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Joel Hellermark
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It’s time to return to the place where I know I can have the most impact. I am beyond excited to be rejoining @sequoia as a Partner. Here is what I shared with @gradypb @alfred_lin on how I am approaching my next chapter.
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.@joelhellermark: If you could have a billion Deutsch-level intelligences, wouldn't that be a massive advantage for humanity?
@DavidDeutschOxf: I think having two might be an advantage. I mean, people, there's the law of comparative advantage says that the more different you are from other people, the more valuable you are economically. That suggests that if you have an exact clone of you, you're almost not at all more economically valuable than just one of you.
You know, you'll be competing with each other for the same job. You wanted a unique job, your perfect dream job, and now it's the perfect dream job of a billion other AGIs, you know, in your conception. I don't think it can be like that.
People are valuable because they are different. Everybody is unfathomably different from everyone else. That fact is not being harnessed enough and can be harnessed more.
F. A. Hayek Quotes@FAHayekSays
“To make the best available knowledge at any given moment the compulsory standard for all future endeavor may well be the most certain way to prevent new knowledge from emerging.” — Friedrich Hayek
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@andrew__reed @CarlEschenbach you’re not letting Andrew get away with that, right?
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Today marks a defining moment for Sana:
We’ve entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Workday.
Sana will continue to build Sana Agents and Sana Learn—only now, at an even faster pace and greater scale. I’ll continue to lead our incredible team.
Over the past months, we’ve had the privilege of getting to know Workday’s leadership. They are brilliant, kind, and hungry to win. I’m excited to build alongside Peter Bailis, Aneel Bhusri, Carl Eschenbach, Gerrit Kazmaier, and their nearly 20,000 Workmates.
Sana has always been about two things: creating a place where people can do their life’s work, and building products that accelerate how the world accesses knowledge. This partnership lets us stay true to that vision while massively expanding our impact.
When I founded Sana in 2016, I had just read Organizing Genius and early AI breakthroughs like AlphaGo had recently been released. I set out to build an AI research lab to change how people access knowledge. Joined by a group of pragmatic dreamers, we built a team, a culture, and tools that have reimagined how over a million people learn and work.
Thank you to everyone who believed in us—our customers, investors, and most importantly, Sanians.
This is a win for Europe, for beauty, for idealism, and for caring more.
Now, a new chapter begins. The infinite game continues. Let’s go make history.
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@klarnaseb thank you @klarnaseb for being an inspiration since day one! Haha, good. We'll make you proud!
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Congrats Joel and the team! Amazing to see Sweden continue punching above its weight in tech and AI!
I might even consider to say great things about Workday from now on! 😉
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what a huge achievement for @joelhellermark and team @sanalabs
sold to workday for $1.1bn
one of the biggest ai acquisitions in europe
and the main man is not even 30 years old :)
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@joelhellermark Congrats ! Looking forward to working together in the future !
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Great questions you asked, and the whole discussion has a really good upbeat vibe and flow.
Good points on too much coincidence for qualia/consciousness/general intelligence, and loss of "gumption" due to slowing down. Even a surprising prophecy for a million years ahead.
Truly enjoyable listen, even for us seasoned David's admirers who consume all that comes out.
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One for the memory books: @GustavS and I realizing a decades-long dream to meet @DavidDeutschOxf, the father of quantum computing.
We sat outside his home in Oxford, too excited to feel the cold, and talked about everything from the power of fallibilism and optimism as a moral duty to his debates with @demishassabis and the unique role humans play in the universe.
Episode out now wherever you get your podcasts.
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@joelhellermark @GustavS @DavidDeutschOxf Where is the mention of Demis? I watched the full youtube episode but there is no scene of him standing or mention of Demis
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