Nick Pridachin Blog

Author: bobs

  • Runway Raises $308 Million at a $3 Billion Valuation

    Valuation: over 3 billion at 28 April 2025.

    Runway is revolutionizing the future of art, entertainment, and digital storytelling with its cutting-edge AI video platform. Designed for professionals, Runway’s suite of AI-powered tools enables seamless video and image generation, editing, and enhancement—all through simple text commands. By bridging the gap between imagination and execution, Runway empowers artists, filmmakers, and designers with an intuitive, next-generation interface for synthetic media creation.

    In a landmark Series D round led by General Atlantic, Runway secured 308 million, with participation from top−tier investors like Fidelity, BaillieGifford, Nvidia, and SoftBank. This latest funding round catapulted thecompany’s valuation to over 3 billion, bringing its total raised capital to an impressive $536.5 million—a testament to its rapid growth and industry-shaping potential.

  • Stock Market Update

    Current State is -15.28%

    Account Total: $201.99

    Cash Position: $158.45 (78.44% of the portfolio, held in a money market fund).

    Equity Holdings: Diversified across growth stocks (NVDA, SHOP, QQQ) and niche players (MNDY, MTCH, ABNB).

    Top daily losers to look at today are:

    LNVGY – Lenovo Group Limited -14.57%

    XIACY – Xiaomi Corporation -14.43%

  • Pirates of Binary Sea

    Working title for my Pirates inspired game.

    More info could be found on: https://www.youtube.com/@whatevergames4758/videos

    Another working title is Hostile Waters.

  • How to unpack the .wpress file

    Node.js required for this to work.

    Open command line tool.

    Navigate to the .wpress file containing folder and run:

    npx wpress-extract migration.wpress

    Source: https://dev.to/ofhouse/how-to-unpack-wpress-archive-files-created-by-the-all-in-one-wp-migration-wordpress-plugin-k63