I have always been firmly convinced that in order to successfully stand out you need to focus on one single project representing the dream of your life.  In the past year, I’ve been working like there is no tomorrow, building this single project as if my life depended on it

Full virtual reconstruction of Imperial Rome, Italy. Credit: Life of Rome / Dreadnought Studios (Breakout Studio).

the Anthropic founding round was basically a handful of angels investing tens of millions of personal capital 20+ of the sand hill VCs we pitched passed the series A and B were even harder it wasn’t until Spark led the series C that the VCs finally started getting it

SF is the only place where you can dress up as the GRPO objective function and people just get it

if you're a student or young professional, you can hear @bendingspoons co-founder and CEO Luca Ferrari share his journey LIVE from Imperial College!

Whoever at WorkOS implemented this: Thank you, thank you, I bless you, I bless your house, your family, the streets on which you walk, thank you thank you

s/o to Matt from Maker for letting us co-host this awesome brunch today with @leannhaddad + our awesome SF founder crew 💞

What happens when you drop a cohort of builders and researchers into the heart of Silicon Valley? In one intense week, the Fellows moved from operator-to-investor stories to robotics sessions, they walked Stanford’s halls, pitched to the Managing Partner of @lombardstreetVC and

ai startups are now sponsoring padel courts! only in sf ❤️ @fal

A bias to action is what separates founders from dreamers. Everyone has ideas. Founders test them in the real world.

Feedback from other people is fake. Awards are fake. Critics are fake. Real feedback comes from free markets and nature. Did your rocket launch? Did your drone fly? It’s impossible to fool Mother Nature.

48hrs from our most important launch, I’m about to address the entire company on the All Hands meeting. It won’t be easy to convey all my gratitude while standing in front of everyone. So I decided to post it in public. Thanks @Replit. I love you all ❤️

My love language is grilling steaks on wood fire.

Truth-seekers take feedback from nature (planes have to fly), free markets (customers have to buy), or competition (militaries have to win). Consensus-seekers take feedback from people (actors want fans, academics want honors, politicians want votes, journalists want status).

1/ How a company I co-founded (TrialPay) once exited the Catch 22 of “can’t raise cash without growth; can’t grow without raising cash” which is potentially the most “unsolvable” (Kobayashi Maru) situation a VC-backed company can face

Being really determined is one of the most underrated qualities in entrepreneurship. It matters more than intelligence, more than having a strong network, and even more than a great idea. The most challenging aspect of starting a company is navigating the constant setbacks.

Which of you economists are running this experiment on me

waymo in the tenderloin at 3am

this was on my SF bucket list since I moved here. 10/10 would recommend.

published a new essay on my blog! "Building AI products in the Probabilistic Era" admittedly it's a very long one (took months to write), but i've tried to condense everything i learned while working on one of the most popular and influential AI products in the world turned up

GPT-5 just refactored my entire codebase in one call. 25 tool invocations. 3,000+ new lines. 12 brand new files. It modularized everything. Broke up monoliths. Cleaned up spaghetti. None of it worked. But boy was it beautiful.