Observation suggests that people are switching to using ChatGPT to write things for them with almost indecent haste. Most people hate to write as much as they hate math. Way more than admit it. Within a year the median piece of writing could be by AI.

For the upcoming webinar in collaboration with Silicon Valley Study Tour, Innovit - Italian Innovation and Culture Hub and ITA - Italian Trade Agency, Irene Mingozzi will share how her journey led her to Lombardstreet Ventures, one of the leading VC funds managed by Italians!

How to get a VCs attention: Warm intros are good. Cold emails are fine too. But if you are going to do a cold email, here are some piece of advice.

Founders have been asking us when the next HF0 batch is. There’s more interest than ever. And we just decided to launch another batch this year. - 10 teams - $500k uncapped - The best place in the world to build Apply now: HF0.com (1/5)

We say the same thing all the time to those portfolio companies that don’t send regular updates. If we don’t know, we can’t help you.

Hydra 1.0: open source column-oriented Postgres is live! Check out the release on the front page of news.ycombinator.com 🚀

If you want to know about Hydra, an open-source, column-oriented Postgres, this Joe Sciarrino interview is an excellent way to start: youtube.com/watch?v=aX02SG… Release 1.0 was released a few days ago news.ycombinator.com/item?id=369879…

Stonks is now becoming Sandhill Markets 😎 Same BS content, more serious investing. Announcing 2 new co-founders Olivier (he's amazing, tech lead) and Sandy the Crane (dubious value, but team player). Sandy was pitching earlier this week to Mike Maples, Jr & Eric Ries 👇

Hey Elon Musk, wouldn't it be nice to tell Twitte.. ehm X, what we want to get in our feed using natural language? Like, "Please, no Italian ads" or "Show me Bay Area fundraising news first" or "For 30 days prioritize YC S23 posts".

These YC pre-demo day weeks have been intense, and I tried to re-learn how investing should work at the very early stages. For us, it's investing in founders. Products change, companies evolve, and initial good ideas may become dumb after a while.

We ask ourselves: Would I invest in these founding teams for life? Getting to a long-term commitment after a couple of 30-minute meetings and a bunch of Q&A over emails is extremely hard, but it's possible.

Amazing news! Proud to be part of this journey 🚀

i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people. will have more to say about what’s next later. 🫡

What I wished I had when I moved in San Francisco. Happy to have contributed to this with the Gomry house house (app.gomry.com/form/TaJq3IcOR… ) and the Silicon Valley fellowship (siliconvalleyfellowship.co)

Historically, letting technology eliminate their jobs has been a sacrifice people have made for their kids' sakes. Not intentionally, for the most part, but their kids ended up with the new jobs created as a result. No one weaves now, and that's fine.

This whole debate about where you need to be to build a startup is silly. Can't we just agree that you can create a great company from anywhere as long as you're determined, have a bit of luck, and are in the bay area?

From Nat Friedman's personal site (former Github CEO)

This is a good example of a subtle but important aspect of Y Combinator. There are certain tunnels in society through which talented outsiders can become insiders much more rapidly than everywhere else, and YC is one of them.

Thanks Irene Mingozzi for dropping by our HQ to meet the aspiring founders in our Venture Building program and for sharing some great insights about VC and all the cool stuff going on in the funding world.

Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make. paulgraham.com/taste.html