Diego Meller
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Diego Meller shared thisCool stuff 🚀Diego Meller shared thisWe're hiring a Head of Business Development. This may be one of the most exciting opportunities to work on hard problems, join the rapidly growing space industry and have massive impact. Building in space depended for a long time on launch capacity going up and cost going down. That trend is now clear and accelerating. The future of space, we believe, now depends on something else: deploying and controlling very large structures in orbit. That's what we're building at Gama. We develop the technology to build, deploy and control large surfaces in space - from drag sails for satellite deorbitation to very large solar arrays that will power the next generation of space infrastructure. With an exceptional team of engineers from across the world, including leadership from SpaceX, we've already flown our first mission and are now scaling toward what comes next. We're hiring a Head of Business Development to build this function from the ground up. This is a true entrepreneurial role: you'll hire the team, drive company-wide projects and shape how we go to market across Europe and internationally, working alongside some brilliant engineering minds. If you want to shape the future of a company redefining how we build in space, this one's for you. And if you know someone outstanding who might be a good fit, please let me know! https://lnkd.in/eqeQrM_6
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Diego Meller shared this💡 Tomorrow is April Fools and it's my duty to remind you that this exists: https://lnkd.in/gGF_Hrdr You’re Welcome. 🍸AI Fake News Generator - Create Satirical Articles | The New Pork TimesAI Fake News Generator - Create Satirical Articles | The New Pork Times
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Diego Meller shared this👏🎬 Great stuff.Diego Meller shared thisWhen your 90-second pitch video accidentally becomes a 2-minute short film about progesterone, surrealism, and anthropology. We regret nothing. The most brilliant women in history were making decisions about their bodies without the biological data to understand what was happening to them. Give Zero is the health intelligence engine built for the transition nobody prepared women for. $2.6B flowed into women's health in 2024. Investors are finally seeing what we've always known: this is one of the most chronically underserved markets in healthcare. DMs open. Watch what we built. 👇
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Diego Meller shared thisIf you have problems sleeping and you are not using Rest, I don't know wtf you are doing. Martin spent years working on this and it shows. Well done. 👏😴Diego Meller shared thisLast night Rest showed up where insomnia actually lives: TikTok Shop at 3am. This Sleep Awareness Week, we didn't want to talk about sleep during the day. We wanted to find people at the exact moment insomnia has them in its grip — scrolling, making bad decisions ("late night mistakes"), doing anything but sleeping. Streamers went live teasing sleep "hacks" — cooling pillows, melatonin gummies, panda-eye concealers. All of it a setup to offer something actually backed by science that works: Rest. In one night, we partnered with creators reaching a combined audience of over 500,000 people. People who were wide awake when they wanted to be sleeping. We met them in their worst moment and offered them a real way out — an AI-powered sleep program built on real clinical science, not another band-aid. Because this Sleep Awareness Week there's no shortage of awareness that sleep matters. What's missing is awareness that effective solutions actually exist. If you or someone you know is struggling with sleep, this Sleep Awareness Week we're offering 50% off: https://sleepl.ly #SleepAwarenessWeek #LateNightMistakes #RestApp #StartSleepingGetDreaming
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Diego Meller shared thisThis. 100%.Diego Meller shared thisA lot of SF startups talk about 9/9/6. There's a reason. Working harder and faster than your competition is a real advantage. Especially now, when a small, focused team can move at a pace that was impossible five years ago. But 12 hours in the office, 6 days a week? That's often performative. And for many people - especially parents - it's not realistic. I have two young kids. I’m not going to miss 6 out of 7 bed times every week. Every time someone joins Veritus, I give them the same speech. We work super hard here - evenings, weekends, early mornings. When we're launching a client or in a critical deployment, everyone needs to be all-in. That's not negotiable. But I also tell them: figure out how it fits your life. We're not tracking hours. We're not rewarding people for being seen at their desks. We're rewarding people who move the needle. It’s not unusual for me to be up at 5:30am for an hour of work before the kids are awake. Quick workout once the nanny arrives. Office. Dinner and bedtime with the family. Then back to my laptop until 10pm. It's a sprint. But it's a sprint built around my life. Performative exhaustion doesn't build great companies. Sustainable intensity does.
