Sophia Deng
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🏴☠️ building in consumer AI / games podcast @golifepod / alum @remote @tryramp @instacart
San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2013
My podcast about GAMES is out in the world! Game of Life Podcast (@golifepod) is a conversation show about how the games we love & play teach us about Life, the ultimate game. https://t.co/DqaB7CyV0B
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A conversation show about how the games people play and love teach us about Life, the ultimate game. Join Sophia and her guests as they discuss games-related craft, strategies and ways to think about...
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Everyone knows about serious problems in American healthcare: $1.8T in federal spending, burned-out doctors, endless phone trees, incomprehensible bills. No-one has a viable plan to fix this mess. And rather than helping, our policies have effectively banned AI from medicine. We
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Been reading more history lately and the consistent pattern I run into: Men (male humans) LOVE gambling. Doesn't matter the country, the time period. All kinds of gambling, all formats of it, and often are willing to risk it all to gamble.
I’m about as capitalist as it gets, and I *love* prediction markets But @Kalshi and @RobinhoodApp making it easy for people to gamble their savings on sports betting is extremely destructive — even dystopian Hard to see how this makes America better
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Congrats to @alexsongis and the team at @getmadecard! 🏠💳 Alex is nimble, sharp and has a creative financial mind -- highly recommend getting the chance to work with him and on a massive FinTech challenge
The mission of leveraging finance and technology to solve massive, inefficient problems continues. Today, Made Card is officially coming out of stealth, alongside $8M+ in seed funding & a key partnership with @FairwayMC Fairway Home Mortgage. https://t.co/XDeRNiWA5U 2/5
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Have you heard about this company ramp and their fundraise yet?
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As the wise @davidchang says: IT'S RAMP SZN 📈
Today, Ramp raised another $300M at a $32B valuation. In the past year our revenue has doubled to over $1B, growing 10x faster than the median public SaaS. We all know money talks — we're teaching it to think. Getting big no longer means getting slow.
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We barely use Figma anymore, a trend I'm seeing with many other early-stage teams Since Figma is not 1-1 with prod, it's an ineffective place for iterative development Now our workflow is Claude Artifacts to make fast clickable prototypes + Cursor/Claude Code
"Designers will realize—all this back and forth, screenshots, redlines, 50 pixels off—they could just send it to Cursor and it's fixed." As the head of design at Cursor, @ryolu_ is at the cutting edge of designers who ship code instead of mocks. In our new episode, he showed me:
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Sitting front-row next to a priest at a debate while we watch the Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute call his opponent a virgin Not on my bingo card, but here we are (SF is back)
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Remember the thesis around unbundling Craigslist? We're in the early days of unbundling Pinterest
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Congrats @divyahansg and the Beacon team on the insane growth 📈 They're hiring! One of the best seats to learn about and help Main Street businesses with AI
Founding Beacon with @nilamg has been the most intense but also fulfilling time of my life. In just a year, we’ve grown to a team of 30+ and acquired dozens of mission-critical software businesses that quietly power everyday life, helping them bring AI to real-world industries.
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Gonna be a bouncer to Jeff's party, so watch out SF Twitter people with more than 10k followers
I throw good parties. Ahead of Halloweekend, here are 10 pro tips: 1. No bright lights. People feel way more comfortable when it’s dark or dim. 2. People always congregate where the drinks are. If you want people to dance, put the drinks near the dance floor. A huge mistake
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It's happening. Yet another great New Yorker has moved to San Francisco @OlokobaYusuf The NYC → SF migration is here and not stopping
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I'm comforted by the idea that perhaps for the rest of my life Come what may? I'll always get to run in the most beautiful place on earth
I’m comforted by the idea that perhaps for the rest of my life, come what may, I’ll always get to run in the most beautiful place on earth
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Speechless. RIP Danya 💔
The Naroditsky family shares the sad news of Daniel’s unexpected passing. Daniel was a talented chess player, educator, and beloved member of the chess community. We ask for privacy as the family grieves.
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