Lisa
@lisas8_
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San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2014
Every ambitious 20 something year old builder should live in a hacker house. @SurbhiTodi and I are moving out of our hacker house @mission__ctrl. MC has been the backdrop to some of our most formative years. We’re not the only ones who have been transformed by living here. We
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this is the thesis behind https://t.co/vImvmg0DGg. registering another planet in the sf universe with @SurbhiTodi, inspired by mission control.
San Franciscan behavior is often inscrutable from the outside. Is it poverty? Contrarianism? Inexplicable quirks of the techno-bohemian class? It starts making sense when you walk out of SFO, and into the reality distortion field that’s inspired social deviance for decades For
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Dinner was a blast! Thank you so much for such a wonderful evening at @NeurIPSConf with founders and researchers from @GoogleDeepMind, @OpenAI, @AiEleuther, @allen_ai, @humansand. Excited for more to come!
Hosting an intimate NeurIPS dinner for AI researchers and early-stage founders with @DellTechCapital and Mayfield. Expect thoughtful conversation, great food, and serendipity. If you’re an AI researcher, engineer, or founder at NeurIPS, join us:
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San Franciscan behavior is often inscrutable from the outside. Is it poverty? Contrarianism? Inexplicable quirks of the techno-bohemian class? It starts making sense when you walk out of SFO, and into the reality distortion field that’s inspired social deviance for decades For
“Dwarkesh, Dylan, and Sholto are all roommates” 🤯 I have so many questions: * did they know each other before becoming roommates? * if so, how? * if not, they just happened to live together by pure chance?? * presumably they can all afford to live solo, so they choose to
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Hosting an intimate NeurIPS dinner for AI researchers and early-stage founders with @DellTechCapital and Mayfield. Expect thoughtful conversation, great food, and serendipity. If you’re an AI researcher, engineer, or founder at NeurIPS, join us:
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Join us for an evening during NeurIPS to bring ideas and opportunity together. A meeting of the minds over dinner with AI researchers, early-stage founders,…
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against all odds!! Thanks @LisaShmulyan and the @EveryBanking team for the shout out! Ep2 with @theBhulawat coming out tomorrow!
Stories can change our lives, especially when the path forward is unclear. That’s why @0xEbaad is launching Against All Odds, a podcast from @capihouse_ that showcases the stories of immigrant founders and provides resources for immigrants pursuing their own founder journeys.
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One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people: Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Sounds simple on the
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This matters less now because of the high opportunity cost of doing a startup vs. joining an AI lab. I’ve seen many top founders choose that path instead.
Advice for VCs and candidates -- think hard about why a company was founded. Do the founders actually deeply care about this problem? Is this their calling? Or are they starting a company for the sake of starting a company, jumping to whatever the current trendy thing is that's
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So cool to see tools for open research 🧪
Super excited to have gotten early access to Tinker by @thinkymachines! Tinker is great at making it easy to post-train, but also meant I wound up with lots of model checkpoints 😅 This is why I built a finetuning journal to keep track of each model iteration, with the help of
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100% agreed. This is why I almost always advise B2B startups to focus on selling to other startups before trying to go to enterprise — 1. Faster, easier adoption 2. Startups are more discerning on the best tools and more willing to give feedback, so you’ll end up with a better
🚨How does an AI-native startup unseat an incumbent?🚨 👇Enter the Greenfield Strategy: AI-native startup bingo. The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation. One of the most powerful, and
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Every is now serving more than 1,000 startups! Running a startup is hard enough. Every takes care of incorporation, banking, payroll, benefits, accounting, taxes and more so that you focus on building, not back-office admin. Every's fast adoption across the startup ecosystem
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“For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” — Shakespeare
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founder: pre-seed done 🙏 *cap table: the entire hackerhouse & a landlord with equity*
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“Weak desires can be removed by introspection and meditation, but strong, deep-rooted ones must be fulfilled and their fruits, sweet or bitter, tasted.” — Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Immigrant founders Stories @yoeven's journey from working at a bank in Singapore to raising $1.6 million in the US to build @jigsawstack - Why innovation happens only in SF - O1 (Extraordinary) visa process - Creating the best model for developer tasks Epilepsy warning at
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Introducing Stratus Ventures, an early-stage venture firm investing in exceptional pre-seed and seed companies. Stratus Fund I is a $10M fund investing in visionary founders building the future. Founders who are scrappy operators and relentless about their craft. A huge thank
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WOOO!! Wrapped up Builders in Residence program!! Opened the floor to impromptu presentations at our Demo Day! - @matt_kolm high school football player who made six figures in Amazon FBA reselling beauty products. Now shipping code on a product for influencers and fans. -
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Life is poker, not chess Four years ago I walked away from a guaranteed promotion at McKinsey and a $300K PE offer to work in gaming for a third of the salary. Many thought I was insane. They were playing chess: calculating the optimal move with perfect information.
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It’s wild how much a dinner with a good friend and feeling seen can impact mood, energy levels, and even productivity!
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