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head of growth & startup partnerships @anthropicAI . previously product @doordash + @uber , partner @a16z , @pearvc . 🌲 @stanfordgsb | @ycombinator W20
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Excited to join
@AnthropicAI
as Head of Growth & Partnerships for Startups! 🚀
As a Claude power user, I've witnessed its tireless, polite, fiercely intelligent persona firsthand.
It's soulful and eerily human and its grasp of narrative and dialogue incredibly nuanced:
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1/10: a little juicy life update 🍊
I've joined
@a16z
crypto as a partner on the investment team!
Read more about my decision to join the team:
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we're bringing back
@a16zcrypto
startup school, this time as an accelerator! Deets for cohort 1👇
🏦$500K investment from
@a16z
📍based in santa monica 🌴
📅 3 months mar-may 2023
If you're ready to build for the 3rd web, apply before nov 30 @ LFG 🛠️
Today we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new accelerator, Crypto Startup School.
The program will include:
Investment from
@a16zcrypto
($500k)
Mentorship from leading founders
Advice from domain experts
Network of fellow builders
Apply:
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Kicked off
#LATechWeek
w/ a full house
@a16z
crypto happy hour! 🥂
The energy was electric- builders across all spectrums of crypto gathered to connect & share ideas⚡LA is ready to build and we
@a16z
are ready to support & invest in the crypto community across SoCal + beyond!☀️
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It’s time for
#women
to make their mark on the
#crypto
industry and shape the future of what a equitable and
#permissionless
internet looks like 🚀
@MarshGarsh
@hellomorganlai
@a16z
#nycnft
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We just released Claude 3.5, a new model from
@AnthropicAI
that surpasses GPT-4o on multiple benchmarks while being 2x faster and 80% cheaper than Claude 3 Opus.
The model is already available for free on and the Claude iOS app. Take it
Thrilled to introduce Claude 3.5 Sonnet—our most intelligent model yet.
This is the first release in our 3.5 model family. Sonnet now outperforms competitor models on key evaluations, at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus and one-fifth of the cost. The team pulled together
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LA is one of the fastest growing crypto hubs & where we
@a16z
are doubling down to supercharge growth at the intersection of crypto x ID x media x culture x community. If you're building crypto in LA, hmu✌️
Hope everyone had a stellar
#LATechWeek
& we'll catch ya @ the next one👋
We've had such an electrifying week with you,
#LATechWeek
! Here's one of our favorite scenes with
@greycroftvc
and
@MaCVentureCap
. Let's do it again next year.
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The energy is palpable. Nothing tops good conversation and good people jamming on moonshot ideas IRL. 🌙 The
@a16z
#LAtechweek
welcome party is undeniably the most enchanting gathering in any metaverse. ✨ Major kudos to
@KatiaAmeri
&
@andrewchen
for putting LA tech on the 🗺
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Last week we kicked off PearX S23 w/ our inaugural Camp
@pearvc
retreat 🏕️🍐
Equal parts work + play, it was a respite for 60 early stage technical founders & was jam packed w/ gold nuggets into the seed landscape in 2023.
If useful to other founders, here are the highlights 👇
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We are all game developers now.👾
@anthropicAI
just launched Artifacts and it's deceptively powerful and dead simple to use.
In < 3.5 minutes, I provided Claude Sonnet 3.5:
1 pic of rules + 1 pic of setup.
Result? A fully functional backgammon app.
Coded, tested, explained.
