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1 month ago | 
theinfatuation.com | Molly Fitzpatrick |Bryan Kim |Willa Moore |Will Hartman
The unanimous winner of our cookie tasting comes from a tiny bakery in the East Village, where they incorporate an almost imperceptible amount of toffee into their dough. That sweetness, plus a sprinkle of Maldon salt on top, balance out the shards of bittersweet chocolate beautifully. The only downside to this cookie is that once you have one, you’ll compare every future cookie you eat to it.
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2 months ago | 
theinfatuation.com | Bryan Kim |Molly Fitzpatrick |Willa Moore |Will Hartman
Katz’s is touristy, but it is not just for tourists. The famous Jewish deli is, first and foremost, for New Yorkers who need a mountain of the finest pastrami. Warm, thick, salty, and smoky, the pastrami pulls apart like a fresh croissant and leaves grease on anything it touches. The rye used for sandwiches could be a little more moist. But we promise you won’t be paying attention to the bread.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
a16z.com | Justine Moore |Yoko Li |Gabriel Vasquez |Bryan Kim |Marco Mascorro
What products are builders using to make websites and web apps with AI? A deep dive into how these products work, their limitations, and the features on the horizon.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
a16z.com | Vijay Pande |Daisy Wolf |Bryan Kim |Zach Cohen
Today, we’re proud to announce we’ve led the Series A for Slingshot, the world’s first foundation model for psychology. This brings the total capital raised for the company to $40 million. Mental health has never been worse. While modern life is better than historical times on most dimensions, we’re increasingly lonely, sad, and anxious. Half of the world’s population will develop a mental health disorder in their lifetime.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
a16z.com | Zach Cohen |Bryan Kim |Alex Rampell
An end-to-end design platform built specifically for retail product design. With Raspberry AI, designers can gather trend research, survey synthetic customer groups to product-test ideas, and generate real-world assets in seconds.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Justine Moore |Olivia Moore |Bryan Kim |Zach Cohen
One of life’s biggest challenges is communicating the context behind your feelings, decisions, and actions. How do you take the thoughts swirling around in your mind and translate them into something that other people — your coworkers, your partner, your therapist — understand? Imagine you’re overwhelmed by a bunch of things and a close friend asks how you’re doing.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Justine Moore |Anish Acharya |Olivia Moore |Bryan Kim
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Elevating AI + Art Artists are at the forefront of the AI platform shift. As new high fidelity tools emerge along the creative stack, technology is extending the impact of filmmakers, designers, animators, illustrators, photographers, and multimedia artists.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
theinfatuation.com | Bryan Kim
You can smell the beef from the strip mall parking lot across the street. A breeze off South Oyster Bay carries the scent north until it reaches your nostrils, and before you know it you’re crossing Merrick Road to line up at the counter at All American Hamburger Drive-In.This Massapequa institution opened in 1963, and its prices haven’t changed much since. For $2, you can get a patty the size of a silver dollar on a griddled bun smeared with ketchup and diced onion.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
theinfatuation.com | Neha Talreja |Bryan Kim |Willa Moore |Molly Fitzpatrick
New York City has a ridiculous number of bars. Dive bars, sports bars, cocktail bars, beer bars, bars with DJs, bars with bathroom mirrors that are particularly flattering, speakeasy bars inside of subway stations, and more. But you’re not reading this guide because you want to know about every bar in New York City.
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May 30, 2024 | 
theinfatuation.com | Bryan Kim
Some people will tell you that John’s of Bleecker Street makes the best pizza in NYC. Those people are wrong, but we get where they're coming from. This whole-pies-only West Village restaurant (around since 1929) isn’t as quality-obsessed or detail-oriented as new-school spots like L’Industrie and Mama’s Too. They pound out their dough, dump on some toppings, and call it a day. Yet, thanks to one very old oven and a heap of nostalgia, John’s still qualifies as a (second-tier) NYC classic.
