The future of work looks like a $300M comp package.

A rogue engineer, a new political party, and Figma’s “we’re back” IPO energy.

Happy 4th to those who celebrate. We kept things low-key. Grilled like it’s a love language. (it is) Fireworks from the living room. And an empty gym that reminded me why I love holiday weekends.

Meanwhile, AI comp is hitting $300M, IPOs are heating up, and there’s a rogue triple-job engineer who blew up VC Twitter.

You’ll notice a slightly different format this week. Deeper signals up top. And a mix of quick, weird, and too-good-to-ignore callouts at the bottom.

Like… America might have a new political party? Casual.

Let’s get into what moved this week across finance, AI, and the future of work.