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Thrilled to announce that @a16z is leading @function's Series A! Thank you @swerdlin, @drmarkhyman, and the team for making 100 years the new 20! a16z.com/announcement/i…

Investors love to say that we're in a new era for growth thanks to AI. But beyond the top 0.01%, what does this mean? How fast is the average startup ramping revenue? @mandrusko1 + I pulled data across pitches @a16z to build an AI growth benchmark 👇

IN NEWS: @slingshotai_inc raises $93M for AI Therapy. We asked founders @neilparikh and @danielreidcahn about how they're reinventing therapy. "We're inventing a whole new modality of therapy. Crises might happen at 2 AM, right? Your therapist isn't going to answer the phone."…

Eat, Sleep, Speak to Ash, Repeat.

I’m excited to announce Ash by Slingshot AI, the first AI designed for therapy backed by $93M in funding from the world’s top mission-driven investors.

For years, we assumed consumers wouldn’t pay for software. Now people are happily paying $200+/mo for products like Claude, Grok 4 Heavy and Gemini. Not because they’re for everyone, but because they’re 100x better for someone. The free tier is the funnel. The real product is…

My summer plans >

This @function member’s story is inspiring, and we hear experiences like this daily. It’s a peak into what we are building, and why.

Function was just named one of @TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies of 2025.

Welcome to the era of “brainrot” education. With AI, you can learn calculus from Sydney Sweeney or have Taylor Swift explain what a Taylor series is. "It makes me think, to what extent are we going to see standalone AI Edtech products versus new formats and ways to learn that…

Impossible Tiny Desk🔈 Obviously this is not actually Christopher Wallace nor is it NPR Instrumentation from the very talented The Frank White Experience via YouTube 4o / Kling via @krea_ai / @hedra_labs / demucs

Excited to release our episode with Adam Neumann, @pmarca and @bhorowitz. I'm inspired by Adam tripling down on Flow by putting hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money into the company alongside us. That's conviction.

How do you build a moat in consumer AI today? You don’t. Whoever builds first, iterates fastest, and distributes best wins. Here’s a metaphor I’ve been using: Launching a consumer AI company is like ejecting a pigeon into the sky and willing it to fly. (Stick with me.)👇

Similar to a startup 10x YoY with $200k of ARR :)