Posts by Liam Redmond
VC Funding Hits a Record $510B as AI Swallows the Market
So far in 2026, global startups have raised $510 billion. This was even more than the amount invested in 2025, which was $440 billion. The surge was powered almost entirely by artificial intelligence, and OpenAI and Anthropic alone accounted for $217 billion, or 43 percent of every dollar raised. Those numbers sound like a gold…
Read MoreUpcoming IPOs 2026: SK Hynix’s Record Debut Reopens Doors
South Korea’s SK Hynix just raised $26.5 billion in its Nasdaq debut, the largest first-time US share sale ever by a foreign company. The chipmaker priced 177.9 million American depositary receipts at $149 each. On its first day, the stock closed about 13 percent higher, and the offering was more than seven times oversubscribed. For…
Read MoreExclusive | Kelly Bensimon and celebrity chef ‘lucky to be alive’ after terrifying head-on crash in Florida Uber
Kelly Bensimon just got a frightening dose of reality. The star of E!’s “Golden Life” and celebrity chef Andrew Molen were injured Monday afternoon when they were involved in a violent head-on crash in Sarasota, Fla. We hear the pair were in an Uber, which turned left onto busy Tamiami Trail and was rammed by…
Read MoreHow to Sell Online Without Building a Website
If you have ever wanted to sell something online but froze at the words build a website, this is your moment. A new wave of tools is rewriting how to sell online, and Hostinger just launched a platform that turns a single product photo into a working checkout link in minutes, with no website required.…
Read MoreAI Infrastructure Race Heats Up With Prime Intellect’s Raise
Enterprise AI infrastructure just drew another large round, as Prime Intellect raised $130 million in a Series A at a $1 billion valuation. The San Francisco startup, founded in 2024, builds open, decentralized tools that let companies train their own AI agents instead of leaning entirely on frontier labs. For founders, a deal like this…
Read MoreAgentic Commerce Arrives as AI Agents Start Buying
The era of agentic commerce officially arrived when Salesforce made its Agentforce Commerce agents generally available, letting AI assistants guide shoppers from discovery all the way to checkout. The launch puts three agents to work, and it plugs directly into tools like ChatGPT and Google Search. For founders and marketers, this is a signal you…
Read MoreJune Jobs Report Shows a Cooling but Steady Labor Market
The June jobs report showed the U.S. economy added just 57,000 jobs, a sharp step down from May and well short of the 115,000 that economists had forecast. The unemployment rate slipped to 4.2%, but that decline came mostly from workers leaving the labor force, not from a surge in hiring. For founders, this print…
Read MoreFour-Day Work Week Gains Ground as the Evidence Grows
If your team feels stretched thin and you quietly worry about burnout, the four-day work week has moved from a fringe idea to a serious option worth studying. New research in 2026 suggests that a shorter week can hold output steady while giving people back time they badly need. Running a company is hard, and…
Read MoreAfter embarassing first half, Giants forced to look at all options ahead of MLB trade deadline
The San Francisco Giants reached the All-Star break with a win, but nobody inside the clubhouse seemed interested in pretending the first 96 games were anything other than a hot mess. At 41-55, the Giants are now barreling toward an Aug. 3 trade deadline that could push the front office into a fire sale. For…
Read MoreGermany’s Startup Ecosystem Sets a New 2026 Record
Germany just proved that a startup ecosystem can still break records, even in a cautious economy. A new report shows 3,053 tech companies were founded in the first six months of 2026, the strongest half-year on record. More than a third of them, 1,038 in total, are built around artificial intelligence. For founders and marketers…
Read MoreRemote Work Trends Hold Steady Despite RTO Mandates
Remote work is not going away, even as the headlines shout otherwise. New Census-based data reported by Fortune shows flexible arrangements have barely budged in two years, despite a run of return-to-office mandates from large employers. The telework rate sat at 23.7% of employed adults in early 2025, up from 17.9% in October 2022. For…
Read MoreThe Loneliness Epidemic Is Quietly Building Real Businesses
If running your business has ever left you feeling isolated, you are not imagining it, and you are far from alone. A wave of founders is now building real businesses around adult loneliness, from curated dinners with strangers to sober social clubs and community apps. What used to feel like a soft, unserious problem is…
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