building things @paradigm
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11 Jun 2021
Unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is to work on the weekends.
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Jun 12
there is $10k trapped in the @paradigm Kryptos CTF challenge — up to you to find it
paradigm.xyz/kryptos-ctf
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Jun 12
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Jun 12
a puzzle that remains a mystery for 35 years...
will you be the one to solve it?
paradigm.xyz/kryptos/k4
We have the solution to Kryptos, one of the last great cryptography puzzles.
But it’s a secret, even to us.
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Jun 10
Alpha school is going to disrupt higher ed.
Why wait for college? Find your path in high school instead.
Jun 10
Alpha School is building 4 types of high schools: Service, Division 1 Athletics, Entrepreneurship and "get into a Top 20 university" high schools:
Service high schools will be where you do things like spend a year in Africa building an Alpha School and doing your top 1% academics 3 hours a day, but on site on a different continent.
D1 Athletics high schools will be where you spend 5 hours a day building yourself into an elite college athlete, maybe with professional aspirations. Again, you'll do your top 1% academics in only 3 hours a day, opening up most of your day to be an incredible athlete.
Entrepreneurship high schools like Founders School run by @nateliason will be where you learn how to earn a million dollars in profits during high school, starting at 12 pm, and only after doing your top 1% academics in only 3 hours a day.
"Get into a top 20 college" high schools will have a focus on giving you 40 hours a week to build a portfolio of Olympic-level (academic) extracurriculars to go along side top 1% academics in only 3 hours a day.
The common theme here is that when it is possible to get a 1560 SAT and 10 APs during high school in only 3 hours a day, teenagers can open up their schedule to spend their years doing the stuff they want to at the highest levels.
This is much different than the best private high schools where classes and homework take up so much time that students only have at most ~20 hours a week to work on their passion projects and leadership activities.
Alpha School gives teenagers 2X the time, which makes for much more interesting people at the age of 18. That's why I'm building Toronto into the first 1,000 student Alpha School city. Reach out if you are interested.
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Jun 2
Peptides will democratize skinny/hot as a status symbol
Agents should democratize post-labor as a status symbol
What remains?
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Feb 6
The rise of AI means that we’ll all be using software more, not less.
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May 23
I'm keeping a running list of things humans are better at than AI:
1. vision
2. taste
2. asking good questions
What else?
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May 11
This was 10x easier than when I tried to set up a OpenClaw agent 1-2 months ago.
May 11
Set up my Hermes Agent over the weekend as a Mother's Day gift to myself...
Moms, tell me all the things I should outsource to my agent!
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May 11
Set up my Hermes Agent over the weekend as a Mother's Day gift to myself...
Moms, tell me all the things I should outsource to my agent!
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May 7
Announcing Weekend Fund IV, backed by operators and founders (and maybe you).
When we raised Weekend Fund III, we did something different.
Toward the end of our raise, we announced the fund in public and accepted applications from LPs.
Our goal was to make early-stage venture more accessible and align ourselves with an army of operators and founders to help us and the startups we back.
Over 1,000 people expressed interest to join and hundreds did, but there was a problem. Legally, only accredited investors could participate as an LP. Accreditation laws are well-meaning but limit access to the majority of consumers.
With WF IV, @vedikaja_in and I are doing something different.
Like before, we’re onboarding engineers, designers, researchers, data scientists, salespeople, and other domain experts as LPs in the fund. But this time at a larger scale with USVC.
AngelList recently announced USVC, a new kind of fund that’s accessible to everyone, including the non-accredited. It holds positions in private late-stage companies like xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, Sierra, and Vercel. I personally invested.
Today, they just announced their investment in Weekend Fund IV, one of the first early-stage funds added to their portfolio.
If you’re interested in being a part of Weekend Fund and getting exposure to generational startups mentioned above, visit usvc [dot] com.
Of course, don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose.
Investing in startups is risky and you may lose all your money. USVC shares are illiquid with no guarantee of repurchase.
