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“To get gas in Venezuela is a problem. You sometimes have to wait two hours in a line just to fill up a tank.”
Romero cited Venezuela's fuel shortage as an example of ongoing hardships.
“It sparked a reflection around the fact that you don’t always find perfect correlation between how talented entrepreneurs are and the success they have, especially from zero to one. Luck is a very big component of that equation. So we developed an obsession for finding a strategy that would, as much as possible, reduce the role that luck plays in growth and success,”
Danieli said the Evertale experience led the founders to develop a strategy for minimizing the role of luck in growth.
“It’s crazy — it’s like being in the movies,”
Roman, a tourist from Glasgow, reacted to the spectacle after arriving with his son to find the building blocked off.
“luck is irrelevant when pursuing operational excellence.”
The company stated this philosophy in its F-1 filing.
“We want to place ourselves as an operator that takes beloved brands and makes them much better,”
Danieli told TechCrunch that Bending Spoons positions itself as an operator that improves beloved brands.
“There isn't anything to share beyond that.”
Mayor Mamdani declined to provide additional details about the event permit filed for Madison Square Garden.
“will be there for our new and great friends”
Trump pledged US support for Venezuela following the earthquakes, with the US committing $300m to the response.
“several highly complex engineering modifications required for the final (Air Force One aircraft) were intentionally excluded from the Bridge aircraft.”
The Air Force acknowledged that several complex engineering modifications were intentionally excluded from the bridge aircraft.
“The indignation from this inaction is the regime's fault.”
Alviarez blamed the regime for public indignation over inaction in the earthquake response.
“There will be an epidemiological problem. Problems will start to appear with respiratory diseases, both from the handling of debris and dust in contaminated areas,”
Rivas predicted growing epidemiological problems including respiratory diseases from debris and dust.
“We just had to talk to the person. Tell them to wait and keep calm.”
Sombrito recalled talking to trapped victims to keep them calm when rescuers could not reach them.
“[The] response has come from citizens, from civil society, from humanitarian workers, from volunteers — but not from the government,”
Jimenez said the disaster response has come from civil society and volunteers rather than the government.
“We’re going to start talking about that.”
Vance told reporters the U.S. would begin discussing the nuclear issue.
“From a buyer’s perspective and as a company that grows through acquisitions, that’s actually a great opportunity and moment to deploy capital.”
Danieli said slashed SaaS valuations present a great opportunity for Bending Spoons to deploy capital on acquisitions.
“a product that would automatically create a diary of your life by leveraging what you would call AI today, and that we called machine learning then,”
Danieli described Evertale, a prior startup that used machine learning to automatically create a life diary.
“at the earliest possible time”
Qatar's Foreign Ministry spokesman said on X that the next meeting will be scheduled after the funeral of Iran's late supreme leader.
“If you’re going on a long trip, you take the big fancy car, but if you’re just buzzing around town, you’ll settle for something less. Right? And this looks like it’s a domestic-only model,”
Gertler said the absence of certain security systems and fewer communications antennas suggested the jet is suited only for domestic use.
“That will get spread in the environment, in the air and probably also in the water, because you are on the edge of the coast.”
Rivas warned that contaminants could spread through the environment, air, and water near the coast.
“Evernote may be the first product we acquired that was genuinely loved by users, so we had very strict judges.”
Danieli said Evernote was the first product Bending Spoons acquired that was genuinely loved by users.
“We are fully prepared,”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday that a permit had been filed for a large event at Madison Square Garden and added that the city is fully prepared.
“There is also a lack of experienced medical staff.”
Rivas noted a shortage of experienced medical staff, as many had migrated from Venezuela.
“any entry or exit through routes other than the ‘Route of Authority’ in the Persian Gulf could lead to irreparable incidents.”
The Guard's navy has repeatedly warned ships not to use routes other than the 'Route of Authority' in the Persian Gulf.
“Obviously, we’re worried about the nuclear issue,”
Vance told reporters in the United States that discussions included details related to traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
“This is a gift from a country that has treated us very well,”
Trump described the retrofitted Qatari jet as a gift from a country that has treated the U.S. well.
“We’ve got a lot of ‘you’re crazy’ reactions throughout the years,”
Danieli recalled that in Bending Spoons' earlier years, VCs struggled to understand its approach.
“In a government in any other country, the first responder should be the state,”
Jimenez told Al Jazeera that the slow government response has caused growing anger towards the state.
“no indication the emergency was caused by hostile action.”
The Navy's 5th Fleet said a U.S. Navy helicopter made an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea, leaving one crew member missing.
“In the case of Venezuela, the state has been the last responder.”
Jimenez contrasted Venezuela's state response with what would be expected in other countries.
“without accepting any risk regarding security, safety, or secure communications,”
The Air Force argued the rapid conversion of the jet did not compromise security, safety, or secure communications.
“Based on the unusual number of cases we have identified in a little over a week, we anticipate additional cases of illness being reported,”
Over 170 cyclosporiasis cases have been confirmed across at least seven Michigan counties in a little over a week.
“We already had a health service with great deficiencies in terms of infrastructure, medical equipment and medicines,”
Rivas described pre-existing deficiencies in Venezuela's healthcare system worsened by the earthquakes.
“Luck plays a big role in finding product-market fit,”
The company stated this philosophy in its F-1 filing.
“In the past year and a half, we’ve witnessed an incredible acceleration in the pace at which we were able to ship new features and create value for users,”
Danieli told TechCrunch that AI has accelerated the company's pace of shipping new features.
