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@kn
Katsuya
6 months
@runwayml Love it! Added AI Narration using 🚀
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@kn
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3 years
A candidate played Minecraft during their interview today. I have interviewed hundreds of candidates in the past but this was the first time😎🎮
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@kn
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8 months
Record and dub video messages into 27 languages with a few clicks on browser! Free lipsyncing for the first 100 people. Link below 👇
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
@loganbartlett @dvdhsu / @retool was pretty smart about this
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@kn
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2 years
This is one to watch - it could become a decentralized art gallery / self-sustaining protocol to fund and produce art. Could have Nouns-like potential.
@_Dave__White_
Dave White
2 years
Art Gobblers is a decentralized art factory owned by aliens. As artists make cool art, Gobblers gains cultural relevance, making collectors want the art more, incentivizing artists to make cooler art. It's also an on-chain game. w @FrankieIsLost @transmissions11 @JustinRoiland
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@kn
Katsuya
1 year
Interesting experiment: bring your own model (aka Metamask for AI models) - For users, use your preferred model; use the local model to protect privacy - For devs, free from api costs and limits
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Alex Atallah
1 year
1/ Excited to launch an experiment today - introducing Window, a way to use your own AI models on the web - including local ones! It's a bet on a new kind of AI app emerging, one that shifts model authentication and management to the user.
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@kn
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8 months
I second this. We run all our models on baseten. Fast response time. High touch technical support. Built in scaling up and down (to 0) features for GPUs. Easy way to add system dependencies.
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Alex MacCaw
8 months
For serverless models, I'm super impressed by 's team. They fixed one example model, and then added another model I requested, all in ten minutes. And easily the fastest server response times too.
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
Gobblers ( @artgobblers ) are too nice to each other
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
Super impressed with @around_hq - some of us called in from the same physical space with own individual computers and the audio experience was perfect.
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@kn
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5 months
Worth paying attention to @cohere 's embed v3. Not much talk around it but they are better than OpenAI's embed v2 from our experience with classification tasks. Probably due to the introduction of input type feature.
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@kn
Katsuya
4 years
Builders @Color are masters of “move fast and don’t break things” - this ability is critical in responding to the ultrafast-changing pandemic environment. The team is hiring 👉
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@kn
Katsuya
7 months
@chamath @notyourfede We'd love to help. ✉️ katsuya @zeebra .ai We can produce high quality translation using advanced AI + professional services. Optimized for each platform: We generate multiple audio tracks for 1) YouTube multilingual audio tracks (speech aligned with video), and 2) Podcast
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@kn
Katsuya
6 months
Here's a quick test of OpenAI vs. Elevenlabs TTS: - In English, Eleven sounds more animated and has studio quality (44.1kHz vs. 24kHz); however, OpenAI is also very good and would make sense for many use cases, especially given its 10x cheaper price point. - In Japanese, OpenAI
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@kn
Katsuya
3 years
Got my badge/NFT from @poapxyz for attending the virtual Ethereum meetup @ljxie and @trent_vanepps held in 🎉 This can be a great way to reward and recognize people who help to build vibrant communities!
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
@nnnnicholas @ExitCapital @DHannum8 @cdt_eth @musatheredguard @gillesdc @gm8xx8 @jckyeh @pbrianandj @wizardgoose @brianli101 @rgvonhagel @zedyuan_eth I was on the move and had to go, but @dwr , @varunsrin , and the team are building something special here - a crypto-native social product with a strong community of builders on an open protocol.
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
Following up on this, Render's Cron Jobs UX was what I was exactly looking for.
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
omg my computer now refuse to compile any code except @nikitabier ’s new app
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@kn
Katsuya
6 months
More test on Elevenlabs vs OpenAI TTS - Elevenlabs is more engaging which is important for entertainment use cases. - OpenAI TTS occasionally doesn't follow the exact text (similar to tortoise/bark) For video translation, Elevenlabs generally sounds better for now. OpenAI is
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@kn
Katsuya
6 months
I came up with new Adept AI workflow that saves you 3hrs a day ( @AdeptAILabs ). No more wasting time scrolling X timeline. Check it out👇
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
The best consumer product I’ve started using in the past year. Strong and talented team shipping high quality features with fast cadence.
