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Podcast on history/politics/religion/China (linked in bio). Founding investor @chemistry_fund
San Francisco, USA
Joined January 2012
Holy sh*t. We quietly put an enterprise form on our site, and in 2 weeks, 130 inbound requests came in. Average team size is 250. Zero announcements. Zero marketing. To everyone who said open-source can’t make money: you’re out of your mind. Give us 2 years and watch us take
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Many early teams are in search of a space, but @DecagonAI team had one of the most efficient pivot periods ever. 1.5 months total till they found the money and got to $1M ARR with zero employees.
New Chemistry (@chemistry_fund) Elements episode 🎙️ I sat down with @AshwinSreenivas to talk co-founder chemistry (pun intended), the idea maze, and why the real edge in an AI-first world is time with customers. Since I invested in the seed round of @DecagonAI, he and
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We're hosting a surf camp at NeurIPS in San Diego on 12/4 If you're a researcher at NeurIPS who also wants to hit the waves with our in house surfer bro Mark Goldberg apply below https://t.co/W85s3qmEc7
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Come hit the waves with Chemistry at NeurIPS where we will be hosting a little surf camp with instructors and our very own avid surfer Mark. There will also be coffee carts and pastries. Meet at...
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It's so funny how quickly the valley has stopped criticizing China as they realize that they need the Chinese more than the other way around. Even Alex Wang stopped shitting on China when his MSL team became 60% FOBs from Tsinghua/PKU
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Silicon Valley is so heavily dependent on Chinese open source models like Qwen that @togethercompute @basetenco and even @appliedcompute should be donating to Alibaba and Bytedance to ensure Chinese altruism keeps flowing to prop up Silicon Valley progress
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: “We’re relying a lot on Alibaba’s Qwen model. It’s very good. It’s also fast and cheap... We use OpenAI’s latest models, but we typically don’t use them that much in production because there are faster and cheaper models.” The valley is built on Qwen?
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We just had the one year anniversary of @chemistry_fund and I have to say it's still the best job I've ever had. It did remind me of taking a risk on a startup when I joined a year ago before the fund close and pre-launch. We had no office and I even asked the partners whether
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One year of @chemistry_fund in the books! Happy 1⃣anniversary 🎂 @Mark_Goldberg_ @kshenster @loubohan @ivory_tang Shayan Jamie Gianna Johnny...
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Let's go! If you're not expanding the industrial onshore abundance dynamism GDP of the United States then I don't know what you're doing. But I know what @kelvinotcelsius is.
🚨 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒕🚨 We just raised $7M to build financial infrastructure for the industrial economy. Our team has passed national legislation, raised billions of debt facilities, and just poached the CRO of a $100M+ revenue competitor.
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Have a friend who's about to become a Principal Researcher in Residence at a large multistage VC. It's apparently just one rung below the Senior Executive Principal Member of Research Staff in Residence (Emeritus)
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Wonder if VCs should start asking for the TFR of startups to assess whether they're doing their part to solve the fertility crisis
TSMC employees are 0.3% of Taiwan's population but 1.8% of annual fertility, Taiwan's Total Fertility Rate is 1.24 TSMC employees are above replacement rate though To solve the fertility crisis all we have to do is make everyone work for TSMC. https://t.co/K4LCxBLYja
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Serena is hilarious to work with and such high hustle. So excited to work with her and the rest of their non-legal-drinking-age-yet team that's ahead of the "Datacurve"
Today we’re announcing we’ve raised $17.5 million in funding across a $15M Series A led by Chemistry and a $2.7M Seed to accelerate foundation model progress through providing frontier training data for LLMs. When we first started Datacurve, it came from a simple realization:
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“I’m in on FTX because we share a passion for creating positive change” Love these random souvenirs I find on Airbnb bookshelves. Bet her PR team wants to burn these copies
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"Being a founder brings me closer to Jesus because it's the ultimate form of suffering" – first guy I meet at Reality church in SF (popular church for techies) Was not disappointed. @peterthiel's Antichrist lectures are totally working and the holy spirit is blessing the valley.
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The European mind can never comprehend what it takes to build a foundational model lab because it's not just centralizing state resources into one company. You need the whole ecosystem of startups surrounding it. Researchers whisper to founders who start data labeling companies
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Everyone is hiring foward deployed engineers but where the backward deployed engineers at?
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Apparently 25% of incoming Yalies identify as Jewish and 25% as Catholic. Matches with what I saw on campus Explains a lot about Yale’s political and intellectual dominance among U.S. elites
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It's funny how much of China is a mirror of the US. China's new talent visa for foreign STEM talent is under fire for threatening local workers. Maybe they should release a Gold and Platinum card too à la https://t.co/LWRXJKzM6y
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Online commenters raise concerns about the programme’s impact on local employment in a tight job market.
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Only rational interpretation of US immigration policy is counter-terrorism. Incels become misogynist terrorists that shoot up sororities and hate society. The new H1B policy is designed to boost American attractiveness in the dating market given marriage is basically the only
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