Deva Hazarika
@devahaz
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AI block generation is almost live at Suggerence. This is a sneak peek, but it will soon be ready for you to break it.
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Anti-Zohran Dems, Republicans, and billionaire class of Ackmans crying about likely Mamdani win. My response to that is pick stronger candidates than Sliwa and rally around better opposition than one of worst possible people in Cuomo. Where’d that culture of accountability go?
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Over my career we went from: Everything about VC totally opaque Red Herring type trade mags TechCrunch VCs like Feld, Hornik, Wilson Venture Hacks/AngelList YC (and TechStars etc) With YC as the final boss of defining the rules of the game, with many great and some bad results
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This is a function of startup creation, especially the whole venture funding process, becoming demystified, systematized, and perceived as safer. The transparency is net good for the system, but has some big negative side effects going from outlier oddballs to high status track.
@growing_daniel Reminds me of investment banker culture in pre-GFC New York These people aren’t actually passionate about technology, they’re passionate about social status and money
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And if it were some American billionaires killing hundreds of thousands with opioids, they wouldn’t have a nuclear bomb dropped on them, they’d just pay some fines and not spend any time in jail
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on open borders and killing fentanyl traffickers: “If fentanyl was killing 60,000 Yale grads instead of 60,000 working class people, we’d be dropping a nuclear bomb on whoever was sending it from South America. “At Palantir, we are on the side of the
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Not sure if a narrow Mamdani victory or 50%+ win will be funnier on here
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It was just a few years ago that Tucker Carlson was frequently mentioned as a top potential future GOP Presidential candidate
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Nobody could have called House of Prime Rib and Balboa Cafe ending up as two of the most popular young SF tech nerd destinations of the latest boom
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I wonder how many tweets are sent while guys like Sama and Elon (ok maybe not these two billionaires specifically) are hanging out together drinking $100k a glass whiskey or getting blood transfusions from young men so they can live forever or whatever their hobbies happen to be
i helped turn the thing you left for dead into what should be the largest non-profit ever. you know as well as anyone a structure like what openai has now is required to make that happen.
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GRRM should just use this as the plot line for his final book
From Ilya’s deposition— • Ilya plotted over a year with Mira to remove Sam • Dario wanted Greg fired and himself in charge of all research • Mira told Ilya that Sam pitted her against Daniela • Ilya wrote a 52 page memo to get Sam fired and a separate doc on Greg
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