@dwr
Dan Romero
2 years
If you're a senior engineer or designer that was recently laid off, we're still hiring. :) <10 people on the team, everyone is senior, very few meetings, you'll spend most of your time building. DMs are open.
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@kn
Katsuya
6 months
Huge potential to re-imagine everyday device when primary user interactions happen in natural language vs. UI. Congrats to the @Humane team 🎉
@Humane
Humane
6 months
This is the Humane Ai Pin
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@kn
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2 years
Huge congrats to @avichal and the @ElectricCapital team! Avichal has been helping my cofounder @fatimasabar and me throughout our career and now with our crypto startup. Highly recommend talking to him if you are starting or working on a crypto/web3 startup.
@avichal
Avichal - Electric ϟ Capital
2 years
1/ @ElectricCapital has raised $1 billion in new capital, our largest fundraise yet. The web3 economy built on top of the programmable money stack will be one of the defining disruptions of the 2020s. Where are we going to invest $1 billion? 🧵👇
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@kn
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6 months
🚀 Introducing AI Narration by Zeebra! Powered by @OpenAI Vision API. Upload your video and add immersive AI narration. Perfect for product launches, demos, event promotion and house tours, more. Elevate your content with a voice that engages. 🧵 Examples and link below:
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@kn
Katsuya
8 months
Introducing Zeebra Pro: Translate your videos into 27 languages using AI + professionals. - Upload your video and dub with AI - Use the Zeebra editor and professional translation to perfect it Try it out 👉
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@kn
Katsuya
1 year
We've been using Baseten to host AI models. Great dev UX and support. Highly recommended 🔥
@tuhinone
Tuhin Srivastava
1 year
👋 Meet Blueprint: An easy way for developers to fine-tune and serve open source foundation models. Check it out here: 🧵 A thread on why we built Blueprint and what you can do with it:
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
Starting a company is not ambitious enough…
@balajis
Balaji
2 years
I've been writing a book on how to start a new country. It's finally coming out. You can preorder it now. It arrives on July 4.
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@kn
Katsuya
6 months
Tested translating an English article to Spanish and had it blindly evaluated by a professional translator. Results: - Google Translate: 70/100 - GPT-4: 85/100 - Zeebra: 95/100 🏆 The key takeaway: Zeebra excels in capturing formality, grammatical gender, cultural references,
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@kn
Katsuya
6 months
The cost of a realistic text-to-speech API (with premade voices) has decreased 10x with the launch of OpenAI's TTS service: - OpenAI: $0.015-$0.03 per 1,000 characters - Other startups: $0.18-$0.20 per 1,000 characters This makes freemium/consumer apps feasible that uses TTS.
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@kn
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2 years
@emiliemc @balajis rare proof of balaji's existence irl :)
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@kn
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2 years
One of the biggest beneficiaries of text-to-image AI models will be Canva when we look back in 5 years.
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@kn
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2 years
your superpower @pveugen
@brian_armstrong
Brian Armstrong
2 years
Very true - employees who bring optimism to startups are automatically more valuable. Be a shock absorber, not a shock amplifier.
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@kn
Katsuya
8 months
Try it out here! Works on mobile and desktop.
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
One impact of AI assistants for knowledge work is that they make working on mobile more productive and enable casual work eg while waiting for the train. Replit mobile + copilot is a great example. What are other types of work where this makes sense?
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@kn
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2 years
@dhof @js_horne Let's discuss this more but can you sign NDA first?
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@kn
Katsuya
5 years
Tech will enable us to go from “sick care” to helping people stay healthy. This means health systems need to engage with people beyond the walls of hospitals, essentially competing with companies like Netflix for attention. They need a new set of tools to thrive in this era.
@Color
Color
5 years
Our CEO @othman shares his insights on how technology will remake the definition of healthcare with @Forbes . "One of the biggest effects of a data-driven health system is the set of linkages that connect data to insights, and insights to outcomes."
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
Setting up AWS Lambda functions feels like getting cabs pre-Uber. It's flexible and powerful for advanced use cases but no longer acceptable UX to having to use five different services (Lambda, ECR, EventBridge, CloudWatch, SNS) to run simple scheduled jobs with alerts.
