Seth Blank

I just published “Scaling Engineering Teams” medium.com/p/scaling-engi…

Today, @lightspeedvp is announcing that we’re leading a $35M Series A in @pika_labs, the company that’s redesigning the entire video-making and editing experience with AI. Founded by @demi_guo_ and @chenlin_meng, Pika is making it possible for anyone to create high quality video through their state-of-the-art video model and creation platform, both of which launch today. Check out the below video (featuring an animated @elonmusk) to see why Pika's model and product are so mind blowing, and why we're so excited to partner with this team, alongside existing investors @natfriedman, @danielgross, @eladgil, and more.

I’m going to share with you all something I shared with someone on an advisory call this week: Stop rewarding the academic theater of PM best practices. I’m tired of folks thinking you put insights into a magical PM framework and a great business spits out the other end.

15 min meeting: psychopaths 30 min meeting: worst of all worlds, both too long and too short 45 min meeting: you just f'd up my calendar 60 min meeting: seriously? a meeting? for an hour?

I have ranted about the absurdity of the term "full stack engineer" (I mean, show me the web dev who also writes their own device drivers 🙄) but I'd like to recant. Annoying it may be, but it's the term we've got to describe the most significant shift in eng roles since devops.

what your preferred method of task estimation says about you, a thread:

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So many amazing dinners hosted at Hawker Fare. So many nights kicked out of Holy Mountain with @DanielleMorrill. What a run. sf.eater.com/2023/1/30/2357…

Midjourney AI imagining different historical variations of Spider-Man: 1. Roman Legionary Spider-Man

@kressaty Duh

ChatGPT is cool, but ChatGPT that can read the internet would be way cooler. So we built it, and it can search and read the internet. DM/reply if you want to try it out!

Twitter is full of advice from VCs to entrepreneurs on how to raise money. Having raised $208M from VCs in my career, here's the reverse: advice from an entrepreneur to VCs. 👇 (1/6)

The fact that you can write off mortgage interest but not basic childcare expenses is just absurd

(OSHA inspector walking into Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory) what the fuck

Imagine going through life like my Labrador retriever and everywhere you go total strangers are thrilled to see you. No wonder his egos is out of control.

@bijan Congrats!

An honor of a lifetime, I can’t wait to get to work. 🇺🇸 🇨🇿

i was just thinking about how we drink coffee but then, if we swallow it weird, we cough drinky

Twitter thread writers are gonna be the first ones unemployed by AI

Elon Musk Qatar 🤝 Wasting billions of dollars trying to look cool just to have people mock you on your own property

Yearly reminder: If you have enough to eat, a warm place to sleep, are fairly healthy, and can pay your bills handily...you are one of the luckiest humans alive. The rest is just details. There is so much to be grateful for - have a wonderful Thanksgiving.