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Diego Meller shared thisGreat opportunity to work with a great team or make $5k if you know someone…Diego Meller shared thisI'm hiring a 'Senior Mobile SDK Engineer' to join the Appstack team. If you know anyone who is in the top 1% in their field, do me a favor and introduce me, and you could win $5,000. Ideally, it must be based in Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷 Link to the job description: https://lnkd.in/dzK4Ntyv
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Diego Meller liked thisAnnouncing a cool one: the CloudX CLIDiego Meller liked thisMost monetization work follows a familiar loop: check the numbers, inspect the setup, make a change, validate it, run an experiment, keep the winner or roll it back. That loop should be easier to run — for both humans and agents. Today we're launching the CloudX CLI: a new interface for working with CloudX that can be automated, adjusted, and configured to your very specific needs. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gZX45w2b
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Diego Meller liked thisDiego Meller liked thisEveryone's talking about AI replacing engineers. Meanwhile, every company I talk to can't find them. Senior AI engineers. Not prompting enthusiasts. Not bootcamp grads. Real engineers with real experience shipping real products. The US market? Tapped. Roles take months to close. Comp is $250k+. Your best candidate took another offer. So we did something about it. We mapped 15,000+ senior AI engineers across Latin America. Advanced degrees. US company experience. Same timezone. Half the cost. Available now. Not junior. Not mid-level. The kind of people you'd fight over in San Francisco. We're running working sessions with some companies. Not a pitch. Actual work: your hiring roadmap, comp benchmarks, 2-3 senior profiles matched to your specific role. So, are you actively trying to hire senior AI engineers right now? If so, how long has that role been open? Drop it in the comments or reach out directly to me, Lucas, Valentina, Rodrigo, Juanse. This is a tipping point. We know. We see the problem every day. And we think LatAm is the answer. Again.
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Diego Meller liked thisI will never again take breathing for granted. Our bodies have an autonomous kill switch for anxiety, when we suddenly sigh or do that double intake breath, our bodies are resetting the oxygen and CO2 balance. Having excess CO2 in our bloodstream creates that loop of anxiety, it's a physical state. While anxiety is triggered by emotions and thoughts, the state it creates in our bodies is very much physiological. It turns out we have a way to 'manually' activate that kill switch! You all should try it. I have been using a physiological sigh to manage anxiety moments during the day and the annoying 3am wake up that kills my days. The mechanics behind it make so much sense! That double intake to fill up the lungs expands the collapsed alveoli (the pockets we have in our lungs), making the heart pump slower and the long release gets rid of excess CO2 which signals our brain that the threat is over. I have learned a lot from Sylvia Keijzer and so excited to see her work on the Give Zero platform. Don't miss this blog post about the connection between breathing and hormonal transitions. I for one will definitely go to her seminar. Stay tuned for a new feature in the app to test your CO2 tolerance and how to improve it with impact on your somatic symptoms as well as your fitness capabilities.Diego Meller liked thisEvery breath you take is hormonal. 26 years in Global Pharma, the majority in Women's Health, taught me a lot. I also realized that the most powerful tools are often the ones we overlook completely. Breathing is one of them. That's why I'm so excited to be collaborating with Pia Mancini, Founder of Give Zero. Breathing is finally getting the serious attention it deserves as a real, accessible approach to navigating menopause. No guessing, no overwhelm. Just science you can actually and immediately use. Because most women going through perimenopause or menopause are never told that their hormones are directly reshaping how they breathe. That the anxiety, the fatigue, the sleepless nights. These aren't just "part of it." There's a measurable, physiological explanation. And there's something you can do about it and retraining it. That's why I'm hosting a Free Female Breathing & Menopause Masterclass. 📅 Thursday 14 May ⏰ 19:00 – 20:30 One and a half hours that could genuinely change how you experience your body during this transition. DM me for details. 💙
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Diego Meller liked thisStill remember my first Eve Online Fanfest 15 years ago! Go Hilmar 💪Diego Meller liked thisAream & Co. is proud to have advised Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, Birgir Ragnarsson, Thorbjorg Saemundsdottir, and Adrian Blunt on the management buyout of Fenris Creations (fka CCP Games) from Pearl Abyss. Congratulations to management and the wider team on a landmark transaction! It was a real pleasure to work alongside a leadership group that has built and stewarded one of the most enduring virtual universes in the video game industry. We are equally excited to see Google DeepMind as both a minority investor and research partner, with EVE Online set to become a uniquely rich environment for advancing AI in complex, dynamic systems. This is a defining moment for the company and its community, and we look forward to seeing the next stage of growth as an independent entity.
