Alex Taussig
@ataussig
Board Member, Global Tech Investor, Digital Commerce Specialist. @LightspeedVP: @ArchiveResale @Faire_Wholesale @Foundforbiz @Keychain_ai @Vinted @Whatnot @Zola
🇱🇹 After spending last week in Lithuania with the @Vinted team, I was pleased to see the company announce its 2024 financial results yesterday: 💶 €813.4 million revenues (+36% YoY), €158.9 million Adj. EBITDA (+19.5% margin), and €76.7 million net income (+330% YoY). 👗In…
AI has taken 2 years for orgs to metabolize, but now it’s table stakes; AI will increase, not decrease, demand for new grads who are natively fluent with the most recent tools. At entry-level salaries, they can be multiples more productive than peers hired only 3 years prior.
But, plot twist: The much-discussed contraction in entry-level tech hiring appears to have *reversed* in recent months. In fact, relative to the pre-generative AI era, recent grads have secured coding jobs at the same rate as they’ve found any job, if not slightly higher.
Matt played drums for both @PearlJam and @soundgarden. Defined a generation of drums, and backed up two of the best singer/songwriters ever.
Messages from Matt and the band: After 27 fantastic years, I have taken my final steps down the drum riser for the mighty Pearl Jam. Much love and respect to Jeff, Ed, Mike and Stone for inviting me into the band in 1998 and for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime, filled…
A @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN + @SleepToken crossover would break the internet.
Good Morning.
It is very hard to explain to Gen Z how insanely cool $dpz pizza tracker was.
this but for parts
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"Like it or not, Sleep Token are the metal sensation of the decade." Vessel and pals prove their doubters wrong during spellbinding Download headline set loudersound.com/bands-artists/…
This is a great explanation of something a few ppl understand.
Tired: every app is a dating app Wired: every app is an opportunity to drop niche knowledge that’s been sitting in your brain yearning to find an audience
AVP was impressive engineering and product design without a clear use case. Apple Intelligence doesn’t seem to work properly. The Liquid Glass aesthetic makes everything harder to read. I hope Apple gets its groove back soon.
The past 3 Apple WWDCs 2025: Liquid Glass 2024: Apple Intelligence 2023: Apple Vision Pro
What problem does "glass" this solve? 🤷♂️
I'm a bit concerned with readability
I would love to know the direction of causality here. 🧠
Fast walkers have higher IQ & larger brains than slow walkers.
Can confirm I recently updated products I vibe coded 25% complete with AI six months ago and was able to take them much further to completion without much time investment
A cool way to frame it: If you can make something even 50% useful right now, it's still worth doing, because it will be 80-90% useful in 6-12 months.
I thought Dara offered a well-reasoned justification why Uber is well-positioned for autonomous vehicles
Not sure how many people realize that battery storage already supplies 30% of California’s electricity demand at peak. Batteries aren’t the future — they’re here now.
Poland really is a miraculous economic success story.
What happened in Poland is nothing short of an economic wonder, its standard of living will surpass Japan this year. Free market, hard work and entrepreneurial spirit are the only way to escape socialist misery and poverty. Congratulations Poland.
Granola 1.0 → category-defining AI note taker. Granola 2.0 → second brain for your entire team. Easy decision for us at @lightspeedvp to back them again in their Series B, led by NFDG (after we led their Seed and doubled down in the A). Congrats to the team.
The most up-to-date picture of your company isn't in any doc, wiki, or spreadsheet. It's in the conversations your team is having. Today we're announcing Granola 2.0. All the context from your team's meetings, in one place, accessible to you with AI. We're also announcing…
Watching #SleepToken blow up over the last few years has been really rewarding. 🤘
Sleep Token dominate the US Top 50 Spotify Charts with the entirety of Even of Arcadia. Even In Arcadia #5 Look To Windward #6 Dangerous #8 Caramel #11 Past Self #12 Emergence #15 Damocles #20 Provider #24 Gethsemane #28 Infinite Baths #43 Sleep Token take up 10 spots out of 50
Does anyone Uber prompting users to put pressure on Portland’s government in 2015 to avoid a ban? It worked.
NEWS in @punchbowlnews AM: @amazon will start displaying how much of an item’s cost is derived from tariffs – right next to the product’s total listed price. punchbowl.news/archive/42925-…
90% sequels. Thank goodness for Wicked. But even that’s technically a remake of a live musical. 😩
pretty crazy--every single highest-grossing film of 2024 is a kids movie.
What is everyone’s favorite co-pilot for a putting together a Google Slides presentation nowadays?