Kanyi Maqubela
@km
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lover, not-fighter. building and funding startups: @kindredventures, @heartbeat, et al.
on my 📲 too much
Joined October 2008
nothing like accidentally moving an app off your home screen, not remembering which one, and now everything is in the. wrong place.
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RT @reganbozman: absolutely packed stablecoin event at @KindredVentures last night. we are so very back
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Super pumped to announce our investment in @nuro as part of their $203 million Series E funding round!. We’re excited to back @zhujiajun @dfergusonnz and team alongside strategic investors @Uber and @Nvidia, as well as lead investors, Softbank, Fidelity, T.Rowe Price, and Baillie.
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A cousin thought:.
People sometimes say that the 12 most dangerous words in investing are "the 4 most dangerous words in investing are 'this time it's different'" but then I also wonder whether the 20 most dangerous words in investing are "the 12 most dangerous words in investing are "the 4 most.
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pretty wild how much business, even in 🇺🇸, is moving to whatsapp.
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the peace dividend of bubbles.
One good lesson from the history of infrastructure investing (canals, railroads, telephone wire, dark fiber) is that it always gets overbuilt. Speculative development companies go bust. Traders ride the highs and lose their shirts. Lenders default. Banks vanish. And 20 years.
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RT @PardonMyTake: Tuesday night max woke Big Cat up with a flashlight at 2am because he thought we were going to get sued. @forthepeople ht….
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"It's different this time" is famously the way to get upside down in the financial markets. But the nuance, which is where the rub lies: what are you comparing to? Is it 1928, or 1921? Is it 1999, or 1993?. Sure, it's not different, but not different from when?.
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Most tech leaders are actually skeptical of AGI and ASI. Watch what they do, not what they say.
kanyi.blog
I sat down with a group of students and recent graduates from Finland a few months back, and one of them asked me: “I am very concerned about AI alignment. It feels like a superintelligent su…
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the power law is power lawing more than ever before, at every level.
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My child had a serious injury that required wound care. Hard to overstate how comforting it was to have a well-prompted LLM output as a second (and third) opinion to an unfamiliar provider.
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GAIM Virtual Reality Shooting Simulator offers an Immersive Training Tool - that prepares you for your next shot. We strive to create a lifelike and authentic environment that challenge you to become a better shooter. Join thousands of users around the world - and get ready
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RT @zachklein: Just drove across the country, from NYC to SF, and locked-up toiletries were the norm in most big box stores I visited.
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the top programs that rejected her for grad school… this is why we can’t have nice things (advances in science) yall.
Earlier this year, a 17-year-old high school student named Hannah Cairo solved a 40-year-old mystery about how waves behave, surprising and exciting mathematicians. @KSHartnett reports:
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“water from an ancient well” - abdullah ibrahim this version, particularly.
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The search engine market was saturated, the problem was solved, when Google started. You’re not too late.
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RT @stevejang: Fal has become the foundational platform for the entire Generative Media space, allowing developers to focus on their creati….
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Don't know if we've seen this kind of performance (shipping cadence, customer intuition, technical execution, revenue growth) in the history of business. Truly exceptional. Congrats team!!.
Today, we're thrilled to announce our $125M Series C funding round at a $1.5B valuation, led by Meritech Capital, marking our third successful raise in just 12 months!. fal’s Generative Media Cloud now powers tens of thousands of applications, supporting over two million
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Crypto is the most profitable asset class for traders. But it's maturing fast and the edge won't last forever. Here’s how you can build, test, and deploy systematic portfolios that survive every regime:
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happy birthday, world computer.
ethereum.org
An introductory paper to Ethereum, published in 2013 before its launch.
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