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Ethan Batraski

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Venture Capitalist, Partner @Venrock, writing about open-source infrastructure and hard engineering at https://t.co/r45vVAiEAw

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Joined March 2009
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Ethan Batraski
2 years
When hiring your first 10-15 engineers, forget ‘10x engineers,’ focus on ‘engineers who give a sh*t’ - who care about building it right, think about the next 4 releases, learn to become domain experts, eager to hear user feedback, care about the business and their part in.
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RT @benjaminakar: 🚀 Introducing Tembo: Your 24/7/365 On-Call Engineer. - Monitors your entire stack.- Detects and fixes bugs.- Submits pull….
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RT @PhysicalAI: 3/ Read on to learn how Archetype is bringing a fundamental shift in how AI perceives physical environments—moving from iso….
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RT @_marcobambini: 🚀 We’ve just added support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to SQLite Cloud!. With our new MCP server integration, y….
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Ethan Batraski
3 months
RT @Gedmark: Astranis is building a new satellite for Taiwan. 🇹🇼. With our customer, Chunghwa Telecom, we will bring Taiwan its first-ever….
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Ethan Batraski
3 months
Want to predict what will the next great accelerator for AI in the next 5 years? Read this great expose on the leader in quantum computing, @Atom_Computing, whom with @Microsoft announced a collaboration to build the world’s most powerful quantum machine, offering a scalable.
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Ethan Batraski
3 months
RT @ai_dba: Fix Slow Queries on AWS RDS + Aurora Postgres.
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Ethan Batraski
3 months
RT @darrenbaldwinjr: POV: ur looking at a 10x engineer
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Ethan Batraski
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RT @ai_dba: We're letting select devs in for private alpha testing. Reserve your spot:
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Ethan Batraski
3 months
RT @Oumi_PBC: Introducing HallOumi, a state-of-the-art claim-verification (hallucination detection) family of models, outperforming DeepSee….
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Ethan Batraski
3 months
What makes this moment historic isn't just technology improvement—it's a fundamental expansion of human capability. Like software's transformation of manufacturing, AI will redefine what professional services can be, democratizing access to world-class expertise previously
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Ethan Batraski
3 months
The economics of professional services are about to undergo a fundamental transformation as AI redefines the cost structure of delivering expertise.
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Ethan Batraski
3 months
Combined, these five leading incumbents alone represent over $240 billion in annual revenue and employ more than 900,000 professionals. And they're merely the tip of the iceberg in their respective industries, representing massive markets ripe for AI-powered disruption.
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Ethan Batraski
3 months
While every professional services vertical will be impacted, some are particularly ripe for disruption based on their knowledge-intensive nature, rule-based workflows, and pattern-dependent decision-making.
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Ethan Batraski
3 months
Just published a framework for building an AI services company, going after the $20T industry powered by human-driven, low-tech businesses where legacy incumbents have built their brands on historical reputation and prestige rather than measurable performance. Here is the full
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Ethan Batraski
3 months
“But this AI technology wasn’t born out of Microsoft and its big OpenAI partnership. It was developed by a startup called Archetype AI (@PhysicalAI). You might think of the company as OpenAI for the physical world.”.
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Ethan Batraski
3 months
Read more here:.
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Ethan Batraski
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We're seeing early signs of 10 critical shifts that will bridge this gap, each representing both a technical challenge and a massive opportunity. 1. Expansion Beyond Today's Software.2. Digital-Only To Physical World Integration:.3. From Copilots To True Agents.4. Agents.
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Ethan Batraski
3 months
Thanks @Forbes for publishing my piece on where we see the next era of AI. We are about to enter a new generation of AI systems - reliable enough for mission-critical work and specialized enough to develop true domain expertise. Where no software exists today—high-stakes.
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Ethan Batraski
4 months
Congrats to the @Atom_Computing team for being named a @FastCompany most Innovative Most Innovative Company of 2025! We broke multiple records this year for logical qubits in a Quantum Computer. That was just the start. 2025 is going to be bigger than ever!
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