Arjun Chopra

@seedtosunflower Congrats, Liu!

We’re excited to announce Sunflower Capital Funds I and II. Sunflower is a $250m fund that partners at the earliest stage with companies building foundations for modern enterprises, critical industries, and the physical world.

@varsharao This is so cool, @varsharao!

🚨 Finding a great restaurant should be easy. I was tired of seeing amazing restaurants trending on @Eater and @infatuation… only to have to search up each one on different platforms to try to book. So we built a way to fix that. Our New & Trending feature pulls: ✅ The most talked-about restaurants from top lists ✅ Live availability from Resy, OT, Tock (so you can actually book) ✅ Updated real-time Check it out 👇 🔗 Try it here: hellozeal.ai What’s the hardest restaurant you’ve ever tried to book? ⬇️ #Foodie #Restaurants #Dining #Trending #AI #Tech #BookWithZeal

@m2jr Mike Sr. was always so generous with his time and thoughts. We have truly lost a great soul. So very sorry for your loss, Mike.

This morning, Mike Maples Sr. passed away in Austin, Texas. To me, he wasn’t just my dad—he was a mentor, a friend, and one of the greatest inspirations of my life. Even though I knew this moment was coming, nothing could get me ready for it. It’s hard to accept that he is really gone and even harder to imagine a world without him in it. His presence was such a constant in my life, and the void his passing leaves behind feels overwhelming. I’m so grateful for the time we had, but I’ll always wish for more. My dad’s story began in 1942, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, where his curiosity and drive shaped his early years. After earning a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1965 and an MBA from Oklahoma City University in 1969, he served in Vietnam. His business career began at IBM, where he started as a Systems Engineer and played various leadership roles over two decades. Then, in 1988, Bill Gates invited him to join Microsoft, where he served as head of products during one of the most transformative periods in the company’s history. His leadership played a vital role in establishing Microsoft as a global technology powerhouse, but what set Dad apart was his genuine ability to connect with people and make them feel valued. When he retired in 1995, he embraced a new chapter as a rancher in Cypress Mill, Texas. But retirement didn’t slow him down. He continued to mentor entrepreneurs and business leaders, sharing his wisdom and enthusiasm for innovation. Whether it was in the boardroom or on a ranch, Mike Sr’s ability to guide and inspire never changed. For all his accomplishments, my dad’s greatest pride and joy was his family. He and my mom, Carolyn, shared a extraordinary 60 years of marriage, marked by love, adventure, and unwavering support for each other. As a father to my brother Benton and me, he poured his heart into teaching us, supporting us, and, most importantly, loving us. He reveled in time with his grandchildren, and his face would light up at every family gathering, sharing stories or just enjoying the moment. He had this uncanny knack for making you feel like the most important person in the room, like life was more of a comedy than a tragedy, and like you were his partner in crime, always in on the joke. Looking back on his life, he didn’t just build a career—he built relationships, created opportunities, and left a legacy that will endure far beyond his time. He showed that it’s possible to be both powerful and kind, serious yet able to laugh at yourself. He was fiercely committed to success, but he pursued it in a way that honored the spirit of true greatness—winning not for the sake of winning at all costs, but for the sake of doing things the right way. Most of all, he tried emphasize to 'always do your best'—and not as a mere platitude. He would remind me that none of us knows how much time we have—maybe a lot, maybe just a little. But he believed that the best way to honor the gift of time was to give it your all. Do your absolute best, make the most of every moment, and strive to be the best version of yourself. For him, doing your best wasn’t just about effort—it was about gratitude. His mentorship, his laughter, and his love will forever be part of our lives. Dad, I’ll miss you beyond what words can hold. I’m still trying to process it all—there’s so much more I could say even though I’m grateful to have seen you at the very end for a last goodbye. But for now, thank you for being a guiding light and for showing up in the world in a way that every father should aspire to. Godspeed, Dad. Hopefully someday, across the great beyond, I'll see you again.

3 weeks ago we had the #1 trending function calling LLM on @huggingface. Today we have the #1 AND #2 trending function calling LLM. Fast, cheap, and SOTA performance packaged in github.com/katanemo/archgw to build fast agentic apps. Grateful to the community rallying behind our work. cc @_akhaliq @ClementDelangue

I am thrilled that we are now the #1 🏆 trending function calling LLM on @huggingface - the fastest, most efficient models with performance to match frontier LLMs. Arch-Function is engineered in Arch github.com/katanemo/archgw - the intelligent gateway for agents - we'd❤️ for you to try...

