Jared Worley

@GaryMarcus @GaryMarcus Rockefeller did the same when he promised to ship oil production on Carnegie's rails, committing to volume he didn't yet have. It should just be clear to everyone that this is a gamble on the future. Oracle has the most to lose.

Mark my words, this week marks peak bubble. Oracle just went up $300B on what appears to be a non-binding deal with OpenAI. •OpenAI doesn’t have $300 billion dollars •They don’t have anywhere near $300 billion dollars •By their own (presumably optimistic) projection, they won’t turn a profit until 2030. •And all this from a company thought (or claimed) that GPT-5 was going to be tantamount to AGI (spoiler alert: it wasn’t) •For good measure Oracle doesn’t have the chips they would need to fulfill the contracts, or even the cash to buy them. I will be astounded if Oracle meets their projections. Further discussion at the link below.

@alexrkonrad Result of someone's Chat GPT research..."Your right, I messed up, would you like me to refactor your dataset?"

Sequoia not even cracking the top 350 (!) VC firms on TIME's new Midas list knockoff is a wild troll and instantly invalidating

@fbi__open__up @_opencv_ Renaissance Technologies did this. However, when the model works too well, the market would adjust and remove the advantage.

@_opencv_ If someone already had AGI they'd focus first on dominating financial markets and siphoning off as much capital as possible, not esoteric physics problems. And we'd see signs, major market instability, realignment etc.

@OpenAI Take breaks = Relieve Capacity Constraints.

We build ChatGPT to help you thrive in the ways you choose — not to hold your attention, but to help you use it well. We’re improving support for tough moments, have rolled out break reminders, and are developing better life advice, all guided by expert input. openai.com/index/how-we'r…

@theinformation Sounds contradictory...youtu.be/vBkzm4a7iY4?si…

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@zebulgar @alexrkonrad Every zoo is fundraising. Time to roll up the industry 💪

@alexrkonrad there is a zoo out fundraising

ok so General Catalyst really bought a hospital... meh. wake me up when a VC firm is bold enough to buy a zoo

@PalmerLuckey @gdb Sell it on eBay!

Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today. Let us first say thank you to all the incredible people who we have worked with at OpenAI, our customers, our investors, and all of those who have been reaching out. We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. Here is what we know: - Last night, Sam got a text from Ilya asking to talk at noon Friday. Sam joined a Google Meet and the whole board, except Greg, was there. Ilya told Sam he was being fired and that the news was going out very soon. - At 12:19pm, Greg got a text from Ilya asking for a quick call. At 12:23pm, Ilya sent a Google Meet link. Greg was told that he was being removed from the board (but was vital to the company and would retain his role) and that Sam had been fired. Around the same time, OpenAI published a blog post. - As far as we know, the management team was made aware of this shortly after, other than Mira who found out the night prior. The outpouring of support has been really nice; thank you, but please don’t spend any time being concerned. We will be fine. Greater things coming soon.

They cut @MikeTrout. The greatest baseball player of our generation. The story you have never heard and the lesson to learn: Back in 2008, I was a high school junior. I was an up-and-coming baseball player and my first big break was an invitation to the USA baseball team trials. You see each year USA Baseball brings in 100+ of the best baseball players in the country to try out for the 18u national team. That year, USA Baseball had arranged for two players each to stay with a host family. My roommate was a player named, Mike Trout. Mike had incredible athleticism but was from the Northeast so he didn't come into the event on the "hype train" like some of the top prospects from California, Texas, and Florida did. We both performed well at the event and made it to the final stage of the trials. Here USA Baseball chose the final 18 players for the national team. Mike didn't make those final 18 players. Fast forward 15 years and Mike is the best player of a generation. A surefire Hall of Famer and arguably one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Funny, how life works sometimes. Look the lesson we can all learn from this is life is full of things that are outside of our control. You will be told no. You will suffer adversity. You will face disappointment. Accept it as part of your journey. My friends, we focus far too much on the end destination and completely miss the beauty in the journey. The come up, the adversity, and the struggle are what you will talk about one day. It makes the destination worth striving for. So, the next time you face a setback, remember Mike's story.

@JohnJBlatchford Always thought that building was beautiful. About 40 min north in WCH, a classic school was successfully turned into subsidized housing. Excuses.

