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True happiness comes from helping others: “By far my favorite thing in the world is championing other people. That's just what I enjoy doing. If I look back on my life, the sort of wins that I've had, the things that if you were to write a Wikipedia article about me would be like the accolades or the accomplishments…. I don't care about those things. I don't think about them. When they happened, they didn't do anything for me emotionally or otherwise. For whatever reason that's just not what I enjoy. But when your success happens or when many other people that I and my team have championed, have a win —I feel that deep in my soul and heart and gut in a way that is just more gratifying to me than anything else in the world. And this extends to my kids, my wife, my friends, the CEOs of companies that we've invested in, people that we have on our show, that we tell the world about. That's the repeated thing that I love.”

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a16z GP Anish Acharya on AI being the first technology built to extend our emotions, not just our intellect: "We've had 40 years of technology that extended our intellect and our minds. But most of the human experience is actually emotional and it's subjective." "Now we have a technology that extends our emotions, our subjective experience, and it can address that." "Let's start to really address the human experience through this next new technology. And I think that's where all this goes." Anish Acharya with Kevin Rose
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a16z GP Anish Acharya on AI being the first technology built to extend our emotions, not just our intellect: "We've had 40 years of technology that extended our intellect and our minds. But most of the human experience is actually emotional and it's subjective." "Now we have a technology that extends our emotions, our subjective experience, and it can address that." "Let's start to really address the human experience through this next new technology. And I think that's where all this goes." Anish Acharya with Kevin Rose

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Startup Archive

17,333 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

Y Combinator's Garry Tan says he wants his new project GBrain to be the Postgres for agents: "The thing I realized is, a human can only keep 7, plus or minus 3, things in their head. But a computer with an LLM can keep about three Harry Potter books in its head." "Then, when you think about what most computer systems are, you should think of the Library of Alexandria — thousands, maybe millions, of books. It's even bigger than that. It's the whole internet." "You could basically take all the relevant info about customers, or any person that anyone at the company has ever even met. You can have that in like, 100,000 or a million markdown files that comprises everything that the business is. That's basically what GBrain can do." "The magic moment for GBrain is basically being able to take any 'book' that exists in your entire business, and making sure the 3 books that really matter for the thing you're trying to do are loaded." "And that's basically ASI. You don't have to write software anymore. You can just straight-up use Hermes agent or OpenClaw plus GBrain."
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Y Combinator's Garry Tan says he wants his new project GBrain to be the Postgres for agents: "The thing I realized is, a human can only keep 7, plus or minus 3, things in their head. But a computer with an LLM can keep about three Harry Potter books in its head." "Then, when you think about what most computer systems are, you should think of the Library of Alexandria — thousands, maybe millions, of books. It's even bigger than that. It's the whole internet." "You could basically take all the relevant info about customers, or any person that anyone at the company has ever even met. You can have that in like, 100,000 or a million markdown files that comprises everything that the business is. That's basically what GBrain can do." "The magic moment for GBrain is basically being able to take any 'book' that exists in your entire business, and making sure the 3 books that really matter for the thing you're trying to do are loaded." "And that's basically ASI. You don't have to write software anymore. You can just straight-up use Hermes agent or OpenClaw plus GBrain."

TBPN

530,012 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

"Do you feel the pull from an entrepreneur?" David Haber on what great founders feel like to investors: "It's sort of like a physical feeling almost, like a feeling of momentum. You sort of find yourself wanting to do more work and kind of leaning into the opportunity. Sort of like running down a hill almost." "Is this person or team kind of uniquely qualified to go tackle this opportunity?" "Do they have some sort of earned secret from prior work experience or in their life or personal life?" "I think the thing that I probably key most off of is clarity of thought." "Do they understand what they're gonna go build and why? And can they clearly articulate kind of a strategy." "Whether that strategy stays consistent or not, I think is kind of not the point. It's just how crisply do they articulate their point of view." David Haber on The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal
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"Do you feel the pull from an entrepreneur?" David Haber on what great founders feel like to investors: "It's sort of like a physical feeling almost, like a feeling of momentum. You sort of find yourself wanting to do more work and kind of leaning into the opportunity. Sort of like running down a hill almost." "Is this person or team kind of uniquely qualified to go tackle this opportunity?" "Do they have some sort of earned secret from prior work experience or in their life or personal life?" "I think the thing that I probably key most off of is clarity of thought." "Do they understand what they're gonna go build and why? And can they clearly articulate kind of a strategy." "Whether that strategy stays consistent or not, I think is kind of not the point. It's just how crisply do they articulate their point of view." David Haber on The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal

