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Siqi Chen
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🏗️ Love to build stuff (@runwayco, @sandboxvr, @postmates, @zynga) people love. 💸 Investor @amplitude_hq, @mercury, @owner, @elevenlabsio, @slopepay ++
Jul 9 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
we spent the last four years reimagining what finance can be, unburdened by what has been.

runway makes clear the significance of the passage of time in the context of all in which your business lives and what came before you.

this is the result 👇 the world is changing faster than ever, and finance is expected to go even faster — to be more strategic, to find more value quarter after quarter

but to be strategic, you need real collaboration. and that only happens when everyone at your company has the same context
Jun 10 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
apple sherlocked 1Password today, so i'd like to remind you that your Apple ID is only as secure as your carrier.

if you have 2FA on and get SIM swapped, attackers can lock you out of it PERMANENTLY.

last month it happened to me. make sure it doesn't happen to you: 🧵 background:

in february, my @TMobile SIM was swapped for the first time.

i recovered my number the same day, and added SIM protection with a pin code to prevent future occurrences.

i mention this only so that you know that a PIN code doesn't protect you from SIM swapping.
May 13 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
this will prove to be in retrospect by far the most underrated openai event ever

openai casually dropping text to 3d rendering in gpt4o and not even mentioning it

(more 👇🏼) Image new state of the art in text generation with diffusion image generation Image
Jun 19, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
zaha hadid architects trained a generative model that renders architectural designs in the style of renowned architects ... from randomly crumpled pieces of paper.

this one is in the style of frank gehry:

🧵👇 ImageImage Daniel Libeskind ImageImage
Apr 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
had multiple conversations this week with builders who think it's already possible to build self-improving autonomous agents through GPT4.

key belief shared is that we are just scratching the surface of what it can do through better prompt engineering:

e.g

you can pretty easily imagine an opportunity to use an LLM for meta reflexion / self improvement to improve its own architectural loop / prompts so it can discover things like this autonomously:

h/t @rahulchhabra07
Mar 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
i have been told that gpt5 is scheduled to complete training this december and that openai expects it to achieve agi.

which means we will all hotly debate as to whether it actually achieves agi.

which means it will. so how does an LLM, even gpt5, get to agi?

don’t you still need to prompt it?

doesn’t it need to like, do stuff, have goals?

well, imagine you do something like this: give it a goal, put it in a loop, with all of the power of chatgpt plugins, and with gpt5 instead:
Mar 25, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🤯 this paper demonstrates you can improve gpt4 performance an astounding 30% by asking gpt4 to reflect on “why were you wrong?”, and generate a new prompt for itself taking that reason into account until it is correct.

this is how humans learn!

arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366…

👇 reflecting on a shopping strategy:
Mar 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
i have been really struggling to figure out what to build today that is going to not be obsolete within 3 years and it’s distressing tbh physical things like @SandboxVR is a good answer
Mar 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
gpt-4 (visual) is multi-modal.

which means it can take images as input.

so it can explain memes like this:
Mar 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
unpopular opinion today but f it:

you can find the style distasteful but @DavidSacks and @jason stuck their neck out to do everything they can to prevent a massive bank run knowing they would get skewered for it. this is fair nobody was more effective here than @garrytan

Mar 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Today I learned that when Twitter acquired @uenodotco in 2021, @iamharaldur quietly negotiated for the acquisition price to be paid as salary so he could pay 46% in taxes instead of 22%, in gratitude to his education in Finland.

An especially stark contrast in character today. *Iceland not Finland (apologies I am one of those Americans)
Mar 3, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
okay so AI can literally read our minds now.

a team from osaka was able to reconstruct visual images from mri scan data using stable diffusion.

first row is the image presented to the test subject, second row is the reconstructed image from mri data.

wild. paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Jan 31, 2023 • 28 tweets • 6 min read
Founders - don't use that standard 10 slide template from Google for your fundraising deck.

Here’s how to craft a fundraising story of your own that actually closes:

🧵: These are the two most important principles of a good pitch:

1. Focus on the size of outcome if successful, rather than the probability of success.
2. Your deck is a vehicle for the delivery of emotions, not of facts.

Jan 30, 2023 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Most fundraising advice you'll find online can usually be traced to some famous investor or other, so it might be tempting to just do whatever investors tell you to do.

This is a mistake, because investor incentives are very different from your incentives as a founder ...👇🧵 As an investor, your job is to invest in the very best startups and filter out shitty ones as fast as you can.

As a founder, your job is to get investors to invest in your shitty startup no matter what.

Those are very different incentives.
Sep 20, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A lot founders (myself included) see Steve Jobs as this autocratic product genius who ruled Apple with an iron fist, but that's just a caricature.

A few less well known and under appreciated management gems from his 1992 talk at MIT:

🧵👇 Steve Jobs on resolving conflict:

"I've never believed in ... 'We're on all on the same team, you don't agree, but buy into it!' ... I've always felt the best way is to get everybody in a room and talk through it until you agree."
Nov 9, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
1/ We've been working on something new @runwayco, and we're pretty fired up about it.

Goal: build something 100X better than a spreadsheet, but just for the financial planning use case.

We think we're getting pretty close.

Here's why we're building this: Excel is amazing. Excel will never die.

But for financial planning, we have had to put up with ... a lot.

Let me know if any of these problems resonate with you:
Aug 21, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
If you’re going to build something to replace Excel, it better be 100X better than Excel because 10X ain’t gonna cut it. I like how this is framed a lot
Feb 1, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
$1B feels undervalued now. The CEO of Robinhood @vladtenev and @elonmusk talking about $GME right now live on @joinclubhouse is ... just absurd.

Where else can this happen?
Nov 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This may be the strongest optical illusion I’ve ever seen.

Source:
Nov 5, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
What's left:

Georgia: Biden behind by 23K votes, with 50K votes left to count. Votes have been breaking roughly 80% for Biden, which if holds puts Biden over the top if barely. This will be in recount territory either way. Arizona: Biden ahead by 200K votes, with about 400K votes to go. Remaining votes is a mixed bag but leaning R. This is going to be pretty close but still looking good for Biden.
Nov 4, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Biden is now leading in Wisconsin.

Michigan is looking promising.

If Biden takes MI and WI I think we're done. Now up on @DecisionDeskHQ

(@oolti)