Samuel Kingston

“try, analyze, evaluate, optimize” - Albert Einstein

@amarifields_ Sent you a DM.

5 founders from founders hub have already received funding, resources, or opportunities through lvlup ventures this is what happens when overlooked founders finally get access

@amarifields_ Fam i just joined. How can I apply? Building something really worth the while checking. This feels perfect rn.

lvlup ventures just launched its first check fund investing $1k-$10k into founders multiple founders from founders hub have already received funding, resources, and opportunities through lvlup ventures if you’re building and feel overlooked, join founders hub

@suhasasumukh @localhosthq Hi Suhas. This is really great man. Anytime you’re able to, please check your DM. I’m also building something; would love to connect.

how @localhosthq began, where we are now, and what's next for us. this is us, full circle.

@tim_cook Legend

This Memorial Day, we remember the many people whose courage shaped who we are as a nation. Their sacrifice is the foundation of the freedom we enjoy every day, and we are grateful for their service.

@kunalb11 Fact btw

All of human progress is rooted in energy. Almost all of the lessons of energy efficiency are rooted in biology. AI will force accelerated learning from biology.

@nicoypei Really great article and thesis fam. Your idea is directionally lit; FX abstraction over stablecoins is coming but in reality it can’t be pure DeFi. It will be a heavily regulated, hybrid system where SFX sits on top of traditional financial rails. Not actually replace them.

@nicoypei This is the normal pattern; as systems become more controlled, capital goes toward permissionless rails. But the big question to ask is still trust; Defi won’t replace regulated custody because governments don’t disappear in this equation. So we’re likely heading hybrid systems

As of this morning, mainland china banned Futu, Tiger, and Longbridge, which are the primary brokers for mainland china and Singaporeans to access US equities aka the Robinhoods of Asia This ban presents a great opportunity for equity perp dexes. either > legacy brokers front-end equity perp dex backend or > equity perp dex directly go to legacy brokers' users Their stock prices dropped 30% after this news, and we will find out what happens to users' account balances and current open position in the upcoming days Expecting a large outflow of deposits. Would be interesting to watch where these capital flows to.

@balajis Literally lmao. AI is doing two things at the same time here: it’s collapsing the cost of creating content, but also collapsing the cost of faking it.

Look, if you don’t like the ending of any movie, you can soon just export the file, put it into one of the increasingly high quality open weights video models, and do whatever remix you like. We aren’t all the way there, but we’ll be there soon. Prompts will promptly disrupt Hollywood.

@balajis It’s basically an arms race now… AI generates fake content, and AI will have to be used to defend against it. It’ll be machine vs machine filtering for humans. Generated content is getting less and less obvious; with significant advantages and more significant disadvantages.

I’m very sympathetic to Prof Tabarrok’s point of view. And of course he’s right that AI hyperdeflates costs in many areas, from code to math to biomedicine to robotics. However…AI is also breaking as many markets as it creates. It’s flooding sales, marketing, recruiting, email, social media, identity verification, education, and countless other verticals with an onslaught of increasingly convincing scams, spam, and slop. Essentially, just like cryptocurrency and social media, AI accelerates digital tribalism. Within the trusted tribe, you can indeed share code and context to accelerate progress. But outside the trusted tribe, every message will soon be presumed untrusted slop till proven innocent. (Just look at social media these days for a preview!) That means the result of AI is not universally positive. There is a first order offsetting term where some markets have their verification costs radically increased by AI (eg email). And there is a second order cost in terms of boosting digital tribalism, and consequent distrust between groups. These are largely separate from the third question of whether AI actually takes jobs or not. China currently has an advantage in the AI era because it’s the largest scaled digital tribe on the planet. With its centrally controlled network, it’ll have an easier time dampening the bad aspects of AI (like digital fraud) while amplifying the good parts (like physical robotics). For the free Internet, however, we’ll need to evolve different tools to deal with the AI environment. Likely a web3 of trust, to deter fraud while promoting commerce. But anyway…I just wanted to sound a note of caution. AI, like every technology, has both costs and benefits. It’s going to create a lot of wealth (already has), but it’s also going to create a lot of costs. And we should enumerate those costs in order to mitigate them.

@typesfast Sick

Just got myself a Starship heat shield hoodie on the SpaceX merch store to celebrate today's success!

@typesfast I saw this video like 5 days ago where the man mixed some sort of ingredients - mainly lemon.

Anybody working on this ?

@sethbannon Don’t compete. Collaborate. If they give you a better chance, join em The US has the ground they needed to build Thats why they’re where they are today P.s Sent you a DM; building something in a space nobody has touched at the infrastructure level yet. Would love your thoughts

Elon building SpaceX and Tesla in America is America First. Jensen building Nvidia in America is America First. Sergey Brin building Google in America is America First. All immigrants. All naturalized Americans.

@dotcuriouscat Just sent you a DM; building something in a space nobody has touched at the infrastructure layer yet. Would love your thoughts.

How I Source & How We Invest I get asked these questions a lot and figure putting this out in the open can help save everyone's time. 1. We only lead/co-lead and exclusively focus on the first round/pre-seed 2. I read all deal-related DM on here on X & LinkedIn. You don't need to get an intro through a mutual to reach me. Yes cold DM here works: some of my favorite portfolio companies were actually from cold DM on X/LinkedIn. I don't read cold emails as much. 3. I (ofc) will respond if it could be a fit for us. 4. The best format to DM is: blurb on what you are building + why + who you are (add LinkedIn/X) Nothing is too early: it's okay if you don't have a deck or website. What we look for is the right founder with the right insights in net-new sectors. 5. One per category: once we invest, we are all in to support the company for their entire lifecycle — the main reason we don't back competitors. 6. What we look for: weird stuff that I haven't heard of or thought of before. Or, to put it more bookishly, "disruptive" versus "sustaining" innovation per The Innovator's Dilemma. 7. I don't take calls lightly because founders' time is as valuable as my own. I rarely get on calls just out of curiosity—that's a waste of everyone's energy. Hope this helps clarify things. Will add to this thread as more come up

@christophersaum The US has a lot of other cool stuff neither of em have yet too.

There are 0 audio frontier labs in the US. Zero. Eleven Labs? Built in Europe. Kyutai? France. Every big lab treats audio as a bolt-on to a text model. Meanwhile 80% of the internet is audio and "speech is solved" is the laziest take in AI. Massive opening for an audio-native team. May have just met the founder to do it...

@0xmadisonn Done, thank you.

@dSamKingston Changed my settings, you should be able to message me now

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@0xmadisonn Appreciate it. Can’t DM at the moment due to verification access, but I have the deck + overview ready to send. Feel free to follow briefly or drop a preferred contact/email and I’ll send everything over right away.

@dSamKingston Yes! Dm me and if you have a link to your deck that would be super helpful 😊

@dara_venture Bro 😭

The number 1 reason I've raised over $150m

@saxenasaheb @AnthropicAI @OpenAI Lmao

Founders and CTOs of seed stage startups after receiving offers from @AnthropicAI and @OpenAI

@smsonx Hey @solana Come look at this.

How’s my set up?