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Pavel Choulguine shared thisPavel Choulguine shared thisHi everyone, We're giving away a brand new iPhone X to anyone who successfully refers a candidate for our job openings in the link below. Calling all intermediate to senior *** JavaScript Developers *** Please contact me directly if you know someone. Cheers! https://lnkd.in/dF5w5ZA
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Pavel Choulguine liked thisPavel Choulguine liked thisBREAKING: Polygon to become U.S. regulated payments platform We’re acquiring Coinme and Sequence to bring all money onchain, adding regulated access in the United States, stablecoin orchestration, and wallet infrastructure to the Polygon Open Money Stack. → Regulated money movement in 48 states → Fiat on/off ramps → 50,000 fiat-to-crypto locations in the U.S. → Easy onboarding with wallet infra → 1-click crypto transactions across chains The vision is straightforward: enable instant, reliable money movement for anyone, anywhere. To do that, institutions and fintechs need a single, integrated offering — combining regulated access, stablecoin orchestration, wallet infrastructure, and blockchain rails. That’s where these acquisitions matter. Coinme brings regulated U.S. money movement, an on/off ramp network consisting of 50,000 U.S. retail locations, and licensed enterprise-grade crypto-as-a-service infrastructure, already in operation. Sequence makes onchain payments seamless, by abstracting away blockchain complexities for users. The acquisition brings smart wallets and Trails, their 1-click cross-chain orchestration and intents engine. Combined with Polygon’s battle-tested infrastructure, which has facilitated $2.2T+ in onchain value transfer, these components form the foundation for a fully integrated system to move all money onchain. Learn more about the acquisition and the Open Money Stack in the full announcement, linked below.
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Pavel Choulguine liked thisI’m excited to share that I’ve joined Axio Education as CEO. Axio is an AI-native education platform built to help instructors design, deliver, and continuously improve learning with unprecedented speed and precision. My passion for education began in 1998 at Minds Matter, where I saw the power of talent—and the gap in opportunity. Since then, I’ve spent more than two decades building and scaling organizations like Education Connection, The Learning House, and Wiley Education Services to help make high-quality online learning accessible to more people. Generative AI now gives us a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver the kind of personalized instruction research has long shown to dramatically improve outcomes—finally at scale. That’s what drew me to Axio and to Mark Naufel and the team. They’ve built a platform that empowers educators to create richer, more adaptive learning experiences while reducing the time and effort required to do it. I’m honored to lead Axio into its next chapter of growth. Our early partners are already proving what’s possible when institutions lean into AI-driven innovation. The future of learning is here, and we’re just getting started.Pavel Choulguine liked thisAxio Education welcomes Todd Zipper as Chief Executive Officer We’re pleased to share that Todd Zipper has joined Axio Education as our new CEO. Todd brings deep experience at the intersection of education and technology, including senior leadership roles at John Wiley & Sons and The Learning House. He has a strong track record of helping institutions scale quality learning and expand access through digital innovation. At Axio, Todd will help accelerate our work to support educators with agentic AI tools that make course design, delivery, and improvement more efficient and more impactful. His leadership strengthens our ability to help education institutions facilitate the next generation of learning. We’re excited for this next chapter for Axio and honored to have Todd at the helm. Full announcement here 👉 https://lnkd.in/g6DcnUJs
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Pavel Choulguine liked thisPavel Choulguine liked thisWe're hiring a Senior Engineer in Chicago, in-person, high ownership culture for builders who move fast, keep reliability top of mind, and solve hard problems. You’ll own major parts of the InstaSwitch stack and automation systems that help banks win primacy. It's a high impact role, part of the founding eng team, building the system that turns bank signups into activation by removing the pain of switching. If speed, ownership and getting shit done drive you, send me a DM. Full details & how to apply: https://lnkd.in/gRkhAm6h
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Pavel Choulguine liked thisPavel Choulguine liked thisExcited to announce my new role as Global Managing Director with Mexico Infrastructure Partners (MIP)! Back in 2012, I had the privilege to collaborate with the MIP team during their inception phase, witnessing their dedicated mission to excel as the premier infrastructure manager in Mexico. Today, MIP successfully oversees approximately $7 billion in infrastructure assets throughout Latin America. Their proven track record showcases remarkable returns for investors, achieved through unique sourcing strategies and value-enhancing operational expertise. Looking ahead, MIP is poised for even greater achievements as it embarks on a thrilling expansion journey, aiming to forge global alliances and explore fresh markets. I am thrilled to spearhead these international initiatives.