a16z

27,489 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on the "three-way Mexican standoff" between coders, PMs, and designers: "I'm seeing it in a bunch of the early leading edge companies in the Valley, they're circling around a job title loosely called 'builder,' or something like it. And basically the idea is that you had these separate jobs in the past of programmer, product manager, and designer." " I've been describing what's happening in the Valley companies as sort of this three-way Mexican standoff, where the programmers think that they don't need the product managers and the designers anymore 'cause they can have AI do that, and then each of the other two doesn't think they need the other two either." "I've been predicting they're all correct. The product manager can generate code and design now, and each of them can do the job of all three. The idea is the jobs change so now the job is builder." MTS
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.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on the "three-way Mexican standoff" between coders, PMs, and designers: "I'm seeing it in a bunch of the early leading edge companies in the Valley, they're circling around a job title loosely called 'builder,' or something like it. And basically the idea is that you had these separate jobs in the past of programmer, product manager, and designer." " I've been describing what's happening in the Valley companies as sort of this three-way Mexican standoff, where the programmers think that they don't need the product managers and the designers anymore 'cause they can have AI do that, and then each of the other two doesn't think they need the other two either." "I've been predicting they're all correct. The product manager can generate code and design now, and each of them can do the job of all three. The idea is the jobs change so now the job is builder." MTS

a16z

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WATCH: Scott Jennings introduces into CNN the idea of Alex Pretti et al being something significantly more than "anti-ICE protesters": "Yeah, look, I think the video that we've seen adds context to what he was probably doing over a period of time. I think the narrative has been that he was just an innocent protester or some sort of an observer. It's obvious he was part of some organized effort to show up where federal law enforcement was and engage in some way, whether that engagement was recording or blowing whistles or whatever, or in the video's case, kicking in the taillight of a car, he was obviously there to do something. That doesn't supersede the need to have an investigation of the shooting. I support an investigation of the shooting. I will say, I think the investigation needs to be holistic and I care more about just the shooting. I care about where did Alex Pretti come from, what part of what group was he in? Was he part of any kind of a training organization? I mean, I think what's going on in Minneapolis is more than just random people showing up to protest, I believe, and there's lots of evidence about this, that there are well organized, well trained and well-funded agitators who are showing up with the purpose of provoking these kinds of incidents so that they can then create the narrative that somehow ICE is out of control."
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WATCH: Scott Jennings introduces into CNN the idea of Alex Pretti et al being something significantly more than "anti-ICE protesters": "Yeah, look, I think the video that we've seen adds context to what he was probably doing over a period of time. I think the narrative has been that he was just an innocent protester or some sort of an observer. It's obvious he was part of some organized effort to show up where federal law enforcement was and engage in some way, whether that engagement was recording or blowing whistles or whatever, or in the video's case, kicking in the taillight of a car, he was obviously there to do something. That doesn't supersede the need to have an investigation of the shooting. I support an investigation of the shooting. I will say, I think the investigation needs to be holistic and I care more about just the shooting. I care about where did Alex Pretti come from, what part of what group was he in? Was he part of any kind of a training organization? I mean, I think what's going on in Minneapolis is more than just random people showing up to protest, I believe, and there's lots of evidence about this, that there are well organized, well trained and well-funded agitators who are showing up with the purpose of provoking these kinds of incidents so that they can then create the narrative that somehow ICE is out of control."

Jorge Bonilla

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I asked Sam Altman: “Will AI kill writing?” He said: “I don’t see any evidence whatsoever that AI seems to be killing writing. Let’s say we have a system that can write better than a human. Do you think the most popular novel of 2027 has a human name on it or not? When I finish a great book, the first thing I go do is I want to know more about the writer. I want to know their life story. And I don’t think I’ll ever have that feeling about AI writing. There’s something about reading an incredible book and connecting to a person. Even though you don’t literally know them, you feel like you do and you feel like you have this important shared human experience, and that’s a significant percentage of the enjoyment of a great book to me. I bet we’ll keep doing that.” Sam Altman
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I asked Sam Altman: “Will AI kill writing?” He said: “I don’t see any evidence whatsoever that AI seems to be killing writing. Let’s say we have a system that can write better than a human. Do you think the most popular novel of 2027 has a human name on it or not? When I finish a great book, the first thing I go do is I want to know more about the writer. I want to know their life story. And I don’t think I’ll ever have that feeling about AI writing. There’s something about reading an incredible book and connecting to a person. Even though you don’t literally know them, you feel like you do and you feel like you have this important shared human experience, and that’s a significant percentage of the enjoyment of a great book to me. I bet we’ll keep doing that.” Sam Altman

David Perell

275,480 просмотров • 1 год назад