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
There is a culture in tech to celebrate interviewers with a "high bar", but what's actually valuable is an ability to spot talent when other people don't. Obvious when written like this but the culture feels still ubiquitous.
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@kn
Katsuya
1 year
@fchollet +1 - WebGPT is one of the first I’ve seen trying this I’ve built a browser ext that intercepts google search and supply the top 5 links to GPT3 as knowledge src to answer my query. Anecdotally, they are more up to date and factually correct than ChatGPT.
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@kn
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5 months
Deepgram has just announced its TTS API. TTS APIs appear to be in a race to the bottom now, with the exception of voice cloning and high-production use cases.
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
@juliey4 It’s interesting that they think discord is the same as facetime. Very different use case of discord than I’d expected.
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
@js_horne I think @fnnch experimented with redeemable NFTs for physical goods. I wonder how the experience was.
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@kn
Katsuya
1 year
Builders continue to build despite the bear market 🛠 Personally excited about ZKPs, Privacy-enhanced blockchain, and permissionless social to emerge 🚀
@avichal
Avichal - Electric ϟ Capital
1 year
1/ This year's @electriccapital Developer Report is the meatiest yet. Read @mariashen 's tweetstorm below for details. We are also launching (in beta) with a bunch of the data that powers the annual report. Some of my favorite takeaways 👇
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@kn
Katsuya
6 months
Pika text-to-video + Zeebra Narration 🪄
@pika_labs
Pika
6 months
Pika 1.0, Coming Soon. Check out our 3D animation teaser made completely by text-to-video AI. 🙌
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2 years
@natfriedman Are there specific areas that you feel this way eg human input interface, application layer, inventing new workflow for verticals vs. AI-assistant on the existing workflows?
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
Me: "Have you seen this cool NFT project? They are randomly generated numbers on chain. (sharing my screen on Zoom)" Friend: "..." Me: "What do you think?" Friend: "They're still loading..." Me: "They are already loaded..."
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@kn
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2 years
@punk4156 The other way to look at it is that NFT + social media combo accelerated the speed of meme spread dramatically vs. physical art + trad media, and perf = meme spread.
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@kn
Katsuya
5 years
Mechanism design talents in crypto should come fix American healthcare.
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@kn
Katsuya
5 months
Talking to animals (or babies) using AI is happening fast…
@alexisohanian
Alexis Ohanian 🇦🇲
5 months
The wildest company pitch I've ever heard? 🤔 I told @katelin_cruse it's gotta be an app that allows us to communicate with babies before they can talk... or even dolphins 👶🐬 And someday, we might actually get there thanks to AI ↓
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@kn
Katsuya
5 years
"lawyers are simply the programmers for the real world. And the real world is a nasty, squishy, imprecise place, so the lawyers are basically constantly writing error-handling code…"😂
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
@dwr @farcaster_xyz Congratulations - can't wait for the v2!
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@kn
Katsuya
1 year
Search engines can detect types of queries and adapt the UI - what seemed like verticals will continue to be subsumed by existing search.
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@kn
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1 year
@kanjun More like puzzle vs creativity for me 🧠
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@kn
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2 years
Re-reading this thread - this is getting more and more real (pun intended)
@Iiterature
nis.eth
5 years
Non-fungible tokens are a big deal because most desirable physical things are already “digital goods” Their perceived scarcity is derived from their limited quantity in the real world, an inefficient “proof of work” But their status + value is ascribed digitally on social media
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@kn
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2 years
AI-focused VCs with GPU supply 😎
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@kn
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2 years
@levie @mcuban How did you choose between the 2 projects?
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@kn
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7 months
This will be the second biggest breakthrough consumer product after mobile - by @seevua
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
@john_c_palmer "Ideas" are often too high level and abstract for people who say they are the easy part. For example, automated market makers vs. x*y=k. It would have been easier to think that automated marker makers will happen eventually than actually coming up with x*y=k.
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@kn
Katsuya
1 year
OpenAI live event is the new WWDC for developers.
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
You made it if you can claim the version of the web.