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Diego Meller liked thisDiego Meller liked thisAn incredible day at the Space Economy Summit Europe in Lisbon, bringing together leading voices from across the space ecosystem. Our CEO & Founder, Emiliano Kargieman, had the opportunity to take part in a meaningful discussion alongside industry leaders, government representatives, and partners, exploring the future of the space economy and collaboration. We’re proud to be part of these important conversations shaping what’s next for the industry.
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Diego Meller liked thisDiego Meller liked this$867 billion. That's what poor sleep costs US companies every year by our analysis. Almost none of them are measuring it. I've seen this up close building Rest. Sleep deprivation doesn't show up on any dashboard, but it's quietly behind a lot of what companies chalk up to "low engagement" or "burnout." And before it's a business problem, it's a human one. Chronic sleep loss doesn't just dent performance, it erodes how present people can be in their own lives. We decided to make the cost impossible to ignore. Today we're releasing the Sleep Tax Report. It's the most thorough and up-to-date analysis of sleep's economic impact we've seen anywhere. Bottom-up methodology. 158 million US workers modeled. Every Fortune 500 company analyzed from their 10-K filings. Grounded in peer-reviewed workforce sleep research. The findings: → $428B to $867B in annual revenue at risk across the US economy → $2,700 to $5,400 lost per worker, per year → 13% of all workplace injuries linked to poor sleep Every large employer in this country is losing a meaningful share of output to something their leadership can't see on any dashboard. If you run a team and have never thought about sleep as a business problem, this report is worth your time. Find the full methodology, Fortune 500 breakdowns, and industry-by-industry data inside. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gshvpcm6 Have you talked about sleep with your team?
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Diego Meller liked thisDiego Meller liked thisWe’re excited to welcome Matt Clark, Brett Davis, and Jonathan Lee to our global sales team. They bring deep experience across defense and intelligence, reinforcing our ability to support government customers as demand for persistent, sovereign geospatial intelligence continues to grow. Members of our executive and global sales team will be attending #GEOINT this week. If you’re attending, we’d be glad to connect. ➡️ Read the full press release: https://lnkd.in/dK-w9APUSatellogic Expands Global Sales Force with Senior Defense and Intelligence Industry Veterans - SatellogicSatellogic Expands Global Sales Force with Senior Defense and Intelligence Industry Veterans - Satellogic
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Diego Meller liked thisDiego Meller liked thisI first worked with Jim Payne when I joined MoPub, at a time when the mobile ecosystem was still taking shape. The market’s direction wasn’t clear yet, but something big was underway. This moment feels familiar. The app ecosystem has matured, but many of the hardest problems remain: transparency, control, complexity, and better outcomes for publishers and buyers. What’s different now is the technology. AI, agents, and automation are creating an opportunity to rethink how the market operates and take on the tedious work that has always slowed teams down. That’s a big part of why I’ve joined CloudX as Head of Demand Partnerships, helping shape the buy side and build more direct, transparent connections across the app ecosystem. I’m especially excited about creating new paths for publishers to buy from one another and unlock more value across the market. Many of the people at CloudX are people I had the privilege of working with during my MoPub days. It feels like coming home, with a clear eye toward what’s next. Grateful to be back building with this crew, and excited for the work!
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Ian Balina
ZEC on Solana can be private again. Quick primer: Zcash is a privacy coin. Wrapped ZEC on Solana acts like a normal token, not the private coin people expect. Attention has jumped. ZEC is up 380% recently, so bridges rushed to bring it to fast, cheap rails. The catch: most wraps show balances and history to the whole world. That breaks the point of ZEC. If everyone can see balances, the asset feels foreign on Solana. Privacy should travel with the coin, not stop at the bridge. Encifher offers a fix. It re-wraps ZEC into an encrypted asset, eZEC, so balances and transfers stay hidden while still working with Solana apps. FHE means compute on encrypted data. Here’s the simple model. Your eZEC balance lives as ciphertext held off-chain in a data layer, while Solana keeps small pointers on-chain. Math proofs confirm each move without revealing amounts. Keys are split across a group, like a treasure chest that opens only when trusted parties agree. No single party can peek, and single-use accounts break linkability. Private swaps already plug into a leading DEX. My take: asset-level privacy will beat wallet-level tricks on big chains. When privacy sits inside the token itself, it composes cleanly with DeFi and keeps UX simple. Here’s my quick check for a “private” token: 1. Are balances hidden on-chain. 2. Can you swap it in normal DeFi apps. 3. Is linkability blocked with single-use accounts. If I’m wrong, it’s because wallet UX or compliance rules force teams to water this down and users fall back to public wraps. For newcomers: think of eZEC as ZEC’s privacy, restored on Solana’s speed. Same coin, but with secrecy that survives the bridge. That blend is why I’m watching this space closely.
