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A request to speedrun applicants - take an extra few minutes on your application to describe why your team will create something great, why talented people might want to spend the next few years of their lives working for you, why you've figured out something no one else has.

@speedrun Whos applying looking for technical help?

SR007 APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN NOW If you're building the next great company, we want to give you up to $1M in funding and $5M+ in credits, plus the most powerful launch platform in tech. Apply before 11:59pm PT on May 17, 2026. It only takes 5 min 👉 speedrun007.a16z.com/x

ok - dropping big dates/news for a16z speedrun: - starting TODAY, founders can apply for the 2026 program that runs July 27 to Oct 11 in SF here's the link: speedrun007.a16z.com/ac - we will be investing up to $1M and funding 70+ companies over the next few weeks - But there's also $5M in credits/tokens/etc from AWS/GCP/Open AI/Azure/NVIDIA/Deel/Stripe/etc. You'll also work with our amazing operating team (GTM, talent, brand, people, and more), and join our community of elite founders - we offer a Global Founders Program for international founders, to help with visas, banking support, relo recommendations - yes you can be solo (but better if you're further along, and have built a team). No you don't have to have an idea yet. Yes you have to know how to build (even if you're not technical) - Also, in other news: speedun is officially moving full-time to SF. (prev it alternated SF/LA) this is for all the obv reasons - we've continued to have an insane lineup of speakers, including the founders of Carta / DoorDash / Twilio / Figma / Zynga / Airtable / Twitch / and of course, lunch/dinners with Marc/Ben alongside a16z team - and much more - the deadline for applying is May 17!

Bro Coachella jail is so funny like unless you been there before, you really don’t understand lmao

Listen to The CEO Signal wherever you get your podcasts, or watch it on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=nj0u8P…

eurosummer

Speed is a force multiplier, in anything you do. Fast but 90% done, is often better than slow but 100% done. Fast

In any job, you have to excel at what is expected of you. And, you have to operate beyond your scope of responsibility. Said another way, think and act as if you have your boss’ role. One Day I Will Be CEO

The grass is always greener on the other side’ is a cliche, largely because it is true. Career decisions should be thoughtful and intentional. Never spontaneous. Sometimes a change of scenery can help, but often it is more about changing yourself. Travel is No Cure for The Mind

Warriors!

*opens up TurboTax* 5 minutes later:

This is what greatness at @theMasters looks like. ⛳ We tracked every single shot from every player from this year's Tournament.️

The Masters sponsorship deal with IBM might be one of the best in all of sports. As one of the tournament's four primary sponsors, IBM receives a private hospitality cabin to host clients and exclusive access to TV commercial inventory. But the real value comes with the Masters app. As part of its sponsorship deal, IBM built and maintains the Masters app. I'm told they now have a team of 30-35 employees who work on the app year-round, despite almost all of its usage coming just one week each year. The Masters app does the simple stuff so well, showing every shot from every player all tournament long. But IBM was also among the first companies to leverage artificial intelligence to enhance the fan experience. Using lasers positioned around the course, IBM pinpoints the exact coordinates of a golf ball after every single shot. The course is then split into more than 200,000 zones, with IBM cross-checking each shot against decades worth of data to accurately estimate how a player's scoring odds change throughout a round. This type of innovation is a win-win for everyone. Augusta National gets sponsorship $$ plus a technical partner who built and maintains the best app in sports. And while IBM spends millions each year on its Masters sponsorship deal, the tournament serves as a global platform for marketing, sales, and client entertainment. That type of partnership is exactly why the two brands are now celebrating their 30th year working together — and it's something every other event should try to copy.

IBM tracked every shot from every player during this year’s Masters tournament 🤯

@pulkit_mittal_ Great post, feels like this would be a great intro to cloud native class as well & then go further in depth in k8s, OCP, operators, writing an operator in go lang

So you say you are a software engineer. Have you ever downloaded actual binaries like Kafka, Postgres, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Redis, or something else, and tried running them locally while exploring what those bin, lib, data, and logs, etc directories contain? And then did you understand why they expose specific ports, what exactly gets written inside the data directory, and why in that particular format? Did you then write your own client to call their APIs and bombard the server with requests, just to observe when CPU becomes the bottleneck, when RAM starts limiting scale, and how the system degrades under pressure? After that, did you run the same systems inside Docker or Podman and experiment with controlling memory, security and disk limits to see how resource isolation affects behavior? Did you go one step further and install Minikube locally, to orchestrate multiple instances of your container, simulate a multi-node cluster, and understand ingress and load balancing in practice? And then maybe, did you spin up a free AWS EC2 instance and repeat everything on a real remote machine to understand how ssh works and how distributed systems behave outside your pc? Or is your definition of backend engineering still limited to APIs plumbing?

@DodgysDD Contract sizing is my issue, like jumping in a little bit to early & buy a contract sell at 23,775 and it goes to 23,795 instead of just holding or cutting loose doubling down another contract at 23,790 to avg out the loss (hopefully) now using AI to confirm candle biases

Giveaway because I’m bored at the beach Giving away 3 Lucid accounts and 3 Apex accounts Like the post + comment 1 thing you notice you do wrong in your journal regarding trading and a plan to fix that issue you are having Will pick best responses 24 hours ✅

@Tmkshawdy Artech got me my first data center contracting job 9 years ago

IT staffing agencies aren't scams, they're your fastest path in. TEKsystems, Insight Global, Robert Half place people weekly in contract roles. Apply on their sites, talk to recruiters. They get paid when you get hired so they're motivated to find you work. Use this advantage.

@catboosted Lets goo small apartment crew but 10/10 baddie gf gang

Nobody cares how nice your SF property purchased with lab equity is Everyone judges you based on your girlfriend’s attractiveness

@vivoplt IBM BOB

As a dev, which AI code editor do you prefer?