Grant LaFontaine and Logan Head launched Whatnot in December 2019 as a Funko Pops marketplace. Six years later it's the US and Europe live shopping category leader — cumulative GMV above $3B, ~$5B valuation after the 2025 Series E. The category the trade press keeps missing.
OpenAI and Anthropic super PACs spent $23M+ on one congressional primary. Lobbying got the headlines. The PR shops running the messaging did not.
Probook, a New York-based AI platform for home services contractors, raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia. The bet: dispatch is the wedge into a category where ServiceTitan is the incumbent.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife donated $25M to MAGA Inc. — the super PAC's largest donor by $5M — plus $25M to AI deregulation PAC Leading the Future. QuitGPT says 700,000 have pledged to cancel ChatGPT.
