Siqi Chen
@blader
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🏗️ Love to build (@runwayco @sandboxvr @zynga) people love 💸 Investor @amplitude_hq @mercury @owner @elevenlabsio @meetgamma @sfcompute @turingcom++
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Joined April 2007
we spent the last four years reimagining what finance can be, unburdened by what has been. runway makes clear the significance of the passage of time in the context of all in which your business lives and what came before you. this is the result 👇
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Ben Horowitz on the 1 reason founders fail as CEO The a16z co-founder is asked for the #1 reason founders fail in the CEO role, to which he replies: “I would say the big thing is a lack of decision — hesitation . . . You can be really smart, but if you wait too long before you
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we spent the last four years reimagining what finance can be, unburdened by what has been. runway makes clear the significance of the passage of time in the context of all in which your business lives and what came before you. this is the result 👇
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1. Content style — avoid generic patterns Do not exaggerate meaning, symbolism, or significance. Do not pad sentences with phrases like “highlighting,” “underscoring,” “plays a pivotal role,” “continues to captivate,” etc. Avoid “template” structures such as: “Despite these
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you know how sometimes you read text and it just stinks of ai? wikipedia has a great list of tells: https://t.co/V6CiJXuW9j i thought it'd be fun to put all of it into a system prompt to avoid having text sound AI generated - it works pretty well. prompt in the reply below:
en.wikipedia.org
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New post: Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025) 1. What are we scaling?
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Social media tends to frame AI debate into two caricatures: (A) Skeptics who think LLMs are doomed and AI is a bunch of hype. (B) Fanatics who think we have all the ingredients and superintelligence is imminent. But if you read what leading researchers actually say (beyond the
One point I made that didn’t come across: - Scaling the current thing will keep leading to improvements. In particular, it won’t stall. - But something important will continue to be missing.
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No one gives a fuck about Asian representation. Don’t be a victim @SimuLiu. Produce your own movies, make your own money, create your own art, and become undeniable. This is America. Go forge your own destiny.
Simu Liu says Asian representation in Hollywood remains "f*cking appalling." “Put some Asians in literally anything right now. The amount of backslide in our representation onscreen is f*cking appalling. Studios think we are risky... No Asian actor has ever lost a studio even
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“Geniuses only.” Nivi: To me, the missing ingredient in most people’s recruiting is intolerance. You should really just treat every employee in the company, including yourself, as an enemy agent that’s trying to destroy the company by bringing mediocre talent into the business.
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To my younger self, 14 things I wish I understood before starting a company (chronological advice): 1. Find your obsession. If it doesn't feel like your life's work, don't do it. Tinker until you find a problem, concept or product that you are obsessed with. Don't raise capital
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Nvidia was worth nothing in public markets on 4 different occasions. Most people follow momentum. Great leaders can lead an organization based on conviction from their vision of the future alone.
Jensen Huang on how to maintain conviction in the early days of a startup Nvidia almost failed several times in the company’s early history. Jensen is asked how he maintained conviction during the times when it looked like the company would fail, to which he responds: “You have
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congratulations to lambda on their series e! (not an investor but is a fantastic runway customer!)
Lambda has raised over $1.5B in equity to build superintelligence cloud infrastructure. TWG Global, USIT, and existing investors led the Series E round to position Lambda to execute on its mission to give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, One GPU. Press
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re: gemini 3 for the past 4 years i've had the plurality of our liquid net worth in NVDA about a month ago i sold it all and rotated into GOOG take from that what you will
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Brian Armstrong tells the founding story of Coinbase: “Nothing was working” After quitting his job in 2012 and joining Y Combinator to build Coinbase, Brian faced setback after setback: “I was struggling to find anybody who would join my team and work with me... I almost
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man @a16z knows how to throw an event > at the nyse > demoing runway in front of 200 finance leaders > coffee art with the runway logo > seated runway customers next to future runway customers, so they can rave about runway to them thanks to @IvanoMakSF for setting this up
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Can software train your mind as much as it manages your data? Siqi Chen (@blader), founder & CEO of Runway and board member at Sandbox, explores the philosophy of “tools for thinking”, software built not just to complete tasks, but to sharpen human reasoning. On this episode of
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i'm not going to lie i thought gamma was going to die for a while. it's an incredible team but they were heads down grinding every day for years before it exploded. grant lee is a stud, i'm lucky to be an investor. slowly, then suddenly.
Today, as shared by The New York Times, we’re announcing two things: >Our Series B at a $2.1B valuation led by @sarahdingwang at @a16z. >Reaching $100M ARR, profitably, with a team of just 50 people. That's $2M ARR per employee. PowerPoint was invented before the first website,
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