Ravi Narasimhan

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@nihalmehta @semil @satyap @EniacVC @haystackvc @homebrew Good looking crew 😊

memorable evening in NYC with @semil and @satyap ✨ #ambassadorsclubhouse

@jdischler @tjack @pmddomingos @bcherny 100% This. The best ideas IMHO start off as 'toys'. The act of playing with them refines them to where they become products. Basic product development rules don't changein the AI age...

@tjack @pmddomingos This. Don’t believe me? This point is made in a compelling way by @bcherny in his podcast interview earlier this week. Zooming out, if there is unplanned innovation that accelerates your strategy in a bottom up way, your strategy is working rather than nonexistent.

Anthropic has no strategy. Claude Code started as someone's side project, and so did Cowork and MCP.

@jdischler @sama Good to see you active on the platform, Jerry. Hope you're doing well!

For what it’s worth, I think this is a strong response from @sama, clear and free of doublespeak. His perspective has evolved over the past few years, which is fine. To be clear, I have no information to suggest that his ads will be any good, just that advertising is a business model that can offer high customer utility and good scaling characteristics if done well. I also maintain that it’s a reasonable idea for services that are useful for billions of people to have a durable business model.

🇺🇸 Today is a day we have been working towards for six months. We are announcing America’s AI action plan putting us on the road to continued AI dominance. The three core themes: - Accelerate AI innovation - Build American AI infrastructure - Lead in international AI diplomacy and security. It’s a long document (!) and I highly encourage you read it. There is a lot of exciting actions in here but one I’m very partial to is the focus on open source and open weights and making sure the U.S. leads in this critical area. This represents the work of many many people but I want to particularly highlight @DavidSacks @mkratsios47 and the person who has spent the most time and sweat and effort on this : @deanwball Personally, this is an effort I’ve been incredibly proud to have been a part of and why I signed up for this job. I’m confident this and the other announcements today put us on the road to AI dominance as called for by President Trump.

@ptr If ever there was a Super Heart icon, now would be the time I'd use it. SO happy and proud of you.

It has been a busy few months! Somehow, I find myself with one more bit of news: I am transgender, and I'm in the middle of a gender transition. 🏳️‍⚧️ I am changing my name to Tess (she/her). I am out at home and at work and now you know, too. That's the gist. If the story interests you, more below. [If you are having a 🤯 moment, that's totally normal! I'll wait. :)] Alright so... this is news for most people in my life, but it isn't for me. It's something I have struggled with deeply for over 25 years, mostly in denial of what it was and what it meant. As a kid I struggled with shyness and social anxiety. I learned to hide parts of me and fake others so I could fit in. Not just thoughts about gender, but also things like being a nerd, anything I worried made me weird or strange or unlovable. It's a kind of mask that I wore, consciously at first, but increasingly invisible even to me. As I approached 40 last year, I found myself gaining the bravery to interrogate these feelings, educate myself about them, and take steps to be happier, calmer, and more present for the people who matter most in my life, starting with my amazing wife and wonderful kids. I don't know exactly what untangled this web of thoughts for me. My best guess is I got to a point in my life where I could breathe and reflect and for the first time ever, worry less about achieving in the eyes of others. I have gained a lot of strength over the last many months. In spite of all that, the truth is that writing this, and posting it here, is an incredibly scary thing. I've come to see my professional network as a kind of consolation prize for suppressing parts of me I thought the world might judge, things that would prevent me from achieving a career I was proud of or building a family I could love and care for. The thing with consolation prizes is they mean you didn't get what you were hoping for, and I realize now that the thing I missed out on was being myself, openly and without fear, or at least with courage and bravery. In the back of my mind in nearly every social interaction in my life has been this lurking question, "What if they knew?" Would they still like me? Respect me? Want to work with or for me? I hid from the answers to those questions. That path served me for a time, but the healthier path, the one I am choosing, is to say: Be who you are. Let people come into or out of your life of their own accord. These days I don't have to ask "What if they knew?" anymore around the house or at work or with my friends, and by telling you all, I don't have to ask that here, either. It's a special kind of peace I never thought possible. It's going to be hard to believe this, but I promise, it's true: while the news sounds huge and life defining, it's quite the opposite. I carried this inside me and I'm finally setting it down. Yes I look different, and that will play out more over time. Yes I am changing my name. But the thoughts were always there, the secret strain on my life was always there. I'm free of that, now, and with that comes a lightness that far exceeds the awkwardness you might imagine I feel. Truly, and I mean this: things are easier for me now. As complex as this whole thing seems from the outside, it is deeply, profoundly simplifying on the inside. I am at peace. Thanks for listening. If you made it this far, I'm flattered. I write all of this partly for catharsis, but it serves another more important role. Product Management, and especially product leadership, has near zero trans representation. At times I wonder if seeing others like me live openly would have helped me when I was suffering. Perhaps I would have figured myself out a bit sooner. Regardless, I feel compelled to speak up and out and to be that representation for others. Living openly and showing people like me that it is going to be okay helps me forgive myself for many years of confusion, fear, and shame. And if this note resonates with you in any way and you want to talk about it, my DMs are open anytime. Hang in there; it gets better. 💜

