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What should investors know about Red Cat Holdings after its new partnership with Palantir Technologies? CEO Jeff Thompson explains how Red Cat is bringing AI-enabled drones to the battlefield, the company's outlook for revenue growth, and the potential long-term impact of artificial intelligence on war. Hosted by J.D. Durkin YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eUVZMDA4 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/e-zZZX8D Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/eMdZkRm5

Product velocity is key for any tech company. But people have very different ideas of what the defintion is, and what "high product velocity" or "shipping fast" actually means. Here's how we think about it at Public. First off, I see Public as a very high product velocity company. Probably 99th percentile. This was our product launch calendar for the year: 🚀 January → Options Trading • 5% High-yield cash account • New Portfolio UI 🚀 February → Pre-made Investment Plans • Inbox 🚀 March → Options referral • StockTwits acquisition • AI "Why Is It Moving" Alerts 🚀 April → Cash-secured puts & covered calls 🚀 May → Fractional bonds • AI-generated earnings call summaries 🚀 June → New Widgets • Order Queue • Magic Link • New History 🚀 July → Reverse Splits Progam • Integration with CLEAR • New signup screen 🚀 August → Multi-leg Options • New Public Premium onboarding 🚀 September → Income Hub • 9 new crypto coins • Public API • Premium Crypto Data 🚀 October → Options Strategy View • Treasuries Quick Buy • 7% Bond Account 🚀 November → Margin trading • CartaX acquisition • 12 new crypto coins 🚀 December → Index + Bitcoin Options • Retirement Accounts • Alpha AI standalone app for iOS • Key Moments Timeline (by Alpha) These are just the top 2-4 new features we launched every month. Many of them — such as Bond Account, Order Queue, AI generated earnings call summaries, AI Key Moments and Fractional Bonds — were literally world firsts. In addition to this you'll find bug fixes, scaling systems and infrastructure with user growth, making small improvements, and vendor maintenance, which is probably 50% of our backlog in total. To put this in context: We're 125 people at Public and ~half the org is EPD (engineering, product, design). I'm often asked what the key is to shipping this much with such a small team. We have native clients on iOS and Android, so its not like we're hacking speed at the cost of great UX as you would with react native for example. I don't know precisely. But a lot of things go into it. We keep a flat org hierachy with only three layers in the org: Leadership, managers and ICs. And we have no pure manager roles — everyone is also an IC (even Leif Abraham and I are IC'ing 30%–60% per week). We minimize meetings, maximize output. And although we have extremely high talent density, we don't pretend that is a substitute for hard work. Moreover, the goal is not to simply "ship fast". Rather, we focus on product velocity, because velocity = speed x direction. You have to ship stuff at high speed, in the right direction (i.e. stuff that matters to your users and/ or your business). We're hiring in very specific areas across EPD, and we keep an incredibly high bar for new hires, only looking for people who can come in and very quickly help accelerate product velocity even further. If you think that's you and you want to challenge yourself in the new year, contact Emily Kurtz, Tobias Tobiasen, Stephanie Lee or myself.

New: Retirement Accounts. Everything you love about Public, now with Traditional and Roth IRAs: public.com/IRA

Hut 8 is positioning itself to capitalize on several of tech's buzziest categories: AI, Bitcoin, and data centers. CEO Asher Genoot joined Leading Indicator to break down how the company is building a business with power, digital infrastructure, and computing at its core. In conversation with Ann Berry, Genoot unpacks: *growing intersection between energy and Big Tech *converting Bitcoin mining facilities into AI data centers *bullish outlook for Bitcoin and the role of Hut 8's strategic reserve *Partnership with BITMAIN and growth of the GPU-As-A-Service vertical YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dAV6Sc_w Spotify: https://lnkd.in/diBxTSU8 Apple: https://lnkd.in/d_bb4y7B

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AI is helping Docusign recover from a COVID hangover defined by growth deceleration. CEO Allan Thygesen joined Leading Indicator to recap the earnings report that sent $DOCU soaring 27% Friday and explain the company's new growth trajectory. FULL: https://lnkd.in/eDMm92PB

Allan Thygesen, CEO of Docusign, breaks down the company's recent Q3 earnings win, supported by new AI tools that can help lawyers review agreements and recommend contract edits. AI is helping lawyers work on the stuff that actually matters, says Thygesen. FULL: https://lnkd.in/eDMm92PB

Today, we're announcing a $135M capital raise, once again led by Accel https://lnkd.in/esEBNNFZ

Breaking up Ticketmaster would improve industry issues such as rough user experiences and bad technology, says Jack Groetzinger, CEO of SeatGeek. Groetzinger explains why he supports the DOJ’s actions. FULL: https://lnkd.in/eAexKQAp

Yesterday, the first Bitcoin ETF went live on Public for options trading. Today, the list keeps growing with $ARKB, $FBTC, $BITB, $BTC, and $GBTC. And remember, Public is the only investing platform with options trading rebates: public.com/signup