Barry Schuler

@bradwyman @PickzDaily @AdamRifkin Hahaha

@PickzDaily @AdamRifkin @BSchuler

Dodgers ML Winner tonight. (Missed Marlins & Pirates cancelled)

Can it get a duvet cover on? That’s the test.

@vkhosla All that power and our meager human brains manage to get us around for 2000 calories a day.

AI will create a future of abundance almost beyond imagining. But that future runs on enormous amounts of power, and the grid cannot deliver it fast enough. The linear generator can. My piece in Fortune: fortune.com/2026/06/30/vin…

@levie EXACTLY!

Take whatever number of people you thought might be in jobs related to AI deployment in the enterprise and multiply it by 10. Then probably 10 again. A major topic that keeps coming up in talking to CIOs across enterprises of all sizes and industries is the implementation gap for getting agents to work at scale and organizations on mission critical work. As the task goes from implementing a chat system that’s basically an LLM plus search, to connecting to real production systems that both can deliver meaningfully better productivity gains but also introduces meaningfully more risk, a whole new set of work has to be done. You have to ensure the right level of protection of data, updates to access control controls, migration of legacy systems to common modern platforms, create observability across what agents are doing, implement new workflows, figure out the human in the loop moments, drive the change management of the new workflows, and more. Then, all of a sudden the model capabilities get updated and you have to do a set of the above steps over again. Half of what you’ve done is obsolete, and the other half needs to be upgraded to take advantage of new capabilities. Or, token budgets run hot and you have to peel off some of the workloads to lower cost models that will be more cost effective. But then you have to go through those same steps. Enterprise are trying to figure out what is the right set of roles to go and implement the systems in their organization to ensure that the workflows are actually being executed properly, ensure it’s not just slop being produced, and to make sure their organization remains safe and secure. Many companies are starting by repositioning existing IT talent in these functions, but there’s also a growing need for the equivalent of internal FDEs to go take on these tasks in an enterprise. The looks incrementally closer to software engineering than it does traditional IT implementation. Next, almost all AI vendors (labs and the software players) will have some form of next-gen FDE or Applied AI architecture functions to help support these use-cases. The benefit here will be these companies have an incentive to make their capabilities work well so they can bring best practices from a range of customers they’re seeing and directly from the product innovation. And finally, we’re seeing the rise of all new AI services firms or major parts of existing services firms move into AI implementation. Companies will often want to bring in ostensibly neutral players that can work across their tech stack but also have seen best practices across their vertical. There are going to be tons of new service providers that get launched to do this, and many will eventually go and disrupt (or get acquired) by the larger player. Either way, all told, we’re in for years of AI diffusion, and along with it tons of new roles and areas of work to be done to deploy AI at scale.

We are proud at DFJ Growth to be recognized year after year by the Midas List. But what we are most proud of are the epic achievements by the entrepreneurs we partner with.

Congratulations to @DFJGrowth’s Randy Glein @rglein and Sam Fort @samofort on being named to the 2026 Forbes Midas List. Randy marks his 8th appearance, while Sam makes his debut

Hop in your seat. Give Grok your itinerary and relax and enjoy your virtual chauffeur. (Whilst monitoring the road). It drives better than any human at this point.

Must be a proud Papa @scottmcnealy #goMaverick

Getting to space was step one. Tom Mueller @lrocket helped power SpaceX to orbit. Now, with Impulse Space @GoToImpulse, he's solving the harder problem — moving through space with the precision it demands. Founder Story: dfjgrowth.com/founders/tom-m…

@Jason Tony’s was a knock off. Go get a Patek (IYKYK)

Going to buy my first watch... the @Rolex speaks to me. I need to learn how to buy a new one. Do you just go to the Rolex website or store? educate me please

@reidhoffman Meanwhile our industry is racing at breakneck speed to a future no one can even understand driven by a super powerful non-deterministic technology.

Strategic Optimism is often missed in technology. Having a clear vision of what a good future could look like is crucial when you're trying to build any technology that will shape the world. If you don't have that picture, you will most certainly fail.

@msuster And now we use those two hours for doom scrolling.

Well damn. Confirmation bias or not, I’ll take it. Finally a reason I wake up at 2 AM every night. And actually get to feel good about it 🤔

@ayemnut Watching that core stage burn up on re-entry is so 1960s

ISS’den roket fırlatmasını çekmişler. İnterneti bu yüzden seviyorum ya bana böyle içerik lazım.

Thrilled to back the @Saronic team in their $1.75B Series D. At @DFJGrowth, we love partnering with founders who are reimagining how critical industries are built – Saronic hits the mark with a clear-eyed vision that is both compelling and crucial. dfjgrowth.com/story/saronic

Can influencers bring their followers back to theaters to watch films in a real social way? Perhaps this is the future. open.substack.com/pub/mattlevysc…

@amuse Beautiful!!!

Definitely a game change. I’ve “driven” less than 5 miles of the 2500 miles I’ve “ridden” in my new Y.

Thrilled to lead @Xbow $120 million Series C financing and partner with the XBOW team as they build toward a future where autonomous offense is the best defense. dfjgrowth.com/story/xbow-dev…

@mattturck Winter is coming

VC who just won a highly competitive round when they realize they’re now on the board of a startup valued at $1B, pre-product and pre-revenue

@CBSNews Good Luck!

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