It drives me crazy when people call a slide deck a demo.

We don't do that.

Best thing about Demo Faire is we take the word demo seriously

We have one strict rule for SPC Demo Faire—presenters have to actually show a live demo, not a slide deck.

On Wed. May 1, we're hosting our first ever Demo Faire in NYC. RSVP in the next post if you want to see the latest and greatest LIVE demos from SPC members and alumni!

Taken at face value, this is kind of insane.

Input speed, Control translation, multi-modality, inference --> action latency etc. all have to be insanely good.

theverge.com/2024/4/18/2413…

New office decal at South Park Commons. Very special place.

Some thoughts on the current state of Foundation Models.

- The performance of Reka* indicates that the knowledge of how to train GPT-4 class multimodal models is well understood. You can see this from the lineage of the teams who are building these models. They all originate in

If you're a solo founder pitching for pre-seed funding or a startup accelerator, you’re starting at a disadvantage. But there are specific things you can do to reassure investors:

This handwritten “sign” at the new (and significantly upgraded) South Park Commons office was meant to be temporary but there seems to be an emerging consensus that it perfectly fits the WIP vibe of the community.

I kind of love it.

Work with great people to build something that you are proud of.

Apart from family, there is nothing else that brings me more joy.

I am so stoked to welcome Dylan Itzikowitz to the SPC team.

100%. Spot on.

We interviewed the legendary Aditya Agarwal, former CTO of Dropbox and early Facebook engineer. Except the interviewer isn't human.

The future is here. And it’s with InterviewerAI

[email protected] if you want to use this to interview candidates

Lots of new GPU announcements (Intel, Google, Meta) -- it's cool to see Capitalism doing it's magic.

BUT -- it's going to be hard to displace Nvidia in the short run because their software CUDA moat is so strong.

Interesting that the ultimate moat is still software.

The world's most transformative companies often started with a SINGLE exceptional idea that was 100x better than the status quo.

But yet, I see investors filling out scorecards and dinging companies+founders on what they are LACKING.

Why do we obsess over the gaps? Because

today we announced our seed round for JARS AI !!

what better way to show what it can do than having an AI pitch VC's a keyboard made of lasagna 👇👇

Big news - we’ve raised $3M from an incredible team of investors including Gradient Ventures, South Park Commons, and Bessemer

Read more in our Axios exclusive below 👇

'We reinvent our product every day. We’re only as good as our last story.'

Thanks to Jessica Lessin for joining us today in an excellent conversation about starting The Information, the future of media, trends in AI, and so much more!

Tomorrow in SF we're hosting Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information, for a conversation on the future of journalism moderated by SPC founder Ruchi Sanghvi!

If you would like to attend, RSVP at the link in the next post.