Allison Barr Allen
@abarrallen
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Investor at Operator Collective - helping founders in AI transformation (Seed+A) / Prev. early Uber / Ohio native / Small but mighty Marathoner
Bay Area, CA
Joined November 2012
One aspect of some of the fastest growing companies in history is that they help people make more money. Uber & AirBnb (marketplaces), Stripe (help companies make money online), OpenAI & Anthropic (if you think about all the developers who build on top of it), Mercor & Paraform
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AI Biotech is one of the most exciting fields to follow right now. What incredible progress and news each & every day.
An exciting milestone for AI in science: Our C2S-Scale 27B foundation model, built with @Yale and based on Gemma, generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior, which scientists experimentally validated in living cells. With more preclinical and clinical tests,
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When I invest in a new co, I always remind our team & LPs to follow the founders on social. @noxmetals has been special in this way. Manufacturing is an area I'm personally so jazzed about after years of walking factory floors for medical devices, plastic injection molding,
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With the right tools & environment, kids can go so far.
Emails like this make my week! "I never do this, but wanted to take a moment to acknowledge how great Math Academy has been for my son. He goes to a school with a pretty slow curriculum and despite being a bright kid, has underperformed on standardized assessments. We started
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The one thing to add is you do get leverage from buying a home, which you don't get from the stock market. I rarely see comparisons that take that into account.
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Are startups still getting great ROI on well-crafted launch videos? Or is there too much noise now?
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Listening to one of the best founders (@collision) and one of the best VCs (@pmarca) debate and discuss the operating style of one of the best entrepreneurs (@elonmusk) is a great clip.
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Why do all of the super risky, deep tech companies (autonomous trucking, nuclear, quantum, robotics) IPO while all other companies do not?
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The top companies feel like they are pushing out at least 1 major update or new product every week.
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They cured inherited deafness in 25% of trial participants with a gene therapy. The future is bright.
Presented at #OTOMTG25: Valayannopoulos and colleagues report the outcomes of treating 12 participants who had complete inherited deafness with gene therapy. Full CHORD phase 1–2 study results: https://t.co/jlN9gFDhXf @AAOHNS
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Wild! Everything happens on X for ~1 year before getting discovered by traditional media.
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There’s no going back.
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Six years ago I remember going to a StrictlyVC event with @Cookie and watching Sam Altman talk about OpenAI. He said eventually they would ask the machine how to make money & people laughed. I have to admit, I had no idea what he was talking about at the time but the clip is
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The only thing that is constant is the pace of change keeps getting faster.
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Fast Company tried to write a bad review of Tesla Robotaxi because the driver wouldn’t talk to the reporter. 🫠
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OpenAI is now an enterprise company, a developer-focused company, a consumer company, and a social media company. Are there any other similar examples in history?
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Amazing resilience
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