Eric Anderson
@ericmander
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Investing in data/cloud infra @ScaleVP. Host https://t.co/HNnTtkWgWl. Previously PM @GoogleCloud, @AWScloud. Member @Ch_JesusChrist.
Mountain View, CA
Joined February 2009
Instead of advertising 8GBs of RAM they should just say 200 Chrome tabs. That's how you sell a computer.
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You can stumble into great markets, but you only get to also be the leader in the new thing (AI) 30 years later if you are good and intentional
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It's easy to look at Google's success in terms of fortunate-monopoly, but you'd discount how fantastic they have been at retaining top talent. At any other company, Jeff Dean would have left long ago. From Day 1 Sergey and team not only innovated on product, but on talent
Sergey Brin on the genius of Jeff Dean. He credits Jeff’s early obsession with neural networks, back when they were “telling cats from dogs”, as the spark for everything. TPU was Jeff’s idea. He calculated that if users spoke to Google for just three minutes a day, Google would
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how do people sleep at night with all the products that could be built
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Google's stock price is highly correlated with @sundarpichai's rate of tweeting
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We are back! just a few months ago the AI bubble chatter started, GPUs were aplenty and GPT5.x progress seemed to have stalled now Gemini blows the doors open, a crop of neolabs gobbled up the GPUs and Nvidia is up
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vindication to anyone who says they are a visual learner
Thinking (test-time compute) in pixel space... 🍌 Pro tip: always peek at the thoughts if you use AI Studio. Watching the model think in pictures is really fun!
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there has never been a job market like this one unemployment really only move two ways: Quick rise (recession) Slow fall (growth) Since '23 its been neither: slow rise anyone know why?
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MCP is a dev tool, at least for now usage is 90% associated with code gen (per popular mcp security company)
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those who believed foundation models would become commodities weren't wrong, but they vastly underestimated the capital they would raise (buying time for other moats to emerge)
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"This biz is so much tailwind, once it gets moving, we can't really mess it up" is what my manager at GCP told me in response to some fretting about a strategic decision we had made - circa 2014
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AWS did this on purpose to remind us they are still relevant
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Crypto is back and so is the 3.0 thing
We are entering the era of Fintech 3.0. Regulatory clarity, growing consumer adoption, and low-cost chains have paved the way for a golden age of building in crypto — and at YC, @base and @coinbase we want to fund builders to seize this moment. @harjtaggar and @jessepollak sat
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proxy war: a conflict where larger, opposing powers use smaller countries or local factions as surrogates to fight on their behalf, supporting them with military aid, funding, or expertise instead of engaging in direct warfare
Today, Cloudflare is proud to announce support for two cornerstone frameworks in the modern web ecosystem: we’re partnering with Webflow to sponsor Astro, and with Netlify to sponsor TanStack. https://t.co/OWTQWK4kMU
#BirthdayWeek
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I don't trust medical bills as I've had huge errors in the past, but I don't really have a system of checking for accuracy, so I just sit on them for a while and then pay them in bulk. Anyone have a process to recommend? So much money; so little understanding/control
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I give you all permission to say nice things about people without adding "even though I didn't agree with everything they said". You can just say nice things.
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CoT works because it is just models doing their own context engineering
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Excited to share that we've raised a $22.5m Series A for Hello Patient, led by Scale Venture Partners. This is by far the worst announcement video I've ever made. I can't believe our lead investor agreed to this
Our lead investor and I have a big announcement to share. Thursday, 9AM PT.
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