Oliver Hsu
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Partner @a16z investing in American Dynamism 🇺🇸. Frontier technologies, markets, & culture.
New York, NY
Joined October 2014
[New Post] Towards a Horizontal Robotics Platform We are excited about the ongoing work in robotics & embodied AI because it can enable an emerging robotics platform — a horizontal foundation for an ecosystem of robotic applications to be built across tasks, environments, and
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Two principles I generally believe: 1. Opportunities exist at the edge of the Overton window. 2. When your intuition and the data disagree, question the data first.
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1/ 🇺🇸 Today, @CAForever submitted detailed plans for the next great American city, an hour north of Silicon Valley, including: Solano Foundry, America’s largest manufacturing park, Solano Shipyard, our largest shipyard, and walkable neighborhoods for 400,000 Californians.
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The First Amendment is what we stand for; the Second is how we enforce it. And the story that has shaped America can be boiled down to this deep-seated tension in our founding documents, the very principles awarded first and second chair in the orchestra of the American
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I think live coding music is going to have a mainstream moment. Been seeing quite a few more people making clips of them live coding tracks lately. Probably at least partly since Strudel is more accessible than TidalCycles (browser based and in javascript).
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It’s happening 🇺🇸
This is a key point. America's capital markets are one of our biggest strengths and a highly potent instrument with which to build industrial power. A key step in this direction is making advanced manufacturing capex legible to the capital markets. Data center buildouts, despite
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Announcing EV Archaeology grants If you're pursuing or would like to pursue an archaeology project, and a grant of $5k-$100k+ would help, apply below! Some ideas:
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Great man theory of history but it’s about Rocks D Xebec, Roger, Whitebeard, and Garp.
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In Charles Hill’s book “Grand Strategies”, he outlines how literature act as a tutor on matters of statecraft, from Homer to Tolstoy to Proust and beyond. There’s an argument One Piece could one day be as influential in ideas about statecraft and world order as The History of
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I’ve long thought that One Piece should be considered one of the greatest stories of all time. Like all great stories, it reflects matters in our world. In Oda’s work, we can interpret perspectives on organizational strategy, statecraft, and in this case, eschatology.
Voyages to the End of the World by Peter Thiel and Sam Wolfe @peterthiel
https://t.co/bCV74ZiVwK
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There are two domains where the potential of AI has barely been grazed: physical reality and markets. One requires physical embodiment, the other economic agency. The most interesting work at the frontier is focused on enabling AI in these domains.
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There are a lot of assumptions about human prehistory that are supposedly consensus, but less settled than one would think. We have the tools to find out, but we need the will to question these assumptions. For example, what if seafaring is much older than we thought?
Archaeological finds hundreds of thousands of years old have shown human settlement of many of the world’s remote islands, challenging our assumptions of a primitive prehistory. Who were our seafaring ancestors? Read the new article by Tristan S. Rapp @Hieraaetus (link below):
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Markets enable efficient resource allocation by aggregating and communicating distributed information via prices. Mises and Hayek posed the economic calculation problem, outlining that centrally planned economies fail because they lack the information provided by price signals in
When I met @mansourtarek_ @luanalopeslara, prediction markets would've leaned "no" on almost everything they've accomplished, from regulatory to liquidity to market leadership But these two don't take no @Kalshi has gone mainstream & @a16z is thrilled to co-lead their Series D
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All that stands between you and changing the world for the better are 25 books and mastering the art of the deal.
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Everything is about energy. Everything is AI. Everything is software. Everything is a power law. Everything is sales. Everything is about macro. Everything is about talent. Everything is about culture. Everything is about the one most important thing. We’re all hedgehogs now.
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This is partially just because of the attributes of technology businesses that are front and center right now. Large energy/compute buildouts. Commercial research labs. FDE operations to deploy AI in the enterprise. Sales and partnerships with governments. All these attributes
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Something that's become particularly pronounced in this era of tech is concentration — making a smaller number of far larger swings. A complex infrastructure partnership. A few key hires. A big strategic investment. Highly involved customer engagements with FDEs. It's probably
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Raghu Raghuram @RaghuRaghuram Nearly 30 years ago, I hired Raghu Raghuram to be a product manager at Netscape. While I do not remember much from those days, I keenly remember how smart he was. He was also eager to learn absolutely everything. The problem for me was that he was
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Just opened a role for our first business hire at @podium_automate Reporting to me with a strategic focus on internal processes (procurement, business operations, finance) High-slope / high-ceiling for the right candidate
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