I had a chance to interview Chad Laurans the founder of SimpliSafe tonight at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Their story is a killer example of following customer pain to a $1B exit in the face of great skepticism. The skepticism: -All 8 HBS professors they shared the SimpliSafe idea with advised them

(5/5) 🤫 The Secret Sauce, How Digital Influencers & Foods Brands Have Launched Viral Trends @planetla_music, @foodinstitute 🤝 Friends of Ansa and Blisce Ansa 🍳 Pillar VC - NYC Co-Founder Match Breakfast Katie Mulligan, Parker McKee, @alexmreinhart, Pillar VC

1/ On Nov 21st (A day before Thirdweb updated their contracts due to the recent bug), SphereX deployed a protected version of Thirdweb's DropERC721 on the BSC Testnet. This version, a ProtectedERC1967Proxy for the vulnerable DropERC721 Implementation, was set up for demo purposes

Yann LeCun wandering around NeurIPS poster sessions is Tay Swift level famous.

The three highest utility crypto networks/assets right now besides BTC/ETH are 10 year old Helium🎈, 10 year old Circle, and 9 year old Hivemapper. In many ways, all three feel like they are just getting started. Turns out building a useful decentralized network takes a REALLY

Photonics. Quantum. Analog. What do you think is the compute platform of the future? I've been doing research into understanding AI chips, GPUs and the surrounding innovation. I thought I'd share for anyone else who's found this topic confusing. tinyurl.com/mrdb3hx7

Perplexity has done an amazing job demonstrating the power of working at the intersection of Search and LLMs. Try out AgentSearch for free to connect your LLM app or agent to Search in a similar way - agent-search.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. I'm more than happy to help w/ your setup.

We are starting a monumental shift from purchasing software tools to purchasing labor (zero marginal cost labor). When I say “labor” I’m referring to complete jobs that no longer require a human. Most software companies today sell an incremental productivity lift in the form of a

Today — the U.S. Senate vs. social media CEOs, Chicago’s diversity report, and the future of investing in vertical AI. We’re joined by Joey Mak (Chicago:Blend) and Parker McKee (Pillar VC). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ven…

I've been working on an open source framework, named R2R, to make it easier for developers to build, observe, and optimize RAG. It facilitates deployment and observability out of the box. We will be adding more features quickly.

Has anyone seen an LLM start up that can reliably answer talent hunt questions like "Who were the first 10 commercial hires at Snowflake?" Every existing platform I've tired has failed. I think willingness to pay for a such a product would be significant.

Day.ai is Reimagining CRM for the AI Age. Today, we’re excited to announce our $4M fundraise, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Pillar VC, Conviction, Stage 2 Capital, Inspired Capital, 20SALES and a number of amazing angels. Read the full announcement

"When you feel fear is when you should step up."

I visited my first robotic Sweetgreen location tonight. Some takeaways from chatting with the staff: 1.) The introduction of robots has not actually cut down employee headcount at the store but instead increased the throughput during peak hours. 2.) The time between ordering and

📢2024 Founder-led Biotech Tour starts next week. Co-hosted with 80+ founders. 4 global hubs. One mission: accelerate biotech innovation. 🌉 SF: 11/12 🗽 NYC: 11/14 🇬🇧 London: 11/18 🍀Boston: 11/20