Danny Groner
@dannygroner.bsky.social
Director of Growth PR, Forecast Labs, an investment group. We help you grow your consumer-facing business more affordably.
I write about careers, community, and care in my newsletter. You can subscribe to it here: http://dannygroner.substack.com.
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Danny Groner
@dannygroner.bsky.social
· Jun 25
Buckeye and Me
Danny Groner has feelings…about the death of his therapist’s dog.
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An essay I worked hard on was published today. I hope you read it. memoirland.substack.com/p/buckeye-an...
AI startup valuations are doubling and tripling within months as back-to-back funding rounds fuel a stunning growth spurt
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AI startup valuations are doubling and tripling within months as back-to-back funding rounds fuel a stunning growth spurt | Fortune
From LLM makers OpenAI and Anthropic to specialized firms like Cursor, Harvey, and Abridge, AI startups are chaining deals together in rapid-fire succession and lifting valuations to stratospheric hei...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
AI startup valuations are doubling and tripling within months as back-to-back funding rounds fuel a stunning growth spurt
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I continue to attend all the shivas. I try to time it to attend when nobody else is there. I spent an hour with someone this afternoon who, likely because of the rain, was alone.
November 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I continue to attend all the shivas. I try to time it to attend when nobody else is there. I spent an hour with someone this afternoon who, likely because of the rain, was alone.
I have people to speak about BFCM tomorrow, if you're looking for founders who participated this year.
November 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I have people to speak about BFCM tomorrow, if you're looking for founders who participated this year.
Good listen. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m...
The Shocking Crash That Led One County to Reckon With the Dangers of E-Bikes
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November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Good listen. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m...
"Clune Construction said it is trying to ensure workers have access to the same creature comforts as white-collar workers, including break tents and perks like periodic free lunches. Around 70% of the company’s revenue is from data-center work, a figure that has roughly doubled in the past year."
Data Centers Are a ‘Gold Rush’ for Construction Workers
Surging demand for workers means six-figure pay and more perks.
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November 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Clune Construction said it is trying to ensure workers have access to the same creature comforts as white-collar workers, including break tents and perks like periodic free lunches. Around 70% of the company’s revenue is from data-center work, a figure that has roughly doubled in the past year."
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Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
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Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
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November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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Okay folks, Thanksgiving is over, the year is wrapping up, and I am thinking about the year ahead. What are the stories you want to read more about in 2026 in food and health?
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Okay folks, Thanksgiving is over, the year is wrapping up, and I am thinking about the year ahead. What are the stories you want to read more about in 2026 in food and health?
Doulas Provide Crucial Care to Mothers. Medicaid Cuts Could Change That.
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Doulas Provide Crucial Care to Mothers. Medicaid Cuts Could Change That.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Doulas Provide Crucial Care to Mothers. Medicaid Cuts Could Change That.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/n...
"But I’ve realized that my troubles weren’t really related to what I do for a living — or even to my 21st-century attention span. They had to do with the sense of entitlement I’d developed as a reader. It was as if I expected authors to ask me personally what I wanted before they started typing."
Opinion | How I Began to Love Reading Again
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November 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"But I’ve realized that my troubles weren’t really related to what I do for a living — or even to my 21st-century attention span. They had to do with the sense of entitlement I’d developed as a reader. It was as if I expected authors to ask me personally what I wanted before they started typing."
"With so many millennials and Gen Zers currently needing significant financial assistance to purchase homes, Ms. Fry, the agent, is skeptical that the tradition of wealth transfers can be passed on." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/r...
They Cashed In. Now, They’re Helping Their Kids.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"With so many millennials and Gen Zers currently needing significant financial assistance to purchase homes, Ms. Fry, the agent, is skeptical that the tradition of wealth transfers can be passed on." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/r...
"The internet is where our moral battles are fought — in politics, in sexual ethics, in visions of the good life. And it’s time to admit that with this shift comes the end of subtlety, deliberation and notions of civility. Only a better troll can beat a troll." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/m...
The Athlete Trolling His Way Through Jiu-Jitsu’s Culture Wars
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November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"The internet is where our moral battles are fought — in politics, in sexual ethics, in visions of the good life. And it’s time to admit that with this shift comes the end of subtlety, deliberation and notions of civility. Only a better troll can beat a troll." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/m...
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the greatest privilege in the world is to have the agency to spend most of your time with people you care about
November 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
the greatest privilege in the world is to have the agency to spend most of your time with people you care about
These Rocketry Hobbyists Are Not Just Playing Around
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These Rocketry Hobbyists Are Not Just Playing Around
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November 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
These Rocketry Hobbyists Are Not Just Playing Around
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"And the addiction story does capture something real about our experience of tech — the compulsion, the phantom buzz, the reflex to check your phone when you know nothing is there. But while it tells us we’ve gone too far, the story fails to help us move through the world the internet has remade."
Opinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"And the addiction story does capture something real about our experience of tech — the compulsion, the phantom buzz, the reflex to check your phone when you know nothing is there. But while it tells us we’ve gone too far, the story fails to help us move through the world the internet has remade."
"I don’t think any of us thought that becoming a basketball coach, becoming a head coach in the W.N.B.A., was part of my track. In our community, there’s certain professions that sometimes we pursue, and that’s the track I was on. I just didn’t really know the possibilities, and neither did they."
She Walked Away From a Law Career. Now She’s Coaching in the W.N.B.A.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"I don’t think any of us thought that becoming a basketball coach, becoming a head coach in the W.N.B.A., was part of my track. In our community, there’s certain professions that sometimes we pursue, and that’s the track I was on. I just didn’t really know the possibilities, and neither did they."
"It traces back to the pandemic. Shuffling around in their suddenly shrunken universes, unsure of when a return to the “real world” might come, shoppers began craving shoes that were easy on their feet, and easier on their minds. They embraced the slip-on potato-shaped shoe."
The Potato Shoe Theory
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November 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"It traces back to the pandemic. Shuffling around in their suddenly shrunken universes, unsure of when a return to the “real world” might come, shoppers began craving shoes that were easy on their feet, and easier on their minds. They embraced the slip-on potato-shaped shoe."
"Being prematurely classified as old has negative consequences for both individuals and society. American businesses’ tendency to disfavor “old” workers cuts millions of people off from social networks, exposing them to greater risks of loneliness and social isolation."
Opinion | I’m 62. Stop Telling Me I’m Old.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Being prematurely classified as old has negative consequences for both individuals and society. American businesses’ tendency to disfavor “old” workers cuts millions of people off from social networks, exposing them to greater risks of loneliness and social isolation."
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News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
"The more persuasive explanation is that they are demobilized and demoralized. But it would be a mistake to blame them for this attitude. Older generations should instead recognize that the world we have created does not seem to offer a viable path to making change."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
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November 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"The more persuasive explanation is that they are demobilized and demoralized. But it would be a mistake to blame them for this attitude. Older generations should instead recognize that the world we have created does not seem to offer a viable path to making change."
"All these creatively shaped trails, I realized, added up to an international collective of athletes. Sometimes they intersected, coming together around the same loop, looking at the same trees and geese. But they were all on their own paths." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
The Social-Media Platform That Makes You Tell the Truth
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November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"All these creatively shaped trails, I realized, added up to an international collective of athletes. Sometimes they intersected, coming together around the same loop, looking at the same trees and geese. But they were all on their own paths." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
"When Josh Akinwunmi, 22, decided he wanted to try a different look, it was to change the way his clothes made him feel, not the way he was received: He was ready to hold himself in a different regard." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
Why Are Young Men Embracing the Quarter-Zip Lifestyle?
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November 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"When Josh Akinwunmi, 22, decided he wanted to try a different look, it was to change the way his clothes made him feel, not the way he was received: He was ready to hold himself in a different regard." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
On the Upper West Side, I spotted a dad and his three-year-old daughter exit a supermarket. The man was holding nothing. The girl was pushing in a toy stroller a gallon of Horizon Organic milk. No other groceries.
I wondered aloud whether they even required the milk or if this chore was imaginary.
I wondered aloud whether they even required the milk or if this chore was imaginary.
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
On the Upper West Side, I spotted a dad and his three-year-old daughter exit a supermarket. The man was holding nothing. The girl was pushing in a toy stroller a gallon of Horizon Organic milk. No other groceries.
I wondered aloud whether they even required the milk or if this chore was imaginary.
I wondered aloud whether they even required the milk or if this chore was imaginary.
Love this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/n...
Marriages, Kids, Careers: For 44 Years, They’ve Been Talking It Out
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November 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Love this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/n...
"Online shopping had been on a slow and steady rise for 20 years, but during the Covid-19 pandemic, adoption skyrocketed. Now, retailers don’t need to put on as big of an in-person show on Black Friday, because online sales are increasingly outpacing those in stores." www.cnbc.com/2025/11/28/b...
How Black Friday became a retail letdown: 'To sustain the ride, they started to dilute it'
Black Friday used to be the biggest in-person shopping event of the year, but for six straight years, online sales have outpaced stores.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"Online shopping had been on a slow and steady rise for 20 years, but during the Covid-19 pandemic, adoption skyrocketed. Now, retailers don’t need to put on as big of an in-person show on Black Friday, because online sales are increasingly outpacing those in stores." www.cnbc.com/2025/11/28/b...
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I wrote this weekend in my newsletter about the middle meddlers. You can find an excerpt below.
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You can subscribe to my newsletter here: dannygroner.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I wrote this weekend in my newsletter about the middle meddlers. You can find an excerpt below.
You can subscribe to my newsletter here: dannygroner.substack.com
You can subscribe to my newsletter here: dannygroner.substack.com