Here’s why we believe @basepowerco can become the defining power company of this era. Excited to deepen our partnership with @ZachBDell, @JLopas, and the rest of the @basepowerco team!

.@mickymalka is the founder of @RibbitCapital — the firm behind Revolut, Robinhood, Nubank, Coinbase, and more. He bought his first share of Berkshire Hathaway when he was 13, in Venezuela, with money he borrowed from his grandfather. His grandfather charged him interest. He started his first company at 17. In his mid-20s, he put every dollar he had into launching a bank in Brazil for the 50 million Brazilians nobody else would serve. Micky is a quiet killer. Respected by the elite of the elite. When I asked @patrick_oshag how he’d describe Micky to someone who didn’t know him, he said: “He’s a mfing moneymaker.” Micky hates labels. The only label he wants is on his tombstone: “He was a rebel.” 0:00 Why Micky Malka Refuses to Be Labeled 3:00 Writing Your Way to Conviction 5:41 Buying Berkshire at 13 and Learning Buffett's Operating System 11:48 Token Factories, AI Bankers, and the Future of Money 18:38 The Infinite Game: Why It's Better to Be Behind 22:09 Gen Z Founders and the Chaordic Company 29:00 Why Young Founders Want to Build Atoms, Not Just Bits 34:29 Bringing Beauty and Taste Back to Technology 36:56 Revolut, Founder DNA, and Earning Deep Trust 45:54 Building OnePay With Walmart 50:53 From Lemon Bank to OnePay: A 20-Year Idea 56:00 Compounding Trust and Protecting Your Reputation 1:00:30 Node and the Rebel Case for Digital Art 1:07:34 What It Means to Live as a Rebel 1:10:50 Why Ribbit Is Built Like a Startup 1:14:41 Charlie Munger and the Power of Time Includes paid partnerships.

Every Ribbit investment starts with one question: can we explain the “why” on a napkin? As @Etched announces its latest funding round and shares more of what they’ve built, here’s what our Etched napkin says. @UbertiGavin @robertwachen

Grateful to announce our $300 million Series C. Firepower to accelerate our mission.

Today, we’re excited to announce @Evervault's $25M Series B, led by Ribbit Capital with continued support from @sequoia, @IndexVentures, @kleinerperkins, and @nextplayVC. This round comes at a time when sensitive data exchange on the web is going parabolic. Since 2019, we’ve been focused on building durable infrastructure for engineering teams to collect, process, share, and enrich sensitive data -- while keeping it encrypted at all times. We thought we were making good progress in encrypting the web, helping customers like @tryramp, @Rippling, @finix, @TheOverwolf, @Uniswap, @CarTrawler, and hundreds of others secure more than $5bn/year in payment flows and 100m+ unique tokens per month. But the past year has shown that our enemy -- plaintext data -- is getting stronger and more pervasive. Our vision is to build the clearinghouse for sensitive data, helping companies exchange sensitive data in a secure and encrypted way. This round helps us encrypt more of the web by further refining our developer experience, building deeper integrations with trusted third-parties, and increasing the value we can offer our customers for more data types. First and foremost, thank you to our customers. You trusted Evervault to sit directly in the flow of your most sensitive data (payments, identity, financial information, and more) and that trust is not something we take lightly. Your feedback, your requirements, and the problems you bring to us every day are what shape the product and push us forward. Thank you to the Evervault team. What you’ve built is genuinely special: infrastructure that lets developers process sensitive data without ever having to see it in plaintext. The pace, craft, care, and ambition you bring to work every day are what makes this company what it is. And thank you to our new investors for believing in the vision of making security architectural rather than procedural. We’re grateful to have partners who understand both the scale of the problem and the opportunity ahead. The internet still assumes that sensitive data must exist in plaintext somewhere. We’re building the infrastructure to change that. Onwards! More here 👉 evervault.com/blog/series-b?…

Today, Listen crossed $100M in funding. Building is easy now. Knowing what to build isn't. Our AI finds and talks to your users so you don't have to guess. See how Sweetgreen, Microsoft, and Replit use it:

Today, Listen crossed $100M in funding. Building is easy now. Knowing what to build isn't. Our AI finds and talks to your users so you don't have to guess. See how Sweetgreen, Microsoft, and Replit use it:

On the @theallinpod @altcap & @chamath brought up the "Invest America Account" starting w/ $10-$15M each (with a goal of raising $100M in short order), to give $2,000 to new borns to get the gov't off the sidelines. A $2K check compounding at 7-8% is $162K-$300K at the age of 65

Today we are announcing our $1B Series C, but money isn’t the story. The story is what we’ll do with it, and the scale of the challenge ahead. Our mission isn’t constrained by capital, supply, or demand. It’s constrained by talent. To build America’s next great power company, we need the engineers, operators, and creatives ready to take on the challenge to join us. Power is the most important product in the world. It runs through everything: our homes, hospitals, schools, factories, and future. And the grid that delivers it is breaking. At Base, we’re building the future of power so human progress can accelerate. In the past two years, we’ve grown from an idea into one of the fastest growing energy companies in America. Now we’re entering a new phase of growth. Our first manufacturing site is rising in the heart of Austin, inside the former Austin American-Statesman printing press. Here we’ll build our own hardware to meet surging demand and scale nationwide. This is a key step in putting a battery on every home in the country. Few teams get to say their work powers human progress. We do. With a billion dollars of fuel, our next wave of growth will be defined not by capital, but by people who choose to step up, take ownership, and build the next great American power company. The old system is breaking. Come build the new one. Our Series C was led by Addition, with participation from both new and existing investors including Trust Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter, StepStone, Elad Gil, 137 Ventures, Terrain, Waybury, Ribbit, CapitalG, Spark, BOND, Lowercarbon, Avenir, Glade Brook, Positive Sum, and 1789.