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The Hustle newsletter covers a mix of tech and business news including a startup campus in Austin called Proto-Town, Ikea's revived inflatable furniture line, and China blocking Meta's $2B acquisition of AI startup Manus. Additional briefs cover Spotify's Peloton partnership, a LinkedIn home sale for Anthropic equity, and a buggy AI typo plugin from VC Ben Horowitz.
Key Facts
Author Takes
Ben Horowitz's AI typo plugin 'Sinceerly'
The plugin meant to humanize AI emails was itself too buggy to use, ironically undermining its own premise.
Contrarian Angle
Selling a Home for Startup Equity Instead of Cash
A San Francisco homeowner listed his 13-acre ranch on LinkedIn asking for Anthropic equity in exchange for the $4.75M property, plus 20% of the stock's upside.
Uses illiquid private company equity as currency for a real estate transaction, bypassing traditional cash sales entirely.
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