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John Cowan
You can't reindustrialise with casino money. Dan G.'s piece "No Crying in the Casino" on the Odin blog is the sharpest diagnosis of venture capital's structural crisis I've read this year. He traces financialisation from 16th century bullionism through Carlota Perez's technological revolutions to the present casino culture. He's right about all of it. But the prescription has a gap. Gray calls for reindustrialisation, and the technologists building uranium enrichment, marine robotics, and drug discovery labs are exactly the right companies. The problem is that the capital funding them is still structured for extraction. The numbers don't lie. Total venture funding collapsed 69% from Q4 2021 to Q1 2025. Across every AngelList vintage from 2017-2024, the median fund returned less than $0.38 on the dollar. GP-led continuation vehicles exploded from $6B to $67B as fund managers found ways to sell assets to themselves rather than return capital. My partner James Thomason calls this the option premium problem. Installation-period speculation serves a real function: each startup is an option on a different configuration of the technology. The dot-com bubble built the infrastructure Amazon ran on. But venture capital's current architecture doesn't capture the option premium. It consumes it through fees and financial engineering. Reindustrialisation needs instruments designed for production, not speculation. Revenue-linked capital that pays investors from real performance. Permanent structures that don't expire before the technology matures. Governance that aligns stakeholders instead of creating zero-sum fights over liquidation proceeds. You can't build the deployment period with installation-period tools. The reindustrialists need reindustrialised capital. Full Venture Capital 2.0 edition link is in comments!
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Jason White
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Soma Toth
🚨 Politicians & brands are panicking over iOS 26 SMS filtering Next month Apple flips the switch on a new Messages filter that silently hides texts from numbers not in your contacts into “Unknown Senders” (and, worse, “Spam”). GOP Campaign treasurers are already warning of a $500M fundraising hole if those texts never reach lock screens. Before you start to panic too, I decided to try it myself: 1️⃣ Bought a fresh iPhone 2️⃣ Created a brand-new email & Apple ID 3️⃣ Installed the iOS 26 latest beta 4️⃣ Dug through Settings → Messages → Message Filtering Result: The “Advanced Filtering” toggle is OFF by default. Users must dive five taps deep to enable it. But once you do switch it on? Wow, it’s aggressive. It truly filters almost all messages that come from a phone number that isn't a contact in your book. My airline boarding pass → Unknown “Your table is ready” SMS → Spam One of my OTPs → Unknown Siri was supposed to sort “time-sensitive & important” messages. In many cases, it didn’t. This is what I expected - I can't trust Siri to set up a timer, let alone sorting my inbox based on context. 🤔 So why the industry freak-out? It looks like it's two-fold. 1) A few software companies and publications falsely spread the word that this feature is enabled by default. 2) Is because Apple is showing us exactly where they're going: unsolicited SMS is on borrowed time. 💡 What brands and marketers can do today ⚡ Ensure you collect explicit permission for sending texts ⚡ Earn the contact: prompt subscribers to save your number on day 1 ⚡ Raise the bar: every text must deliver real value or it won't be missed and will die alone in “Unknown” The only bullet proof way of keeping your texts out of the “Unknown” folder is having your number added to your customer's contact list. That's going to be the focus for most brands in the upcoming period. Regarding SMS marketing, the sky isn’t falling yet. But the forecast is crystal-clear: permission-based, user-controlled messaging is the new normal. Most ecommerce brands I see send promotional texts using written, explicit consent from the customer - usually with double opt-in. Although Apple is targeting the completely unsolicited messaging (like spammers, political fundraisers or voting mobilizers), the current advanced filtering hits these permission-based marketers too. The filtering is definitely too aggressive to be enabled by default but it shows where Apple is going. Sources: Business Insider memo citing a potential $500M hit to campaigns.
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