Huge news: Rork raised $15M seed led by @leftlanecap with @peakxv, a16z @speedrun, @trueventures, @GoodwaterCap, @karman, @sasmith4, Mento & others "Let's Rork & Roll" pitch from Oct '25 AI will not replace us. It will give our kids the power to make it in life.

Big news: Rork raised a $15M seed round led by @leftlanecap with a16z @speedrun, @peakxvpartners, @trueventures, @GoodwaterCap, and others. Our team has been building mobile apps for the App Store since we were kids. Now we're making it possible for everyone else to do the same. And this is our story – in tribute to Howard Roark.

◉ We're live with 3 compute price tickers on 350,000 @Bloomberg terminals, and landed on the desk of every major CFO in the world. On this note, it's time to bring @ComputeDesk out of stealth. Compute is a financial asset class. We believe every company in the world will have an exposure to compute. So we are building capital markets infrastructure to price, hedge, finance, insure, arbitrage and market make compute. In the last few months, we've built a mammoth compute price indexing engine, tracking bulk transacted compute prices, and the deepest compute price feeds in the market. The tickers are the tip of the iceberg. Our market intelligence terminals are where GPU infrastructure operators and lenders go to price compute, expand margin and get ahead of their competitors. The biggest compute buyers use them to source capacity, and negotiate exclusive compute rates. I would like to tell you our story and show you what else we've built. Something fun is coming.

Can't wait to create my @pika_labs AI Self! Check it out 👇🏾

Today we unveiled Neo Residency, a new program for startups and high-agency student teams. 🎉 We’re replacing our best-known program, Neo Accelerator, with something even better and more selective. 🧵

Introducing Howie Blue Your secretary just got an iPhone Air. We're rolling this out to a very small number of Pro customers next week, and to everyone soon after. After 2 days I’m already obsessed. (if you have Android it will still work just with green bubbles)

🚨How does an AI-native startup unseat an incumbent?🚨 👇Enter the Greenfield Strategy: AI-native startup bingo. The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation. One of the most powerful, and underrated, ways for startups to win distribution is to serve companies at their formation: greenfield companies. @stripe @deel @mercury @cartainc @brexHQ @tryramp have all done this at scale. Why does this work? Simply put, acquiring customers de novo is easier than getting customers to switch: - Many of the large software incumbents have hostages, not customers. Their customers would love to switch, but ripping and replacing existing software is risky and expensive. New companies don’t face those switching costs; they simply look for the best solution and evaluate based on merit. - New companies don’t need as many features to have a complete solution. - New companies have fewer stakeholders. You only have to convince the founders. Grow with your customers: If you attract all of the new companies at formation and grow with them, you will become a big company as your customers become big companies. Consider @stripe: many of Stripe’s customers did not yet exist when Stripe was founded. Some of those early customers later became large businesses in their own right. So when enterprises outside of Silicon Valley also needed to prepare themselves for a shift to ecommerce models, Stripe was an obvious choice, with plenty of relevant reference customers already in place. Incumbents, on the other hand, would much rather sell to existing businesses vs. companies that don’t exist now but might exist in huge numbers in a few years. They are bound by the rules of P&L (Profit & Loss) – and there’s no “P” for greenfield companies that don’t exist yet, just “L” (in sales, marketing, and product development costs). The startup, however, isn’t bound to a financial model – the startup doesn’t need one; it's still figuring stuff out! That leaves ample room for the startup to define the category. Graduation moments: In a similar way, software “graduation moments” (the moments when a startup begins to develop enterprise needs) also create opportunities to execute this greenfield strategy. QuickBooks may be great for single-product, single-entity companies, but once businesses add multiple subsidiaries, currencies, or more complex reporting needs, they outgrow it and require the controls, integrations, and scalability of an ERP like NetSuite. And you can now build a far better ERP with AI - just look at @RilletHQ. AI-native startup Bingo: There are many different categories of enterprise software. Enough to fill a 5x5 Bingo board and more! In each category of the Bingo board, there sits an incumbent that could be dethroned by an AI-native alternative. So, how does a new company win the game of Bingo? - Pick a square - Make a narrow wedge much better - Find a constant source of new customers - Rapidly iterate and add features to grow with your customers - Don’t be constrained by the division of existing categories If you’re building a category-defining company on the Bingo board - come and talk to us. cc: @arampell @astrange @a16z

An EA powered by AI is life changing. Cofounder @awwstn saw the need to deliver accuracy when you are dealing with people's time. AI humans = the people's secretary. Meet howie.com - now available to all! So thankful the team allowed us to invest early. 🙏

Remember pics of scooters in ponds? @wayneting has led a business where many very smart people thought the unit economics were impossible. Loved hearing him discuss Lime and his own personal journey with the best interviewer out there @HarryStebbings. Check it out 👇

Ready for a new amazing role in 2025? Pika is hiring: Founding Designer Head of Engineering iOS Lead Full-Stack / Backend Engineer Research Scientist / Research Engineer

Today we launched our Pika 2.0 model. Superior text alignment. Stunning visuals. And ✨Scene Ingredients✨that allow you to upload images of yourself, people, places, and things—giving you more control and consistency than ever before. It’s almost like twelve days worth of gifts in one 💅 Available now at Pika.art

Animation coming to life!

My London office commute for £7.33. Just a wonderful (and efficient!) way to move in a beautiful city with @limebike @Uber.

Huge congrats to the very talented and hard working @pika_labs team! 🎥❤️🐇

💎A truly premium banking experience for startups. If you'd like an invite to Arc Platinum, let me know! Congrats to the @join_arc team on the launch....the culmination of a ton of work. Excited to celebrate with you tonight! 🎉

If you grab one “must read” on LatAm each year, this is it and it dropped today by my good friend @JulioV of @AtlanticoPart 🇧🇷🇲🇽🇦🇷👇🏽

🪨Technical debt got you down? I'm thrilled to be behind @morgantepell and Grit to make it significantly simpler and faster to modernize your codebase. Beta open now! 👇🏾Thanks to @ramtinnaimi for pulling me in. 🙌🏾

Series A? New product? Purple scissors? Who's this?? 👀👀👀

Wisconsin pride for @PenzeysSpices! Adding Brady Street Cheese Sprinkle to every gift now. Glad you love it @hanrosols! ❤️🍿🧀

📖 Here is my new go-to gift for parents. Check out @xuezhao’s new book…sure to hit the mark for any working parent. Great Mother’s Day 🎁!