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Dan Primack retweeted
Election Days are like going to the nice restaurant you've been looking forward to but all they serve for the first several hours is bean sprouts. There's just not a lot of actual knowledge or nourishment to be gained until they start counting votes.
Dan Primack retweeted
new election day record: the highest ever national average for gasoline and diesel prices ever on election day. $4.12/gal for gasoline, $6.28/gal for diesel.
Dan Primack retweeted
Tony and I have explored bringing Instacart and DoorDash together on and off over the years. We kept coming back to it because the industrial logic has always been clear.
Customers have 21 meals a week to figure out. Groceries and restaurant delivery each solve part of that problem. Serving customers well means bringing together the best of both.
As the biggest companies in the world move deeper into this market, retailers and restaurants need the technology and service to compete. They shouldn’t have to become technology companies themselves to stand a chance. Bringing Instacart and DoorDash together can give them a stronger partner in that fight.
For shoppers and Dashers, the opportunity is equally straightforward: less time waiting between orders, more time earning.
I’m incredibly proud of what we built at Instacart and grateful to everyone who helped make it possible. Tony is an extraordinary entrepreneur and leader. I’m excited for Instacart to be part of a founder-led company again, and I can’t wait to see what these two teams build together.
@t_xu @DoorDash @Instacart
Dan Primack retweeted
BREAKING @FT
Weil, Gotshal & Manges plans to tell partners on Wednesday afternoon the law firm should dissolve, a decision that marks a stunning downfall for what was until recently one of the US’s largest and most prestigious.
ft.com/content/0476f216-0060…
Dan Primack retweeted
First Scoop: OpenAI is buying Google's AI chips.
It's a big win for Google’s TPU chip business, which is a growing challenger to Nvidia. Also follows Oracle, which today said it would buy and rent out TPUs to customers.
Talk to Barwick, folks!
theinformation.com/articles/…
Dan Primack retweeted
Amanda Seyfried might- in addition to her Emmy for portraying Elizabeth Holmes- win an Oscar for portraying Elizabeth Holmes. That means she'll only need to win a Tony for Theranos: The Musical and a Grammy for Diagnose My Heart (feat Pitbull) to get the EEGOT (Elizabeth EGOT)
Dan Primack retweeted
Five thoughts on the Anthropic IPO axios.com/2026/10/27/anthrop…
Dan Primack retweeted
NEW: Anthropic is telling investors it could be singled out for government retaliation over its AI safety positions -- and it has no plans to back down.
axios.com/2026/10/26/anthrop…
Dan Primack retweeted
Anthropic to investors: Trump hates us so much axios.com/2026/10/26/anthrop…
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Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization axios.com/2026/10/25/anthrop…
Dan Primack retweeted
I do not at foreclose the possibility of various sorts of political shenanigans even after Vucic’s concession but this extraordinary result in Serbia is what happens when people show up: in the streets, at the ballot box. That’s the lesson. If you care about democracy, show up.
Dan Primack retweeted
BREAKING: Meta hit with $25 billion penalty for misleading Facebook users axios.com/2026/10/21/meta-25…
Dan Primack retweeted
Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
Dan Primack retweeted
So @TylerShultz_ as a Theranos whistleblower. And he wrote the piece you need to read about ‘You Can See Everything.’
Elizabeth Holmes is still lying, he says. And the filmmakers, while creating a great piece of art, fall short on looking outside the walls of her apartment to document that.
One key detail: "My wife had to squeeze my arm to prevent me from jumping out of my seat in the theater and screaming, THAT IS NOT THE DEVICE."
Again, that device Holmes showed? It's not the one we're talking about!!!!
Having seen the film, I basically agree with Tyler's take.
statnews.com/2026/10/19/eliz…
Dan Primack retweeted
A few readers have taken me to task for “missing the point of the film,” which is apparently that Elizabeth Holmes is unknowable and everything is ambiguous. Here’s my response: She went after Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung with everything she had. I was threatened with litigation on a daily basis for months on end. It was a ruthless cover-up of a breathtaking fraud, and she was at the controls. Just a little context for those who have forgotten or didn’t follow the original story. By the way, I loved the film. #BestPicture, IMO.
A ton of people have asked me for my thoughts about “You Can See Everything,” the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Here they are: nytimes.com/2026/10/17/busin… via @NYTimes
Dan Primack retweeted
Scoop: Trump wanted to hire @MariaBartiromo as press sec before picking Zacharia, but POTUS was told no, 2 senior admin officials told @axios
"She's no longer on air but she's still on the Fox payroll & the taxpayers can't compete with that,” said one
axios.com/2026/10/16/trump-k…
Dan Primack retweeted
Scoop: Anduril has kicked off a tender, capped at $1.3 billion, at around a $90 billion valuation - current/formers have a few weeks to decide
w/ @RebeccaTorrenc5, @EdLudlow & @KatrinaManson
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
