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Joe Burrow spent 3 years as a backup at Ohio State. Two years after transferring to LSU, he won the Heisman and a national title. When asked about Tom Brady, he said, “Please don’t compare me to the best player of all time. Let me do my own thing.”
Ted Lamade argues that confidence isn’t about having more, it’s about calibrating the right amount.
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." — William Gibson
@GreatDismal
Everything is a trade-off
I told Morgan Housel about the girl who asked what age I became a millionaire, and the trade she said no to.
@morganhousel
A thoughtful story from our own Hamza Choudery:
"The American Dream lingers in our rhetoric, but its building blocks — a home that shelters, food that nourishes, education that empowers — are drifting out of reach.
Was the promise that carried families like mine across oceans, like a prayer in folded palms, reaching the next generation exhausted?"
"Focal is a robotic electric heating system that comes with AI-enabled hardware to detect people in the room and rotate the heater to warm them directly. It can self-adjust heat levels based on weather and individual preference, and turn off when no one is present."—@TIME Best Inventions of 2026
Eight Collab portfolio companies made TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
A landline for kids (Tin Can), a smartphone that does less (Dumbphone 2) and a bookmark that remembers (Mark II) among other gems.
Proud of the founders and amazing products.
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"Vanisher is a new sports performance fabric from @banditrunning that disperses and hides the appearance of sweat, while providing light compression and sun protection."—@TIME Best Inventions of 2026
Eight Collab portfolio companies made TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
A landline for kids (Tin Can), a smartphone that does less (Dumbphone 2) and a bookmark that remembers (Mark II) among other gems.
Proud of the founders and amazing products.
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"Demand for power is surging worldwide. Meanwhile, batteries on a growing number of electric vehicles are approaching retirement age. @moment_energy Megafactory 1 addresses both issues."—@TIME Best Inventions of 2026
Eight Collab portfolio companies made TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
A landline for kids (Tin Can), a smartphone that does less (Dumbphone 2) and a bookmark that remembers (Mark II) among other gems.
Proud of the founders and amazing products.
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"Ten years in the making and billed as the world’s most energy efficient, general-purpose processor, [the Efficient Computer] chip’s 'spatial dataflow' architecture cuts down on back-and-forth and delivers up to 100 times greater energy efficiency than conventional low-power processors. No small feat: as CEO Brandon Lucia sees it, the rising demand for computing energy is 'potentially [the world’s] most important problem to confront.'—Richard Eisenberg @TIME
Eight Collab portfolio companies made TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
A landline for kids (Tin Can), a smartphone that does less (Dumbphone 2) and a bookmark that remembers (Mark II) among other gems.
Proud of the founders and amazing products.
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"In a world of multiplying distractions, it’s harder than ever to concentrate while reading a book—and harder still to save photos or screenshots of interesting lines for future reference. That’s where Mark II, the brainchild of founder Eason Tang, comes in. It’s a smart bookmark that highlights text and saves it all in one app, making it easy to take notes without having to pick up your phone and risk losing focus."—Eliza Thompson @TIME
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Eight Collab portfolio companies made TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
A landline for kids (Tin Can), a smartphone that does less (Dumbphone 2) and a bookmark that remembers (Mark II) among other gems.
Proud of the founders and amazing products.
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"Some voice-recording rings raise ethical concerns: What if Bob from work doesn’t want to be recorded? But the @sandbar Stream doesn’t care what Bob has to say. It’s intentionally designed to record close-range speech, giving whispered thoughts priority over nearby people or ambient coffee-shop clatter." @HuffMatt @TIME
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"After spending a month using flip phones instead of smartphones in 2025, the Dumb.co team learned that even some feature-limited devices have too much going on." — Kevin Cortez @TIME
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Tin Can is a Wi-Fi-enabled landline network for kids that provides "a fun new route to independence, instead of focusing on what they're losing." — @TIME
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Eight Collab portfolio companies made TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
A landline for kids (Tin Can), a smartphone that does less (Dumbphone 2) and a bookmark that remembers (Mark II) among other gems.
Proud of the founders and amazing products.
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Congrats to the inventors, including:
@thinkwithmark @efficient_hq @moment_energy
@sandbar @thinkwithmark @banditrunning
Eight Collab portfolio companies made TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
A landline for kids (Tin Can), a smartphone that does less (Dumbphone 2) and a bookmark that remembers (Mark II) among other gems.
Proud of the founders and amazing products.
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1:1 time with @sophiebakalar is a gift, especially for aspiring investors. Get in her inbox:
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REEALLLLYY loving our new Caramel Apple / Halloween inspired merch collab with LONELY GHOST.
Which one are you snagging?!
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👏 Well deserved
We’re grateful to @TIME for naming Stream Ring one of the Best Inventions of 2026 in the Wearable Technology category
Meaningful moment for our small team in New York, and everyone who’s believed in what we’re building. This milestone is yours, too
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Your best ideas show up on a walk, in the shower, halfway through a run, and then they’re gone. Sandbar built a ring that catches them. We're not surprised that TIME recognized what we saw early.
Congrats @minafahmi and the Stream Dream team @sandbar!
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