Last month we said a ceiling was forming at the top. August kept the M&A wave rolling. SpaceX closed its $60B Cursor deal. Stripe dropped $7.5B on OpenRouter.

Recently, Eric Yuan joined Victor Orlovski and his Stanford GSB Executive Education Program class for an hour-long conversation about building Zoom, AI, company culture, going public, and competing in the US.

The annual Inc. 5000 recognizes the fastest-growing private companies in America, and this year we’re excited to see three R136 Ventures portfolio companies on the list:

Quick backstory: the "tokenmaxxing" trend started with Meta's internal leaderboard, which leaked to the press and got yanked days later. Samuel Odio built a public version for the HN crowd. Connect your GitHub, you're on the board.

178 people, most of them running or building something real, pulled out of their companies for weeks. You sit next to someone who runs a business on other side of the world and you realize you are both stuck on same problem, just wearing different clothes.