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A profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/10/30/mercor-younge…

These 22-Year-Olds Are Now The World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaires
With a new $10 billion valuation for their AI recruiting startup Mercor, the founders are the youngest tech billionaires ever.

Israeli tech founder Maor Shlomo,
whose vibe coding startup Base44 sold for over $80 million when it was acquired by Wix,
said on the podcast “20VC” that “it’s relatively easy to create a vibe coding tool.”
“Every feature that we put out, we know that’s going to take either a few weeks or a few months for competitor to copy,” he complained.
It's trivially easy for competitors to copy your brilliant innovation.

Startups Using AI Have a Problem: Anyone Can Copy Their Awesome Idea
Millionaire AI startup founder Maor Shlomo admits that it's incredibly easy to copy other companies thanks to vibe coding.

Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-chen-trump-administration-scores-visa-for-founder-russian-propaganda-outlet-tenet

Große Anerkennung - Fendrich „zieht Hut“ vor neuer Springsteen-Hymne #News #Nachrichten

Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-chen-trump-administration-scores-visa-for-founder-russian-propaganda-outlet-tenet
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p87#a251229p87

The Trump administration helps Tenet Media's Lauren Chen return to the US; she lost her visa after a 2024 indictment alleging illicit funding from Russia's RT (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-chen-t

Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet
Tenet Media’s Lauren Chen is back—even though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.

Folks, you know Joy, my partner at Gaza Verified who is herself enduring Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza while trying to help her fellow Palestinians. Well, she’s gone and done the sort of thing Joy does, which is to use the money she had saved from her donations to pay for her aunt’s cancer surgery. She’s one of the most selfless people I know and I’d be very grateful if you could help with her fundraiser so she can afford to buy everyday necessities for her family.
This is her fund…

Joy's Voice: Empowering a Gaza Author
To My Dearest Donors,

Michał Kiciński, co-founder of CD Projekt and DRM-free digital games store GOG, has acquired 100% of the shares in GOG from CD Projekt (Vikki Blake/Eurogamer.net)
https://www.eurogamer.net/gog-and-cd-projekt-founder-micha-kicinski-acquires-10…

GOG and CD Projekt founder Michał Kiciński acquires 100% ownership of GOG
Michał Kiciński, co-founder of CD Projekt, has acquired 100 percent ownership of GOG, the DRM-free digital games store.

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/poli

California Crypto Billionaires Plan to Spend Tens of Millions on Moderate Candidates
Chris Larsen and Tim Draper, two outspoken Silicon Valley leaders, are planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to elect moderate state lawmakers this year.