🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-06-08

This week continues our new shortened format. Thanks again to readers for all the helpful replies and survey feedback.

Last week

I’m excited to share that NexusTek is now on the Azure Marketplace. 🤓

NexusTek Brings Advanced Managed and Professional Services to the Azure Marketplace

NexusTek Brings Advanced Managed and Professional Services to the Azure Marketplace

/PRNewswire/ -- NexusTek, a trusted provider of secure, scalable IT solutions, today announced the availability of its managed and professional services on the...

This week

Are you going to be in NYC next week on June 11-12?

#builttoscale #businessstrategy #leadership #scalingup #growthmindset #networking | NexusTek

#builttoscale #businessstrategy #leadership #scalingup #growthmindset #networking | NexusTek

Get Ready to Elevate Your Business! Join NexusTek & The Hedaya Capital Group as we host Built to Scale, a high-impact panel and networking event presented in partnership with our sponsors Microsoft & Pax8. We’re bringing together a powerhouse panel of industry leaders—Isaac Braca, Irwin Dayan, Jack Ades, Bobby Christian, and special guest Victor Braca—who have built, scaled, and successfully exited high-growth businesses. They’ll share proven strategies, creative growth tactics, and the mindset needed to scale - and thrive! - in today’s competitive landscape. Whether you're looking to expand, innovate, or prepare for a strategic exit, this event will provide actionable insights and real-world perspective—all over great food, drinks, and meaningful conversation. 📅 Wednesday, June 11th 📍 Midtown Manhattan 🔗 RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gEnc74VD #BuiltToScale #BusinessStrategy #Leadership #ScalingUp #GrowthMindset #Networking

Also, if you are an owner/operator in Hospitality / Leisure / Travel, let me know if you’d like to be invited to an exclusive event in NYC on June 12! 🎟️🛥️🌃

ESP Does NYC
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(or, if you know someone in NYC that might be interest — please forward this newsletter along)

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-02

Last week

Slightly more spicy!
Slightly more spicy!

This week

Not as spicy
Much less spicy…

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-03

💰 + 🤯 There are the prevailing PE narratives… and then is PE that operates on another level of reality.

Thoma Bravo raised $34.4B across three funds, including $24.3B for its main software company buyout fund and $8.1B for its midsize software company-focused fund

Thoma Bravo raised $34.4B across three funds, including $24.3B for its main software company buyout fund and $8.1B for its midsize software company-focused fund

By Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-06-04

Each Wednesday I then select the most interesting shared link from dozens of Slack communities. This will always be a safe for work link. 🙈

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-05

🤖 + 🧫 One story caught my eye this week was Cortical Labs announcing the shipping of their biological computer this summer.

A look at Australian startup Cortical Labs' $35,000 CL1, billed as the world's first code-deployable biological computer, with 115 units shipping this summer

A look at Australian startup Cortical Labs' $35,000 CL1, billed as the world's first code-deployable biological computer, with 115 units shipping this summer

By Shannon Cuthrell / IEEE Spectrum. View the full context on Techmeme.

For perspective, organoid computing and organoid intelligence running atop biological operating system… (BIOs — get it?) has been getting more coverage lately.

Back in 2009, even Intel was describing our biological computing future.

During the 1970s, if you watched the TV series, Tomorrow People, then you might remember their biotic computer, TIM.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-06

🤖 + 🚁 The story that caught my eye this week was the expansion of drone delivery in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.

Walmart expands its partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing to bring drone delivery services to Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa, adding 100 stores

Walmart expands its partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing to bring drone delivery services to Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa, adding 100 stores

By Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.

To understand the impact of this expansion, consider the speed in which is has arrived in less than 10 years.

Zipline raises $25M round led by Visionnaire Ventures to deliver medical supplies by drone

Zipline raises $25M round led by Visionnaire Ventures to deliver medical supplies by drone

By Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-06-07

Ah, the Friday news dump. By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line.

Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀

Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.

🤔 🤨 🧐 Just a couple that caught my technologist eye…

President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography

President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography

By Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive. View the full context on Techmeme.

VA used a DOGE AI tool by Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia that hallucinated contract sizes to cancel 24+ deals; Lavingia says “mistakes were made”

VA used a DOGE AI tool by Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia that hallucinated contract sizes to cancel 24+ deals; Lavingia says “mistakes were made”

From ProPublica. View the full context on Techmeme.

#OpenToWork Weekly

I participated in a #NeverSearchAlone #JSC after rebooting Cuthrell Consulting and joining NexusTek.

I added those #OpenToWork from my LinkedIn network to this newsletter. Over time, we’ve grown an Alumni 🎉 section for those that transitioned to their next career adventure.

Alumni 🎉

Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:

View this page on GitHub.

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