I just spoke with an early engineer of what’s now a top 5 privately held startup. He never has to work another day in his life. He’ll tell you he doesn’t even know why he was one of the lucky ones. He spends his time now trying to pay it forward. Incredibly humble and just so

Here’s what crossed our wire last week: • Anthropic hiring across research, infra, and safety after a $30B round • World Labs (Fei-Fei Li) raising $1B for large-scale world models • Proximal launching to solve the frontier data bottleneck • Braintrust raising $80M for

There’s gonna be a big washout of SF startups and it will be because they held out for top talent out of their league and didn’t do what it took to get them when they had the chance. Missed their key deliverables and funding milestones as a result. FAFO!!!

Really you think an all lowercase email firing 4k loyal employees is the ‘best humanly possible’ 🤣

Last week felt industrial ⚙️ Here’s what crossed our wire: • $110B into OpenAI to scale global AI infrastructure • $1B into world models (Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs) • $450M into fusion (Inertia) • $140M into grid transformers (ex-Tesla SVP) • $50M from ex-SpaceX engineers

I absolutely swear to you 🤨

One of the most important shifts happening in hiring right now is that companies are starting to evaluate talent on two vectors instead of one. For years the question was simple: How strong are you in your function? (Engineer, Scientist, PM, Designer, etc.) Now there’s a second

There’s been a lot of new swirl about potential layoffs at Meta. Our latest 1st10 Podcast guest, Shashank Chiranewala, former Meta engineer and now founder of the Seattle fintech startup Plutus, shares his perspective on the systemic bloat inside large tech companies. He talks

Every engineer on their team gets a $1,000/month AI budget. While many companies are still debating whether to pay for ChatGPT. I had to ask Why? How? On the 1st10 Podcast, Shashank Chiranewala (former Meta, now founder of Plutus said it comes down to one thing. Speed! What

Tech M&A should be borderline illegal. Beyond shit show level quality!

What does it actually take to be a great founding engineer? On the 1st10 Podcast, Shashank Chiranewala (former Meta, now founder of Seattle-based Plutus) puts it simply: It’s not about where you’ve worked. Or where you went to school. It’s about how you operate. Can you handle

Everybody should use AI to do their job infinitely better

I call this talent magnetism

So true! Founders need to bring their A+++++ game to compete!

Join a startup and make life changing money! Become too rich to work 😎

And that’s why I started 1st10 😅

Excellent customer video. Well executed and perfectly on brand for both companies. Reflects positively on Tempo for customer caliber and on Doordash for technological relevance. I want to meet the team working on this!

First of its kind AI government? The world is accelerating!

umm i would take the property if i had the shares to trade

Never deleting this app 😂