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Head of Creators @a16z @speedrun // Prev. @YouTube

Los Angeles, CA
Joined May 2010
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37 going on 33 today šŸŽˆāš”ļø
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New Life DLC: Lorelei Bi-jou Chen (陳ē¢§ę“²). Named after my favorite game of last year, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes! (@simogo). she unleashed a series of machine gun farts shortly after this photo was takenā€¦
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RT @andrewchen: Update:.Announcing a new list of our upcoming speakers for a16z speedrun, July 2025:. - howie liu / Airtable.- spencer rascā€¦.
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it's worth noting that Facebook and Microsoft both failed tremendously in standing up viable Live businesses yet TikTok seems to have completely cracked the code in a fraction of the time. I'd love to see breakdowns between geo, live shopping, live battles, and other
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AI slop has nothing on my human slop
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RT @tkexpress11: [NEW] a16z @speedrun request for startups:.Vibe Creation Platforms. We've seen Vibe Coding platforms like Lovable and Boltā€¦.
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RT @andrewchen: Here's my thread about why you should:.- quit whatever it is you're doing.- build the startup you've wanted to build.- workā€¦.
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ghibli this ghibli that . newly framed @DanielArsham
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speedrun 5 ā€¢ applications open ā€¢ LA (7/28-10/10). areas I'm personally interested in. >hyper niche creator marketplaces (direct fan<>creator). >all-in-one workflow tool for creators aiding in - bonus for b-roll generation and audio/sfx generation. >engines/tools that become
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Sony, Nintendo, Konami, Capcom, and Bandai Namco all hit ALL TIME HIGHS in the Japanese stock market this February. Notably, Konami's insanely healthy and I easily forget how legendary the Pro Evolution Soccer (now eFootball) franchise is. @serkantoto is a must follow for.
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From my site: "5 Of 8 Japanese AAA Game Stocks Just Hit All-Time Highs".
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evangelion era
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i can't be the only one who has noticed this complete shift in startup branding in the last year. i'll take serif AI-organic over soulless web3-plastic any day of the week but its definitely getting played out. is there an actual term for this new design aesthetic?
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the most beautiful controller ever made. @rust1n w/ the hookup
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standing room only // @speedrun demo day
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a few notes from our @speedrun chat w/ @scottbelsky (Founder of Behance, CSO at Adobe, now A24). Ā» we're moving from a 'prompt era' to a 'controls era' - less one-shots, more assets with modifiable layers. Ā» "taste will outperform skill, skill will be offloaded to compute" -amen
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RT @DocShartman: sheā€™s about to earn 1.840e47 points in balatro.
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RT @andrewchen: lol - here was the v1 of Doordash:. - static HTML page.- 8 restaurant menus in PDF.- google voice number that would call onā€¦.
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RT @scottbelsky: one famous photographer I know once confided, ā€œitā€™s really just taking a shit load of photographs and then picking the besā€¦.
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