The Damascus Securities Exchange has reopened after a six-month shutdown, as Syria's new leadership works to revive the war-torn economy following 14 years of civil conflict.
⚠️Age of Programming Languages⚠️
🦅 Swift (10 years old) (2014)
🚀 Kotlin (12 years old) (2011)
🦀 Rust (13 years old) (2010)
🐹 Go (14 years old) (2009)
🔷 TypeScript (11 years old) (2012)
🎸 C# (23 years old) (2000)
💎 Ruby (28 years o
Stripe: YC’s $70B Powerhouse 🏭
While most startups rush to go public, Stripe has thrived privately for 14 years.
At a $70B valuation, it’s Y Combinator’s biggest success—outpacing the next five combined.
Humanity’s progress is accelerating insanely fast:
Stone Age→Farming: 100,000 yrs
Farming→Steam: 12,000 yrs
Steam→AI: 200 yrs
2000-2014: 100 years of progress in 14.
Moore’s Law predicted 32x. AI chips did 1000x.