Yesterday, I was happy to share the news that Stripe could be worth over $100 billion. Today, it is unsurprising that the private market may be valuing SpaceX at $74 billion: It’s unusual for Sequoia to make new investments at such a high valuation. At least one of the firm’s…

Going to bed means listening to something that makes me laugh. One podcast I listen to weekly is “The Jeselnik & Rosenthal Vanity Project.” Link The podcast is hosted by two college friends, one of whom is comedian Anthony Jeselnik. I first watched Anthony Jeselnik perform at the “Comedy Central…

Walter Isaacson wrote biographies on Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Kissinger. But he also wrote a book called “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.” Link One of my favorite anecdotes from that book was about high…

I’m making a traveling shortlist for 2022. It may include visiting Qatar to watch the FIFA World Cup. There’s a chance I’ll opt for Airbnb ($ABNB) stays over hotels, except in Qatar. One commonality between the two lodging experiences might be Roku ($ROKU). I’ve never owned any hardware iteration of…

Scheduling a late afternoon ophthalmologist appointment and then beginning to type on a screen that looks illegible is a self-inflicted wound. And yet, here I am. Albeit delayed. Speaking of vision, let’s talk about Vision. When I officially began my Disney+ ($DIS) subscription last month, I hadn’t planned to watch…

I’m on book number five of 2021. It is “Ready Player Two” by Ernest Cline. Link I enjoyed the first book “Ready Player One.” Link But I was disappointed by the film, direct by Steven Spielberg. Link The book sequel was released last November, and the publisher partnered with Roblox…

Do I have a Twitter ($TWTR) alert set for every Elon Musk tweet? Yes. Do I pay attention to any not related to SpaceX launches or a new Tesla ($TSLA) model car? No. But what about Dogecoin ($DOGE.X), you ask? Hard pass. Matt Levine says it better: Dogecoin is GameStop…

I haven’t coded anything in a couple of years. Codecademy used to be a daily stop for me, but that time’s been replaced by Duolingo, where my streak of practicing Italian is up to 819 consecutive days. Coding takes a bit of vision and concentration… but mainly a reason to…

This year, Valentine’s Day falls on a Sunday. Had Valentine’s Day fallen on a weekday between Tuesday and Thursday, I’d suspect that one of those would’ve been an ideal date for Bumble ($BMBL) to IPO. Alas, next Thursday is the closest workday that marries attention of the stock market’s dollars…