Ilian Georgiev

One of the most relentless teams I've had the honor of helping, living in the future like they do!

1\ We built a 3D simulation of a small town populated by fully autonomous AI agents inspired by @joon_s_pk's Stanford Generative Agents paper. We called it TownWorld and live streamed it to Twitch

I’m incredibly excited to share that Arash Ferdowsi @arashf Co-founder and former CTO of @Dropbox has joined Pear as our newest Visiting Partner!  pear.vc/welcoming-aras…

Pear-fect news! 🍐 Congrats to @pejmannozad and @MarHershenson, the GPs of @pearvc, for a 3rd consecutive appearance on the Midas List. Pejman is #1 for Seed! It's been an honor learning from your relentless energy and brilliant intuition every day this last year. 🙏

@arfrank @NotAFintechCo Fantastic list! I will work though it, top to bottom.

Slowing adding content that has been published over the last year to @NotAFintechCo notafintechcompany.com/resources/ resources page. What's the best thing you've read all around fintech?

@elonmusk And the self-nominated replacement heads are officially kicking off the Dunning–Kruger World Cup in the replies.

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

📣Introducing PearX: an early-stage bootcamp for founders 🧑‍💻15 companies max ⌛14 weeks long 💲Up to $2M check sizes 🍐The way we do pre-seed Founders or those looking to make the leap to entrepreneurship, learn more here ➡️ pear.vc/introducing-pe…

@yanda @OpenAI That’s exactly what @ashe_cs is building

Startup idea: connect @OpenAI GPT to my email, fine tune, have it write in my tone & with my context.

“As soon as I am ready to dismiss an idea, I tell myself ‘Wait, wait, wait - that person is smart; what are they seeing that I am missing?’”

“There are many roads to heaven… and I chose mine to be a competitive badass”

Fantastic to hear @dougleone sharing his lessons from @sequoia at @pearvc to a packed room of students and founders!

Yesterday, we hosted an in-person Demo Day at Filoli Gardens and 13 companies pitched to a packed room. We were thrilled to be back in person after so long with this impressive cohort of founders. We'll be sharing these pitches out virtually early next week, so stay tuned! 🍐✨

@zebriez One thing that helped me was to set up an cost per hour for time, even if a modest one. That liberates you to pay for more services that will save you time.

the worst part of starting a company, by far, is the endless slog of rote tasks & administrivia. it was making me *miserable* on a daily basis and keeping me from the work I love. so, I started giving myself a daily bullshit allowance of 45min and I am much happier now.

Homomorphic encryption means that servers do not have to decrypt your data to operate on it. For example, you can have all your information on Google servers, and search it like now, but no one at Google or no government agency can ever see any of it.

The emerging and niche field of homomorphic encryption will transform technology in the next century for the better. Feels like free-lunch, era-starting magic.

"Actual great opportunities do not have “Great Opportunities” in the subject line." ...and 102 more things to think about from (IMO) one of the best thinkers out there kk.org/thetechnium/10…

@NielsHoven Haha, great point!

@Illeto I mean, if the hand of God was going to reach out and tip an election, I feel like "invisible rays from outer space" would be a pretty good way to do it

I did not realize that one of the challenges of space travel was “cosmic rays flipping bits in your encryption keys”

@shreyas Say “No” and deliberately make some customers unhappy - signs of a real strategy; trade-offs are defensible.

As a new entrant, the opposites of your most formidable competitors’ strategies tend to be pretty good strategies to consider for yourself. The trick here is to correctly discern their strategies & creatively explore how the opposite might resonate with certain customer segments.

@lennysan @shreyas The knowledge is there and it’s deep. But you two know how much time it takes to publish great content. The best PMF finders / founders are maniacal and don’t have the time. So, currently the main medium for teaching is founder to founder coaching. Great for a podcast.

@lennysan @shreyas Especially true when it comes to the pre-PMF best practices. Most published product thinking is by and directing at people who are at companies well after finding PMF. Simple cause- that’s where not only most product people work, but where branding is essential for career success

I've tried to resist, but @HarryStebbings finally convinced me I need to do a podcast. God help me. Still in early planning, but here's a logo concept 👇