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10/10: I’ll be investing across consumer web3. If you are tinkering in:
🌐Decentralized marketplaces
👥DAOs
📝Permissionless work
🛒Storefront & ecommerce
🎨NFTs
🪪Digital identity
Reach out via DM or jozhu
@a16z
.com
Let’s build a better, fairer, user-owned internet together💪
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New drink unlocked
@LATechWeek
-
@a16z
branded sparkling water 💦
It’s the small details that make an event exceptional and the
#LATW
team knocked this one out of the park 🏏
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1/5: the future of marketplaces will run on
#web3
based on four core principles:
💸 reduced market inefficiencies
🔒 user-first, user-controlled data
🤝incentive-aligned growth & user acquisition
🗺️ end-users are the inputs your roadmap
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📍Reporting in at
#solanabreakpoint
w/ a full house
@a16zcrypto
happy hour!🌅
The energy was buzzing - awesome to see so many innovators building for a multi-chain world! 👾
If you’re in Libson for
@solanaconf
this weekend, hit up
@liz_harkavy
& I! We would love to jam IRL! 🎸
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Ethos of
@AptosLabs
: people who create & use the product should be the ones who reap the economic benefits. Always ask - who is extracting the value sitting in between user and creator and why? Such a joy seeing
@moshaikhs
share his vision onstage @
#KBW2022
w/
@baekkyoumkim
💡
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This winter break I have been getting more written communication from my husband than I ever have before 🤔
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"Anybody that comes into
@pearvc
, it's our full responsibility to make them successful."
With 85% of startups coming into PearX and successfully raising follow-on seed & series A, it's no fluke.
We challenge founders on what sets their product apart in weekly 1v1s, introduce
We are thrilled to announce that we closed our fourth seed fund at $432M. Read all about it from
@Katie_Roof
at
@business
:
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Kicking off SF Tech Week with a bang in the presence of the GOAT,
@aliwong
! 🐐
Looking forward to a week of caffeine-fueled coding, community, & connections!
Also raising a toast to
@KatiaAmeri
& the broader
@a16z
@Techweek_
team for organizing an incredible welcome party! 🥂
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With all the layoffs, we focus on the losses. It's a dull pain & always on your mind. But remember the hero’s journey: in the arc of your life, your narrative is defined by your skills & response to challenges. As you walk through this valley of despair, you will emerge stronger.
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The millennial social feed in 2023:
@Twitter
= 50% news, 50% young “tech gurus” regurgitating paul graham blogs
@instagram
= 10% what friends are eating, 20% where friends are traveling, 70% meme accounts
@facebook
= 100% insta reposts + HBD messages from high school teachers
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Newtons 1st law of motion is why we don’t make changes in our lives:
An object at rest stays at rest + an object in motion stays in motion w/ the same speed & direction unless acted upon by an outside force.
If your life feels mundane, you need to be that force onto yourself.
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Raising a toast to the women in crypto who raise the standard and challenge the status quo 💪 can’t wait to see all the incredible things these women accomplish + build!
@dee_sahni
@emmie
@jenndefer
@liz_harkavy
@mayaAloy
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CeFi = spider. if the head (centralized decision) makes risky choices, it puts all limbs in danger.
DeFi = starfish. limbs move by consensus. if a limb is cut off, it continues on- regenerates as 2 starfish.
Today reminds us of
@oribrafman
’s example of the power of ⭐️ over🕷️.
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Huge day for multi chain compatibility!
Finally one seamless self-custodial wallet that works across ethereum, solana, and polygon 👏
Major congrats to team
@phantom
🔥
1/ Coming soon: one wallet for everything.
Excited to announce we are adding support for
@ethereum
and
@0xPolygon
!
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Behind the scenes moment of the
@a16z
crypto team 👌🏽
After the “it’s time to build” event in LA,
@liz_harkavy
’s car died, and
@_jamico
jumped in with no hesitation to push it to a safe spot as the hero we needed but didn’t deserve 🙏🏽
We love a spontaneous team bonding sesh 💪🏼
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Many high growth assets across the tech stack are down (not just crypto) because of uncertain macroeconomics, but we
@a16z
are long on
#crypto
and
#web3
.
Smart + gritty people building for a better and user-first internet is a good investment, regardless of market conditions
A lot of people have asked me recently what I think of the current market conditions and the impact on crypto and web3 - thanks to
@karaswisher
for having me on her podcast to discuss
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T-1 minute to PearX Demo Day! 🍐
Join us LIVE at 🚀
Get ready to be inspired by the next generation of startups across AI, consumer, health, enterprise, and gaming! 💪
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Attention AI builders in London -
@anthropicAI
is hosting an intimate Founder Evening on May 20th! 🇬🇧🎡
We can promise great bites/cocktails + vibes, riveting discussion at the frontier of AI research, and a few surprises! Hope you see you there 🫡💂🏼♀️
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More and more I find that great fiction is often more real than most non-fiction in its ability to illuminate truths about ourselves and the world.
