

Dal (Kelly)
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@DallinKelly
solving the LLM knowledge cutoff. making the world’s: medical, AI, health, tech. research available to agents in real time






First office outside of the U.S. for both Anthropic and @a16z: Japan. The Japan advantage is becoming impossible to ignore 🇯🇵 Welcome to Tokyo @bhorowitz @pmarca @eriktorenberg @andrewchen!



General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled. (skip to 40 seconds if you want to skip context) I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of. This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.


Super excited to colead @LuelCompanyAI’s $31.2M seed round. There are certain teams you meet where you know within 5 minutes that you want to partner with them Luel is one of those team. William and Inigo are incredibly ambitious founders who understand the human data bottleneck from the inside out. They've built Luel to create a scalable, reliable supply of that data — something that will be foundational to the next generation of AI.



Falcon 9 launches NROL-172 to orbit from pad 4E in California

30 partners already passed on the same deck and the founder is still asking for warm intros. intro 31 isn't going to read it any differently than intro 30 did. "we just need more intros" gets thrown around like a fundraising strategy. it isn't. it's what you say when you don't want to look at why the first 30 didn't bite. the work nobody wants to do at month 4 of a stalled raise is rewriting the pitch. asking for another intro feels productive and costs nothing. rewriting the pitch is the work that actually moves the round, and it's the work most founders avoid until month 6.