Telegram founder says the company will become profitable next year, Pinterest rolls out its ‘body type ranges’ tool to the US

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Telegram founder Pavel Durov says that the company expects to hit profitability next year with eyes on going public in the future. - Link

Pinterest announces its tool for filtering searches by different body types has officially rolled out to users in the U.S. - Link

Feeeed lets users add RSS feeds to their timeline along with newsletters, YouTube channels, Hacker News, subreddits, Mastodon profiles, Tumblr blogs, and Twitter accounts. - Link

Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners launches a new concept for flexible data center energy management called Verrus. - Link

GM, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, and others added optional features in their apps to rate people's driving in recent years, offering the data to brokers like LexisNexis. - Link

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Do Not Chase Trends

Naval Ravikant, chairman and former CEO of AngelList, advises entrepreneurs against following trends, emphasizing the importance of focusing on areas they understand and are passionate about. Chasing trends leads to competition with imitators or domination by established companies. Naval promotes the idea of working on technologically challenging ventures in fields that aren't easily defined by current trends. He underscores that wealth generation should stem from unique knowledge, citing Peter Thiel's concept that great businesses are built around exclusive insights or secrets. This approach requires an obsession with a particular subject, allowing founders to discover something new and bet on it with conviction. - Link

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