"It's a great time to be in ML. VCs will light money on fire for your pretraining." - Soumith, ICML keynote. goat

They're so rare these days but when you see a killer demo and meet a truly mission oriented founder that just might change the world, everything else just falls away. ...Including the fact that I should probably go through the IC before writing a $50m seed check.

An obviously true statement that many forget.

Entrepreneurship is a skill. Many young investors (and employees) who haven't seen this before are mistaking great at research for great at company building. A team that can do both is where the magic happens.

projecteuler.net Still one of the best of all time.

Audience poll at the Cerebral Valley AI summit! .Vinod Khosla Sven Strohband Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures Khosla Ventures 🚀🚀

I did the seed into MagicPath because of an incredible vision. But the best part of Pietro Schirano is that he just keeps shipping.

Any Bizops, Analytics, or FP&A folks want to try a new analytics agent/copilot and give me and the team some feedback? Would highly appreciate it!

Excited to lead the seed and be personally responsible for a few of these customers!

PSA for pitching: if I don't understand what you do in the first 5m, the pitch isn't going well. It doesn't matter if you're showing amazing growth and other opportunity. I need to know what you do. Usually, founders that haven't said what they do in 5m still haven't after 15.

But you get dominated by MSFT and Bill Gates in 🥞s

I might be old school, but I find it in poor taste to try to generate heat by bragging publicly on Twitter about how hot and over subscribed your fundraising round is. Especially if you're coming of of a demo day fundraising season that's designed to create heat.