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excited to share @wafer_ai's seed round led by @fiftyyears with participation from @Liquid2V, @ycombinator, and many amazing angels! we started wafer with a simple idea: maximize intelligence per watt. we’ve since been building agents to optimize kernels, inference engines, and the full stack of ai systems -pushing hardware closer to its limits. today we're launching wafer pass - a high-limit, fast api for running agents on the fastest open models, without managing your own infra. wafer.ai/pass

@bznotes sorry, I stopped after "LPs should just work harder"

LPS should just work harder to get direct allocation in these big companies.

@thejessezhang @ScottWu46 @chameleon_jeff @alexandr_wang where did the rest of the class end up?

Found this photo from the internship :) Very rewarding to see how people from childhood + college journey through life. Some of us have known each other since 6th grade. @ScottWu46 @chameleon_jeff @alexandr_wang

fascinating to hear the number of people willing to wave the checkered flag that anthropic has won. no horse in this race but this race is too early to call

@colin__flaherty one of a kind (we also had to replace that couch)

In a not-so-distant past, Nic was sleeping on my couch and refused to sleep in the occasionally free bedroom because he "didn't deserve it yet". It was kinda hilarious but also spoke to his mindset

@AlanaDLevin @Ju1ianf The toughest thing ive had to grapple with is those who where most aggressive post chatGPT have largely been right. Who is your list comprised of?

@Ju1ianf I've been doing it for a lot of AI stuff recently. Hard to see through the fog of uncertainty, but a few people were definitely prescient in 2023/2024

I love listening to podcasts that are a few years old Great litmus test to determine if a guest has consistently prescient insights and how much to weight their credibility (and strength of logic) for any more recent things they say

science became less ambitious the moment truth = double blind, RCTs.

the power law of going to a top 10 university will only increase

I've really enjoyed asking my friends what their advice would be for their hypothetical kids. a popular answer is that college is a waste of money

many cases where someone working on the right thing for a long time still ends up in a good place.

After reading tons of biographies, some underrated factors in creating a generational company: - game selection (ideas do matter) - being persistent for a decade (most give up)

You’ll tell your kids about driving yourself the same way your parents told you they walked to school in the snow

@PabloPeniche money translates into power very inefficiently (see elon & doge). Also suggests lots of alpha spending a career in DC

After meeting multiple billionaires, I realize that they are mostly powerless. Most normal people think that money gets you power (and some of these new-money billionaires thought so too!) but that is not the case.

@micsolana many airports handle security independently -- SFO for example doesnt use TSA (and its a world of a difference). Crazy how the same process with a private incentive actually works

why not just pause the TSA for a little bit, let airlines handle security as they did for the eighty years preceding 9/11, and see how it goes?

@Aella_Girl sideshift.app

How do people market products normally? Like if I made a product and wanted to hire someone to do marketing (like idk. ads? finding influencers?) where do I find this and know it's an effective hire? Are there marketplaces for this? Idk what the meta is besides 'go viral'

Levels of leverage one can get on AI Beta: Level 1: Join a Lab Level 2: Sell to labs -- get acquired later Level 3: Owning the supply chain (data centers, chips) Level 4: Own all of it. With leverage. (SA, Semianalysis, now Coatue) Level 5: Embed yourself in the national security question Levels likely correspond with agency.

@signulll The overwhelming trend in air travel is that more and more spend comes from high spenders. Create an experience for these folks and everything else takes care of itself

Every reply is extremely pessimistic and afraid to make the obvious solution. A premium only airline, run like a hospitality business. Clothes also are low margin but LVMH is an incredible business. If you do the math on filling an A320/A220 with only premium seats, you can fly SFO -> NYC for $500-600 no credit card program, and have much better margins than every other US airline. I could rant about this for hours, give me less than the average series A for a b2b saas company and id have planes in the air in < 12 months.

some rich billionaire, can you please create an airline that will destroy every other airline? - charge fair straight forward premium prices - optimize for comfort, food, & premium experiences. - fuck the rewards, credit cards, & points. just clean beautiful experiences. maybe acquire few airlines to do it for gate access.

@nathanhleung Awesome!🔥🔥🔥

Excited to announce I am no longer unemployed! Last June, I quit my job, emptied my apartment in San Francisco, and drove eight hours south to the suburbs of San Diego, where I moved into my friend Albert’s apartment. For nine months, we lived on Tasty Bite Madras lentils and Shin ramen, working 10/10/7 from two desks in the living room, building an all-new clinical trial system-of-record from the ground up. @runharbor is now providing electronic data capture for five different studies, ranging from internal feasibility to multisite and multinational — saving our customers weeks of database build time and hours of manual transcription effort. Excited to finally launch publicly as part of @ycombinator's Spring 2026 batch — and if you’re a sponsor wondering why your clinical trial is taking so long, talk to us.

@amasad few others that deserved to win as much as you guys did. congrats

We’ve raised $400M at a $9B valuation. Investors include Georgian, G Squared, Prysm, 1789, YC, Coatue, a16z, Craft, and QIA, with strategic investments from Accenture, Databricks, Okta, and Tether. We’re also lucky to have incredible individuals backing us, including Shaq and Jared Leto. This funding will help us scale our ambition and expand beyond coding into AI systems that center human creativity. Replit is now used at 85% of the Fortune 500. We have an opportunity to help shape the future of work. One where AI abstracts away the boring parts and humans shine as creative directors. We’re also investing more globally, particularly in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Innovation can come from anywhere in the world, and we want to help unlock it.