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
Screen as a universal API is underrated
@dsiroker
Dan Siroker
2 years
Today we are launching Rewind: the search engine for your life It’s a macOS app that enables you to find anything you’ve seen, said, or heard. We’re also announcing that we’ve raised $10m at a $75m valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. (1/23)
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@kn
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5 years
@gilad @Color Thank you for all that you’ve done for Color and your mentorship! I’ve learnt a ton about technical leadership, how to give great presentation, and how to dress from you. #ccccccfnhidcrujcfhefkftugcrdlkcetefjilgklenb
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@kn
Katsuya
6 years
Great reminder of how to have healthy discussion:
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@kn
Katsuya
6 years
“There are only two priorities for a start-up: Winning the market and not running out of cash. Running lean is not an end. For that matter, neither is running fat. Both are tactics that you use to win the market and not run out of cash before you do so.”
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
1. Decentralization vs. centralization is a spectrum, not binary. Blockchains offer more design space for decentralization. Ex: OpenSea is centralized at the liquidity layer (listings/offers) while decentralized at the inventory layer (who owns what). Both accrue network effects.
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@kn
Katsuya
1 year
A good summary of existing prompting strategies (more on page 11 of )
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@kn
Katsuya
7 months
“Aging population = economic slowdown” is an outdated assumption in the near-AGI era.
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@kn
Katsuya
1 year
Two ML ops off-the-shelf solutions I wish existed: 1. A real-time inference endpoint that can host an arbitrary number of models with an option to scale an A100 GPU chip at a step. 2. APIs that run inference on open source models that don't retain input/output data by default.
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@kn
Katsuya
6 months
@thealexker nice work! we built similar stuff at - let us know if you have feedback 🙏
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@kn
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6 months
@XDevelopers My dashboard doesn't update - would you mind looking into this?
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@kn
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2 years
@eladgil Another potential reason: * prev models' output is use case specific eg rec, classification * x-to-[text/image] output is use case agnostic, leaving large design space for startups to explore new use cases eg can use the same model for rec, classification and to command browser
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
This is huge - convenient and fast access to COVID-19 treatment. The upstream steps of healthcare delivery are mostly about following well-defined protocols - scaling this with technology makes total sense. It's great to see the public sector embracing this.
@Color
Color
2 years
Our program with the State of Massachusetts ( @MassHHS ) is the first of its kind in the country. Learn how Color is increasing access to COVID-19 antiviral treatment for those who are qualified. Telehealth consultations ✔️ Pharmacy routing ✔️ At-home delivery ✔️
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@kn
Katsuya
6 years
Great leaders make you think their ideas are your ideas hence you commit and own the ideas.
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@kn
Katsuya
6 months
"The errors found and commented on, are not enough to hinder the version’s linguistic integrity." - a professional Spanish translator. AI translation is getting really good.
@kn
Katsuya
6 months
Tested translating an English article to Spanish and had it blindly evaluated by a professional translator. Results: - Google Translate: 70/100 - GPT-4: 85/100 - Zeebra: 95/100 🏆 The key takeaway: Zeebra excels in capturing formality, grammatical gender, cultural references,
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7 months
@elizlaraki @othman It's actually surprising text translation is not natively integrated to most messaging apps (vs. most browsers support this).
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@kn
Katsuya
6 months
Apoorva on how to evaluate businesses as a founder: "The things that I'm looking at are sort of threefold. Number one, is it a good business? Obvious to say as an investor, but you'd be surprised. Number two, is it going to be something I'm going to enjoy doing? I'm going to
@eladgil
Elad Gil
6 months
Exciting w @apoorva_mehta , cofounder & original CEO @Instacart Topics *How to parse startup ideas *Early things Instacart did that couldnt scale, got them in business *Hypergrowth at startup & people *Why start another co / act 2 in life? Video:
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@kn
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2 years
@_Dave__White_ there are mentions of legendary gobblers but not traits with rarity in neither your thread nor the blog post afaik - nice surprise tho :)
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@kn
Katsuya
6 years
I used decentralized exchange for the first time today. It’s magical. Just a few clicks away to start trading. No authentication required. No identity verification required. No deposit required. #dEX
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@kn
Katsuya
2 years
@jimplantstrees @eladgil Stronger moat if the need span across multiple products eg Grammarly bc ppl want it on all text fields across products like GDoc, email, twitter. Code gen is a bit weaker bc if your editor adds the feature, you don't need an independent solution and most use a single editor.
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