This Hogwarts lookin' building is going to be torn down in Cincinnati🙃:

For context, I am pro-science (it is sad to say that I have to declare this upfront) and our family foundation, the @PershingSqFdn, is a major funder ( ~$100m to date with more to come) of scientific research, but something has gone really wrong with science and our country when anyone who challenges currently accepted science is branded a conspiracy theorist and is censored by major media companies. The scientific method is about constantly challenging our assumptions. It is about skepticism and deep research to understand and explain new data that are inconsistent with initial observations or conclusions. Science is an unending search for the truth, and this ongoing search is critical, as what was once deemed to be settled science is often revised or reversed with the passage of time. For example, consider how the science of human nutrition has changed dramatically over time, or hypotheses about the causes for Alzheimer’s. And it wasn’t that long ago that doctors were quoted in ads recommending cigarettes as good for your health. We should value those critics who challenge the status quo and continue to ask the hard questions. It is particularly important to do so when the economics of the current scientific understanding provide rewards to industry that are in the hundreds of billions of dollars, with the associated unavoidable perverse incentives. We should seek to answer the concerns of those who challenge the current scientific wisdom. We should not simply dismiss them as conspiracy theorists. Doing so impedes the progress of scientific knowledge, and may cause us to miss opportunities to correct mistakes that continue to cause harm. @RobertKennedyJr and others have raised important questions about the safety of some vaccines and have sought explanations for the dramatic increases in the incidence of childhood allergies, autism, and other health issues. These are good questions that have not been adequately answered. And I say this from the perspective of someone who is fully vaccinated along with my kids. RFK may be right or wrong in his theories. That said, his concerns are ones shared by millions of parents and others. Rather than censor RFK and the skeptics, shouldn’t we instead seek to understand the causes for the massive increase in autism and allergic diseases in our children over the last 30 or so years? If vaccines are not the cause for increased autism and other allergenic conditions, then what is the cause or causes? I think we would all greatly benefit by dropping the words ‘conspiracy theory’ from our lexicon and opening our minds to the possibility of improbable alternative explanations. When one hears something labeled a conspiracy theory, the natural reaction is to dismiss the theory. That is not a good way to get the truth. Conspiracy theories are actually just theories that are labeled as such to discourage further investigation. I have had my own serious issues with @TuckerCarlson over the years and disagree with him on many subjects, but I have to say he gets its right in this evening’s episode which is worth a watch. I recommend the Tucker segment at the risk of discrediting everything I have said above for certain audiences. That said, I am a strong believer in seeking the truth from a wide spectrum of observers and media participants. I encourage you to give this approach a try. When even your worst enemy has an insight you agree with, I have often found it has a higher probability of being true. I think you will find this approach will make it easier to get closer to the truth in an uncertain world.

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway

Now is the best time to be alive. I'm grateful for this moment and for the entire history of life on Earth that led up to it.

@sweatystartup 100%. I always recommend this book to the "everything is horrible" crowd. None of them ever reads it.

@AlexBurlis @theRealKiyosaki Founders ;)

@theRealKiyosaki Coming to SF in two weeks. What's something that you would say that SF is still good for as a founder?

San Francisco dying. I love SF. My first job was in SF. It breaks my heart to watch one of the great cities in the world hemmoraging at hands of White Academic Woke Libersals. Whole Foods & Nordstrom just closed. How many more big & small businesses to follow. I left my ❤️in SF.

@Patticus @JtGarwood How much does neural hardwiring play a role? The average ADHD founder is going to go all in and all out for any business they start and are most focused while denting the universe! I think you can have it both ways as an "Ecosystem 2" founder.

@Patticus @JtGarwood forbes.com/sites/elainepo…

I've spoken to 437 founders. Studied data from 37k more. Sold a company for over $200M. One crucial piece tends to separate companies growing rapidly from those being held back. It's often overlooked. Here's the framework. 🧵

"Value your time. It is all you have. It’s more important than your money. It’s more important than your friends. It is more important than anything. Your time is all you have. Do not waste your time." @naval

@elonmusk Yes. China specifically

If I dig my grave deep enough, maybe it comes out other side of Earth 🤔

@sabakarimm Small business events/hackathons, open education sessions WeWorkX (TedX)...

WeWorks are a ghost town on the weekends. How can we put them to use?

@Austen This is practically everywhere outside the reaches of Silicon Valley. Those reaches are expanding faster than localized behavior.

Utah startups always ask how they can become more of a force vs Silicon Valley. 1. Seed/angel investors: stop trying to buy 40% of a company. Even if you can. 2. Founders: Give employees more equity. Multi-billion dollar successes producing <10 millionaires is a tragedy.