Consider investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing. Read the prospectus: usvc [dot] com/prospectus.
Also, USVC is currently limited to US citizens. They’re working to open the fund to other geographies.
Lastly, my DMs are open. :)
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Jordan Kong retweeted
May 1
Millions of BTC could be vulnerable to quantum computers
Bitcoin may someday need to sunset those addresses, but that could force a public migration
Today we published a design to let that migration be costless and silent: Public Address-Control Timestamps (PACTs)
Link in 🧵
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Apr 30
It’s been incredible to “feel the AGI” at @paradigm and build alongside @gakonst and team.
Our slack bot has accelerated the speed at which we work and empowered individuals to do incredible things. Radial self-reliance, the only blocker is your own initiative.
Apr 30
pretty incredible to see @patrickc casually mentioning to @sama the agentic infra we built in January for @tempo and @paradigm to transform how we work.
we indeed use this to orchestrate pretty much anything at both companies.
neither paradigm nor tempo can live without this now.
it feels like the stone age without it. and because our organizations are so workflow heavy / data rich and we are <100 people, these are the perfect organizations to max deploy ai.
it is natively multiplayer, harness agnostic, has secure secret management & firewalls, durable workflows, observable so it can self-improve/heal and most importantly - all self-hosted on bare metal & self-built, end to end. no third parties involved.
we have two deploys, one for each company on different machines, but they both have a shared core codebase that's modular and extensible for each company's idiosyncracies.
we're looking to do way more things with it. proactive agents remains an open problem for us.
we hope to open source it very soon as i've mentioned a few times before.
we're adding 1 special eng to that team, dm me your proof of work if you're epic at infrastructure / security and love hacking things quickly.
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Apr 29
AGI-proof innovation. Pamper your @joingoldenchild.
Apr 28
Introducing Golden Child. 🐾
We've built a new food system for dogs that features chef-crafted and vet nutritionist-developed recipes. Because your dog deserves a bowl made with the same care and intention you'd want for yourself.
Meet our meals at mygoldenchild.com. 🐶
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Apr 20
Applications are now open for the 2026 Paradigm Fellowship: a 4-day retreat for young people who are obsessively good at something technical.
For our fourth year, we're expanding to welcome builders across every frontier — AI, robotics, energy, bio, prediction markets, or something we haven't thought of.
Last year's cohort came from 10 countries. Some were undergrads, some were dropouts, some were founders, some came from OpenAI, SpaceX, Citadel, and Kalshi.
The format is simple: firesides, whiteboarding sessions, and time to hack. What makes it special is what happens in between, and after. Fellows have met cofounders, started companies, and gone on to raise from Paradigm and others.
I was a fellow before joining Paradigm, the retreat was a transformative trip for me, and I met some of my closest friends through the program.
Apply by June 8th. Retreat runs August 12–15th.
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Apr 15
s/o to all the workaholics who read the Jeff Yan profile and immediately sent their partners this screenshot
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Jordan Kong retweeted
Apr 13
Travel is my passion. 🌏
Whether it's golf trips with the boys or family adventures to share the world to my kids, I believe traveling broadens the perspective and clears the mind.
Everyone knows the endorphin rush of walking into a great hotel or vacation home and going "Wow, this place is awesome!"
Unfortunately, that's become harder to find.
@wander is built for the discerning traveler who wants a premium experience. Excited to build the most trusted brand in travel.
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Apr 13
Excited to welcome @SVMansuri to @Wander as President & COO. We’ve been working together for several months, and he’s already been a force multiplier for our velocity. I’ve never been more confident in our vision to build the infrastructure to experience the world.
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Apr 3
We're hosting a one-day hackathon around automated research!
* Thursday, April 9 (8 AM - 4 PM PT)
* SF and online
* Hosted by @paradigm
* Compete in never-before-seen optimization challenges, or build your own projects
* $9,000 in total prizes
Application in 🧵
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