Maksim Stepanenko
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co-founder @operatordotxyz, previously co-founder @primer, eng @coinbase
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2010
🚀 We just raised $40 million to build infrastructure for Physical AI! 🦾 AI is rapidly transforming critical industries like manufacturing, logistics, transportation, agriculture, construction, aerospace, and defense. Teams that win in the physical world are those who can
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Great opportunity for educators who dream of building their own schools.
The Primer Fellowship is back. If you've dreamed of launching your own school in FL, AL, TX or AZ — we built this for you. We're on a quest to ensure this is the last generation left behind by the US K-12 system, and we need your help. Let's launch some schools!
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Seems like @OpenAI shipped some version of this. Excited to try out Pulse.
Super personalized and intelligent rss feed of cool stuff. Surfaces both the new and the old, with some light commentary. Think: @MargRev, but around whatever topics you want. It's like your personal @tylercowen AI agent that just finds the best things on the internet for you
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I recently learned that the novelist, Cormac McCarthy, spent several years at the Santa Fe Institute helping scientists write papers. His advice was condensed into a brief Nature column. The first three points, and some of the final points, are really good. (h/t @eryney_ok)
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team is growing 🌳 very proud of the folks we have assembled at @operatordotxyz so far. yi is a beast!
The team you build is the company you build. Excited to welcome Yi to our team! 🐐
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Finance was built on closed systems. Canton changes that. Institutions, builders, and markets are all finally connected. Not in theory. In motion. That’s Canton. The public blockchain for real finance.
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I wanted to read Henry Kissinger’s 400 page undergraduate thesis (it has an incredible first page), but really didn’t feel like dealing with a scanned PDF that’s annoying to read on a phone without constantly zooming and panning. So I decided to convert it to a nice markdown
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Wonderful profile of Cormac McCarthy through his personal library. Didn't know he was such a big fan of Wittgenstein and so into menswear. True polymath.
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This episode explores former Marine Emory Wongor's transformational journey walking the entire Pacific Crest Trail. He discusses combat experiences, meditation parallels, humor as a coping mechanism, the “post-trail blues”
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this is so great! hope it keeps expanding to more cities, and beyond
Introducing a new type of civic tech made possible by AI. Every citizen should have a live, systems view of their government and today we bring that to SF! Track gov entities, spending, news, and more in real time. With LLMs, we can bring this to every city. Who's next?
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1 month into being a dad now, it's the best thing ever who knew baby burps could bring this much joy
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This Week Only ⏰ Get 50% off UnKibble: - 100% human-grade ingredients - No fillers or preservatives - Vet-developed, complete recipes - Picky-eater approved - 1,700 5-star reviews
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Excited to welcome Matthew to the team. We've been very slow and deliberate with hiring at @operatordotxyz, but every single person on the team is exceptional and we are just getting started.
Please welcome our newest teammate, Matthew Zhu. He’s joining @operatordotxyz engineering to push the limits of what AI agents can do. Previously at @stripe, @ParafinHQ, and @amazon.
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One of the highlights of my time at Coinbase was working with @balajis on launching USDC. It was not unusual to get a call from him in the middle of the night, always starting with, "are you in a secure location?" Before I knew him, I remember running into @balajis in our
Brian Armstrong on what he learned about management from Balaji Srinivasan “Balaji is a brilliant guy. He’s probably one of the top couple smartest people I’ve ever met in my life,” Brian begins. “He was briefly the Chief Technology Officer of Coinbase. He came in through an
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We’ve been using Claude Code at @operatordotxyz as our primary coding agent. We found its CLI-first design, and no-fluff communication to be the best. But as our usage grew, we ran into issues trying to run it alongside our local dev flow: conflicting checkouts, shared state,
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The Pearl Bitcoin fund allows accredited U.S. investors & corporations to leverage the full potential of Bitcoin while eliminating all capital gains taxes after a 10-year hold via our SEC compliant, institutional grade, proprietary IRS approved process.
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Congrats to @burkaygur, @gorkemyurt, and the rest of their super cracked 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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The first version of Coinbase launched with just a hot wallet - a risky proposition. We were in beta and the app prominently told people not to store any money there they couldn't afford to lose. But the amounts of deposits kept steadily rising. I realized we needed to build
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