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Building the New Frontier. Prev VC @BeOnDeck @VillageGlobal. Investor @anduriltech @boomaero @eightsleep @discord @flexport
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Aug 2, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Of course that's your contention. You learned what a superconductor was 3 days ago. You just got finished reading a post about a Chinese lab that couldn't replicate it, you're gonna be convinced of that until you read about the 🇷🇺 anime cat girl and then be convinced it's real. Image Well, as a matter of fact, I won’t, because the Russian cat girl drastically overrates— Image
Jan 10, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
"Hello, Roon? It's SBF. You RT'ed my thread last week about 10 ways I used ChatGPT to transform my workflows and personal relationships.

Roon, I'm calling because an AI startup just came across my desk and it's the most revolutionary product I've seen since Web3. You got a sec?" "The name of the company is AI-nimals. It is a cutting-edge AI product that translates pet sounds into human language.

The founder has deep connections from his time at Stanford's Online Veterinary Anthropology program, and is already negotiating a pilot contract with PETA."
Jan 9, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
"Jesus, Seth, listen to me. If you really want to be a VC for life, you have to believe you’re necessary—and you are. Founders wanna live with their free OpenAI credits, their free food delivery, and their tech week parties they can’t even fuckin’ pay for. Then you’re necessary." Image "The only reason they get to continue living like kings is because we have the fingers on the scale in their favor.

I take my hand off, then valuations gets really fuckin’ fair, really fuckin’ quickly, and nobody actually wants that. They say that they do but they don’t." Image