Flora’s Dad. Immigrant. Founder and CEO of @HeyMarvinApp. Prev. founder @Leadgenius.
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Excited to share today's article on @TechCrunch featuring @heymarvin, a platform that allows you to talk to your users to build better products. Special thanks to @christinemhall for such a great piece!
techcrunch.com/2022/02/23/le…
#techcrunch #userexperience #uxdesign
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Magic: The Pledge, The Turn, The Prestige
Frontier pretraining is said to be a big-lab-only game. We don’t have 100k chips yet, so there’s only one way: algorithmic efficiency. Our new recipe matches DeepSeek V4 Pro’s pretrain using 50x less compute – that’s roughly half the FLOPs used for GPT3, or ~$0.5M on GB200.
magic.dev/blog/pretraining
Those who haven't been in the valley for long don't understand how much positive impact @sama has had on the tech eco-system. He has been an amazing supporter of tiny startups for 15+ years.
Even if he hadn't been a stalwart this is absolutely no way to treat a human being.
I wrote this early this morning and I wasn't sure if I would actually publish it, but here it is:
blog.samaltman.com/2279512
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Today, we are announcing that we have doubled our AUM @LongJourney by closing a $181,818,181.8 fund. I can’t be more proud of what @cyantist and I dreamed up 5yrs ago.
For both of us this business has always been deeply personal. Today I would like to explain why it matters to me.
This one is fantastic documentary and I hope having @LastWeekTonight talk about it will get more people to watch the @thegigisupdoc
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🔥 We launched 100+ product updates in 2023. 🔥
And the top 5 favorite products were....
(according to our users, of course)
heymarvin.com/resources/2024…
I have never known a team that ships more code than @HeyMarvinApp. Congrats @sohamsshah_
Completed 1 year today at @HeyMarvinApp 🤖💜
Time ⏱ for some Dev Stats:
- 130+ PRs merged 🔗
- 720+ commits ✅
- 135K+ lines of code ++ 👨🏻💻
To many more bug fixes and feature additions 🥤✨
LFG! 🚀
So does @bridgebank it’s really easy to setup too. Everyone should check it out and if you need intros DM me.
FYI: @FirstRepublic has an Insured Cash Sweep business account that is FDIC-insured up to $100M and currently pays a little over 3%.
They really should be marketing this more heavily...
It’s even worse that this. If SVB is not backstopped it will lead to a bank run on every small cap bank in California and then the country.
It will bring the economy to its knees.
Lou is one of the sharpest minds in research today. Always a pleasure talking to him. This time we recorded our conversation.
Thanks for having me, Lou.
Had a great time talking #AI and #QualitativeResearch with @HeyMarvinApp's @prayagn on my podcast. Some really good thoughts on how #UXresearch and #UXresearchers can grow in relevance through using AI when it makes sense (and when it doesn't).
soundcloud.com/rosenfeld-med…
"Acknowledge your biases."
What's the #1 rule of user research?
This isn't a Fight Club set-up. We really want to know what you think!
#uxresearch
The first line of code of @HeyMarvinApp was at the height of the economic panic right at the beginning of the pandemic. Economic downturns are a perfect time to refocus on the basics.
My article in Forbes has some practical tricks to improve your product during the downturn.
Talking to your customers also makes business sense. They WANT to give you feedback because they want your product to be successful.
forbes.com/sites/forbestechc…
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We'll be there! Who else?
Design at Scale 2022 kicks off next Wednesday! Register now to experience three days, three themes, and twenty speakers to help you, your team, and your org scale in the face of uncertainty. rosenfeldmedia.com/design-at…
Series B has traditionally been the hardest round to raise. You are raising on the *promise* of scale but with a history of doing unscalable things. It's a very awkward story.
The fact that it was *easy* to raise a B for the past 2 years was a historic anomaly.
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spoiler alert: @HeyMarvinApp is our latest secret to success
Counterpoint: in almost all cases, Venture Debt is fine. I have dealt with multiple debt providers, a few times when things were tough. Every single one of them tried really hard to work with us.