Hands-on assessments of startup products, judged on the workflow they claim to fix.
A year after Meta's $14.3 billion stake took its founder and top customers, Scale is smaller in consumer internet and bigger in Washington — a documented pivot, not a collapse.
One company publishes quarterly numbers, the other publishes annual letters — but both records answer the same question: who is absorbing generative AI without breaking their business model.
Revolut became Britain's most valuable fintech on secondary sales and published accounts — a rare case where a private company's record can actually be checked, most of it.
Stripe re-rated from $50 billion in 2023 to $91.5 billion in 2025 on payments volume, stablecoin rails, and profitability claims — here is what the record actually documents.
Reported revenue is climbing faster than any software company in history — and so is the compute bill, which is the whole problem in one sentence.