listen to Hawk Rock.

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Was an honor to be on 🙏

The most religious and religiously diverse places in America washingtonpost.com/business/…

I love this story about @KTmBoyle discovering @HallowApp It's a story of - deeply serious founders - a contrarian idea - one investor leaning into a visceral reaction and *needing* to find out more It's now one of the most popular apps on the app store! @alexathallow @a_disanto @ErichKerekes

Here's a list of 40 fast-growing Series B-Series C startups on a breakout trajectory. All of these companies are hiring. They all have at least $5 million in run-rate revenue and 50-100% year-over-year growth. 1. Alloy alloy.com (NYC) 2. Anomalo anomalo.com (Bay Area) 3. Astranis astranis.com (Bay Area) 4. Attain attaindata.io (Chicago) 5. Aven aven.com (Bay Area) 6. Chronosphere Chronosphere.io (NYC) 7. Clickhouse clickhouse.com (Remote) 8. Drata drata.com (Southern California) 9. EvenUp evenuplaw.com (Remote) 10. Finix finix.com (Bay Area) 11. Fireworks Fireworks.ai (Bay Area) 12. Found found.com (Bay Area) 13. Hallow hallow.com (Chicago) 14. Homebase joinhomebase.com (Bay Area) 15. Horizon3 horizon3.ai (Remote) 16. Imprint Payments Imprint.co (NYC) 17. January January.com (NYC) 18. Kalderos kalderos.com (Chicago) 19. Loft Orbital loftorbital.com (Bay Area) 20. Loop loop.com (Bay Area) 21. Marshmallow marshmallow.com (London) 22. Mashgin mashgin.com (Bay Area) 23. Medallion medallion.co (Bay Area) 24. Medely medely.com (Remote) 25. Mercury Mercury.com (Remote) 26. Modern Treasury moderntreasury.com (Bay Area) 27. Motion usemotion.com (Remote) 28. OpenStore open.store (Miami) 29. Order order.co (NYC) 30. Owner Owner.com (Remote) 31. Persona withpersona.com (Bay Area) 32. Primer Primer.com (Bay Area) 33. Runway runwayml.com (NYC) 34. Sardine sardine.ai (Miami) 35. Scribe scribehow.com (Bay Area) 36. Semgrep semgrep.dev (Bay Area) 37. Speak speak.com (Bay Area) 38. Supabase supabase.com (Remote) 39. Traba traba.work (NYC) 40. Unit Unit.co (NYC) Credit to @thogge for putting together this incredible list over at: exceptionalstartups.com

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What do BuzzFeed, Rolling Stone, Forbes, PopSci and Real Simple have in common? They all know the best air purifiers, cooling sheets, gifts for mom, home saunas and cocktail kits. Meanwhile, independent sites actually testing those products are dying: housefresh.com/david-vs-digi…

When we first started Hallow I didn’t think it was gonna go anywhere. We were funding it just off of our drained 401k’s and credit cards and were running out pretty quickly. So we did our seed round. It was the first time I’d ever fundraised. I was shocked by how stressful it was. Probably 80 meetings over the course of two weeks. Everyone is just judging you. Evaluating you. Critiquing your dream and your competence. If you’re lucky 5 people say yes. But that means 75 say no. And the no’s all come right away. I remember one night coming home to my wife and telling her I didn’t think I could take this. It was just too much. Too much weight. Everything rode on this. Either it worked or it didn’t. Either our dream lived or died. I sat down in the middle of the night in our studio apartment and prayed. I told Him ‘Look, I don’t think I can handle the weight of this. The folks on our team. Their families. Our users. The community. I don’t think I have what it takes. I can’t hold all of this. So I’m gonna make a deal with You. I promise, if this thing works out, You get the credit. No matter what. I’ll never trick myself into thinking I’m some kind of successful startup CEO. I know You’re doing all of the real work. At the same time, If this thing doesn’t work out, That’s on You too. And that’s fine. Maybe You want to use it as a stepping stone to something else, or as inspiration for someone else to come around and do something better. You know best. I know that. I’m always gonna put in the work, but if it fails that’s Your call. Not mine.’ Saved my life. Immediately felt the weight lift. The next morning we got a term sheet. Three more the next day. Glory to God.

Mets lineup that night: 1. José Reyes SS 2. Alex Cora 2B 3. Jason Bay LF 4. Ike Davis 1B 5. David Wright 3B 6. Ángel Pagán CF 7. Rod Barajas C 8. Jeff Francoeur RF 9. Johan Santana SP Jason Bay hit 2 homers off CC Sabathia.

According to Vivid Seats: Inter Miami's July 21 home game vs Cruz Azul is the biggest price spike today. The average ticket price for that game has increased 205% over the past 4 days to possibly see Lionel Messi's debut with the club. Sun. $122 Mon. $120 Tue. $126 Today $373

Las Vegas has evolved into a music festival destination market, which now encompasses almost every style of music → bit.ly/419SVzm

Neil is simply great and I'll be following him wherever he lands next.

vita mutatur, non tollitur

Rutgers guard Paul Mulcahy used an NIL deal with New Brunswick City Center to provide restaurant gift cards to 260 student managers, band members and security staff. “I’m super thankful for who you guys are and what you guys do.” Story from @AndyWittry: on3.com/nil/news/paul-mulcah…

Go check out the beautiful LeBron scoring chart by @LevAkabas (and follow @jburnmurdoch for his amazing data work)