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Playing around with
@OpenAi
and I am shook.
“Bernedoodle lying on bed with pineapple painting”
Can you tell which one is my real dog and which one is DALL·E generated?
Also of the millions of pineapple paintings in the world, how did DALL·E generate the exact one I have? 😱
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Was on a 5 hr flight w/ a friend where she spent the whole time editing photos, scheduling tweets, & curating her tiktok videos…I get everyone wants to be the main character of the story of their lives but there is something unnaturally staged and unhealthy about all of this?
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Before classes got back in session
@stanford
, we were able to sneak in one last
@a16z
crypto summer gathering thanks to
@guywuolletjr
@janehk
! 👏
After 2 years of virtual gatherings, it’s awesome seeing researchers, engineers & students making connections IRL at
#SBC2022
🌲
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Earlier this week we hosted
@AnthropicAI
's first Founder Day with
@NEA
and
@factorialfunds
.
@DanielaAmodei
kicked us off and
@mikeyk
shared lessons from the early days of building
@instagram
- to be "humble but confident" - especially resonant in the LLM arena where industry
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1/6: A manifestation two decades in the making. 🙏🏽
Yesterday I graduated with dual masters degrees - an MBA and M.Ed from
@StanfordGSB
🎓
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Stoked to be growing the
#crypto
community in LA with
@a16z
!🏄
If you’re a founder building for
#web3
, I’m planning on hosting monthly small group dinners at my home so we can have intentional conversations over libations & bites. DM me if you’d like to join in on the next one🥂
a16z: 📍The Cloud
➕
🌴 Miami Beach
🗽 New York
🏄♀️ Santa Monica
Read more here 👇
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How you frame a question changes the conversation.
Do you want to build a better razor or build the most painless way to remove unwanted body hair?
Do you want to build a more efficient forklift or build the safest way to reach + maneuver heavy stacked objects in high places?
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“There is more than one kind of freedom. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.” - Aunt Lydia, Handmaids Tale.
This feels eerily cautionary - replace “Gilead” with “Responsible AI” and “women” with “AI”:
Under
Today, 35+ VC firms, with another 15+ companies, representing hundreds of billions in capital have signed the voluntary Responsible AI commitments from
@ResponsibleLabs
(RIL), the non-profit I co-founded. As Chairman of RIL, I’m proud to unveil this today with tech leaders and
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🌶️ hot take: you shouldn't live your life avoiding stress/optimizing for ease.
of course, mental health is critical, but as society we largely fail to frame stress as potentially enhancing and often miss opportunities to learn from and grow from stressful moments.
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Grabbed dinner in LA w/ the
@Uber
fam & it reminded me some of my favorite things about working there - the idea that the next big idea can come from anyone, anywhere. It’s so beautiful to see the diaspora of folks owning their light & creating new efficiencies in new contexts✨
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Excited to chat about the future of our global monetary systems, how TradFi incumbents may be disrupted, and why DeFi infrastructures are resilient over the long term w/
@mikebelshe
@CryptoCWU
@BrooksEntwistle
@_annabellehuang
on MainStage
@token2049
tomorrow!
See y’all there 👋
Massive week ahead in
#Singapore
with
@token_2049
headlining
#asiacryptoweek
I'll be representing
@Ripple
to talk
#blockchain
,
#crytpo
and
#payments
, alongside panellists from
@ambergroup_io
@BitGo
and
@realMatrixport
, moderated by
@joandthezhus
@a16z
, September 28th 5.20-6pm.
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I love taking cold showers - more than helping me wake up + regulate dopamine levels in the morning, it's a consistent way to train willpower every day.
After the initial 2 second shock, it's amazing how easily your body adapts to what it deems as "the new normal".