Arch Build fast, observable, and personalized AI agents. Arch is an intelligent gateway for agents. Engineered with (fast) LLMs for the secure handling, rich observability, and seamless integration of prompts with your APIs - all outside business logic. Built by the core contributors of Envoy proxy, on Envoy.

~50 lines of business logic = fully functional agent that can do things, engage users for clarifying questions, etc. Built as a full-stack app with @Gradio and Arch github.com/katanemo/arch. Check out the workforce agent built using Arch in < 30 minutes. Arch just launched 🚀 - an out out process intelligent gateway for prompts designed to protect, observe, and personalize agents so that developers can build faster and focus on business logic. cc: @_akhaliq this is the early thinking of helping developers build full-stack apps using Gradio. Next 🚢demos published to @huggingface spaces.

@anneleeskates I’m 110% confident you will CRUSH IT, @anneleeskates! 🚀🚀🚀

Many of you said I buried the lede… I left a16z ~ I’m off to do my life’s work! More soon. 😉 The idea of starting a venture-backed company has become famous, easy and playbooked. Capital and “support” for founders are abundant. More tech startups and founders are AMAZING. AND, more founders ought to be thoughtful about working on their “life’s work” - a long-term commitment to a worthwhile personal mission. This keeps you going in the tough moments. Engaging in life’s work looks and feels like 1) turning surprises into lucky breaks, 2) intrinsic motivation, 3) marching forward with courage and conviction, 4) doing purposeful work day-to-day, 5) keeping time in tension: intentionally thinking in decades while executing in moments. Stories from James Carse, @jesslivingston, @annimaniac, @peterthiel, Diane Greene, Whitney Wolfe Herd, @parkerconrad, @samhinkie @JeffBezos below. While you’re on the journey of your life’s work, don’t be afraid to have fun, make friends, and break rules to make your own. See you in the arena 👋

Rarely in tech is there a change event with the magnitude to shake an industry. Open AI’s launch of ChatGPT has signaled a significant inflection point in the trajectory of AI. We partnered with the last week to explore this future with our portfolio (1/7) @ann_880/thank-you-openai-7f6a9042285d" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@ann_880/thank…

We're holding another info session on our Reactor program. If you're a student ready to unleash your inner entrepreneur, read more about it here: @amk/2745fc34af16" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@amk/2745fc34a…

Spoke with @cookie about how we evaluate whether ideas are big enough. Part of our Reactor program for students is to help them learn our process so they leave knowing what venture scale looks like: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flo…

Today, we’re officially launching with $12 million in funding, two partnerships with patient advocacy organizations, and a growing community ready to build a new way to pursue cures to rare diseases vibebio.com

@cdixon Time to fire up a ‘Siteadvisor’ for profiles!

Congratulations not just to the amazing winners, but to all the teams who participated! Thanks @solana for the opportunity to be a judge! The entire Web3 ecosystem is the real winner. #riptide

Stoked to announce the launch of outliers.build with @AlokVasudev and @annimaniac 🥳 We've put together an awesome summer program for students who are ready to build the future of Web3 and DeFi 🎓 If you or anyone you know fits the bill, give me a shout!

Looking forward to learning more about the Cold Start Problem over the next few hours, ⁦@andrewchen⁩! If the first few pages are any indication, this book’s going to be awesome!

Congrats to one of the hardest working teams out there!

A fantastic workshop by the stellar @donutsdidthis. Great to see this series continue.

1/ #AnchorList for 2021 is live! We've surfaced 29 extraordinary operators in the startup ecosystem across 7 key categories: 💻product ⚙️engineering 🎨design 📢marketing & growth 📈sales & biz dev 💰ops & finance 😃talent Learn about their stories here anchorlist.com

@roshanchandna You crushed it, @roshanchandna! It was a pleasure having you on Team Floodgate!

Today is my last day @floodgatefund, a pre-seed and seed-stage venture fund based in Menlo Park. This summer, I learned Invaluable lessons about identifying extraordinary insights and people. Thank you @acvox for giving me the opportunity to learn and contribute at Floodgate!