Derrick Li
@TheDerrickLi
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@aforevc . prev @usemacro, altimeter capital .
san francisco
Joined June 2009
When we first met @serenaa_ge, she showed us the climbing wall she’d built in her mom’s basement; a tribute to the sport she loved. That wall has since become the perfect metaphor for everything we’ve come to admire about Serena and the @datacurve_ai team: obsession. From the
Today we’re announcing we’ve raised $17.5 million in funding across a $15M Series A led by Chemistry and a $2.7M Seed to accelerate foundation model progress through providing frontier training data for LLMs. When we first started Datacurve, it came from a simple realization:
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Today, we make history Golpo is launching frame-by-frame editing for AI-generated videos. The first time this has ever been possible. You now have complete creative control at the pixel level. Below we made we made a Golpo video about Y Combinator and in this example we: 1.
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Congrats to @DYtweetshere, @FinsamSamson and the entire @AccordanceAI team. It's been amazing work with them & their tenacity and pace are infectious We at @AforeVC are grateful to be on the journey and it's only getting started 🚀
Dear friends, I am incredibly honored to finally unveil what we've been working on in stealth: Accordance. When Finsam and I first started our journey bringing AI out of the research lab, we discovered an industry filled with some of the most thoughtful, principled professionals
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thank you @serenaa_ge from Data Curve for this cohere claw machine. she wanted me to share that every data point we receive from them gives me the same feeling as a successful claw
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Golpo (@GolpoAI) is the most powerful AI video generator for explainer videos. Through its custom-trained video gen engine, Golpo turns your documents into fully produced, customizable explainer videos. Congrats on the launch, @ShramanKar & @KarShreyas! https://t.co/p3T97fWtJE
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If there was a tutorial to life, it would actually be quite simple: 1) Read books to avoid the common time-wasting mistakes, most of the wisdom you need for a happy life is actually written down in timeless novels 2) Accumulate a wide range of experiences and meet a lot of
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Trying something new. Each week, I'll send out an assortment of links and my thoughts.
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Huge congrats to @FastowMatthew, @AkashSamant4 and the entire Coverflow team 🚀 Brokers waste thousands of hours each year on repetitive, manual tasks like reviewing policy docs and juggling spreadsheets. Coverflow’s platform automates all of that. https://t.co/TzPxibNNk0
aijourn.com
Last year, Coverflow co-founders Matthew Fastow and Akash Samant spotted what they call “a once-in-a-generation opportunity” in a surprisingly overlooked
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NotebookLM as an API - congrats @KarShreyas & @ShramanKar
Today, we're publicly launching Golpo, an API to create highly customizable AI-generated podcasts similar to NotebookLM from your own documents or topics in any language Features: - Prompt to customize - Give ANY documents in any number or type - Customize host voice
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PDFs suck. We just raised $17,000,000 in funding to fix this problem once and for all. Extend is building the modern document processing cloud. See how Brex, Square, Checkr, and Fortune 500s use it to process millions of documents:
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Cheryl and Mike epitomize generosity; Cheryl's gift to a great cause in Mike's memory is a beautiful testament to the life, joys, and values they shared RIP Mike ❤️ https://t.co/QZxtCbFHGt
musicacademy.org
Music Academy of the West Acquires Downtown Santa Barbara Property to Launch Music Education Center Made Possible by Historic $20 Million Gift from Cheryl Goldberg Honoring Late Husband Michael...
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This gave me chills. Awesome lens. From @InvestLikeBest @patrick_oshag via @JamesClear Investor Rick Buhrman on the kindness of mastering your craft: INTERVIEWER: What is the kindest thing that anyone's ever done for you? BUHRMAN: ... our oldest son, Theo, who just turned
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"fearlessness and boldness is like the two of the best ingredients for making truthful art" https://t.co/aZnwf2Nw9V
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We’re excited to introduce Retool Agents, your first fully autonomous AI team. Already, our customers have automated 50k jobs and saved $6B in manual work. This is in every department, including product, finance, operations, support, etc. The secret? Your existing hyperspecific
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