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As PearX W23 Demo Day comes to a close, I'm astounded by the audacity, hustle, and drive of our entrepreneurs 👏
To each of our founders who presented at , kudos and hats off to you 🎩
Tonight, we celebrate 🍻
Tomorrow, we continue building 💪🍐
@pearvc
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9/10: In this new role, I'm excited to continue my journey to building a better internet with the Ocean's 11 of Crypto
@cdixon
@sriramk
@AriannaSimpson
@alive_eth
@eddylazzarin
@guywuolletjr
@janehk
@_jamico
@carrawu
@VirtualElena
@0xMasonH
@_PorterSmith
@jay_drainjr
@liz_harkavy
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My mind is always racing – musings about the past or anticipation for the future – but one way I've learned to quiet the noise is to go on roadtrips with my dog – watching her bask in the blissful sun through the window of a moving car brings me back to savoring the here & now.
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Imagine a world in the not too distant future where a generative AI bot could live on AWS and auction off its self-authored content, ideas, or art every week in exchange for ETH, which it could use to pay for it’s own GPUs, modifying its prompts to optimise its own P&L over time.
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The ethos of "give before you ask for anything in return" is at the core of
@pearvc
and no one demonstrates that more sincerely than
@MarHershenson
@pejmannozad
.
It's really gratifying to see their hustle, grit, and hard work come to fruition 💪🍐 major kudos!
We're excited to see our Founding Partners
@pejmannozad
and
@MarHershenson
on the
#ForbesMidas
List, which recognizes the top 100 investors worldwide.
The thing we're the most proud of is the true partnership between Pejman, Mar & the entire Pear team.
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SoCal feels like a natural home for consumer web3 – it’s a haven for builders who are more stoked about building deep & tight communities than the market value of their tokens. It’s the mecca for tech, opinions, poetry, dreams. It’s where lightening in a bottle turns into reality
It’s going to be a Santa Monica summer for me +
@venturetwins
😎
Excited to be joining an amazing
@a16z
crew down here, including
@andrewchen
,
@KatiaAmeri
,
@zebird0
,
@joandthezhus
, and
@DerekDolin
.
LA founders, hit us up!
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So exciting watching
@nonfungibletara
announcing
@atarix
as the inaugural customers using
@usecocreate
to build out a new version of DTC - not direct to customer, but direct to community.
“You cannot financial engineer community, tokens in web3 must represent things that matter”
We are excited to announce that Atari will be the first brand to use Co:Create’s new platform for our future token
@usecocreate
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If you’re tinkering and building in crypto and at
#KBW2022
🇰🇷 let’s meet up! my DMs are open ☺️
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7/10: As a builder of products, I am constantly told to embody the values of customer obsession - build things customers love.
Well, maybe instead of being
#customerobsessed
, we need to build products that are
#customerowned
.
Read about my vision here:
1/5: the future of marketplaces will run on
#web3
based on four core principles:
💸 reduced market inefficiencies
🔒 user-first, user-controlled data
🤝incentive-aligned growth & user acquisition
🗺️ end-users are the inputs your roadmap
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The 3D Scanning rendering of
@readyplayerme
is incredible - I took a selfie as the input, and this is the output! Does it look like me? 😁
I can't wait for the day where I can take this one avatar as my identity to romp across different virtual worlds and games interoperably 🚀
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h/t to the whole
@a16z
crypto crew at
#LATW
for making it happen 🪄
@janehk
@liz_harkavy
@_jamico
@jay_drainjr
@avery_a_cobb
@ChrisLyons
@AAlbaneseNY
@helenjstoddard
@brettkiim
@lordvolth
@EmiliejayG
@SoyMikeJones
@sriramk
@CindyTenner
@meigga
@sharidoherty
@DavidSverdlov5
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Your twitter feed is such an apt name.
It's literally what our mind is eating and consuming - when it's fed something nutritious, it sustains and expands our horizons.
But when it's fed something toxic- it can ruin our appetite and linger in our system for days.
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Today
@AnthropicAI
is launching a $100M Anthology Fund with
@MenloVentures
Why "Anthology"? It's a hat tip to the AI innovators building tech to push humanity forward - solving the most intractable societal problems in healthcare, infra, energy, workforce development & education
We are excited to announce the Anthology Fund, a $100M fund we created with our partners at
@AnthropicAI
to support the next generation of breakthrough companies.
