Cory Levy

"everything around that you call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you" - Steve Jobs new z fellows cohort starting soon. interviewing now for it. zfellows.com

@WillowVoiceAI 🙌🙌

Introducing Willow Frontier Mini and Willow Frontier Pro. Frontier Mini gives everyone free, unlimited dictation. Frontier Pro is our most accurate model yet, built for power users and teams who want the fastest and best dictation experience.

interning in the Bay Area? i'm hosting Internapalooza (STEM intern event) in San Francisco on the evening of July 27th all undergrad and graduate interns and builders are welcome prev speakers have included: Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dylan Field (Figma), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Max Mullen (Instacart), Naval Ravikant, and more. @ reply if you want to join! (and include where ur interning)

congrats to the Etched team on coming out of stealth with a working chip and over $1 billion in signed customer contracts! and $800M raised at a $5B valuation proud to be their very first believer and investor in 2022 while they were still students at Harvard

We're coming out of stealth. We've built our first racks after a successful A0 tapeout, $1B+ in customer contracts, and $800m raised. Early customer tests show us achieving SOTA throughput, latency, and power efficiency on inference workloads. Our first racks ship this summer.

@FounderLaberge @TryOmenAI congrats!

I dropped out of high school at 17 to build my first startup. Now, at 20, I'm thrilled to share that @TryOmenAI has raised $41.5M in total funding to build intelligence protecting the world's most critical AI compute infrastructure.

looking to hire an intern for **one week** this summer some of the people in the past who’ve done these with me last year or the prev year have gone off to do Z Fellows and have started companies doing millions in rev i did a few of these 1-2 week internships while I was in high school, and it was super formative requirements: - high agency - strong communicator - resourceful - workaholic - being technical and having built stuff in the past is a plus but not required location: virtual or IRL @ reply or DM if interested (share a bit about yourself in the DM or reply)

who wants to help with the Z Fellows newsletter? DM me pls!

@brodylame haha

I can't believe we convinced @cory to skate

@SynScience congrats on launching!

Introducing Atlas: infrastructure for autonomous, open science. Research is about to change more in the next two years than it has in the last fifty, and the infrastructure underneath isn't ready. We’re building Atlas to be that layer. First piece is live today: Atlas Graph.

@joshelman @a16z congrats!

1/ I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining @a16z as a partner to help find and support building the next generation of great consumer companies. Let me talk a little about why.

probably the only graduation in the world where people cheered for AI

@richardzphotoz your x handle

@cory Putting my photography skills to the test

San Francisco post Dropout Graduation 📸by @richardzphotoz

@im_the_giulio @forgegui @michaelfertik @bonatsos @VerdictCap @collectiveGBL @sheeltyle video is great

I’m 17 and raised $3.2M for @forgegui. Our seed round was led by @michaelfertik and @bonatsos at @VerdictCap with other investors including @cory, @collectiveGBL, @sheeltyle, and other amazing partners. In ~2 months, we’ve grown to 90,000+ game dev users, with a current $40M cap. Growing extremely fast. I’ve been building in this space for 7 years, since I was 10. We’re building the AI platform for game developers. We’re hiring 2 more cracked engineers who want to help build a generational company. DM me if you want to join.

officially dropped out! thanks @cory and @zfellows for hosting dropout graduation. i know ppl who drop out don’t always make it, and it’s almost always mindset. today’s speakers help me internalize the reminders i need to keep going. if ur dropped out/on-leave, let’s connect!

congrats @im_the_giulio excited to be a part of and follow along ur journey!!

congrats to all the Dropout Grads especially @czoob3 from high school dropout to this!

Great time at Dropout Graduation. Huge thanks to @cory and @zfellows. Almost 2 months ago, I started @forgegui. Since then, we’ve raised significant capital, are growing extremely fast, and started building the early team. I’m still 17 and a junior in high school, so this event hit hard. It’s a reminder that the old path is not the only path anymore. If you can build fast, learn fast, survive wolves, and create value, there are more ways than ever to go after something big. Cory has been saying this for a long time, and I think he’s right. New stuff coming soon. Great event!