Jonathan Z. White 👾
@JonathanZWhite
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Design is differentiation. @bnj and the @variantui team are proving that you can train generative models to have taste. And taste still wins.
If you want your generations to feel designed and not…generated We hid a few invite codes to @variantui in this video The first 100 get unlimited credits, reply for a hint
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Much to study in how Nothing earned the right to exist in their David vs Goliath battle with Apple
Today, @nothing raised $200M Series C at a $1.3B valuation. This marks the start of our next chapter: From building the only new smartphone company of the last decade, to creating an AI-native platform where hardware & software converge. Grateful to our community who’ve been
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>OpenAI was founded in 2015. The seminal transformers paper “Attention is All You Need” wasn’t published until 2017. You have to be in the water. https://t.co/ZISuilCoGv
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You Have To Be In The Water Building a company is like surfing. The surfer can control their body, their surfboard, but not the water. In many ways, the biggest decision you have to make is where and...
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When machines become smarter than humans, the interface becomes the bottleneck
neurotech in 2025 is what AI was in 2017 yet, the state of this generationally important technology is virtually unknown to those outside of a small community. we're releasing a map (see below) to help the world understand the field -- the tradeoffs between contending
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Hardware is the moat that buys you time to build the software castle.
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The right energy
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Sometimes I get asked career advice … Patience is undervalued. Too many distractions promise quick wins, especially when things are hard. They are enticing — you can justify pursuing them as a way to avoid a “local maximum.” Later you find out that they are also hard. If
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Simplicity for the right reasons wins
There are really only two rules for new consumer tech: 1. Make it interesting 2. Make it easy I see far more products die from being overengineered than underengineered
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The forgotten lesson of AI is that it makes founders forget that the goal is to make great products, not just great technology (ie models).
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If it's important, Do the hard thing. Even if the path is long, Even if the road is treacherous, Even if you will be misunderstood, Do the hard thing. Go all the way.
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Introducing @cradle_health, co-founded with @huntercoledavis. We're building reversible cryo technologies. Think the hibernation pods you see in space movies for long-term travel - we want to build that. We’ve raised $48M, built a world-class team of scientists and engineers,
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I can't imagine a non-founding CEO do this. Even when you think, where else could this thing go after a decade, Airbnb pushes you to believe things can go further still.
Icons are extraordinary experiences from the greatest names in music, film, sports, and more
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From the early days of Sail to the launch of Muddy, @aranibatta and @jimmyliu have been absolutely relentless in their execution. Today they unveil a fresh take on multiplayer collaboration 🥂
Today we're excited to introduce Muddy, the browser that knows you and your crew. Working with others is messy. Muddy’s AI makes it simple. We're starting the rollout today. Invite link in bio and below ⬇️ 1/6
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number of people in a team matters much less than effectiveness per person
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Inspiring to see the progress Loyal has made towards tackling aging and lifespan extension
hey guess what we've raised another $45M to extend dog lifespan, led by Bain Capital Ventures (@kevinzhang @ChristinaPhili5 @alysaaco) bringing total $ raised since I started Loyal 4.5 years ago to $125M
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