With funding from the Anthology Fund, we will back visionary founders using Anthropic’s cutting-edge AI to reshape
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You know the drill! 🚀
T-1 minute to
@pearvc
's PearX S23 Demo Day! 🍐
Join us LIVE at
Join us for PearX S23 Demo Day next Thurs (Oct.5) @ 🚀
From thousands of applicants, we funded 15 startups. The composition?
🤖 50% in AI / Enterprise
📱 25% in Consumer
💊 10% in Healthcare
👷 5% in Proptech
👽 5% in Spacetech
🧪 5% in Biotech
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So is the whole advertising/SEO industry in a tizzy now that folks can get summaries of what they are searching on the primary search page and no longer clicking into the website?
Questions I'm noodling on as I'm playing with
@bing
:
1) Are advertisers who use content
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Great ideation is like improvisational jazz - in the same way a solo trumpeter in a quartet riffs off the cellist before him highlighting their individual strengths, a group that can devise original ideas individually, but also come back to flow together is where magic happens.
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1/ In building a
#protocol
, similar to building a great company, there's no single defining feature or lucky break. Rather, it is perpetually pushing an unwieldy flywheel - turn by turn - increasing momentum exponentially until it is self-fulfilling.
#networkefforts
in action 👇
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The DNA of
@pearvc
embodies perseverance, collaboration & kindness 🧬
From Fund I to IV, we are at the service of our founders.
As a team, we are diligently crafting new initiatives like PearX for Builders & AI: and are confident that the next wave of
Thank you to everyone for the kind words on our Fund IV announcement this week. Today on the blog,
@MarHershenson
takes a moment to look back on the last 10 years of Pear and share why we're excited for the decade ahead.🍐
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Building a company is supposed to be hard. If it wasn���t hard, everyone would do it. The hard part is what makes it worthwhile. It’s in the choppiest of waters that you sharpen your thinking, test your aptitude, and uplevel your decision making capabilities.
If you are in a cyclical business like tech, you can find success in good times and build for the future in bad times.
Big things take time and usually span multiple cycles. Steve Jobs: “I'm convinced that about half of what makes successful entrepreneurs is pure perseverance”
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a network w/ the following problems:
1. multiple middlemen (usually centralized) facilitating a transaction that artificially raises prices
2. misaligned incentives across supply + demand
3. friction/verification at signup to enter
is a ripe problem set to be solved in web3
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5/10: Ownership has long been held sacrosanct in Silicon Valley. Startups compensate employees w/ equity to participate in the value creation of the company. That same ideology doesn’t trickle down to the users who are ultimately contributing the most value on the platform.
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There are inherent trade offs in web3 - centralization vs decentralization, monolithic vs modular, privacy vs reputation. @ 4pm
@token2049
,
@breitwoman
@ercwl
@musalbas
@zmanian
& I discuss these dichotomies + how to build an enduring platform in spite of these opposing forces 🛠️
Catch
@breitwoman
,
@ercwl
,
@musalbas
, and
@joandthezhus
talk about Building Web3: What's Next? at
#TOKEN2049
London, 9 November 2022.
Get last remaining tickets:
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Just realized that being a PM is basically being a professional puzzler.
The common denominator being noticing what might be amiss in current state, pattern recognition & visualizing the missing pieces to extrapolate to a solution set- if correct: increment, if wrong: iterate.
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Earlier this week we hosted
@anthropicAI
’s first global startup roadshow📍in London! 🇬🇧
@jneuwirth4
and I were thrilled to connect with the vibrant AI builder community in the UK and share our thoughts on responsible AI scaling and the importance of interpretability.
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In the early days of the internet, users owned their namespace & could easily switch hosting providers & clients + take their data w/ them. Over the course of web2 social, the tech oligarchs made this impossible.
