Obsessed with early stage ventures & frontier tech. Former VC @ Hanwha, GE Ventures, & Boeing HorizonX, startup founder, rocket scientist-turned-MBA (@HBS)
Cambridge, MA
Joined January 2008
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My hot take on Nolan's Odyssey: a generation spends decades unraveling the threads of society, ruins countless lives for the greedy pursuits of an elite few, then tosses the mess they created to the next generation while they sail off into the sunset to retire on their yacht.
(thanks, #boomers)
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A fair settlement would be to award authors with the same dollar amount, but in the form of equity backdated to the share price at the the time their works were stolen...
US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit: reuters.com/world/us-judge-a…
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Hunter Ashmore retweeted
Great work, AI work actually focusing on ROI - this graph is impressive
Bridgewater used their unique financial knowledge and partnered with us on @tinkerapi to fine-tune a model that helps their analysts focus on what's important. Experts improving AI that empowers experts.
thinkingmachines.ai/news/lea…
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BREAKING NEWS: BOS and NY Tech Week calendars are LIVE!
You can now register for events: [tech-week.com/calendar]
2,000+ event submissions
across Boston and New York City.
📍BOS: May 26-31
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Big congrats to the entire Tech Week team for already making this year the most ambitious yet! @roseajohnson @ShrikalaKashyap @andrewchen @TracyMassaro_ @itsthatnoodle @filgran_ @13dominos13 🫶
It's really not that hard to fix healthcare in the US:
a) Make it illegal for politicians to use ANY insurance or self-pay services that are not at parity with Medicare plans
b) Limit C-suite of publicly-traded healthcare companies to one of their own gold-tier or lower plans
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As we drive the final nails in the coffin of the EPA, I am reminded of a conversation from early in my career. I had been in LA for a couple of years when I met an older engineer at an aerospace conference who had moved away in the early 90s. He asked how I was liking living there. I said traffic sucked, but I loved being surrounded by mountains and getting outdoors all the time. He laughed and said, "when I was there, we barely even knew there were mountains because of the smog!"
The Clean Air Act was passed primarily because of irrefutably degraded human health at the time...not climate change.
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I just learned my parents are paying AT&T $99 per month for DSL service that MAXES out at 3Mbps download / 350kbps upload, fails every time it rains, and hasn't been updated in 20 years. Millions of rural AT&T customers have experienced arbitrary yearly price increases for a service that NEVER came close to advertised speeds
Serious question: at what point do we hold AI companies accountable instead of letting them siphon money from users for massive volumes of API calls where the AI fails to complete basic tasks, lies about the shortcuts it took, then gaslights the user when called out?
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It's frustrating how incredibly ignorant Google Gemini is. I have yet to see an email follow-up suggestion that makes sense, and search result summaries are completely wrong at least half of the time. At what point do investors start holding them accountable for such AI slop?
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How money works:
1. OpenAI signs $300B GPU deal with Oracle
2. Larry gains $100B (no GPUs shipped)
3. Larry invests in OpenAI’s $1T round
4. Sam uses $300B to pay Oracle
5. Oracle stock pumps again
6. Larry makes another $100B
7. Larry invests in OpenAI
Flywheel go brrr.
As a @duolingo user for over a decade, I can confidently say competition isn't the problem, @LuisvonAhn.
Go back to your roots; bring back an app experience that focuses on making learning enjoyable.
Stop wasting your resources (and my time) on stupid animations & sound effects while trying to force/upsell virtual interactions with loathsome characters...I will NEVER pay to video chat with Lily, and the incessant hard sell has become grating.
fortune.com/2025/08/27/duoli…
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Remember the good 'ole days when Uber was uber cheap, when it was all about growth and not profitability? Then, suddenly, it got expensive?
That's what Claude feels like after the new rate limits.
And, once again, I'll try to go with anything else...or just walk there myself.
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watch the video at 0:15. She was not "caught in the crossfire." The officer had no obstructions, no distractions, and clearly takes aim at Tomasi. This is a blatant violation of the 1st amendment plus numerous laws protecting journalist, particularly when she is obviously not actively participating in the protests.
U.S. Correspondent Lauren Tomasi has been caught in the crossfire as the LAPD fired rubber bullets at protesters in the heart of Los Angeles. #9News
LATEST: nine.social/YbJ
I love when VCs look at data and draw the wrong conclusion. This table clearly highlights that it's not time to mine, but rather time to invest in processing technologies. Digging is easy, but processing is extremely dirty. That's why we sent it all to China in the first place.
It's time to mine.
Critical minerals underpin hundreds of billions of dollars in downstream industrial output.
For the U.S., this creates systemic vulnerabilities across entire sectors.
Without secure access to these foundational inputs, the U.S. cannot fully execute its industrial strategy or safeguard its national interests.
More from American Dynamism's @espricewright and @rmcentush: bit.ly/43xwSpx
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2 years ago today, A16Z announced they put $100M into Pinecone, as everyone and their mother tripped over each other to invest in vector databases.
Given how little standalone vector DBs are valued now, the hype cycle is wild to look back on.
Quick timeline below:
Late 2022:
•ChatGPT launches.
•Early RAG architectures emerge.
•First buzz around Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Chroma.
Q1 2023:
•Massive demand surge for vector search.
•Vector DBs seen as critical infra.
•Heavy VC excitement (“new database category!”).
Q2 2023:
•Peak hype.
•Pinecone raises $100M, Weaviate raises $50M.
•Every AI infra diagram has a vector DB layer.
Q3 2023:
•Saturation hits.
•Postgres, Redis, MongoDB add native vector search.
•Clouds bundle it.
Q4 2023:
•Hype fades.
•Vector search becomes a commodity.
Early 2024:
•Market tightens.
•Attention shifts to agents, fine-tuning, orchestration.
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🔍 KEYNOTE: David Johnson, SVP Manufacturing & Supply Chain at Nissan, presents "Using LLMs for Capturing Tribal Knowledge & Global Democratization" at MIT MIMO Symposium, May 6.
Register: mimo.mit.edu/symposium/
#MIMO2025 #GenAI #Manufacturing
