Martin Varsavsky

@martinvars

Nov 4

Krishnan

@cvkrishnan

Nov 4

The UAE lists 100 universities globally whose graduates can apply for the Abu Dhabi Golden Visa.
I don’t see a single Indian University in the list. adro.gov.ae/-/media/Projec…

Juhani Polkko@juhani

Nov 3

Adam Robinson

@RetentionAdam

Jan 1

$10M ARR is the FU MONEY of SaaS.

At $10M ARR bootstrapped, you and your co-founder clear $1M+/year in salary and dividends easily.

You can sell instantly for $30-40M. There are hundreds of EBITDA buyers at this level vs. a handful at $1B valuations.

From here, you can do whatever you want.

Hire a CEO and work 1 hour/week. Grind 100 hours if that's your thing. Raise $50M from a position of strength. Scale to $25M ARR with 25 people and pay yourself $10-15M/year.

Most companies never get here because VCs show up early with decacorn dreams and money you don't need.

That capital interferes with the one thing that makes you great: product-market fit.

Bootstrapping to $10M ARR is easier and less risky than creating a VC-backed unicorn, with a far higher probability-weighted outcome.

If you can find PMF and use customer money to get to $10M, you can do anything you want with your life.

Juhani Polkko@juhani

Nov 3

Justin O'Donnell

@ODonnell4NH

Nov 3

I've been driving Uber eats the past 2 days in Manchester, NH

The city is swarming with @TPAction "ballot chasers" they've bought out every hotel in the city and filled them with out of staters.

They gave all these imports Uber eats vouchers to cover meals while they're in town.

The vouchers expire tomorrow.
They've been ordering tens of thousands of dollars of electronics and video games from retail stores on the UberEATS platform.
I've had multiple orders for $250+ bottles of perfume from Ulta.

Multiple have asked me to help get them drugs.

A couple ordering video games from game stop told me straight up they're mostly phoning in the door knocking and just here for the paycheck, they don't support Trump or Sununu.

And above all, with few exceptions they are horrible tippers, and Uber is offering wildly inflated base pay to get their order volume delivered.

Republicans are spending how many millions of dollars to flood New Hampshire with apathetic out of staters who are just here for a subsidized party vacation with nightly bar crawls and club nights, and premature victory parties all while the candidates they're supporting slip further back in the polls by the day.

GOP donors are gonna probably want an accounting, if not a reckoning, of how badly @TPUSA has blown this election, and how much money has been wasted to give a few thousand grifting college kids a free vacation and a bunch of cash and goodies to go home with instead of delivering results.

Mikko Alasaarela

@alasaarela

Oct 31

Oliver Molander

@OliverMolander

Oct 31

Sweden the only country on par with the US in AI productivity

Not surprised

Riku Seppälä 🇺🇦

@rikuvs

Oct 20

Sandro 🇬🇪

@SandroG991

Oct 19

I don’t think Europeans fully appreciate what is happening to the European Union right now.

The EU is under an extraordinary, multi-front assault, both from outside and from within. And I struggle to think of another period in its history when so many powerful actors had an interest in weakening it simultaneously.

Russia has spent years waging hybrid warfare against Europe. Weaponised migration, sabotage, cyberattacks, coordinated disinformation campaigns, bot networks and political interference. The objective is clear: undermine trust in democratic institutions, deepen social divisions and weaken European unity.

China has different motivations, primarily economic and geopolitical. A fragmented Europe is easier to pressure, easier to negotiate with individually and less capable of defending its economic interests.

And then there is the United States. Perhaps the most disturbing development of all.

Under Trump and MAGA, a country that helped rebuild the old continent and then spent decades supporting European integration now has an administration openly hostile to much of what the EU represents. Its own National Security Strategy even calls for cultivating resistance to Europe’s current political direction.

Think about that for a moment.

Meanwhile, within Europe, parts of the far right and far left amplify these divisions, whether through ideological alignment, political opportunism or outright sympathy for authoritarian regimes.

This doesn’t mean Russia, China and MAGA are all following some jointly coordinated master plan. They don’t have to. Their interests increasingly overlap, and Europe’s internal divisions make their work considerably easier.

What makes this particularly alarming is what is actually at stake.

For all its flaws, the EU remains one of the world’s most consequential projects built around liberal democracy, the rule of law, individual freedoms and cooperation between nations.

At a time when authoritarianism is gaining ground and even longstanding democracies are showing disturbing tendencies, that matters enormously.

Europe is far from perfect. Its bureaucracy, indecision and inability to act decisively are real problems. But the answer cannot be to retreat into 27 competing nation-states, each too small to meaningfully influence a world increasingly dominated by continental powers.

Quite the opposite.

Europe needs deeper integration, stronger common institutions, genuine strategic autonomy and the political courage to defend its interests and values.

Because fragmentation is precisely what so many external actors want.

And perhaps that’s the central irony of our time: people are being deliberately manipulated into believing that the reverse is true — that national identity and sovereignty can only be protected by weakening European cooperation. In reality, a divided Europe is less sovereign, less secure and far easier for outside powers to pressure. Therefore the very thing that will make Europe stronger is the thing its adversaries are working hardest to prevent.

A united Europe is a geopolitical power. A divided Europe is a collection of countries waiting to be played against one another.

Tero Kuittinen@teroterotero

Oct 20

Lara Seligman

@laraseligman

Oct 20

Incredible scoop by my @WSJ colleagues: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration. wsj.com/world/ukraine-…

Vatnik Soup

@vatniksoup

Oct 18

Markus Mattsson 🇺🇦🇫🇮

@markus_tm

Oct 16

Satakunnan kansanedustajat @JiiViitala, @Eeva_Kalli ja @KristaKiuru vastustivat Ylellä venäläisen nikkelin tuontikieltoa. Omat ajatukseni videolla. Odotan vastausta.

Jos et halua, että jatkamme Venäjän sotakassan kartuttamista Harjavallan kautta, allekirjoita kansalaisaloite: kansalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/18171

Kysymykseni:

Viitala: Venäjälle maksetaan raaka-aineesta noin 1,4 milj. € vuodessa jokaista tehtaan työpaikkaa kohden. Onko se hyväksyttävä hinta, vai etsitäänkö yhdessä uusi omistaja ja raaka-aine muualta?

Kalli: EU maksaa Venäjälle nikkelistä lähes miljardi euroa vuodessa. Sen korvaaminen ei-venäläisellä nikkelillä maksaisi alle 15 senttiä EU-asukasta kohden. Kumpaa tuontikielto siis haittaa enemmän?

Kiuru: Latvia kielsi venäläiset maataloustuotteet kansallisella lailla. Miksi Suomi ei voisi tehdä samoin nikkelille?

Tarvitsemme 50 000 allekirjoitusta, jotta eduskunta ottaa asian käsiteltäväkseen. Allekirjoita, jaa ja kysy omalta kansanedustajaltasi, kannattaako hän tuontikieltoa.

#NICKEL22