@xmtp
just inverted the paradigm w/ web3 messaging, check it out!👏
gm 💌 dm
We’re excited to announce that
@LensProtocol
has adopted
@xmtp_
to provide a secure and private profile-to-profile DM layer for the entire Lens ecosystem 🌿
Read all about it:
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Probably the coolest thing I’ve seen all week -
@LoeweOfficial
’s S23 women’s runway collection where IRL meets URL- pixelized clothes modeled after
@Minecraft
created through clever 3D seams which loses its magic when viewed from the side but straight-on looks like 2D garments 🤯
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Mark your calendars for PearX W23 Demo Day next Thurs 5/25💪🍐
PearX is where companies like
@Affinity
@branchmetrics
@viz_ai
@federato
@OrbyAI
got their head start.
Alchemy happens when a talented team dares to reimagine the status quo. This cohort is no exception. Details 👇
We're just 2 weeks out from our PearX W23 Virtual Demo Day on Thursday, May 25th at 10:30 am PT. Please save the date and find out more on our website.
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LA doesn’t mess around when they do
@Techweek_
👀
The magic lies in the details. It's this dedication to the minutiae that propels these events to new heights- it’s the art of turning the ordinary into the extraordinary. Major props to the marketing + events team
@a16z
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Auctions are a way to allocate scarce resources.
This is an insightful podcast w/ the experts
@Tim_Roughgarden
@skominers
@smc90
on how market clearing prices can be set in a
#permissionless
construct. They cover
#gaswars
,
#EIP1559
& incentive design choices in protocol design👇
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Loved seeing
@carrawu
@jmj
@gaby_goldberg
@Cooopahtroopa
shine onstage chatting about the intersection of culture x crypto 💫 For anyone who wants to go deep on thinking about media/culture/identity in web3 check out:
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@sriramk
Genesis of hiphop in the 70s because DJs could sample, loop and switch from record to record to create completely new works without first needing to get permission from existing artists (similar parallel for rap, jazz, and graffiti)
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Join us for PearX S23 Demo Day next Thurs (Oct.5) @ 🚀
From thousands of applicants, we funded 15 startups. The composition?
🤖 50% in AI / Enterprise
📱 25% in Consumer
💊 10% in Healthcare
👷 5% in Proptech
👽 5% in Spacetech
🧪 5% in Biotech
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Why do you even need a pet when you can have a coco patiently waiting for you at home? 🥺
@CocoRobotics
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super cool "day in the life" stream of consciousness with
@VirtualElena
and her musings on the intersection of AI & crypto, on-chain AI as a community-owned tool,
#dalle
and
#GPT3
, and an unsuccessful playbook on how to crypto-pill one's siblings 💊
Had fun tracking my info diet over the span of two days for
@future
! See below for a roundup: spans everything from Mavis Staples, to a Lex Fridman interview w Grimes, to my experimentation w DALL-E & GPT3, and some thoughts on the convergence of ZKPs & AI
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Skepticism in the form of asking the obvious and dumb question is so underutilized. Just blindly following the madding crowd w/o doing your own due diligence is a recipe for disaster.
Reputation can be bluffed. Double-or-nothing for too many rounds & the whole facade collapses.
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And if you won’t be in London but want to get in touch to test the latest models, DM me or ping me at jo
@anthropic
.com.
At
@AnthropicAI
, our goal is to embed the full spectrum of human emotion, intention and knowledge into our models. I can’t wait to be a small part in
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Moving forward any answers that are from anonymous users w/o a verified history, are unsigned, or are unsourced, I’m going to baseline assume are generated by chatGPT and I’m not talking to a human 🤷🏻♀️
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As
@AnthropicAI
grows around the globe, we're excited to spend some time with the 🇫🇷 startup community!
If you’ll be
@VivaTech
Paris this Wed May 22, join us for a private Q&A w/
@Dario_Amodei
@
@joinstationf
.
Register @
à bientôt à paris! 🥖🗼🥐
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By female founders for female founders, join
@pearvc
Fall23 cohort of Female Founder Circles: 🍐💪
You'll engage in weekly fireside chats w/
@chughesjohnson
,
@debliu_
,
@sarahookr
& intimate dinners fostering lifelong friendships amongst female builders.
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Gr. 6 algebra problem: "a water pump fills a swimming pool in 6 hours while the drain takes 7 hours to empty. How long will it take to fill the pool if someone leaves the drain open?"
