builder @thegp — battling javascript errors in my free time
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2014
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is there a best-in-class personal agent that you interface with via email?
my email has become half communication, half to-do list. i feel like thats a great wedge
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Love hosting events like this @thegp office in SF. Vibecheck formally verifies the value of eng. community in The Bay (and beyond) cc @bencmejla
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130K one-person businesses did $1M+ in revenue last year, up 11% (via Forbes). AI is making the solo company a real thing, and it still needs a finance department. Proud to back @CollectiveFin and @hoomanradfar as they build it. Congrats on the new round and massive growth!
Collective has raised $100M to build the future of solo business.
We’re building the AI-native financial OS that gives every Business-of-One the back office of a much bigger company.
Thank you to our members, our team and our investors.
Read the full announcement: collective.com/blog/collecti…
As well as our CEO Hooman Radfar's blog post: collective.com/blog/100m-to-…
I'm convinced that anyone who makes the claim that AI productivity isn't showing up is either not using them towards the edge of their capabilities, or expected rapid (instantaneous?) diffusion into the economy and jobs
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Data allocation is a new dimension for capital allocation: keeping data internal vs exposing it externally (and how) is akin to returning capital vs letting it compound (and how).
The best CEOs will always be brilliantly creative allocators.
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Trillions are pouring into the race to build the first general superintelligence, but leveraging your own specialized know-it-all is now possible as of today.
I built the knowledge systems at @stripe and @uber. Then I helped Anthropic, Metronome, and Graphite build a killer developer experience. Everyone wants Stripe-level quality, but that bar is too low.
Falconer gives you and your customers complete, specialized intelligence: an internal knowledge base and external documentation in one beautiful package. Falconer is the ultimate trust engine to manage your context: self-driving, observable, and agent-friendly.
I co-founded @falconer_ai with @mbenedetto212 and assembled a team of know-it-all builders. We're backed by fellow know-it-alls @thegp, @BoxGroup, @svangel, @karimatiyeh, @benln, @zachlloydtweets, @CeciStalls, @MerrillLutsky, @scottmac, @malthe, and @adamjstevenson, with angels from Anthropic, Stripe, Meta, Cursor, Replit, and more.
Frontier intelligence companies like @FireworksAI_HQ and @⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛; fintech companies like @payabli and @vori; and healthtech companies like @thatch_ai use @falconer_ai because they all share the same vision as us: the knowledge you earn should belong to you.
Now you can know everything, so you can build anything.
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The biggest issue in selling data right now is that it's unclear where the liability sits.
Buyers want high-utility data they can train on, which is increasingly becoming more raw. Sellers want to maximize value and minimize PII risks in the process.
I think it’s possible to accommodate both parties if data is secured by the best standards available and if there’s true accountability. For example, buyers should be held accountable if any private information is re-identified in the future.
Without this, the accountability line will just keep shifting.
No surprised. Everyone wants to move up and down the stack respective to their starting place
*NVIDIA IN TALKS TO ACQUIRE REFLECTION AI: FT
What’re the odds reflection can reach the frontier with near bottomless compute? Net negative for OpenAI and Anthropic in the long run I’d imagine
Jensen’s also already invested $800m into Reflection
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Many VCs will give you tactical advice on how to run your hiring process without ever hiring anyone at any scale.
We operate a little different and have folks on the team who've led recruiting for critical roles at top companies - in this case written by our Head of Talent who previously led recruiting at @RobinhoodApp as it grew from 30 to 4,000.
This guide lays out a 4-phase framework for running an executive search - the entire loop from mandate definition to close.
Worth a read as you build your exec team: thegeneralpartnership.substa…
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It’s too callous to talk about companies in this way as a VC
I try to teach my mentees “everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story”
Even if the journey gets tough there is a person who’s life’s work is behind the spreadsheet. Treat them with respect accordingly!
Who’s building the PE firm that focuses on acquired companies selling under the terminal value of their data and brokering that into neo/labs?
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Selling company data has taken over the timeline.
It is true that some companies are receiving millions of dollars for their data. A lot of new brokers are also emerging with enticing marketing tactics to evaluate what your company data is worth.
Companies have a rich record of real life. Processes, logs, the history behind the why. That data will advance the frontier. They also contain data on people and customers and PII risk. For sellers, it shouldn’t be a tradeoff between quick cash and trust.
You can get both with Integral.
useintegral.com/
