charles li
@charlesli09
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founder @ sylvan labs | prev bessemer, vista, ut austin
san francisco
Joined December 2022
This is so sick, excited to support 🫡.
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Hot take: MBB / consulting firms should offer $300k in pre-seed funding as an alternative to covering B-school tuition.
The great educational reckoning in the age of AI is here. Stanford MBAs are questioning why they spend two years and $300k and emerge with none of the skills that are most relevant in today's workforce. Top schools can no longer coast off their brands.
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This is a phenomenal fund model. Godspeed to the team. Highly aligned incentive structure.
Brian Singerman's new fund has a twist, and Peter Thiel as a big backer | TechCrunch
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This is why we give founding engineers a $150k bonus for every $1M of ARR we hit in their first year.
the biggest thing i’ve learned from being a founding engineer in the past. is that i can’t be a founding engineer. like bro you’re getting 0.5% equity and working as hard as the founders and it’s not even your idea. this has resulted in some pretty bad financial decisions btw.
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Cooking.
📢 I'm cofounding @SmitheryDotAI with @Calclavia. In a world where no single model has all the answers, agents need a platform to access capabilities and context at scale. We're fixing this with a cohesive gateway to discover and distribute intelligence. Memo in thread 👇
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Literally cannot be more bullish on someone to build the next great thing. Congrats to @kamathematic and godspeed on what’s next 🫡.
I've wrapped up my time @browserbasehq!. Grateful to @pk_iv for betting on me to lead Stagehand, as well as the incredible Browserbase/Stagehand teams for affording me the privilege of working with you all. More soon on what's next ❤️🤘🅱️
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Cool building. Very reminiscent of Renzo Piano’s Centre Pompidou
Literally my dad (but in 1982). Despite the immaculate vibes, Pittsburgh was not doing well. Unemployment in Pittsburgh was 17%, almost the worst ever in history for a major city (only the pandemic and Detroit in 2009 were worse). There were no jobs. A generation of young people
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This is so beautiful.
not on my bingo card was james dyson engineering a mass production system for strawberries. "growing things is like making things, i'm a manufacturer, and so i suppose in a way ive approached farming from that point of view"
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You can tell if a founder has good taste based on their favorite restaurants.
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Huge! All star team.
Excited to finally launch @firstharmonic. We are a small team of former operators who invest in early-stage companies and run what we believe is the best go-to-market program in the world for early-stage founders. I’m working alongside @ROWGHANI , @JdotJdotF, @miamabanta, and
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Signal / data gathering agents will become a race to the bottom on price. Can someone just open source?.
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RT @kamathematic: Charles’ grit and determination is unparalleled, and he’s repeatedly beat the odds despite how overly against him they’ve….
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Easiest way to get the bounty. just tag your smartest engineering friends and we'll do the rest of the work!.
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[$30K Referral] Sylvan Labs (SF-based) is hiring our first Founding Engineer (full-stack, applied AI/ML, 0-1 product) . We’re going after one of the largest horizontal functions in B2B enterprises left to be disrupted by AI. We’re moving fast and want to bring on an S-tier.
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if investors and historians look back on this origin story some day, mark this quote tweet as the first check.
openai spent $15m+ on "chat dot com". i just spent $6 on "dot com dot chat"
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One of the best product launches I've seen in a minute. @maneetks absolutely killing it out here, nobody does it better.
9,347 part iterations, 32 research studies, and 1,167 days later, I’m proud to introduce Backbone Pro. The last gaming product you’ll ever need. What's the future of gaming? For 3 years, we’ve obsessed over this question, and built a team from Apple, Meta, and Google. Our
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This might be one of the best alley oops I’ve seen live, ever.
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