A shout out today to Munjal Shah of Hippocratic AI. Their name came up today and amazing what they are accomplishing.

Healthcare startup Abridge tops $5 billion valuation in A16z-led financing round. – Reuters “The latest funding round, aimed at improving revenue cycles and bridging the gap between clinicians and billing teams, was led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz – also known as A16z – with participation from Khosla Ventures.”

Large PE funds Apollo Global Management, Inc. and KKR are surging today and back to down less than 15% year to date.

Career Builder + Monster file for bankruptcy. Amazing how this leader has fallen. Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an investor in the firm. “CareerBuilder + Monster, which once dominated online job boards, file for bankruptcy” – Reuters.  https://lnkd.in/gEr5ZiNB

No one saw this coming– Apple is the worst performing of the magnificent 7. It’s down 20% year to date. Tesla is down 15%. Alphabet Inc. is down 12%. Amazon is down 3%. Microsoft is up 16%. NVIDIA is up 9.5%. Meta Platforms is up 20%. Meta takes a shot

The ups and downs of being a white collar young professional. There was a period of time during Covid and the end of Covid where the white collar job market was soaking up jobs so fully that it was an employee’s market. Now we see big accounting and consulting firms

The scary reason the ride share companies are surging. Uber is up 50% year to date and Lyft is up 22% year to date. Tesla is rebounding for a similar reason. Each company increasingly sees a future with cars and not drivers. While there may be no way around this,

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Under Armour’s stock rose 13% Friday. However, the company should scare investors. Two key things happened. First, Under Armour obtained $400 million in debt at a price tag of 7.25%. This was good news solely because Under Armour was able to get the debt. The debt replaces debt that it

NVIDIA’s revenues surged in the first quarter by 69% despite all the concerns regarding curbs on selling to China. “Revenue reached $44.06 billion for its fiscal first quarter, a 69% increase that was curtailed by Washington’s new limits on China chip sales”. The Wall Street Journal. Nvidia opens the day

The markets point up this morning. “US stock futures turned higher on Monday, with oil prices paring gains as markets grew cautiously optimistic over Iran’s next move after the US entered the Middle East conflict at the weekend.” Yahoo Finance.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board offers strong praise for the President’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities. This is thought provoking because the praise by the Journal of this Trump administration has been very sparse this presidency. “Trump Meets the Moment on Iran”. “The WSJ continues President Trump’s decision to

A special thank you today to  Virginia Egizio, CMP and Jessica Cole.

It was great yesterday to visit with Lance Armstrong. Fascinating. Great to also see mountain biking legend Brandon Frazier.

Congratulations to Commure and team on their recent raise from General Catalyst.