What makes stocks move?

💰 It's all about supply and demand.

Simply put: if more people buy than sell, the price rises, and vice versa.

Last week I completed 36 laps around the sun. Feeling optimistic about what the next orbit holds.

Hey there 👋 We're StockTalker AI. Our goal is to be your market-monitoring copilot - we'll handle the technical work and get you the info you need with plain language, not complicated commands. Here are a few alert ideas to get you started 👇

Weekend checklist:

1. refer 10 friends to Coinbase
2. retire

AI has made perfection cheap. Three signals that impress less now:

🌟 perfect CV (everyone's a superstar)
🎨 slick landing page (everyone's a design genius)
📱 seamless social media presence (everyone's a marketing guru)

Personal website updated. A long overdue refresh. New look, new projects 📈👶🏻

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Fact: documenting AI training data for EU AI Act audits is challenging 🇪🇺

Also fact: FaxNetz AI, a joint venture between the German finance/cybersec agencies guarantees tamper-proof audits via secure fax network:

Fact: Coffee commodity prices have doubled in the last 12 months 📈

Also fact: a Berlin coffee chain is sticking to its €2.50 cappuccino. LAP Coffee's recipe for success:

☕ small shop spaces
💸 aggressive pricing strategy
📱 digital stamp card
🤝 Community & Partnerships

You can tell a lot about a company by how they handle contract renewals.

German TV streaming service waipu.tv gets it right: a clear email with new pricing and plenty of notice, including a direct link to my account settings.

This also shows how confident they are in their product (rightfully).

Fact: Zalando is the only DAX company founded in this century 🤯

Also fact: German startups are often overlooked as they are not publicly traded.

Here are 3 success stories made-in-Germany I rely on almost every day:

I was lucky enough to spend the last 2 weeks in Curaçao. Here's a glimpse of some of the memories made on it's stunning coastline.

The so-called Amazon tower in Berlin's Friedrichshain district has become a very popular target for vandalism and protests even before the official move-in date. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

If Google really ends up having to sell Chrome, I would love to see Notion buying it. They are already expanding with calendar and mail so adding a browser as well doesn't seem like such a long shot.

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

As a true tech person, I had to make use of the custom domain feature on Blue Sky. Such a smart feature, especially for brands.