#joe-cantrell

#joe-cantrell

Revolutions leave behind artifacts - not always weapons or flags, but the quieter objects that carried a message before anyone knew how far it would travel. A wheat-pasted broadside on a Los Angeles overpass. A hand-lettered cardboard sign held up in the snow outside a Tokyo office building.

You just have to immerse yourself in it. You should just constantly be building. That's what's going to give you the best chance of having the relevant skill set that is needed to make a difference in technology.

"Never ask what I would do, just do the right thing," said Steve Jobs on his deathbed, emphasizing the importance of individual decision-making and integrity.

David Sacks announced his transition to co-chair of the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, stating, 'I can now make recommendations on not just AI but an expanded range of technology topics.'

Our Multicloud database business is our fastest growing business - up 817% in Q2. Oracle is building 72 multicloud datacenters embedded within Amazon, Google, and Microsoft clouds, and has over 211 live and planned cloud regions worldwide, more than any competitor. That's the "chip neutrality" strategy in action: Oracle runs wherever the customer wants to run, which is why hyperscalers are signing contracts, not competing with them.

In posts on X and an opinion column penned for The San Francisco Standard, Hoffman writes: "We in Silicon Valley can't bend the knee to Trump. We can't shrink away and hope the crisis fades. Hope without action is not a strategy -- it's an invitation for Trump to trample whatever he can see, including our own business and security interests."

Initial fundraising reports from the first week of Matt Mahan's gubernatorial campaign filed Tuesday reveal the depth of support for the moderate Democrat from Silicon Valley executives and venture capitalists. Reports filed with the California Secretary of State show just 21 individuals contributed more than $1.6 million to Matt Mahan for Governor 2026 in the first two days of his campaign.

Wizard, an AI-native shopping agent cofounded by Marc Lore and CEO Melissa Bridgeford, is coming out of a nearly 5-year private beta with an ambitious promise: to end the era of endless scrolling in ecommerce and replace it with a personalized and streamlined shopping experience. Launched publicly on Feb. 11, the New York-based startup is betting that the next wave of online retail will be driven not by bigger marketplaces,

Business leaders who believe staying quiet about the Trump administration will protect their companies are making a dangerous miscalculation, says Reid Hoffman. The LinkedIn cofounder and tech investor said in an episode of the "Rapid Response" podcast published Tuesday that he rejects the idea that executives can simply wait out political turbulence. "The theory that if you just keep your mouth shut, the storm will blow over and it won't be a problem - you should be disabused of that theory now," Hoffman said.

California will lose its most important taxpayers and net off much worse. Even people who don't expect this initiative to pass are still planning to leave because there will be another one. You're permanently reducing the tax base on an ongoing basis to get a one shot. That's what a junkie does, a one-time shot.

So my thesis is that the internet, originally, was conceived as a very decentralized, communitarian network. It was funded by government money. And, in the late 80s, early 90s, when these libertarians came out of Silicon Valley, it changed radically. They understood that the internet could be a winner-takes-all business, and that there would be a single winner in search, a single winner in e-commerce, and, eventually, what developed as social networks; a single winner in that. And that's essentially what happened.

Silicon Valley's most prominent startup incubator will allow its spring cohort of entrepreneurs to receive their funding in stablecoins. YCombinator, whose alumni include the founders of Airbnb and DoorDash, announced on Tuesday that founders can opt to receive their customary allotment-typically around $500,000-in the Circle-issued USDC. Startups founders who choose stablecoins can choose to receive the tokens on various blockchains such as Ethereum and Solana, Nemil Dalal, a visiting partner at Y Combinator who focuses on crypto, told Fortune.

I'll run out of money.