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We overvalue things built with atoms and undervalue things built with bits.

Wave after wave of fake lunatic-funded astroturf.

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NYC's public college system paid Oracle ~$600M to build our course management portal. It's built on top of Oracle's PeopleSoft suite, which they refused to customize without an extra $400M (to hit $1B). New Yorkers got the image below and pay $5M+ / year for *hosting*.

“The history of millenarian apocalyptic speculation is littered with worries that each new development would destroy society and lead to tyranny, and with calls for massive coercive reaction. Most of it was spectacularly wrong.”

This is very good advice from Keith on how to hire.

School closures all over the Bay from San Jose to Oakland to San Francisco. We failed to keep building family friendly and affordable housing to keep enrollment up.

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What is going to be the peace dividend of trillions of dollars of spend on compute…

Deepseek R1 is AI's Sputnik moment.

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2025 is the year of inference. We're thrilled to announce our $75m Series C co-led by IVP and Spark Capital with participation from Greylock, Conviction, basecase, South Park Commons and @lachy. We're also excited to add Dick Costolo and Adam Bain from 01A as

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Who's going to the ASU+GSV Summit next week? When you're there, don't miss Osarugue Michelle Odemwingie, Sarah J. Johnson, and Ahsan Rizvi on the panel discussion, "The Role of AI in Teaching: Teacher-Facing AI Solutions that Center Teachers in the AI Revolution," moderated by

Product launch with the backstory: Internally we had always said let's do *1 thing* but do it well. For us that was inference. And we said at some point we'll earn the rights to expand the surface area beyond that. That some point is today. The vast majority of our revenue