GIBBI, Today

Mar 12, 2025

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They'd start our own investment firm and Jessica could work for that instead. As they turned onto Walker Street they decided to do it. Paul agreed to put $100k into the new fund and Jessica agreed to quit her job to work for it. Over the next couple days Paul recruited Robert and Trevor, who put in another $50k each. So YC started with $200k
The company wasn't called Y Combinator yet. At first we called it Cambridge Seed. But that name never saw the light of day, because by the time we announced it a few days later, we'd changed the name to Y Combinator
The reason they began by funding a bunch of startups at once was not that they thought it would be a better way to fund startups, but simply because they wanted to learn how to be angel investors, and a summer program for undergrads seemed the fastest way to do it
GIBBI View: Remember that last saturday, YC sent me a email where informed me that my startups GIBBI Carsharing wasn’t selected to participate in YC Spring 2025 batch; this is the 7th time that I participate and the 7th time that any of my startups have been selected (GIBBI Carsharing 3x, GIBBI 3x, GIBBI Super App); in the end the most important is that my startup can be established, get customers and generate revenues/money, so I’m working in achieve these milestones

Yesterday they were celebrating 5 million paid subscriptions on Substack. This comes less than four months after our co-founder Hamish McKenzie shared that we crossed 4 million paid subscriptions
It is a milestone that can be enjoyed in purely transactional terms: these are real people rewarding the work of writers and creators with real money, allowing them to achieve and maintain their independence
But 5 million paid subscriptions proves that they are well on our way to realizing it. And the best is yet to come. They are building not just a wealth of culture but an embarrassment of riches
GIBBI View: Next month, this blog GIBBI is going to turn 3 years and until this moment I’ve published almost 2,000 posts (newsletter, articles, podcasts, videos), and I think that 90% of my posts are written and talking in english, where english is my second language because spanish is my native language; I remember that I started this blog because I wanted to write/talk my own opinion about anything that I have in my mind, and improve my english, so I’m going to continue creating content here in substack and see if I can get subscribers and generate money/revenues, let’s see

Waymo will start offering robotaxi rides to people in its “Waymo One” early rider program in Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto, and “parts of Sunnyvale” starting Wednesday, an expansion that will bring its footprint in Silicon Valley to 27 square miles
Just last week, Uber users in Austin, Texas could start getting matched to Waymo vehicles on the ride-hailing app. Uber and Waymo plan to bring the same service to Atlanta later this year
Waymo also plans to test in as many as 10 new U.S. cities this year, including Las Vegas and San Diego — something it’s able to do thanks to a massive $5.6 billion funding round that closed late last year, valuing the robotaxi company at $45 billion
GIBBI View: This is a bad news to me, because this is affecting to my startup GIBBI Carsharing because now people/users will want to use robotaxi services instead of my customer to customer carsharing app; so I’ll have to pivot or improve my app to bring customers and generate revenues, let’s see

Cruz Azul defeated Seattle 4-1 on second leg, won the series 4-1 and qualified to CONCACHAMPIONS: Quaterfinals round; on first leg, Cruz Azul and Seattle tied 0-0 on Seattle
Cruz Azul dominated the game and had an “easy” game, where Cruz Azul since first half could “finish” it but Cruz Azul’s players missed a lot of goal opportunities; in the second half, Cruz Azul scored the other 3 goals, won the game and qualified to next round
Cruz Azul will wait for its rival on quaterfinals, where the winner of América vs Chivas series will play against Cruz Azul on quaterfinals; remember that Chivas defeated América 1-0 in first leg
GIBBI View: Cruz Azul was the best team in all the series because Seattle was always looking for the Cruz Azul’s error or send the game to penalty shootout, but Cruz Azul with better players could show ii the pitch and won the series easily; now, Cruz Azul will wait to rival and I think that it’ll be América on quaterfinals but it’s a classic and everything can happen

In a report released Tuesday, EDO found that TV advertisers spent $244 million on women’s sports in 2024, a year-over-year increase of 139%, with basketball receiving the most investment of any sport. That corresponded with a 131% year-over-year increase in women’s sports TV viewership
The highest-spending brands were State Farm, AT&T, Allstate, Nike and AbbVie’s Skyrizi, while the most effective brands for engagement were Skims, Poppi, Oura, Fabletics and Bombas
Overall, the most engaging women’s sports events for advertisers were college lacrosse, the U.S. Open semifinals and finals, the NCAA Tournament for basketball, college gymnastics and the WNBA Finals
GIBBI View: I’ve written before here that U.S sports teams (men and women) are a great assets to invest right now and for that reason we’re seeing that more companies are deciding to invest more ads in women’s sports

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