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Pavel Choulguine liked thisPavel Choulguine liked thisEveryone remembers where they were when they heard about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And anyone who was in New York that dreadful day has a story. Here’s mine: At 8:46 AM on Sept. 11th, 2001, I was downtown when the first plane hit the North Tower. My first thought was this was not random and my second thought was about logistics. I realized that if this was as bad as it looks, transportation is going to shut down, and people are going to be stranded in Manhattan with nowhere to go. I immediately walked into two Manhattan hotels and booked seven rooms. No questions asked, cash up front. The desk clerks looked at me like I was crazy - it was just after 9 A.M. and I was reserving rooms for people I couldn't name. By evening, those rooms had become a refuge for colleagues and friends. Other friends stayed with me and my wife and new born son including Doug Curtis from Boston. I spoke to him that morning and he was in shock having just seen the Towers fall. I said I had a place he could stay. What started as a spontaneous act of hospitality during the worst day in New York's history turned into a unique 20-year relationship. He was deeply traumatized and held my son on his chest most of the evening. Every Sept. 11th until he died, Doug sent me a long, deeply emotional letter of gratitude and acknowledgment of the deep bond between him, my family and that moment. The real work began in the weeks that followed. I worked with a group that helped organize and train 1,000 volunteer lawyers to help victims' families navigate the bureaucracy. The work was heartbreaking but necessary - taking affidavits from survivors, helping families get death certificates for people whose bodies would never be found, cutting through red tape when people needed immediate access to bank accounts and insurance policies. The families taught me something profound about grief and resilience. Here were people who had lost everything, and they were still saying "thank you" to a room full of lawyers they'd never met before. They needed help with the most basic things - proving their spouse had worked in the towers, accessing joint accounts, getting their children's school records updated. The legal community's response proved something I've carried with me ever since: our highest calling is just to serve people when they need us most and help the neediest with all your soul.
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Pavel Choulguine liked thisPavel Choulguine liked thisOne of the earliest and biggest cases of my legal career involved a cult known as the Moonies. I represented people known as “deprogrammers.” They were hired by the parents of young people who had been persuaded - or as many believed – pressured to join organizations that purported to be religious groups. Parents who thought their children had been indoctrinated through mind control in the name of religious conversion would hire people to attempt to reverse the mind control. These men were known as deprogrammers and the most famous one was Ted Patrick, who could command rates of as much as $25,000 per person. Patrick’s attorney, Patrick M. Wall advised me on the case and later served as a role model as a trial lawyer. A substantial amount of deprogramming efforts were made by parents of members of the Unification Church, which became known as the Moonies. The group was started in the 1950s in South Korea and emerged in the U.S. in the 1970s. The case started about 1977. I got involved when one of the deprogrammers approached me. I ended up representing three deprogrammers. At the time, I had recently graduated from Golden Gate University School of Law and had just started working as a sole practitioner in New York. I had no idea at the time that this wasn't just any case - it was about to become one of the most important religious freedom battles of the decade. The legal questions included: is each cult that calls themselves a religion offered constitutional protection and what rights do parents have in protecting their children from cults. This was one of my first big cases and to make it crazier I was up against some big guns. Opposing counsel was Richard Ben-Veniste, fresh off prosecuting Watergate conspirators and Jeremiah Gutman, from the ACLU, a veteran civil rights advocate. They were constitutional heavyweights who saw deprogramming as state-sanctioned religious persecution. I viewed the parents as a courageous group who - recognizing what they were up against - were trying to protect their children from the influence of a dangerous cult. We won the case. The court ruled that the deprogramming was a legitimate attempt by parents to assist a daughter they felt they were losing to a cult and not a violation of federal civil rights laws. My career ended up going in a different direction. I focused on bankruptcy law and went on to represent a number of well-known retail companies including FAO Schwartz and KB Toys. Still, I learned a lot from taking that case, especially to pay attention to the facts because they will lead you where you need to go. The case also introduced me to Patrick Wall who became one of the most valuable mentors of my career. Exactly what he taught me is a story for another day.
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Pavel Choulguine liked thisPavel Choulguine liked thisThrowback to 2014, when I “pitched” at an Oakland A’s game—on the field, not in the boardroom. Back then: ⚾ The A’s were still in Oakland 💰 Seed rounds closed over coffee 🚀 Growth > profitability 📉 Zero interest rates felt like a permanent fixture Today: ⚾ The A’s are headed to Vegas 📊 Startups are pitching with path-to-profitability slides front and center 💡 Investors are partnering earlier, with discipline and alignment 📈 Sustainable growth is in style Just like in baseball, venture evolves. The mound feels a little steeper now, and the strike zone tighter. But great teams still win with fundamentals, focus, and smart swings. Thanks to first baseman Nate Freiman for the photo opp. Fun fact: Freiman is Jewish and son to a lawyer and a teacher of Judaism.
