deployed @openai || formerly @tryexplo (acq by @omni), @palantirtech
Joined September 2010
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Excited to share that I recently joined @OpenAI 🚀
First, I want to give a huge thank you to the amazing @omni team. It was an honor to be in the trenches with y’all and I’m excited to keep cheering the team on for all that’s ahead.
I’m joining OpenAI to help lead their forward deployed engineering teams. The world is rapidly changing as frontier models continue to improve at an accelerating rate and I wanted to have a front-row seat to the action.
It’s very exciting to be reunited with so many friends from Columbia, Palantir, and Explo, now as coworkers (again).
There is so much to do, there is so much demand, but there are not enough people. A day in the life of an OAI FDE might include:
1️⃣ Embedding deeply with customers and shipping outcomes
2️⃣ Contributing customer learnings back to product
3️⃣ Building evals from the field and partnering with research to improve our models
If this sounds exciting to you, please DM or email me!
(we are also aggressively hiring for other roles across the entire organization!)
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The last time the Knicks won an NBA Finals game was June 21, 1999.
For context:
• Napster had launched 20 days earlier
• Red Hat had just announced its IPO plans
• Internet-related companies made up 60% of all IPOs that year (dot-com bubble incoming)
Game 1's Knicks starters were this old in June 1999:
• Josh Hart: 4 years old
• Karl-Anthony Towns: 3 years old
• Jalen Brunson: 2 years old
• Mikal Bridges: 2 years old
• OG Anunoby: 1 year old
🤯
Rooting for the Knicks this series, but ofc go Dubs
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huge shoutout to @ChrisHayduk who absolutely cooked on this
it's amazing to see how our fde team is able to contribute back to OAI's core product, in this case for a specific life sciences use case
lots more to come 🤝🤝🤝
We’re bringing new capabilities to GPT-Rosalind, a model series purpose-built for life sciences research at enterprise scale.
It brings GPT-5.5’s agentic coding and tool use together with stronger intelligence for drug discovery, analysis, design, and experimental workflows.
openai.com/index/introducing…
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love to see the google team using codex
May 19
Introducing Antigravity 2.0, a new standalone desktop application that delivers fully on that original glimpse of a truly agent-optimized experience.
Rebuilt from the ground up with multi-agent teams, scheduled tasks, native voice and one-click integration with other Google products.
Learn how to get started with Antigravity 2.0 👇
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palantir gave folks 20% if they hit 18 months back in 2017
May 7
We just introduced a program at Lovable that gives each person in the team a 10% raise on their 1st anniversary.
Because people get more valuable the longer they stay, and they shouldn't have to worry about getting a raise or not.
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so cool
The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍
This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: go.nasa.gov/4ak4Cdu
ALT Landscape image collage spelling "NASA"
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🚀🚀🚀
Today, we're announcing a $120M Series C at a $1.5B valuation, led by @ICONIQCapital with participation from @Theoryvc, @firstround, @Redpoint, and GV.
Read the full note from our CEO, Colin Zima 👉 bit.ly/4sRDOsj
ALT Announcing Omni's Series C at a $1.5B Valuation
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Stanford University in the City of New York
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everyone:
"make no mistakes"
meta engs:
"please make mistakes"
Lol. One of them added "be as token inefficient as possible" to all their prompts
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this was powerful
cheers to Carroll Crater
Apr 6
The Artemis II crew named a lunar crater after Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll. What a beautiful and touching moment.
I'm not crying, you're crying 🤧
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i wonder how the Gemma team picked L'Ardoise Bistro as the restaurant "winner" in their launch video
amazing marketing for the restaurant, definitely adding it to our SF list
Today, we’re launching Gemma 4, our most intelligent open models to date. Built with the same breakthrough technology as Gemini 3, Gemma 4 brings advanced reasoning to your personal hardware and devices.
Here’s what Gemma 4 unlocks for developers:
— Intelligence-per-parameter: Our 31B (Dense) and 26B (MoE) models deliver state-of-the-art performance for their size, outcompeting models 20x their size on @arena
— Commercial flexibility: Released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license for complete developer flexibility and digital sovereignty
— Agentic workflows: Native support for function-calling and structured JSON output allows you to build reliable, autonomous agents
— Multimodal edge AI: The E2B and E4B models bring native vision, audio, and low latency to mobile and IoT devices
— Long-context reasoning: Up to 256K context windows allow you to process entire repositories or large documents in a single prompt
Whether you're building global applications in 140 languages or local-first AI code assistants, Gemma 4 is built to be your foundation. Explore in @GoogleAIStudio or download the weights on @HuggingFace, @Kaggle, and @Ollama.
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in 2017, palantir had a slider that showed how much your equity was worth at very high valuations (that it has now surpassed!)
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omg my friend just got a job offer from a company that includes a little slide on how much her equity would be worth at different company valuations including $150 BILLION 😂☠️
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damn this kid has me amped
Dudes only want one thing and it’s to go back to the fricken moon
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did not have linsanity as an analyst on my bingo card, but im here for it
crushed this luka breakdown
Mar 27
Jeremy Lin with an awesome breakdown on how Luka is so good in isolation:
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Congrats to @craft_ventures' new Austin office!
Love working with @lainypainter and the team at @tryexplo
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woah, united just shipped "relax row"
everyone's shipping these days
Mar 24
The entire row is alllllll yours.
Welcome to United Relax Row, three adjacent United Economy seats with adjustable leg rests that can each be raised or lowered to create a cozy lie-flat space for stretching out...
You'll also get a mattress pad, blanket and two pillows. If you’re traveling with kids, a plushie too! United Relax Row will be available starting next year on more than 200 of our 787s and 777s, each with up to 12 of these brand-new rows.
united.com/Elevated
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