Scott Shi - e/acc
@scottshics
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CTO & cofounder @gokiteai / @ZettaBlockHQ | Stanford @StartX | built @uber internal @scale_ai | founding eng @salesforce Einstein | @ECEILLINOIS
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2009
When Sam Altman said in AI Startup School that now is the best time ever to start a company, I felt that deeply. In just two years, agentic AI has gone from science fiction to reality — performance doubling every 7–9 months, while costs have dropped to less than 1% of what they
1/ We’re thrilled to announce our $18M Series A fundraise led by @PayPal Ventures and @generalcatalyst, bringing total cumulative funding to $33 million. This funding fuels our mission to build the foundational infrastructure for the agentic internet – providing unified
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we have unlimited opening positions for both. Apply in linkedin or DM me if you have layer 1 / 2 infra experience.
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We’re growing our team to accelerate our mission to the agentic payment. Now hiring (based in San Francisco): • Software Engineers • Blockchain Infra Engineers (Remote OK) Kite is building the first blockchain for agentic payments, a foundational platform where autonomous
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That’s right — this video was recorded back in July 😝 Things are moving so fast now that more happens in a single week than an entire month before the Gen AI era!
@scottshics now I remember watching your interview with yiting shan from animoca brands and heard you mention how you built it in 2 days lol
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haha, if you looked at the right top timestamp, this is what I hacked in 2-3days in April this year
Why do we need a purpose-built blockchain for agentic payments? Because AI agents are now smart enough to operate autonomously, and they need their own rails to transact with each other. Watch the video to see what that looks like in action: A real agent, built on Kite AI,
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Call for industry leaders, visionaries and founders. Ping me if you are interested
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See you tmr, look forward to share insights on the agentic payment vision.
The next wave of AI commerce is here. Join us for a very special episode of AI on AIR with @PayPal, exploring how we’re shaping the future of the agentic internet together. In this episode, our founders @ChiZhangData and @scottshics, will sit down with @webergems (Head of
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Excited to release new repo: nanochat! (it's among the most unhinged I've written). Unlike my earlier similar repo nanoGPT which only covered pretraining, nanochat is a minimal, from scratch, full-stack training/inference pipeline of a simple ChatGPT clone in a single,
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It’s been ~8 months since we first launched Testnet Aero, which later upgraded to Testnet Ozone, and the combined response from both has been incredible - even surpassing 1.7B+ total AI inference calls! Millions of users have joined, tested, and helped us shape the future of the
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We’ll be at Token 2049 Singapore this week! 🇸🇬 Meet the Kite AI team at panels, networking events, and exciting parties. Join us here! 👇
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thanks for @0xjunkim for the hosting! great panel
Kite is happily cohosting KBW AI Frontier with @hashed_official, @KaitoAI, @recallnet, and @MagicNewton And thank you for our panelists’ insight sharing on the real world adoption of AI x Blockchain, especially on the rise of an entirely new agent-first internet. @scottshics,
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See you in Korea!
Join Kite at @kbwofficial in Seoul next week! 🇰🇷🪁 We’re hosting and speaking at some of the most exciting events during KBW. Come meet us ⬇️
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See you this Sat in Beijing.
🌟 Guest lineup announced! The "@avax x @OurTinTinLand x Renmin University of China" university tour is here! 🎤 Special Guests: - @Yu_Lin_Dong | Ava Cloud Director of Client Services - @jackykong01 | Ava Labs Head of Hong Kong - @0xkimroniny | @avax Team1 Technical Ambassador -
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Look forward to what you build! Great to see another alumnus building in the new AI world
Excited to announce that we have raised $120M in our Series A to advance the frontier of general-purpose high-performance robots. 🤖 The new funding will accelerate progress towards our mission of bringing foundation-model powered robots to everyone, everywhere. Read more 👇
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I'm impressed by "the love" and "trust me bro, bittensor is bitcoin for AI" from bittensor community @Yuchenj_UW
@Yuchenj_UW Agree on both. It is almost an open secret that most of the crypto projects aren't actually delivering any product or plan to deliver any product. from my past experience building infra, probably less than 1% of projects are actually want to build something useful. let alone
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@dhh I get asked the same about terminals all the time. “How will you turn this into a business? What’s the monetization strategy?” The monetization strategy is that my bank account has 3 commas mate.
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lmao, make sense to me, tech founders are usually nerds. This is so SF
tryna go to the airport and found out Uber offers a discount to listen to a tech bro's startup pitch
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Two years ago, when I joined the team as a data analyst, we were still building data infrastructure for blockchain. Then, artificial intelligence began to change everything. Kite is now building the foundational infrastructure for the agentic internet, using our rich experience
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