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Every November, SAAS NORTH becomes a snapshot of where Canada’s SaaS ecosystem is headed next. This year, that direction is unmistakable: AI is becoming the operating system of modern software companies. It’s shaping how we raise capital, design data infrastructure and deliver products that learn as they scale. And the people driving that shift will be on our stage. Radical Ventures has launched an $800-million USD AI growth fund, bringing the firm’s total assets under management to roughly $1.8 billion USD, one of the largest AI-focused funds ever raised by a Canadian firm. Partner Sanjana Basu joins us to share how Radical is backing founders building at the intersection of research and scale. 🔗 Read the announcement: https://lnkd.in/eQu_75mW Savinay Berry, EVP & CTO at OpenText, joins us having just released new research with Foundry & Ponemon, revealing that only 1 in 5 organizations feel prepared to operationalize AI. His team is showing what readiness truly looks like: secure data, strong governance and human-in-the-loop design. 🔗 See the findings: https://lnkd.in/eRgYBWKB Vlad Stesin, now CEO of Optable, announced Agentic Collaboration, a breakthrough in how autonomous agents share and activate data responsibly across ecosystems. 🔗 Explore the launch: https://lnkd.in/eWtYeXaB These are just some of the conversations waiting for you at SAAS NORTH 2025. Come meet the people shaping how AI truly becomes infrastructure. Join us at SAAS NORTH 2025: https://lnkd.in/gGMsddmh #SAASNORTH #AI #VentureCapital #Innovation #CanadianTech #EnterpriseAI
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Hari Krishna Sunder
🚀 Scaling to 20 Billion QPS: How Shopify Reinvents the Global Storefront When you’re the backbone of global commerce, "downtime" isn't just a technical metric, it’s lost revenue for millions of entrepreneurs. Shopify’s footprint is staggering: - Billions of users - Millions of merchants - 175 countries - 6 continents of operation - 24/7/365 availability requirements To handle this demand, Shopify is moving toward a future powered by a distributed, globally sharded database architecture with Yugabyte. The Goal: 20 Billion QPS 📈 Yes, you read that right. Shopify is planning for a massive scale of 20 billion Queries Per Second (QPS). Moving to a cloud-native, distributed SQL database allows Shopify to: 1. Operational simplicity: Having one logical database makes it much easier to manage and do schema changes on. 2. Scale Linearly: Adding capacity becomes a matter of adding nodes, not performing risky migrations. 3. Optimize Latency: By sharding data closer to the user, they ensure a "local" feel for a global audience. So excited to be along for the ride with such a determined team! #SystemDesign #CloudNative #Scalability #Shopify #YugabyteDB #DistributedSQL #TechInnovation #SoftwareEngineering Alan Caldera Brad Dietrich Rohan J. Thomas https://lnkd.in/gspFdZKV
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Vij Vasu
This post below is about Shopify moving their mobile apps (currently built on a common React Native codebase) to separate iOS and Android native implementations. The article in the post's comments doesn't say much about what necessitated this change - in fact, it sounds like their existing apps are working just fine. Most of the focus is on how coding LLMs are being used to recreate the apps. I must confess that I'm surprised by this decision. If you have shipped software, you know that rewrites must never be taken lightly - unless there is a significant business gain, it is best to leave well enough alone. Shopify seems to have built impressive tooling to recreate the apps, but new code always contains new problems. Bugs that occur at integration points between large modules, due to platform-specific failure modes, and from a myriad other surprises thrown up by the real world, are particularly hard to find and are rarely caught by automated tools. Such bugs reveal themselves over years, steadily but sporadically. Apps that customers have been using for a while therefore have the cost of fixing these issues baked into them. Since new code can now be churned out rapidly using LLMs, it is easier than ever to ignore this sunk cost, and rewriting can look deceptively cheap. This is a dangerous trap - unless there are compelling overriding advantages, a newly rewritten app can end up bleeding resources just to get back the quality and stability of the old one. What are the strong reasons for this rewrite? Are there perhaps major issues with the current Shopify app suite or the React Native platform that I don't know about? What am I missing?
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Muhammad Abdullah
Read the post before you pick a side. This is not React Native vs Swift, and Shopify never said it was. They did not call React Native slow. They said the opposite, in the post itself: "React Native apps can be fast. Ours are." They called it an excellent framework that delivered exactly what they hired it for since 2020. So what changed? The price of building twice. In 2020, two platforms meant two teams, two backlogs, and permanently chasing feature parity. That cost was real, and React Native was the right answer to it. In 2026, agents handle enough of the implementation, translation and review that one team can carry both platforms. The thing that made the decision has stopped being the thing that makes the decision. The part I find more interesting is what comes next. New hardware always lands in first-party frameworks first. Apple shipped a foldable two days ago. Adaptive layouts for a folding screen will work in SwiftUI long before any abstraction layer above it catches up. When the hardware moves this fast, sitting one layer up starts costing you time instead of saving it. Credit to Mustafa A. and the Shopify team for publishing the actual reasoning instead of a headline, and for committing to hand over Skia and FlashList cleanly rather than walking away from them. That part matters to a lot of teams. My read for anyone building cross-platform: this is not React Native dying. It is platform depth becoming worth learning again, and LLMs making it cheaper to learn than it has ever been. Writing a longer piece on this. Would you migrate an app you already shipped, or only start native on the next one?
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