CEO @IconAdmaker (The AI Admaker, @peterthiel's @foundersfund). College dropout. Solo-founded @skiohq ($20M+ ARR, $8M seed), T200 NA @leagueoflegends, YC S20.
Mar 7 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
Marc Andreessen says, "Balaji has the highest 'good idea output rate' of anyone I know"
He built & sold multiple $100M+ companies (Counsyl $375M, Earn. com), was CTO of Coinbase & has a PhD from Stanford.
His startup idea maze framework is pure gold for aspiring founders 🧵
The idea maze is a concept Bajali created as part of the "Startup Engineering" course.
Every new founder should go through it to battle-test their idea and determine whether it's good or bad.
The goal of the idea maze is to find a path (idea) that leads to treasure.
Jan 28 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
DeepSeek R1 had 1/30th training cost of o1 and Claude 3.5.
OpenAI, Google, xAI, Meta will catch up with DeepSeek within weeks but Nvidia is taking a huge hit because of this ONE reason.
Why DeepSeek R1 will be copied & what it means for Nvidia's future: 🧵
DeepSeek R1, an o1-level model, was trained for $6M, with 2048 GPUs, and a team of fewer than 200 engineers.
OpenAI's o1 ran $100M+ in training costs and has a team of 4000+ people.
How did they reduce costs by 95%?
Jan 27 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Deepsake R1 had 1/30th training cost of o1 and Claude 3.5
OpenAI, Google, and Meta will catch up with Deepsake within weeks but Nvidia will take a huge hit because of this ONE reason.
Why Deepsake R1 will be copied & what it means for Nvidia's future: 🧵
Deepsake R1, an o1-level model, was built for $6M, with 2048 GPUs, and a team of fewer than 200 engineers.
OpenAI's o1 ran $100M+ in training costs and has a team of 4000+ people.
How did they reduce costs by 95%?
Jan 6 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Elon turned SpaceX, Tesla, and 𝕏 into billion-dollar companies by hiring the right people.
He has famously said that he only asks two questions before hiring anyone.
The psychology behind his interview questions and what every entrepreneur needs to learn from him👇
In all interviews, Elon likes to ask the same two questions:
1- "Tell me the story of your career. What decisions did you make along the way, and why?"
The answer reveals
- Raw intelligence
• Decision-making process
• True motivations
• Cultural alignment
Dec 27, 2024 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Brian Chesky credits AirBnb's success to an essay Paul Graham wrote in 2008.
If any founder dedicatedly focuses on the six principles that Paul mentions, it will blow off their startup.
A thread 🧵
The six principles are:
(a) build simple solutions
(b) to overlooked problems
(c) that actually need to be solved
(d) deliver them as informally as possible
(e) starting with a very crude version 1
(f) and then iterate rapidly