Jake Mintz
@jakemintz
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CPO @ Valon. Ex-Stripe. Ex-Google. Ex-Bump co-founder. In Seattle, from Alaska.
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Joined January 2008
In ten years Google has gone from $400B market cap to $400B revenue š¤Æ
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As a longtime fan of interview-based business podcasts itās interesting to me that recently I have new favorite hosts: @jaltma & @collision. The conversations are so much better: deeper, more interesting. I think itās that they are players and students of the game, know the
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When I first met Henrik I was blown away by the clarity of his vision and his relentless execution. Excited to be involved.
Announcing our $9M seed round. Led by @emergencecap with participation from @creandum, @HarryStebbings and @ycombinator. This is just the beginning.
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One of the most impressive teams Iāve met. A great example of the power of original thought + listening to users. Congrats Whatnot!
Congratulation to Whatnot YC w20 on hitting Decacorn status. They are a terrific example of the heads-down execution oriented founders we tell every YC team to emulate! https://t.co/X5PzJSsbE1
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Iāve been long $amzn for a long time but am tempted to sell. Jassy is clearly not operating in founder mode or making big bets. They definitely have a lot of fat to cut but it seems like thatās the only leverage being pulled. $msft and $goog have become true cloud competitors and
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Pretty sound plan to loosen up the rent market tbqh
Over 25% of New Yorkers will consider fleeing NYC if Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor: poll https://t.co/9809y78OQV
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.@romeovdean and I wrote a blog post to teach ourselves about the AI buildout. We were surprised by some of the things we learned: 1. Thereās a huge fab CapEx overhang - with a single year of earnings in 2025, Nvidia could cover the last 3 years of TSMCās ENTIRE CapEx. In 2025,
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The YC community is better than I ever couldāve imagined. People love to shit on YC and act like weāre all like the loudest among us online, but thats not representative of the group. The willingness to help each other and the immediate connection when you meet another YC
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@HarryStebbings @ycombinator @garrytan @t_blom @a16z @martin_casado @kirbyman01 @seema_amble not enough people are talking about @sdianahu Reducto, David AI, Salient⦠all crushing it
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Was blown away by the team and execution of Dedalus, check them out if you are a serious developer of agents.
We just raised an $11M seed to help developers build complex agents across any model and any tool in 5 lines of code. Our round was led by @KindredVentures (@stevejang) and @saga_ventures (@maxaltman, @braveben, @itsthomson). At @DedalusLabs, we believe the future of AI agents
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Original idea for a name for AI was: āComputational Intelligenceā later abandoned for āartificial intelligenceā I wish it had stayed as CI This would have avoided so many misunderstandings we have today about AI
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Wow nice work @stevehind and https://t.co/p6zDWELXe0, go go Xtripe mafia!
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šØ Introducing the AI Apps 50: Startup Edition Ever wondered how startups are spending their money when it comes to AI? Our team at @a16z worked with @mercury to crunch the numbers and rank the top applications by spend. The list + what we learned from itš
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Sora 2 feature request @sama @kevinweil please let me setup my children for cameo. It would be soooooo fun :)
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Excited to be involved, @ianwong_ and co are building the next generation platform for leadership and finance teams. Seattle/Bellevue-friends check out their Careers page.
Today weāre launching Summation ā the first Decision-Grade AI platform for leaders. Execs have dashboards, legacy planning tools, generic copilots⦠but none are built for the decisions that move billions.
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Sora 2 Cameos are a great example of why Google can't win Consumer AI (Cameos lets you use a friend's likeness in an AI video). The Xoogler in me cringes in anticipation of the million reviews that would prevent that from ever shipping.
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Basically, blue-state progressives have convinced themselves that Black people are innately ineducable, and then talk a lot of bullshit about why it's actually antiracist to think that. While centrists in red states are just making sure Black people get a good education.
In California, only 28% of Black students can read at a 'basic' level or above on the fourth-grade NAEP. In Mississippi, it's 52%. It's inexcusable, and it's a policy choice. New from me in the Argument:
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I wish we didnāt call AI āArtificial Intelligence.ā It makes the already hard employment/skilling problem worse by personifying it. Vs wow software can now do a lot of new valuable stuff it could never do before.
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I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate slack threads on desktop. It is insanity that I cannot set it to only mark as read manually (like on mobile). AFAICT it is impossible to have any workflow to reliable read, review, and close out threads. I am constantly accidentally
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