
Wes Field
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Wes Field
@WesAField
🌎 hacking | Forging | Ex-Palantir | everything I say is a joke unless you agree with me.


Last week, we completed the first harvest of Ohalo's Fruition One almond trees with our partner Sierra Gold Nurseries. As expected, our extraordinary advance delivers a Nonpareil almond tree (the #1 almond variety grown) that is self-fertile. For the first time ever, growers do not need to plant pollenizer trees, or use bees to cross-pollinate trees. The FruitionOne simply pollinates itself and produces beautiful Nonpareil almonds with boosted yields. This means an almond grower can plant a single tree variety in their orchard, eliminating the second harvest, ending or reducing the use of bees for pollination, while realizing higher revenue per-acre as lower-value trees are removed. We estimate FruitionOne should deliver almond growers 40%+ net profit improvement, while dramatically reducing water use per almond produced and reducing or ending the use of bees in almond production. Below is Sierra Gold's CEO, Reid Robinson, sharing a video of the result. Contact Sierra Gold to place your order today. As the poker saying goes - looks like we got the nuts!





tbpn board of directors (2025-2026)

TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI! The show is staying the same and we’ll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday. This is a full circle moment for me as I’ve worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious logjam during a critical funding round a few years later. When I took my second company through YC, he was president at the time, and then when I joined Founders Fund, the first deal I saw in motion was the post-ChatGPT round in late 2022. And as we started growing TBPN last year, he was the very first lab lead to join the show. Thank you to everyone that has been a part of TBPN until now. The last year has been the most fun and rewarding part of my career and we’re excited to have more resources than ever going forward.



Today, Arena Magazine and our parent company, the Intergalactic Media Corporation of America, are pleased to announce our first overseas expansion. Intergalactic Media Corporation of America of Japan, Ltd. will bring American Propaganda to the land of the rising sun. 🇺🇸🇯🇵



.@garrytan says he's telling former technical CEOs to step out of manager mode and get back to building: "My output in terms of real products—not just lines of code—is 90x that of what it was in 2013." "I was talking with a bunch of former-very technical CEOs who now are in full manager-mode. I was like—good news, it's time to come back." "You can still be the manager during the day—but by night, you can be SpiderMan or Batman. You can don the suit, sacrifice a little sleep, and pull out the GStack."





















