Baris Akis
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Co-Founder & Managing Partner @humancapital Talent Engineering @xai
Joined August 2010
After finishing my CS degree from Stanford, I became obsessed with excelling in recruiting because I believe humans are the atomic unit of value creation—and assembling the most exceptional people is the highest-leverage way to compound value. Now, I'm assembling a team of
Exceptional humans are the ultimate progress multiplier If you are an exceptional builder with a passion for scaling winning teams join our new Talent Engineering Team https://t.co/HSBVSmbmNe
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I wake up grateful every morning to be living the American Dream 🇺🇸 The Dream based on a timeless promise rooted in the Pursuit of Happiness. Here, no matter your origins, you can forge your path to success and prosperity through hard work, and determination. America remains the
Today, we launched American Operator - a national effort to revive the American Dream through business ownership. America’s SMBs are critical and belong in the hands of the next generation of local owners. https://t.co/F8vidHQtFA
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What a blast 💥 Next one, coming soon!
It was great hosting an amazing group of hardcore engineers for the last 24 hours. Here are the highlights of the top projects. 🚀🧵
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One of our core beliefs at @humancapital is that the right group of people, sufficiently motivated and capitalized can solve any tractable problem. This ultimately means that the true moat is the quality of team, speed of execution and pain tolerance. @mansourtarek_ and
Kalshi raised $1B at an $11B valuation. A decade ago, only a few thousand people knew what a prediction market was. Eighteen months ago, most prediction markets were banned - until we overcame the government to set them free. Over the past seven years, our community has opened
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You don't wanna drive after a short 36h work-day? No problem, join xAI in London and take the tube home. Check out the page below for more information about roles, perks, and the interview process. https://t.co/wjOSIIO7FV
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xAI builds Grok, an AI chatbot with voice chat, image and video generation, real-time search, and advanced reasoning. Try Grok at grok.com.
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xAI Hackathon – the ultimate arena for the most hardcore product builders. 24 hours & exclusive access to upcoming Grok models & X APIs Apply by 11/22 🔗 https://t.co/zsbk9SHglq
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After knowing Walt, and Kahlil for more than 5-years we had no doubt on their level of ambition and their bar for the team they want to build. We are excited to lead their Seed round, and work closely with them to scale an exceptional team to build the payment stack for AI
The round was co-led by @AbstractVC and @humancapital, w/ participation from @ForerunnerVC, @terraincap, @restivevc, @_geniusventures, a group of the best angels @zcabrams, @immad, @eglyman, @karimatiyeh, @rauchg, @itaidamti, @matt_michaelis, @m_franceschetti, and many more.
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Prufrock-4 is our smartest, fastest and safest Tunnel Boring Machine. And the next iterations (5, 6, and 7) are already being built at The Boring Factory in Texas. Goal is Continuous Mining and Zero-People-in-Tunnel (ZPIT). We are hiring exceptional ME, EE, and SWEs - join us!
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For the restless builders, the impatient entrepreneurs, the eager engineers.
⚡The Delta Fellowship is back!⚡ Build something you care about—so much that you can’t wait for next summer to build it. ❄️ Apply for the winter cohort by October 15 💸 $50k. Equity-free. No-strings-attached 🧠 Curious people wanted, no ideas required https://t.co/3yxSofLfTe
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“Ali served as Official Taste-Tester at his family's confectionery business in Bangladesh at age six.” Proud to be building @humandotcapital with my favorite cookie monster @1armaanali
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