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Hey friends , Happy Friday and welcome to our 207th Weekly Dose of Optimism. It's Puja's birthday - happy birthday Puj! - and I'm taking the day off, so today is both late and light on commentary. Thankfully, the good guys didn't take the day off - lots t

Hi friends , Happy Friday and welcome back to our 206th Weekly Dose of Optimism! This is a few minutes late because I thought it was a pretty slow week and had it all set and then new stuff just kept coming out, including Anduril announcing that they've l

Welcome to the 2,538 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since our last essay! Join 275,867 smart, curious folks by subscribing here: Subscribe nowHi friends ,There are only two companies on which I've written multiple Deep Dives.The first is Ramp,

Hi friends , Happy Friday and welcome to the 205th Weekly Dose of Optimism! Yesterday was my daughter Maya's 4th birthday and we took the kids to the beach to spend time with family and celebrate, so I'm going short on the writeups. That said… MASSIVE wee

Hi friends , Happy Friday and welcome back to our 204th Weekly Dose of Optimism! The pace of all of this good stuff continues to blow my mind. We sent the Dose last Friday morning. It was jam-packed. "How can things get any better than this?" I asked myse

Hi friends , Happy Saturday! The past couple of days have been a technology business strategy nerd's Super Bowl plus a Pro-Progress Person's Super Bowl. Whenever you combine commoditizing complements with fighting the precautionary principle, I'm not goin

Hi friends ,Happy Friday and welcome to the 203rd Weekly Dose of Optimism. At least here in New York City, the weather is 10/10, it's a summer Friday, and you probably want to spend some time outside. So let's cut this intro short and here's an audio vers

Hi friends ,Happy Friday and welcome to our 202nd Weekly Dose of Optimism!As always, a big week here at the Dose. This week, we had a lot of good news come in pairs: two Saronic stories, two Austin stories, two robotics stories, and two open-weight model

Welcome to the 1,738 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since our last essay! Join 273,329 smart, curious folks by subscribing here: Subscribe nowHi friends ,Happy Thursday! Just about three years ago, I was having coffee with another VC, someone