👋 friends. Some news: After 15 years of supporting & strengthening Pakistan's startup ecosystem, @Invest2Innovate , the org I founded in 2011, is shutting its doors and closing this chapter. (Just so it's clear 😅: @i2i_ventures, the VC fund I run w/ @MizNaQ, is still very much alive & continuing forward.) This news might feel bittersweet to some, but we wanted to celebrate the legacy of what Invest2Innovate has achieved in the past 15 years: supporting 1200 founders, 190 entrepreneurial support orgs in Pakistan & the region, training 200 angel investors, releasing detailed insights & data-driven reports benchmarking Pakistan's startup ecosystem & its growth, and work that extended beyond PK -- Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iraq, Lebanon & more./

🚨 BREAKING: Joshua Kushner's @ThriveCapital is putting $1 billion into buying local accounting firms and rebuilding them around AI. The acquisition arm is a company called Current. The pitch to a decades-old CPA firm: sell us a majority stake, keep a meaningful piece for yourselves, and we'll re-engineer the back office with AI. The ownership model is the part worth a look: → Traditional PE buys to sell inside a fixed window → Thrive plans to hold for the long run, the way Berkshire Hathaway does → Local partners keep real, meaningful stakes Patient capital, pointed at a fragmented, unglamorous industry. The proof point so far is Larson Gross – one accountant, one office in Bellingham, WA in 1949, grown into a regional firm with five offices and 200 employees. In 2025 its partners sold control to Current. @Forbes reports the in-house models are hitting up to 98% accuracy on data entry. Worth being precise, though – data entry is the high-volume floor of accounting, not the judgment work clients actually pay for. The skepticism is fair, too. AI roll-ups have been hyped for years and mostly underdelivered. The gap between the pitch and the operating reality is still wide. The bet underneath all of this: that permanent capital plus AI can run a professional-services firm better than the people who spent decades building it. If it works in accounting, the same template is waiting for law, insurance, and consulting. A billion-dollar wager on the back office of American business.

This morning our 3 year old donned a purse and a necklace and announced that she would be leaving for 3 weeks for the aquarium and dinner with her friends (Cluck Cluck, Elsa, Anna & Moanna) & was leaving Rosie (our 14 year old dog) In charge of babysitting us. Tbh, I'm still digesting this information 5 hours later. 😂

Ok work tweet done back to Arsenal retweets. 😭

Uplift AI just launched dozens of AI voices that actually sound Pakistani 🇵🇰 Uplift's new voice library is purpose-built for dubbing, IVRs, customer support, content creation, and voice agents. Pakistani startups, creators, media teams, call centers, banks, and enterprises can now incorporate localized voice AI with high accuracy at a fraction of the cost of big-lab models. Kudos to Hammad Malik, Zaid Qureshi, and the Uplift AI team! It's genuinely fun to hear dozens of Pakistani AI voices Check it out: upliftai.org

Came to tweet work tings, immediately distracted by Arsenal content and 10 retweets later forgot why I was here. 😅

In a manic week covering the club, my favourite piece was actually this: letters from the families of Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard, David Raya, Cristhian Mosquera and Gabriel Martinelli ahead of the Champions League final. Free-to-read on @TheAthleticFC: nytimes.com/athletic/7319497…

EXCLUSIVE: Arsenal star Bukayo Saka is getting the documentary treatment. “Bukayo Saka: The Time is Now” has been unveiled less than two weeks after Arsenal won its first Premier League title since 2004 and a week after the London club narrowly missed out on being crowned champions of Europe. variety.com/2026/film/global…

Hundreds of thousands of Arsenal fans thronged the streets of north London to watch their team parade the Premier League trophy on an open-top victory parade reut.rs/4fScaIP

New painting. These Streets are our own. Happy premier league parade day to all those who celebrate. #Arsenal

Made it.

Arsenal celebrating like they’ve won the league

I swear imma make It and when I do, they're gunna show this tweet lol

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3 sold-out shows in California can mean only one thing: @BTS_Bighit is in town. Welcome to the Golden State!🫰💜

Ever since his record-breaking signing to @Arsenal, midfield dynamo #DeclanRice has become a star on home turf and the international stage. As the biggest tournament of all beckons, the £100 million man meets #BritishVogue to talk football, fashion and the fate of the Three Lions this summer: britishvogue.visitlink.me/dK…

WE NEVER GIVE UP ✊

Excuse me while I wear my shit eating grin for a bit BECAUSE WE'RE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINALISTS COYG!!!!!! ❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️ #arsenal #coyg

Intelligent business money management, means you can watch the Gunners in peace. 🤝 @airwallex