My favorite founders are the ones demanding my work without boundaries and limitations. The ones that make me feel that I absolutely owe them this introduction at 11pm on Saturday night and never stop asking for more once I made it, end up being the winners.

In this episode of Turpentine Finance: Sasha Orloff sits down with Sagar Sanghvi, Current Partner at Accel and former CFO at Instacart.

They discuss how Sagar drove the change in financial culture at Instacart and adapted rapidly to Whole Food’s acquisition by Amazon, scaling…

10m people are now on world app

it’s also now used by more people daily than we had per month when the year started

feeling grateful and excited for the road ahead

Existing embryo screenings:
- Look at >1% of DNA
- Low res, detects tiny fraction of serious genetic diseases

Orchid breakthrough whole genome sequencing for embryos:
- Yields 100x more data
- Screen for 1200+ serious genetic diseases

Noor Siddiqui interview w/ WIRED 👇

Current deep learning methods only have one dial to turn; increase scale & hope for emergent behavior

@Symbolica is developing structured reasoning in AI, challenging the idea that scale is the only way

Proud early investor of Symbolica's $33M round!
venturebeat.com/ai/move-over-d…

I need to get phone stolen to find out that I have a bit 7500 in my phone book

New MSCHF show is 🤯🤯🤯

One of my portfolio companies raised tens of millions, had no accounting in 2 years since founding...

I tried Xero, Quickbooks, gave up after a few hours (!!) of manual reconciliation

Connected bank to Puzzle 🧩🚀... 3 MINUTES LATER, fully reconciled & polished BS/P&L

INSANE!!

🔈sound on 😎

Top companies from this Y Combinator batch - Startlight Charging by Andrew Kouri (second time we back him!) and Octolane AI by Coffee with One

YC Demo Day’s got vibe back this year. Garry Tan 💥♻️ e/acc thanks for hosting us

Some large top tier funds put 30-40 small checks in the new YC batch. Is it treated as an advantage or rather creates a signaling risk for next rounds?

YC Demo Day’s got vibe back this year. Garry Tan 💥♻️ e/acc thanks for hosting us

Worldcoin is my favorite crypto project
They’re actually trying to do a thing

The more you work with psychoanalysts the more everyone around use you as one for themselves

Been hosting a lot of dinners lately but hard to top this weekend’s fertility dinner with Noor Siddiqui who shared her babies hats from Orchid 🌸

Secret for a calm life: keep in your life people taking less than an hour to respond on your text and drop the rest

Louis Anslow IMO they actually have been doing quite a good job of taking the privacy critiques seriously and designing their system to be more and more data-minimal. Modern cryptography is truly amazing.

If you found out that you’ve been underestimating someone before, it’s good to consider you might still be underestimating today where they can be in a few years

Every company needs to have a person on the team (or an investor) whom you can tell: I am closing/doing X, put good energy in it

… and then things just work out