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Milk Road AI
03-22
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This is WILD. Peter Thiel just bet $2 billion on a collar that wraps around a cow’s neck. The company is called Halter and it has a proprietary algorithm that runs the entire operation. They actually trademarked the name for it and called it the Cowgorithm and here's how it works. A farmer opens an app, taps a button, and 600,000 cows across three countries start walking toward the milking station on their own. No farm dogs, fences or physical labor, it's just a solar-powered GPS collar sending sound and vibration cues to each animal. The collar does more than move cows around. It monitors digestion, fertility cycles, and health patterns in real time, 24 hours a day, using machine learning trained on the behavior of hundreds of thousands of animals. Halter was founded by a rocket engineer who built spacecraft at Rocket Lab before deciding that farming was the bigger unsolved problem. US ranchers alone have already used the technology to build over 11,000 miles of virtual fencing, roughly the full perimeter of the continental United States, saving an estimated $220 million in physical fencing costs. Halter's previous funding round valued the company at $1 billion. This new round, led by Thiel's Founders Fund, doubles that valuation to $2 billion before the new money even hits the account. And they charge farmers between $5 and $8 per animal per month on a subscription model, meaning the more cows they collar, the more locked-in the revenue becomes. The most powerful venture capitalist on earth just decided that the future of food and farming runs through an algorithm named after a cow. He might be right.
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03-21
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is backing a company bringing AI to cow herding at a $2 billion valuation https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-20/peter-thiel-s-founders-fund-backs-ai-cow-collar-startup-at-2-billion-valuation?taid=69bda594a072250001e9b6a4&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter…
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Milk Road AI
02-27
Layoff Announcements: 1. US Government (DOGE): 317,000 employees 2. UPS: 78,000 employees 3. Amazon: 30,000 employees 4. Intel: 25,000 employees 5. Citigroup: 20,000 employees 6. Nissan: 20,000 employees 7. Nestlé: 16,000 employees 8. Microsoft: 15,000 employees 9. Bosch: 13,000 employees 10. Verizon: 13,000 employees 11. Dell: 12,000 employees 12. Accenture: 11,000 employees 13. Ford: 11,000 employees 14. Novo Nordisk: 9,000 employees 15. Procter & Gamble: 7,000 employees 16. HP Inc.: 6,000 employees 17. Heineken: 6,000 employees 18. Siemens: 5,600 employees 19. PwC: 5,600 employees 20. Dow Chemical: 4,500 employees 21. Salesforce: 4,000 employees 22. Lufthansa Group: 4,000 employees 23. ANZ Bank: 3,500 employees 24. GM (General Motors): 3,300 employees 25. ConocoPhillips: 3,000 employees 26. IBM: 2,700 employees 27. American Airlines: 2,700 employees 28. WiseTech: 2,000 employees 29. Morgan Stanley: 2,000 employees 30. Paramount: 2,000 employees 31. Starbucks: 2,000 employees 32. Target: 1,800 employees 33. Southwest Airlines: 1,750 employees 34. Meta: 1,500 employees 35. Applied Materials: 1,444 employees 36. Nike: 775 employees​ 37. Kroger: 1,000 employees 38. eBay: 800 employees 39. Block Inc. (Square/Cash App): 1,100 employees AI is officially replacing jobs at mass scale in the US. Where will all of these people go?
jack
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02-27
we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are
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