CTO @freestylevc βž• Expert in Residence @firstround βž• Advisor to many fast growing startups

Joined September 2007
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heisenberg’s uranium enrichment facility
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Maria Palma from the @freestylevc team wrote a great piece about the future of agentic payments - machines paying humans, machines paying machines, it’s all getting very interesting very fast. Check it out here: medium.com/p/when-machines-p…

1 Apr 2025
When agents transact, everything changes. How we go from bad bots to good bots and why today's financial systems aren't set up for agentic payments today - More on that here - medium.com/p/when-machines-p… and shout out to @PaymanAI @AtumLabs @crossmint @fewsats @Nevermined_io @trySkyfire
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β€œeverything is computer” - so true, my man, so true.
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Delighted to have Maria joining us on the Freestyle team! We have already collaborated on some fascinating AI opportunities and I’m excited to keep digging in together.
14 Aug 2024
Delighted to announce I’ve joined @freestylevc alongside @dsamuel @jennylefcourt @dsb - can’t wait to build with them and continue backing the next generation of exceptional founders! For more details, check out the announcement here: shorturl.at/kfy1E
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700 of 770 employees have signed - that’s a very impressive amount of alignment for any tech company - particularly for one that was so fractured last week. one way of healing a divided workforce is to act so incompetently that the condemnation of your behavior becomes something everyone can unify around.
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wired.com/story/openai-staff… Ilya: β€œI threaten to quit and join the person I fired unless you bring him back, hold me responsible for this terrible behavior and make me resign from the board”. If this was an episode of Silicon Valley we would say it had gotten too absurd.
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Exclusive video of the OpenAI board meeting

ALT Robot Fail GIF

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Since AI is going to kill us all anyway I’m taking a Waymo to the OpenAI reception.
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It seemed for a moment that the wordcels had taken the lead with LLM prompt engineering, but the shape rotators have fired right back with magic levitating rocks.
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This is thoughtful and prudent but also fits into the standard playbook of the dominant player asking for regulation and slower pace of innovation. Competitors trying to catch up won’t be as cautious, and regulation (if it happens) will only slow pace in some countries.
24 Feb 2023
Planning for AGI and beyond: openai.com/blog/planning-for…
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or perhaps sooner than that… x.com/bchesky/status/1519831…

cnet.com/news/google-rolls-o… I think 20 years from now we will view the concept of adjusting someone's salary up or down because they decided to perform the same work somewhere else to be a strange concept.
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As evidenced by my lack of influencer-rap you may safely assume I am not laundering $4 billion in bitcoin.
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Wait, is this supposed to encourage me to click? πŸ˜‚
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Twitter NLP algorithm really nailing topic extraction lately
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cnet.com/news/google-rolls-o… I think 20 years from now we will view the concept of adjusting someone's salary up or down because they decided to perform the same work somewhere else to be a strange concept.

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Important to note though that equity doesn't change with location (within the US) so that means for many higher-level roles the majority of total comp is already location independent.
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