David McJannet
@davidmcj
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Learning. Business building. Fortunate to have been part of a few high growth companies so far: HashiCorp, GitHub, Hortonworks, VMware, Microsoft.
San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2009
Fascinating paper just published in Science. The authors analyze the career trajectories of top performers across multiple domains, including Nobel laureates, elite chess players, Olympic gold medalists, and more. Their central finding challenges a common belief. Intensive,
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A Category 4/5 atmospheric river is about to hit the Pacific Northwest, bringing extremely high snow levels. However, on Mount Rainier at 14,000 feet, it will be all snow, with over 110 inches expected to fall by Friday.
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Very happy to see some alumni being part of another milestone today with the announced Metronome / Stripe collab! Congrats all around.
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Everyone’s debating if AI is a bubble. Nobody’s asking what happens when three 50-year platform shifts hit at once. Jensen just walked through why the bubble question misses the entire picture. First shift: CPU to GPU accelerated computing. Moore’s Law is dead. The world has
FULL $NVDA CEO JENSEN HUANG COMMENT ON THE AI BUBBLE FROM THE EARNINGS CALL: There’s been a lot of talk about an AI bubble. From our vantage point, we see something very different. As a reminder, Nvidia is unlike any other accelerator. We excel at every phase of AI, from
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Fascinating to watch.
All the analysts forever writing about OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google are missing the real story that already happened. 80% of startups pitching Andreessen Horowitz are running on Chinese open-source models. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Chinese models like DeepSeek that cost 214x
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Nearly 100 yrs old and still one of the most relevant business books I’ve ever read. In just two paragraphs he lays out over a dozen timeless principles: 1. Fewer, better people. & keep them for a long time. 2. Great craftsmen (ICs) are rarely great managers. 3. CEOs need to
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Warren Buffett drops some wisdom in his farewell letter to shareholders.
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This is the craziest stat of the World Series: Trey Yesavage, the Blue Jays starting pitcher who makes $57K a year, started the game by striking out Shohei Ohtani, who makes $47M - that's 824x his salary.
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The AWS outage is a reminder that many apps aren't truly architected for redundancy. The tools are all there, its just that true HA is more expensive to achieve than most are willing to pay. Modern stateless apps -- sure. But stateful apps using stored data...tougher.
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Americans have no idea how expensive their electricity bills are about to get.
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When AI systems cause security incidents, can you trace which user or prompt triggered the action? Static credentials make this nearly impossible. HashiCorp Vault's dynamic credentials give every AI agent unique, traceable identities with just enough access, for just enough time.
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Secure your one-day pass to… 💜 community 🤝 connections ☁️ & the cloud Register for #HashiDays. https://t.co/g0tSHscicC
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Terraform 1.11 brings new ways to handle secrets securely with ephemeral values and streamlines testing with JUnit XML test reports. See what’s new:
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Terraform 1.11 brings upgrades to the Terraform tests and improves users’ ability to keep secrets out of their state file with write-only arguments.
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Armon's thoughts on officially joining the IBM family today. https://t.co/fXCPO79QAp
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HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate our mission of enabling multi-cloud.
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I’m excited for @HashiCorp to officially join the @IBM family! I shared my thoughts in a blog post here:
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HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate our mission of enabling multi-cloud.
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Norcal weather...
A Pineapple Express and a parade of storms are going to slam Northern California over the next week, dropping huge amounts of precipitation and potentially causing significant flooding. Many forecast models drop over 20 inches of rain across the Northern Sierra. Stay tuned.
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