@GE_Appliances Please help. We bought a GE induction cooktop that has been non functional for over a month. We've waited a month for a warranty inspection and still nothing. Your appointment scheduler on GE Appliance site is never working. Please help!

@vishalkgupta @coinbase Congrats on the tour of duty! Good to overlap (albeit briefly). Happy trails for whatever's ahead

1/6 After an amazing 2.5 years at @Coinbase, I’ve decided it's time for me to move on. As Head of Exchange/Markets @Coinbase, I'm proud of the accomplishments we achieved together

@surojit @a16zcrypto Don't have an emoji that does this justice. Very, very excited for you. Mad props....

Super excited to join @a16zcrypto as Executive in Residence (EIR) and learn from some of the smartest brains in the business. Looking forward to helping out founders and builders scale their businesses. Let's build...

@technologypoet If you've gone to Dad joke humor.....all is lost

@isuttle Epically better. Literally every dimension. Take care and happy holidays 😊

@Ravi Making a call on 2022: better than 2021, with lots of opportunity to improve, ahead.

2021. The year all kids learned about supply chains for Christmas. What an epically appropriate conclusion to an epically crappy year. Good news is that 2022 can't be worse. Right? Right?? 😃

@melissabarnes Congrats on a great, GREAT run!!

1/ Over this past weekend, I made the tough decision to resign from Twitter. Originally, my last day was going to be Nov. 25, but now it’s today. So I’m going to share w. all of you what I shared w. the remaining teams at Twitter earlier this week. A love letter:

@satanjeev What an incredible run! So proud and happy for you. Glad we got to cross paths waaaay back in the day!

And just like that, after 12 years, I have left Twitter. I have nothing but love for all my fellow tweeps, past and present. A thousand faces and a thousand scenes are flashing through my mind right now - I love you Twitter and I’ll forever bleed blue 🫡💙

@shreyas No. My humble 2c is that CB is head and shoulders the next best option to self custody. They have proper compliance, CX, and financial controls. Look like Fort Knox compared to FTX/Binance shenanigans

I really don't want to do self-custody. I trust Coinbase. Am I making a big mistake? (seeking rational arguments, not catchy one-liners)

@nihalmehta Might be the ultimate post-Marathon snack. Huge congrats BTW!!

pani puri anyone?

@technologypoet Too soon, Vanessa.....too soon

@maxbranzburg @coinbase @CoinbaseWallet Best advice. Coinbase was ahead of the curve with the best self custody process and wallets.

PSA: If you don't know what exposure your exchange may have to the FTX contagion, move to @coinbase (all assets fully secured 1:1, publicly audited) or a self-custody wallet like @CoinbaseWallet where you can see your assets directly on-chain. Don't wait till it's too late.

@sm Too soon.....

I mean Bankman was always kinda a suspicious name for a man who was creating a bank

@astahearts Clearly Bill is loaded......nice flex buddy

This. Over time the user base will learn the blue check means paid user now, forget about verification in this new world. Also, hi fake Bill.

@astahearts The whole country just went through GRAD 😂🤣😂

@Ravi Yes!! Perfect comparison.

Maybe it's just me but the Dems performance tonight has eerie parallels to recent tech earnings - "Decent performance against lowered expectations"

@subtleBreaker You've outdone yourself being punny..