Crazy era in the NBA

Mexicans dancing and singing GANGNAM STYLE with the Koreans in Mexico after South Korea's World Cup win 😭

Founders: what is one piece of tactical advice (I'm not talking "try hard" or "don't give up"... i mean a small, simple, tactical piece of advice) that can make a founder's life easier, even just slightly? I'll give a few popular examples:

AN ALL-TIME ANGLE OF AN ALL-TIME MOMENT. OG Anunoby’s unreal putback gave the Knicks a 3-1 series lead!

Your strength sessions and your runs have always lived in two separate apps. Today, they connect with WHOOP × Strava. (1/5)

a pattern i keep seeing in this YC batch: paying customers asking to invest. one customer literally bought a company's hardware, loved it, then asked for equity. no better story for a lead investor than "everyone who uses this wants to own a piece."

We raised $6M led by Sequoia to build the future of travel. Watch me plan a perfect trip to Mexico City in 3 minutes. Flights, hotels and a full itinerary that matches my preferences. All bookable on the spot. Available today, free to use.

Steph Curry admits he was shooting like trash as a rookie because he was lifting weights out of vanity "I came in as a shooter in the draft, but I'm shooting like trash in training camp the first week" "Don Nelson walked in there and cussed out everybody in the room. He's like y'all are killing the shot, he's lifting too much weight" "I always wanted to get stronger, most of it was just vanity" LeBron: "Look better in the jersey. All these mirrors around here, y'all telling me I got to look like this"

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During the World Cup in 2002, reigning world player of the year winner Luis Figo looked at Bruce Arena after halftime, pointed to Frankie Hejduk and said "that guy's pretty good".

Luca Ferrari is the co-founder and CEO of @bendingspoons, one of the most fascinating companies in Europe and just became Italy's first decacorn. He describes it as 25% private equity firm and 75% technology company. They fully acquire and rebuild digital companies like Evernote, Vimeo, and most recently AOL. @luke10ferrari shares exactly how the Bending Spoons playbook works — how they find great businesses, improve every core function, and finance them with both debt and equity to own and operate forever. We also talk about his obsession with attracting and developing exceptional talent and why he's determined to build a generational company in Europe. Enjoy! Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:30 What is Bending Spoons? 4:30 Why Europe Lacks Trillion-Dollar Companies 7:25 The First Test: From Failure to Founding 10:52 The McKinsey Years & Funding Co-founders 13:24 The Strategic Insight: Why M&A Over Building 16:13 Structural Advantages of the Platform Model 21:00 Talent as the Ultimate Edge 22:50 Rejecting Consensus 26:28 Early Days: From $10K to Billions 30:52 The Evernote Transformation 36:17 Pricing Power & Monetization Sophistication 40:32 Valuation & Deal Discipline 44:52 Financing Strategy 1:01:47 No Variable Pay: A Contrarian Approach 1:04:14 Areas of Dissatisfaction & Regulatory Frustration 1:09:25 Raising Europe's Largest Private Debt Round 1:13:28 AI's Impact on Software Businesses 1:17:26 Building Culture: State of the Spoon & Retreats 1:20:20 Why There Aren't More Bending Spoons 1:23:35 The Kindest Thing

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The New Power Law A business valued between $100B and $1T has a higher statistical likelihood (31%) of multiplying its value by 10x compared to smaller, earlier-stage unicorns (8%).