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Check out my interview with Chris Saad on The Startup Podcast, talking about Positron AI and our industry leading performance per dollar and performance for watt for Transformer model inference. youtube.com/watch?v=_brwk2…

algorithmic feeds are the first at-scale misaligned AIs

Turns out it was a Cyber Truck. That’s… ironic? Metaphorical? Bizarre coincidence?

Earthquake

Pam Bondi, last week on pardons for Jan 6 offenders: "I will look at every case on a case-by-case basis" Donald Trump, yesterday: "Full pardons" No review. No accountability. Nothing.

Surreal

I’m at Shack15 if anyone’s around.

I wonder when Sam Altman and team will decide to deemphasize the model selection affordance in ChatGPT in favor of some kind of seamless model arbitrage that automatically routes any given prompt to the right model at the right time without the user having to think about it.

This is a really deep "understanding how VC works" tweet. The headline is: Cursor raises hundreds of millions at $10B, are these investors visionary or crazy?!?! That is because we intuitively assume that those investors lose money if Cursor's ultimately worth less than $10B.

The one thing worse than taxing unrealized capital gains: Not having unrealized capital gains.

Dan Primack When I think about everyone from the venture community who supported Trump for president, it makes me think of the Dark Knight quote: "You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand."

This is what it’s all about. I am so grateful for this kind of feedback and I so love helping generous and inspirational founders like this!

What are we doing? 💔

It's official. It's genocide.

Thanks so much to Yaniv Bernstein and Chris Saad for having me on The Startup Podcast. They are great hosts, and I've found their conversations really practical, relevant, grounded, and insightful. Also really excited to frame my book Impact through the specific lens of startup speed.