Nick Davidov
@Nick_Davidov
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investor and serial founder in AI/ML/CV space. co-founder DVC - backing repeat founders. e/acc, go OSS
Los Altos Hills, CA
Joined November 2009
AI Rabbit Hole conf was just three months ago but it feels like there's so much new to discuss already. Who's down for another event this fall?
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Perplexity Assistant for email is the best new AI product that is now part of my daily work. IT ACTUALLY LEARNS and writes smart response drafts for me. AI is known to be a yes man, but my PPLX is now drafting the best ways for me to brush people with irrelevant asks off without
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Accidentally said “changed my mind” instead of “updated my priors” and they kicked me out of SF
Accidentally said "unrelated" instead of "orthogonal" and they kicked me out of SF
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Dr. Nolan Williams has left an incredible impact on psychiatry and life sciences in general and his passing has left a dent in our hearts. His work has touched (and saved) so many lives and will touch so many more. My deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.
Everyone at HHS is mourning the passing of Stanford Professor Dr. Nolan Williams. Dr. Williams envisioned a world where the field of psychiatry addresses the root causes of depression and where patients receive precision treatments tailored to their individual brains. At
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finally a journalist captured the reason we're building DVC: "“When you work with nerds, with engineers that you know share the passion,” he adds, smiling like a giddy kid. “You wake up and it’s like, whoa.” Plus, he says, he gets to work with his wife."
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Woooooot! Great choice, Mozilla Foundation!
Perplexity is now an in-built default search option for all Firefox users. We look forward to working closely with Mozilla on a lot more things in the near future.
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I’ll go into a bit more details on how this works here on X: We've got 175 incredible LPs who are engineers, Al researchers, and founders. This group covers all of the frontier Al labs (minus SSI), big tech, and 11 unicorns (Perplexity, Wrike, TradingView, SemRush, etc). We've
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Big announcement day for us. DVC now manages a family of funds and with the addition of our fresh $75M Series A AI fund we’ll be able to continue backing the amazing founders we’re privileged to work with and build more support structures for them. Thanks to my partner in crime
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We believe software should be free. So we made Wabi: the first personal software platform. With Wabi, you can generate beautiful, useful and fun little apps informed by your life. A whole new home screen, for a more focused, enjoyable day. Free from the incentives that create
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Science is magical. That moment when you’ve made a discovery - and for a brief instant, the only ones who know are you, another lab that posted the same idea yesterday, and Schmidhuber in the ’90s.
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If you wanna be a part of the most fun team in the most fun company to work for right now - apply!
> be cracked > want to change the world > not sure where to start > see post on X about role on Special Projects team > apply with resume + project > get job > get even more cracked > change world apply below:
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and it finally gives meaning to having these rear screens in cars
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it looks like our portco solved the biggest issue with kids on roadtrips - having to listen to Peppa the pig for 8 hours blasting out of speakers. Now you can listen an audiobook while they watch their youtube, no headphones required
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Google employing Nobel laureates like they’re Berkeley or something
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Everyone wants enterprise b2b ACV, no one wants 6-12 month sales cycles, 200 point security questionnaires, redlines, net 60, white glove onboarding, services partner ecosystem, last minute procurement negotiation step, 14 page MSAs, champions that leave the company. 90-180 day
speaking to my b2b heart: @gdb says “boring enterprise problems” are still massively underserved by AI startups rn
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A lot of people are reading "AI isn't replacing radiologists" and saying "AI isn't that good". But that's not the real story. Models like CheXNet could outperform human radiologists on some benchmarks as far back as 2017. Since then, hundreds of FDA-cleared tools have proven they
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Copilot in Excel is a global financial crisis waiting to happen.
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