2x Founder | YC S20
Joined December 2015
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Just invested in a YC startup at $200M valuation. Pre-demo day.
The most expensive seed valuation I’ve ever invested in.
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Small private gathering pre-YC demo day in SF.
Join to exchange notes, get intros and meet fellow investors/founders.
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lol
Ok, I will shit-talk VCs just a little bit.
It was curious to see, when @spindl_xyz was being acquired by Coinbase, how many of our VCs discouraged me to sell, and pushed me to either keep on building or launch a token and pump it as much as possible.
Spindl was a modest success, and early investors got a passable DPI, but nowhere near a fund maker. In their minds, this was failure.
Tech is like the cliché WWI movie: the VC generals lounge in their plush tents in the rearguard, ordering frontal assaults on unassailable redoubts, no matter the casualties, to claim the glory of a capturing this hill or that town. After all, it's 10x or nothing for them: Over the top, boys! Over the top!
The corpse-strewn field will be forgotten by them (and everyone else), but they'll be there to takes selfies with the one guy who somehow made it through the rat-tat-tat alive, and claim it a providential inevitability and testament to their strategic acumen.
And the only right answer when the VC orders another suicide charge is to laugh in their faces and say: "well *you* go grab a rifle and take that hill then, motherfucker" and do what's best for you and your squad to get out of the mess alive.
There'll be a different set of generals the next war anyhow.
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Well put
Jun 6
If the key to becoming a billionaire is to exploit people, as some politicians claim, we at YC are idiots. We've spent the last 20 years choosing the wrong founders and teaching them the wrong things. Or maybe we do actually understand startups, and the politicians are wrong.
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Charlie Munger used to repeat that we need to be just and fair to the other side of the table, as roles can be reversed at any time.
He insisted that if you treat the other side ruthlessly when you have the upper hand, you guarantee your own destruction when the scales inevitably tilt.
This is applicable to all aspects of life.
Unfortunately, it is usually forgotten by all ruling parties.
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May 19
Memory Store (@memorydotstore) gives your team and AI agents a shared company brain.
Your team's knowledge & decisions are scattered across slack, emails, and people's heads. Memory Store turns them into a living wiki for your agents and teammates.
Congrats on the launch, @ishitajindal17 & @diwanksingh!
ycombinator.com/launches/QPs…
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May 15
So awesome
May 15
Anyone else wish you could just talk to your podcast app?
Well, @telenardo and I did. So we built Orbit - the first AI podcast app you can talk to
Ask follow-ups, get summaries, take notes. Hands free
We don't know if it's worth pursuing yet. Please help us find out
The app is in Apple review but if you comment "Orbit" I'll DM you TestFlight access as soon as it's live 👇
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People at major AI labs (using internal models) 3-4 months ahead of startup silicon valley engineers
SV founders/eng 3-6 months ahead of NY
NY founders/eng 6-12 months ahead of rest of world
Most people have no idea how fast AI shifting as 1-2 years behind SOTA
"The future is here, just not equally distributed" - Robert Heinlein
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May 10
It's an unimpressive-sounding word, but one of the most powerful motivations is the motivation of the hobbyist. That's what keeps successful founders working on their companies long past the point when they've made enough to quit. It's their beloved project.
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May 5
Happiness is a skill
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The biggest mistake we make is thinking happiness is a result of what happens to us. But happiness is a skill, not a reward. If we don’t learn to enjoy where we are now, we won’t enjoy where we’re going either.
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So true
Getting paid to think is peak everything. If you’re getting paid well to think, don’t take it for granted. That’s 1% of civilization type stuff. Your ancestors are proud and jealous that you’ve gotten this far.
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Apr 24
You don't know how big a fish you are till you try a big pond.
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Apr 23
The gulf in knowledge between the West Coast and East Coast is wildly broader than I’ve ever experienced, in both directions. And widening further by the day.
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there are likely ~100 ppl alive today that deeply understand all of these together: product instinct, what makes good software, design, technical depth, a real model of ai, the psychology of a single user, the shape of culture, team building, the ability to motivate, & the narrative gift to make any of this actually legible to normal peeps.
in consumer, where the tam is pretty much everyone, that combinatorial scarcity is the leverage.
~100 against 8 billion. pure asymmetry.
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Apr 14
“You have to be the kind of person who can make the best out of a Tuesday. You know those people who live for the weekends? They're wishing their life away.”
—Drew Marvin
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Apr 8
The greatest lesson I learned from going to the Gurdwara: dignity of labor.
It shaped who I am.
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This view just hits different 🌍
@Astro_Christina and @astro_reid take a moment to look back at Earth as they continue deep into space toward the Moon.
ALT Inside the dim Orion spacecraft, a window in the center of the image shows a brightly lit Earth and an astronaut sits on the right side looking back at Earth. Credit: NASA
ALT Inside the dim Orion spacecraft, a window in the center of the image shows a brightly lit Earth and an astronaut sits on the right side looking back at Earth. Credit: NASA
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🤣🤣
Mar 25
110-year-old Turkish grandma shares her secret to a long life:
"i never once used Microsoft Teams"
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