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Mati reports that 11 Labs revenue growth accelerated sharply, reaching $100M ARR in 20 months, then $200M in 10 months, and $300M in 5 months.
Mati says 11 Labs' marketplace has paid over $22 million back to voice talent, enabling creators to license their synthesized voices, including for interactive content across languages.
11 Labs partners with celebrities like Matthew McConaughey and works on restorative projects, such as recreating voices for individuals who lost them due to illness.
JCal describes startups using ChatGPT for legal tasks like contract review and IP assignments, bypassing traditional corporate lawyers at early stages.
Tibo Lou Lucas advocates building many products publicly on Twitter to find a hit, arguing each new product compounds your audience.
His 11th public build was Tweet Hunter, which hit $1 million annual revenue in less than a year and was later sold to List.
Jason Calacanis built Pod Me, a podcast deep-link tool, for $11 and got 1.1 million views on a tweet showing it.
Jason Calacanis uses an Athena executive assistant at $36,000 per year and integrates them with his AI workflows for tasks like booking.
Tibo Lou Lucas suggests giving influencers small base fees plus high success bonuses instead of large upfront sponsorships to leverage viral potential.
Jason Calacanis predicts autonomous rides will reach 50% of all rides in six to seven years, but expects a regulatory pause if graphic fatal accidents occur.
Jason Calacanis argues Flock Safety should proactively address privacy concerns with clear data policies and community opt-in, not dismiss critics as terrorists.
Dave London says OpenAI's pivot from consumer to enterprise is evident; Chat GPT Work is a cargo-cult imitation of Anthropic's Claude app, focusing on revenue per token from code generation.
Peter Diamandis believes distribution is the new moat for AI models. Meta has 3.56 billion daily users, Google reaches 2.5 billion globally, and OpenAI has a billion monthly active users.
Elon Musk tweeted SpaceX will be worth more than Earth if it accomplishes its goals. Peter Diamandis notes Earth's material wealth is about $600 trillion; adding financial assets brings it to $1.7 quadrillion.
China's Long March 10B booster successfully landed on July 10th, a first for China. SpaceX's Falcon 9 has achieved 580 booster reflights; booster 1067 flew its 36th mission on July 11th.
MX proposed a physical art authentication system using Bitcoin vanity addresses and OpenDime hardware wallets before CoinKite developed the SAT chip, aiming to start conversations with non-bitcoiners.
MX is hiring a full-time project manager, preferably based in Alberta, to handle logistics so he can focus solely on design and marketing.
SBI VC Trade in Japan launched a lending service for its yen stablecoin (JPY SC) offering a 3% annualized yield. David Bennett warns this smells like a scam, stressing the critical question is what generates the yield.
Researchers at TU Delft built Tribler, a decentralized BitTorrent client designed to be unstoppable, with funding secured until 2032. The project experiments with autonomous servers funded by Bitcoin.
Flipper Zero announced it will shift to community-driven development via GitHub, limiting team resources and requiring feature requests through GitHub discussions.
Founders report the highest optimism (71%), lowest burnout, and lowest layoff worry. Sentiment declines linearly with company size - employees at larger companies report worse optimism, higher burnout, and greater layoff concern.
Nathaniel Whittemore argues AI should be used not just for rote tasks, but for new capabilities. Successful users stretch themselves by building agents and tackling unfamiliar, ambitious projects.
Radar Chat was launched on July 7th, integrating Bitcoin payments into the Signal messaging app to leverage its existing user base and privacy-first design.
Vic Sharma targets capturing 10% of Signal's user base for Radar as a measure of success, noting Cake Wallet has 2 million users but serves a narrower crypto-only audience.
The Radar team sees stablecoin support via Spark as a future feature to serve users needing stable balances for remittances or funding dissidents, broadening the app's target beyond Bitcoiners.
Radar currently lacks direct desktop payment functionality because Signal's design reserves payments for the master device. The team is exploring a custom desktop app but notes linked messaging to Signal Desktop works.
Radar's initial revenue model will focus on fees from fiat on/off ramps and stablecoin services, similar to Cake Wallet, rather than merging full wallet features to avoid bloating the chat app.
Radar is available on iOS App Store and via GitHub for Android, as Google Play review delays persist. The team plans to add it to F-Droid and other alternate stores but recommends Obtainium for direct updates.
SpaceX's IPO raised $75 billion at a valuation of $1.75 trillion, trading today around a $2 trillion market cap on roughly $35 billion of forward revenue.
Brad Gerstner argues the AI TAM is the largest ever seen, driving revenue growth because intelligence-on-demand impacts every person in every organization simultaneously.