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Marquis Cabrera

@MarquisCabrera

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Hacker / Investor - Co-Founder of @stat_zero, Former IBMer, Wayfair, Obama White House; Proud @NEU Alum

San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2009
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@MarquisCabrera
Marquis Cabrera
4 years
On #MLKDay, @stat_zero continues to commit to moving the world to towards zero.
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@connordavis_ai
Connor Davis
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I finally understand the difference between LLMs, RAG, and AI Agents. After building production AI systems for 2 years... Here's what actually matters: They're not competing technologies. They're three layers of the same intelligence stack, and most people are using them
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@pitdesi
Sheel Mohnot
27 days
And with that comment, he's out :)
@jaltma
Jack Altman
2 months
This was an exceptionally cogent articulation from Roelof about the state of venture capital. "There's a lot more talent than really interesting companies to be built. And I think we're spreading a lot of that talent thin right now." "Venture is a return-free risk."
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@speedrun
a16z speedrun 🧊
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Ben Horowitz with another banger On fear and self-belief: ā€œIf your guts aren’t boiling, you’re not even trying.ā€
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@hayesdev_
Hayes
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This guy literally shows how to build your first AI agent from scratch
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@JenniferHli
Jennifer Li
1 month
The biggest infrastructure supercycle in history is here. We are building the foundation of intelligence itself, with tools, models, silicon and light. This is our moonshot. Excited to present Runtime 2025 from @a16z AI x Infra.
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@Yesterday_work_
Millie Marconi
2 months
Holy shit...Stanford just built a system that converts research papers into working AI agents. It’s called Paper2Agent, and it literally: • Recreates the method in the paper • Applies it to your own dataset • Answers questions like the author This changes how we do science
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@shedntcare_
Tulsi Soni
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Anthropic just dropped the smartest one-pager on using AI at work. Read it once, and you’ll never look at productivity the same way.
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@StartupArchive_
Startup Archive
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Frank Slootman: ā€œBeing a CEO is a highly confrontational roleā€ ā€œI’ve gone one record a few times and people have taken me to task on it, when I’ve said that being a CEO is a highly confrontational role. But they think that ā€˜confrontational’ means I’m grabbing people by the
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@bgurley
Bill Gurley
2 months
Everyone should read this. If you align ā€œhardā€ with a political party you have turned off your brain and outsourced your thinking to others. Data is clear on both sides of aisle. Think for oneself.
@SteveStuWill
Steve Stewart-Williams
2 months
Warning: Political Ideology May Impair Your Ability to Reason ā€œ[I]f you’re not careful, ideology won’t just shape your opinions; it’ll hijack your ability to reason altogether.ā€ [Link below.]
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@alex_prompter
Alex Prompter
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R.I.P McKinsey. You don’t need a $300k consultant anymore. You can now run full competitive market analysis using Grok 4. Here are the exact 3 mega-prompts I use to replicate McKinsey-style insights for free:
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@BillAckman
Bill Ackman
6 months
A must watch even if you don’t care about tennis.
@DjokovicFan_
Danny
6 months
Nobody ever played better tennis at 38 than Novak Djokovic. Insane. 🤯 https://t.co/jVkgq7oeVp
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@DavidSacks
David Sacks
7 months
As I’ve been warning, the full Chinese stack is here. We rescinded the Biden Diffusion Rule just in time. The American AI stack needs to be unleashed to compete.
@The_AI_Investor
The AI Investor
7 months
Media reported that Malaysia has become the first country outside China to deploy Huawei chips, servers, and DeepSeek’s large language model (LLM).
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@RayDalio
Ray Dalio
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If you don't let up on yourself and instead become comfortable always operating with some level of pain, you will evolve at a faster pace. That's just the way it is. Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life--you have the
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@Samirkaji
samir kaji
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13 things LPs should know about venture capital. 1/ VC is highly cyclical, alternating between long risk-on periods followed by sudden risk-off periods. Trying to time things is a fools errand, which is why consistency across vintages is required. 2)75-90% of VC funds
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@Forbes
Forbes
10 months
Goodbye, Golden Handcuffs: Inside The Partner Exodus Rippling Across Venture Capital https://t.co/m9zEO8v5YZ
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@StartupArchive_
Startup Archive
10 months
Watch the full interview with Bill Ackman on the @lexfridman podcast here:
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@StartupArchive_
Startup Archive
10 months
Bill Ackman on dealing with disaster: ā€œMake a little progress every dayā€ After losing $4 billion in Valeant Pharmaceuticals, other Wall Street investors started betting against his firm, Pershing Square, to further compound its catastrophic 30%+ loss and force a liquidation. To
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@chamath
Chamath Palihapitiya
10 months
The Software Industrial Complex will go to zero. In its place will be a bunch of semantic communication between models.
@yacineMTB
kache
10 months
99% of software doesn't need to exist and basically does nothing useful
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