Me in gr.6: "who's sabotaging you like that?? this will never happen in real life."
Me now:
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and can't forget the LA16Z crew who flew in and brought in the good mojo ✈️
@zebird0
@JackSoslow
@omooretweets
@venturetwins
@jay_drainjr
@oyhsu
@kirbyman01
@DerekDolin
@ChrisLyons
@gwertz
@sumeet724
@jolina
@Tocelot
@MichelleVolz
@withfries2
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“Hey. Stop working.” - PSA from your friendly neighborhood black Samoyed on a Friday summer afternoon 🐾
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1/ a little
#tbt
down the
#eth
rabbithole 📖
On the one-year anniversary of
#EIP1559
, here's why it reminded me of
@Doordash
's 2018 pricing change to include pre-tipping.
This is the first in my small series of
#web2toweb3
observations 👇
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It was such a pleasure watching
@stanleytang
and
@pejman
onstage sharing lessons and regaling the crowd on the origin stories from
@DoorDash
’s early days at
#LATechWeek
.
Although I left the company a few years ago, I still live by
@DoorDash
's ten cultural values everyday 👇🏽
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Instead of focusing on outbound sales proposals, biz dev in web3 is all about building authentic connections rooted in community participation + philosophical alignment + thoughtful research. GTM mavens
@meigga
+
@lordvolth
go deep on how to pitch & win crypto partnerships🏆
Want to partner with an NFT project?
All projects are different — from decentralized teams of people to a single founder and their community.
We put together some tips on how you can reach out, work with them, and make the most of your partnership.
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"When art critics get together they talk about trends. When painters get together, they swap notes on where you can buy the best and cheapest turpentine." - Picasso
Startups are about building things, not talking about them.
If you're a founder based in NYC,
@AnthropicAI
&
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Crypto protocols are meant to be governed by decentralized communities not b/c its efficient but to remain open for anyone to enter w/o rules shifting under their feet. Awesome to see student blockchain clubs (via
@a16zcrypto
's delegation) participating in on-chain governance 👏
“'Student club governance only exists because a16z exists,' said Kydo, a graduate student at Stanford."
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Lastly, our GTM team is small but mighty and we’re planning on hitting up all the AI hubs globally in the next few months!
First on our global roadshow is on May 20th in London!
If you’re a founder in AI and based in the UK, sign up here: 🎡💂🏼♂️🇬🇧
We can
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web3 is still young. we're probably somewhere circa '95 in terms of internet adoption & feels reminiscent of the original ethos of digital communities: quirky tech, a sense of discovery, cultural motion + new ways to express oneself. If you're technical, now is the time to build
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Hamiltonian cycle! There is something so satisfying once you figure out if there exists a closed walk that uses every edge vertex exactly once. We used to optimize for a hamiltonian circuit when we built prescheduled batch routes
@doordash
(eg. flower delivery on Mother’s Day)
Embarrassing moment: once, on a podcast, I was asked "what's your favorite algorithm?" and was completely stumped. (You'd think that after all the books and teaching I'd have something at the ready. In hindsight, I should've said Edmonds's blossom algorithm.)
What's yours?
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Here's a fun throwback to 1995 sentiment when "the internet" first came out 🌐
It's fascinating that things always feels uncomfortable, revolutionary, and scary as they first emerge, and just a few decades later, we look back and chuckle at them fondly.
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Historically
@ArtBasel
was just about the art, but we're seeing that the aperture has expanded beyond the art. It's now equally about artist <> fan interactions (bridging p2p), infrastructure (proof of ownership), community (DAOs, growth incentives), & digital culture (metaverse)
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It’s fascinating how just 2 years ago I was saying how instagram reels feels like a carbon copy of tiktok, and just today on tiktok I got a notification that tiktok has a new feature that is basically
@BeReal_App
👀
#disruptorgetsdisrupted
🤷🏻♀️
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5/5:🗺️ end-users are the inputs your roadmap: organizations need to embed end-users into the ownership structure of the platform and give the users who use the products the most the ability to influence the decisions, policies and governance of the platform
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