Founder. Ski, F1, chocolate, & dog enthusiast.

San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2009
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Replying to @AOC
The idea that all billionaires got their money by exploiting peopl doesn't hold up to any scrutiny. JK Rowling wrote books about cheeky wizards. I invented a better way to make virtual reality headsets and games to play on them. We just made things people wanted.
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talked to a YC founder who asked Sam Altman straight up "will OpenAI compete in my space / kill my startup"⁣ ⁣ the answer: behavioral health requires knowing if users are actually improving. OpenAI doesn't have that data, the wrapper startups do. v bullish for consumer AI
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Those who own a modern Ferrari know how excruciating the tech/infotainment stuff is in these cars While I’m not excited about an electric car (Elkann if you’re reading this, naturally aspirated V12s are all we need, stop fucking around), Ive’s interiors will be better. Bring it!
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Generational company in the making. We made sand think, and now we can use AI to solve our biggest shortcomings as humans: addiction.
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Replying to @agarwal
Anyone who thinks a $16 billion budget for a city with a population of 830,000 is appropriate can't be trusted. Period.
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Some lights I like lately
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Sick new door
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If San Francisco can update the code of a website in less than 4 hours so people don’t have access to parking ticket data anymore, I know that we can do more important things quickly too, but inexplicably choose not to.
Replying to @rtwlz
RIP. In lightning speed, the city changed their site so I can no longer get data. That's probably it.
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This is likely the fastest growing startup you've never heard of @Freshpaint_app is a privacy platform that makes websites HIPAA compliant Seeing their growth has been nothing short of incredible... they took years to hit $1M in ARR, and then months to go from $1M-$10M in ARR
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This isn’t truck stuff. This is Prius stuff
Is The Cybertruck a REAL Truck? Time for Truck STUFF! 😱
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Imagine SF has the greatest startup factory in the history of capitalism (read: creates oodles and oodles of high-paying jobs) telling founders to build their companies in SF…and half the city hates these people’s guts. Any city would be lucky to have this
If you’re not building in SF, what are you doing?
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Fuck me this is wild
How it started (1 year ago) vs how it's going:
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A brief chat about wearing avalanche beacons inbounds. ➡️ When there's new snow, wear one. ⬅️ The reason it is called "avalanche mitigation" is because it reduces, not eliminates, the risk.
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Humans have a vice grip on the whole apex predator thing
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1,500 applicants in 24 hours for our recruiter opening…really tough time to be a recruiter in tech right now
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But honestly…only 3 people have emailed me directly. The bar to get ahead is so low.
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Let’s goooo this is sick
Sperm whales have equivalents to human vowels. We uncovered spectral properties in whales’ clicks that are recurrent across whales, independent of traditional types, and compositional. We got clues to look into spectral properties from our AI interpretability technique CDEV.
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Freshpaint was like bottom 5% in the batch. So bad we actually deferred demo day to the next batch, and STILL had not an easy time fundraising. Fast forward a few years later: after our Series A we’re growing 10x (!!!) YoY. The road is long and filled with ups and downs.
When someone says you might be left “high and dry” if you aren’t a top 5% in the batch Don’t believe them
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Massive waste of money for a town with a population of 32k. And it’s the largest town in the county!
The Pullman Police Department is proud to improve public safety response through the deployment of an urban rescue vehicle! Learn more: pullman-wa.gov
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Fitz retweeted
Everyone left at Open AI is about to get a lesson in the amount of founder willpower it requires to build a company.
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