Urban Swagger

@syach4n did you save the video?

@florashormones why you privating

@tobsn @giffmana I'll go one step further, what if the data set was sold by OpenAI to cement their dominance in the market?

This actually reproduces as of today. In 5 out of 8 generations, DeepSeekV3 claims to be ChatGPT (v4), while claiming to be DeepSeekV3 only 3 times. Gives you a rough idea of some of their training data distribution.

@SashaLesovoy @bookofoursjulie Next time do not respond to someone's comment without having done your own research. You made an assumption and showed your ass.

@UrbanSwaggr @bookofoursjulie Just chill, ok? Really, nobody needs your smart advices n education here. 500,000 people are affected, I don't give a damn if it's FR or Patelco bit our problem is with Patelco not communicating with us members at all! That's all I care, we care. End of story. TY professor 👍

@SashaLesovoy @bookofoursjulie Does your lack of education also cause you to jump to conclusions? If you want to learn about the alleged Federal Reserve hack, take some time to Google it, rather than just dismissing it because it doesn't directly fit your narrative of "Patelco BAD". No Graduate degree needed.

@UrbanSwaggr @bookofoursjulie What I'm saying is pretty damn simple-there's nothing being reported/posted about FR dealing with any kind of issues.Of course,I may not be looking for info everywhere.If you have such info,please share the link(s). And yes,it did sound like were connecting Patelco to FR issues

@SashaLesovoy @bookofoursjulie You're making the assumption that I said the FR getting hacked caused Patelco to go dark. It was merely an aside, but clearly English isn't your first language, so it's excusable.

@UrbanSwaggr @bookofoursjulie And only Patelco got effected by FR being compromised? Yeah, Total bs, sorry abt my french

@bookofoursjulie Most hacking groups are narcissistic. Lying about a hack does nothing for their ego.

@bookofoursjulie The group is claiming the Federal Reserve has been compromised.

@jhmilos @bookofoursjulie Let's say that the Federal Reserve was actually breached... do you think that they'd let that information out?

@UrbanSwaggr @bookofoursjulie A number of security sites debunked the claim that the federal reserve has been compromised

@bookofoursjulie Look up LockBit ransomeware attack. A number of financial institutions have been breached.

@FarzaTV @a16z But how does buildspace actually make money? There's a saying: if you don't pay, you are the product.

A lot of ppl ask me about how @a16z ended up investing in us.. So I wanna share it for the first time. Here's the story of a kid who had no idea what the hell he was doing. Few things: 1) I'm a solo founder. 2) I had never raised money before. 3) I had been building companies since 13 and built a bunch of stuff to 1M+ users -- but, never a startup. I was kinda dumb in 2019. I didn't know how to pitch and didn't wanna learn because pitching was cringe. My philosophy has always been that if I build something really cool and talk about it online -- people would reach out + just invest in me. So, I did just that. I built a piece of software to help parents create a legal homeschool for their child (kinda like Stripe Atlas, but for homeschools). I built the MVP + got my first customer in the first week. 4-mo later, Zip was doing well. I built the product, I had my first 50 customers, I had some solid momentum, users loved it. Being dumb was working out. The more I talked about my progress online, the more I had amazing people reach out to help out. Side note. This was a brutal period of my life. I was insanely hard on myself. Friends are important. I had my buddy @FurqanR to lean on. Talking to him even once a week about my co's problems gave me a lot of strength. He was always there for me, still is. Ty Furqan. In May 2020... I got a cold email. a16z hits me up. They think I have a team. Mom get the camera. The call ends up going well. I just talked about stuff like our customers, growth, and my vision for a whole operating system for the next 10M homeschoolers. After the call -- they ask details around how much I am raising. I wanna make it clear to you all: I had no idea what I was doing. If you know me in person, you know I am honest to a fault -- I will say exactly what I am thinking. So when a16z asked me how much I was raising, I literally said that I was a "noob" Screenshot of email I sent after the call below. Go ahead and zoom in on those last two lines there. Yes. I actually sent this lol. Surprisingly @anneleeskates + @conniechan didn't leave me on read. We end up arriving at a next step. For the next 2-mo, I would talk to them once per week for 30m and give them a progress update + brainstorm new ideas. I was told by many to not do this. To instead run a "competitive" process but I just felt that was dumb game. These weekly calls ended up being great. It was perfect for them -- they could get more data on me. And, it was perfect for me -- I could just keep building and if my co blew up up either: a) they'd probably invest: b) i just end up profitable lol. In those 2-mo, I end up doing a big pivot. I pivot from legal software to building Twitch for teachers where teachers streamed their classes live to thousands of kids. For me, I grew up in a livestream native world -- so, it felt weird to me that everyone was obsessing over "small zoom room" type classes. I build it in a week and ship it. Users end up loving the pivot, especially kids -- within ~2-mo we end up getting 100,000 class joins per week + millions of mins streamed per week. At this point, the company is still just me. After those 2-mo, a16z decides to invest $2M. I got the valuation I wanted. Here's the actual entry from my journal on that day I got the call lol. 1-mo later papers signed + money wired. I tell this story because I see a lot of people wasting so much time playing the game of finding investors or using that as an excuse for their lack of progress. In reality, you simply need to put out really good work to an audience that grows over a long horizon. That is it. 2 years later we pivot away from K-5 edu. Same team, same company, same cap table. We started working on this curious new idea called @_buildspace... It ends up getting pretty big and raises $10M -- half that coming from a16z who ended up doubling down on us. Life is truly weird. Keep your head up. Stay shipping.

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