semi-annual changing of the guard

We are excited to share that we are opening an application for the Thrive Fellowship program for the summer of 2026. Please find more information and the application here ➡️ fellows.thrivecap.com/?y=2026

two years ago, i took a gap year to work at a startup in lake tahoe. as i was getting ready to return to school, josh’s tweet about the thrive fellowship caught my attention. candidly, i thought there was no chance i would be considered amongst the mass of talented T10

Fantastic listen x.com/jaltma/status/…

is it just me or focusing on token use as a metric for most startups is just a way to say your revenue is bad without saying that it is bad?

In the ED 0 context, its important to note that very **particular** kind of kid will shell out the $10k to attend a UChicago precollege program, when (spoiler alert) you barely learn anything and it is not prestigious (in the context of the highschool summer program world)

cold dm maxxing for fun friends

The @Neo team and I spent the last few days meeting incredible Harvard & MIT students. 💙 From 1:1 office hours with 70+ individual students, to group Q&As with inspiring founders like @LuanaLopesLara, @EvaTuecke, & @Elie_Cuevas, it was fantastic, and I can't wait to return!

The RL env-ification of software has already started and will move beyond code shortly x.com/sdand/status/1…

life update: I decided to forgo college this fall to join a16z full time. I’m beyond excited to be part of the New Media team. Our goal is simple: help the firm and its portcos tell their stories, and push the frontier of what’s creatively possible. This path hasn’t been

It’s really hard to take this seriously with the amount of em dashes. Rookie mistake

This only applies to “priced in” talent or individuals that: 1. Know their own value 2. Have the requisite signals/status symbols/clout to prove their value Assembling a team then, more than ever, requires finding individuals that are not priced in…

The anti-business school/anti-social tech-bro rhetoric is fine and all, but soon most will converge to the consensus view that social interaction is extremely important. We have just existed in this weird in-between period where inability to communicate was actually rewarded.

Listened to the first ever ep with jason liu when it first released. A gem of a podcast then and now

Jordi: Using copy-pasted AI writing has become the lowest status thing you can do on the internet. "You put this out, and you wanted me to read this. If it's completely obvious that a computer generated it, was it even worth my time?" The guys discuss with Byrne Hobart

LLMs write buggy code 40-60% of the time. We prove mathematically why multi-agent verification works and show 4 specialized agents beat single-agent by 40pp. Our system has 76% bug detection in <200ms. arxiv.org/abs/2511.16708

Oral exams will soon be back in style