Investing in data/cloud infra @ScaleVP. Host Contributor.fyi. Previously PM @GoogleCloud, @AWScloud. Member @Ch_JesusChrist.
Joined February 2009
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12 Sep 2020
Instead of advertising 8GBs of RAM they should just say 200 Chrome tabs. That's how you sell a computer.
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Jun 9
Only one of these can be true, which is it?
Anthropic/OpenAI have unsustainably poor unit economics on inference
They charge 10x the cost of an open source model on an inference cloud
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15 Dec 2025
It's easy to look at Google's success in terms of fortunate-monopoly, but you'd discount how fantastic they have been at retaining top talent. At any other company, Jeff Dean would have left long ago. From Day 1 Sergey and team not only innovated on product, but on talent retention (remember all the perks!) and it still resonates.
15 Dec 2025
Sergey Brin on the genius of Jeff Dean.
He credits Jeff’s early obsession with neural networks, back when they were “telling cats from dogs”, as the spark for everything.
TPU was Jeff’s idea. He calculated that if users spoke to Google for just three minutes a day, Google would have to double its CPU data centers. Instead of buying more CPUs, Jeff decided to build a new chip for AI.
What’s fascinating is that when AI was not as big as today, when it can only “tell cats from dogs,” Larry and Sergey were like, “Cool, let’s make a custom chip for it.”
That’s a huge show of confidence in deep tech and top-tier technical talent. It makes Google the only AI company that has the top models, top chips, and top data centers.
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15 Dec 2025
You can stumble into great markets, but you only get to also be the leader in the new thing (AI) 30 years later if you are good and intentional
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11 Dec 2025
how do people sleep at night with all the products that could be built
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21 Nov 2025
We are back!
just a few months ago the AI bubble chatter started, GPUs were aplenty and GPT5.x progress seemed to have stalled
now Gemini blows the doors open, a crop of neolabs gobbled up the GPUs and Nvidia is up
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20 Nov 2025
vindication to anyone who says they are a visual learner
20 Nov 2025
Thinking (test-time compute) in pixel space... 🍌
Pro tip: always peek at the thoughts if you use AI Studio. Watching the model think in pictures is really fun!
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17 Nov 2025
there has never been a job market like this one
unemployment really only move two ways:
Quick rise (recession)
Slow fall (growth)
Since '23 its been neither: slow rise
anyone know why?
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14 Nov 2025
MCP is a dev tool, at least for now
usage is 90% associated with code gen (per popular mcp security company)
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13 Nov 2025
vc is not all consensus
some wear an overshirt some don't
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5 Nov 2025
those who believed foundation models would become commodities weren't wrong, but they vastly underestimated the capital they would raise (buying time for other moats to emerge)
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31 Oct 2025
"This biz is so much tailwind, once it gets moving, we can't really mess it up" is what my manager at GCP told me in response to some fretting about a strategic decision we had made - circa 2014
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20 Oct 2025
AWS did this on purpose to remind us they are still relevant
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24 Sep 2025
Crypto is back and so is the 3.0 thing
23 Sep 2025
We are entering the era of Fintech 3.0.
Regulatory clarity, growing consumer adoption, and low-cost chains have paved the way for a golden age of building in crypto — and at YC, @base and @coinbase we want to fund builders to seize this moment.
@harjtaggar and @jessepollak sat down to discuss what kinds of companies they're most excited to see, why this is such an exciting time, and what the future could look like onchain.
00:00 – The Golden Age of Crypto
02:00 – Jesse’s Path to Coinbase & Base
04:00 – From Fintech 1.0 to Fintech 3.0
07:00 – Why Lowering Costs Changes Everything
10:00 – L1 vs. L2, Simply Explained
13:00 – How to Build Your First Crypto App
16:00 – Regulation: Bottleneck or Unlock?
19:00 – Stablecoins as the Killer Use Case
23:00 – Beyond the Dollar: Local Stablecoins
27:00 – Tokenization of Assets
31:00 – New Asset Classes & the Creator Economy
35:00 – What Coinbase Looks for in Founders
39:00 – The Future of Crypto in 10 Years
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24 Sep 2025
proxy war: a conflict where larger, opposing powers use smaller countries or local factions as surrogates to fight on their behalf, supporting them with military aid, funding, or expertise instead of engaging in direct warfare
23 Sep 2025
Today, Cloudflare is proud to announce support for two cornerstone frameworks in the modern web ecosystem: we’re partnering with Webflow to sponsor Astro, and with Netlify to sponsor TanStack. cfl.re/4gyZ4ys #BirthdayWeek
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16 Sep 2025
I don't trust medical bills as I've had huge errors in the past, but I don't really have a system of checking for accuracy, so I just sit on them for a while and then pay them in bulk. Anyone have a process to recommend? So much money; so little understanding/control
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12 Sep 2025
I give you all permission to say nice things about people without adding "even though I didn't agree with everything they said". You can just say nice things.
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