
Pedro Torres-Mackie
@pedro
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Founder @qventures @eldiario | Board member @RFKHumanRights
Rhinebeck, NY
Joined April 2008
The co-founder of Anthropic on the current state of AI: "But make no mistake: what we are dealing with is a real and mysterious creature, not a simple and predictable machine."
Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear - an essay where I grapple with how I feel about the continued steady march towards powerful AI systems. The world will bend around AI akin to how a black hole pulls and bends everything around itself.
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God-tier rage bait marketing campaign
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For those on the right who might like what they’re seeing from this FCC: Remember that Democrats will wield this power again. https://t.co/UlByYGp6al
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The suspension of his late-night show isn’t a great loss to culture. But the FCC’s coercion undermines our most fundamental values.
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Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know. This is also what Jimmy Kimmel said the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated: “Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one
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The moment we started referring to companies who’ve raised at a billion dollar valuation as “billion dollar companies” we helped to shift the focus of startup founders from their customers to their investors. I prefer to call companies with a billion dollars in revenue “billion
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When @ycombinator filed an amicus in US v Google, we didn't say "break up Google", we said "break open Google." Today's ruling moves toward that: defaults opened, data pried loose, curbs on Gemini self-preferencing. Google still got off easy, but a net positive for founders.
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When trying to reach another person across a divide of disagreement, it's virtually impossible to compete with a firmly planted and fully thriving lie. Right now, our most formidable adversary is not the person who is devious, dishonest, or even immoral—it is the person who no
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Introducing Arc, the home for stablecoin finance. @Arc is an open Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built to drive the next chapter of financial innovation powered by stablecoins. Designed to provide an enterprise-grade foundation for payments, FX, and capital markets, Arc delivers
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Last week @openai asked us to alpha test GPT-5 on accounting tasks. We saw a 15% to 38% lift across key evals like: - Bank statement reconciliation - Vendor extraction - Transaction enrichment Updates go live in 1 hour for all @kickfinance users. Building software today is
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very cool opportunity ai-builder-in-chief at @usv 🤖
We're Hiring! USV is looking for an AI Lead—a technical operator who will help us reimagine how a venture firm develops theses, finds companies, and supports its portfolio in the AI era. You’ll be the builder-in-chief: prototyping tools that help us source founders earlier,
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a piece of dogshit in a pretty wrapper is still a piece of dogshit just FYI tradfi dumping their bags on crypto treasuries and traders via tokenization is one of the funnier self owns of this cycle
The current stock tokenization frenzy is largely a marketing stunt that does little to serve the demands of traders Everyone will realize no traders care about illiquid, fragmented, tokenized Tesla and the narrative will shift to more capital efficient & flexible leveraged
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I might need to shut this account down. 😆 Nothing a VC can say will ever be more self-aggrandizing about the profession than this.
Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans. It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.
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Versace: $1B in revenue, acquired for $1.38B Thinking Machines: no revenue (or product), raising $2B at $10B valuation As apples to oranges as it gets, but perceived value is a funny thing
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