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Building Deep24 & FactSim | Ultra (YC W24) | 🇳🇿 penn
San Francisco, CA
Joined December 2023
What if you could simulate your life before living it? Today we’re launching FactSim. A realistic life simulator that learns about you then models your behavior with agents. Test paths. Run scenarios. Explore outcomes. Your life in sandbox mode. https://t.co/30YYatsxEF
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Super excited to get this out there!
Common Gap from Deep24 (@effortcompany24) is a single app for college and graduating high school students to apply to take a gap year at fast-growing startups. Participating companies include Corgi Insurance, Zingage and Superbuilders. This is a bet on giving young talent
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Corgi (@TheCorgiCompany) is coming out of stealth with $108m raised! As the first and only insurance carrier built for startups, Corgi lets tech companies get covered in minutes, not days, with modern infrastructure replacing brokers and paperwork. Congrats on the launch
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Our first solo founder just hit $1M ARR in under 2 months. Announcing the 3rd cohort of the Solo Founders Program. "SFP gave me a new framework to think about how fast I can go." Apply today to build "solo, together" in January.
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“I’m his hotter AI native son” Reply I got after I saying my friend looks like tony leung
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Parenting is so underesearched relative to total system level utils Literally shapes the whole arc of life (happiness) and contribution to society of kids and how they parent their kids (if they have kids at all)
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We're bringing real money games x video games to the masses. 1.0 now on the US App Store!
It’s here: Duper is now available on the US @Apple App Store and @Google Play Store. Download it here: https://t.co/n7QCsKuihL Season 6 is now also live! Info below 👇
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Visited the main Austin campus last year (it was awesome) and have brought it up to some talented kids who are upset with how much time they waste in normal schools, even strong ones like TJ. But v hard to have the agency to switch into an experience like this
This is the definitive conversation on Alpha School with @jliemandt, who is the school’s principal and backer. What if kids could learn in two hours a day, test in the top 1% nationally, spend their afternoons mastering other great skills, AND love school more than vacation?
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~50% of Kids can and should start Calculus by the age of 12
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Enjoyed this read. I was struck by Cairo’s atypical path and how her talents went unrecognized for so long although others did occasionally point the way for her. Even after solving the problem, many colleges rejected her due to the lack of a high school diploma. Also, the
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If you had the money, why wouldn’t you spend over $1M per year on the your kid’s education
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Most founders think AI agents will replace their entire team. That's not where the magic happens. The magic happens in workflow gaps - meeting summaries, dashboard monitoring, support routing. The boring stuff that drains energy. But here's what kills most AI initiatives: if
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Has givewell done an analysis of this?
Apparently it's not illegal to pay others to sterilize themselves, and "Project Prevention" has paid 8,000 crack addicts $300 to get IUDs, vasectomies, and tubal ligations > The organization has used slogans such as "Don't let pregnancy get in the way of your crack habit"
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So much sadness/discontentment is caused by the divergence between our known capabilities and our lagging faculties to make use of said capabilities. The drowning child thought experiment is a great example
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