“You can do two things: You can low-key it, or you can show it,”
Trump told reporters he was proud of the luxurious retrofitted Qatari jet serving as Air Force One.
“probably more exciting than going up to the viewing platform for the second time,”
Roman reasoned that the stunt was more exciting than revisiting the observation platform.
“invested the best part of the first two or three years working on culture and hiring processes. We believe we now excel at spotting talent, especially when young and when they don’t have a great track record yet.”
Danieli said co-founder Ferrari spent his early years on culture and hiring, and that the company now excels at spotting talent.
“They fell like a pack of cards,”
Andreina Velasquez described how her apartment block collapsed in the earthquakes.
“In the end, they are hindering the steps. What they have to do is organise in a coordinated way, create contingency plans, get all the volunteers to assist these people,”
Alviarez said authorities were failing to organise the earthquake response effectively.
“If the idea was to do it as quickly and inexpensively as possible, it would seem to lead to the notion that there’s less content”
Gertler commented on the compressed modification timetable and its implications for the jet's equipment.
“We recommend Michiganders contact their health care provider if they experience sudden, ongoing diarrhea and reach out to their local health department if additional members of their family are suffering from the same symptoms.”
State health officials are urging Michiganders to seek medical care if they experience symptoms of cyclosporiasis.
“The most difficult part has been finding people alive but trapped, and not being able to reach them to due to moving rubble,”
Sombrito described the difficulty of rescuing people trapped alive under rubble.
“I've been here every day. Other people came to help, but they don't have helmets, they don’t have gloves, they don't have masks. That's why I'm helping,”
Velasquez explained why she hands out face masks to passersby near the collapsed buildings.
“It has been overwhelming. The needs are far greater than what we can provide,”
Romero described the overwhelming gap between needs and available supplies in the relief effort.
“will of course have a detail in place”
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said police would have a detail in place but declined to elaborate further.
“It’s one more tool for us to access the liquidity that we need to fuel our acquisitive strategy, but we also thought that for one day it would be the right thing to take it all in and enjoy the moment with all our colleagues,”
Danieli explained the company's decision to bring its entire staff to New York to celebrate its Nasdaq listing.
“in part helped by progress in AI, revenue per full-time equivalent Spooner increased from $1.12 million in 2023 to $2.57 million in 2025, and was $0.97 million in Q1 2026.”
Bending Spoons' SEC filing reported that revenue per full-time equivalent employee rose significantly, aided by AI progress.
“We try to leverage the sophisticated data tracking, analytics infrastructure and experimentation toolkit that we’ve developed.”
Danieli described how the company uses data tracking and experimentation in pricing its products.
“Twenty-five years on from that moment, most Venezuelans are poorer and in need. Even those who want to help have little they can give,”
Romero compared current conditions to the 1999 landslides, noting Venezuelans are now poorer.
“ran aground with its cargo because of shallow waters along the route it had chosen and was unable to continue sailing.”
Iranian state TV reported that a foreign container ship ran aground in the Strait of Hormuz while using a route not approved by Iran.
“Can the trade deficit be an extraordinary and unusual threat when we have had trade deficits for decades?”
Judge Chen questioned whether longstanding trade deficits can constitute an extraordinary and unusual threat justifying tariffs.
“It has taught us new and unexpected things about the way that ice sheets can respond to extreme inputs of surface meltwater.”
Dr Leeson describes how the study revealed new and unexpected information about ice sheet responses to extreme surface meltwater inputs.
“However, as we went deeper into our analysis, it became clear that what we were observing was the aftermath of a huge flood of water escaping from underneath the ice.”
Dr Bowling describes how further analysis revealed the unexpected data showed the aftermath of flood water escaping from underneath the Greenland Ice Sheet.
“But IEPPA has been rarely used, hasn’t it? It’s been over 50 years since it’s been used?”
Judge Reyna questioned the unusual use of IEEPA during oral arguments before the Federal Circuit appeals court.
“I suspect most nations will not want to provoke the administration by reopening negotiations,”
Skorup noted that restarting trade negotiations carries risks for trading partners.
“What we have found in this study surprised us in many ways,”
Dr Leeson reflects on the surprising findings of the study regarding how ice sheets respond to extreme inputs of surface meltwater.
“IEEPA doesn’t even say tariffs, doesn’t even mention them,”
Reyna pointed out that IEEPA does not mention tariffs, with several judges echoing that sentiment.
“consisting of crevassing and uprooted ice blocks with a combined height (crevasse depth plus ice block height) of 40 metres,”
The study describes a newly formed zone of fractures approximately one kilometre downstream of the collapsed basin.
“one of the most recently discovered, yet poorly understood, components of Greenland’s subglacial hydrological system is its network of active subglacial lakes.”
The study describes Greenland's subglacial hydrological system and its network of active subglacial lakes as a recently discovered but poorly understood component.
“If the IEEPA is deemed inadmissible, the legal status of the trade deals themselves could come into question,”
JPMorgan economists said in a note that if IEEPA is deemed inadmissible, the legal status of Trump's trade deals could come into question.
“Downslope of the fracture zone, an ~6-km2region of the ice surface had been scoured clean. Together, these observations indicate that a substantial volume of water broke up through the ice at this location and flooded across the surface.”
The study explains that a scoured ice surface and fracture zone together indicate a substantial volume of water broke through the ice and flooded across the surface.