Our April product updates are live 🚀 okt.to/RbGU2D We're shipping new ways to help your global team run with more precision, including US benefits administration powered by @amarjasarbasic's team at Clasp. Watch the highlights below. 📺 👇

This month's updates include: ✅ US benefits administration now inside Remote, powered by @amarjasarbasic's team at Clasp. Health, dental, vision, retirement. Bring your broker, keep your plans. ✅ Workflow automations now route actions based on conditions you define. One flow, multiple outcomes. ✅ Expenses validated before submission. Currency mismatches, missing docs, receipt discrepancies... surfaced up front. ✅ Canadian payroll collects automatically via Pre-Authorized Debit. ✅ Workforce reports now export to external tools on a schedule. ✅ Every bulk data import now has a full history.

I'm a chronic tinkerer of my own schedule and process. Recently it compounded into Nerve, the multiagent OS that runs my life AND Finch (Series B, 100 employees). 3,000 brain notes, 145 background jobs, agents running on Ralph loops.🧵

“it’s time to choose your 2026 benefits.”

If quality of output is not a function of intelligence (intensity/level), but of effort expended by a sufficiently capable intelligence, then: LLMs don't need to be smarter than humans, they just need to be cheaper, faster, more abundant and scalable. Which they will be.

Constellation software, a company like no other: - Debuted in 1996 with a valuation of $70M (~ increased value by 100,000%) - Generates a free cash flow of ~$1.6B on $8.4B in revenue - Acquired 52 companies from Apr to Nov 2024. Here's how Mark Leonard(founder) does it 👇

The @globeandmail posted this chart, and it has been living rent free in my head ever since

Base10 recently led a round of funding into @ClaspBenefits, an embedded benefits provider. Clasp abstracts away all the complexity of building out benefits administration functionality from scratch.

Employee benefits open up new revenue streams for these platforms and enable them to stay competitive against all-in-one solutions that typically bundle HR, payroll and benefits together. axios.com/pro/health-tech-de…

New investment: Excited to co-lead a $1.5m round in Clasp alongside @Base10Partners. Problem: No HR or payroll platform is complete without employee benefits. But building it is hard. Solution: Clasp is the “Stripe for Health Benefits” — making it easier for HR, payroll and brokerage platforms to launch employee benefits. axios.com/pro/health-tech-de…

Imagine how hard it is to run a startup that has to successfully pay local & state payroll taxes to reach product market fit

Developers building new payroll apps should focus on what makes their product unique vs. reinventing the wheel on core payroll elements. That's why we built Check Components: embeddable flows to onboard employees, run payroll, generate reports and more. checkhq.com/post/introducing…

Today's internet giants -- Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc -- seem undisruptable. One argument is that we're at the end of the beginning. They've won, and they'll remain winners. But I think Web3 might disrupt the Aggregators. notboring.co/p/who-disrupts-…

Only 24 people have journeyed far enough to see the whole Earth against the black of space. The images they brought back changed our world. I've painstakingly restored 50 of these breathtaking photos and am releasing them all today, for free: #EarthDay tobyord.com/earth

Watch a monkey equipped with Elon Musk's Neuralink device play Pong with its brain tcrn.ch/2Q3xiC5 by @etherington

An obvious point that took me way too long to appreciate: in software engineering, you should probably optimize for speed even when you don't have to, because it's one of the easiest/best ways to prioritize subtraction and parsimony in the solution space. nature.com/articles/d41586-0….

Choices that compound: - Integrity - Kindness - Eating healthy - 8 hours of sleep - Exercise/walking - Spending less than you make - More water / less everything else - Going to bed smarter than you woke up

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The future of all retail is digital uk.reuters.com/article/uk-ik…