Dave Kim
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Dave Kim
@iodave
Applied AI | Formerly @IDEOVC @gatesfoundation @whatifglobal. Views are my own.
Seattle, WA Katılım Haziran 2009
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This is some of the best advice you could possibly take
Adam Faze@adamfaze
Caring is the ultimate superpower. Most people don't care. Give a damn. You'll accomplish incredible things.
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Does anyone have the Tin Can phone for their kids?
This is plutonium catnip for me so I will order it unless I can be convinced it's somehow bad.
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Loved this interview with @Wattenberger
- Step back and find your own POV instead of chasing someone else's narrative
- Play (and sculpt!) with the actual material
- Think bigger. We're barely scratching the surface.
Thanks to @Flomerboy and friends for this series.
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Dave Kim retweetledi
It’s time to take your ideas seriously.
You can now build apps directly in Fuser:
↳ a design tool for your favorite effects
↳ a game that gets the group chat to meet IRL
↳ a photo diary of textures to use later
Make it for you and your people.
Go live in minutes.
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My dad is a scientist, so I grew up with research papers on the kitchen table and lots of visits to the lab. Working on Claude Science has been a full circle moment :')
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So happy to share Claude Science with the world! One of the main ways AI can benefit the world is by accelerating rigorous scientific research, and Claude Science is our tool for doing it! Some bts of the design decisions that went into it...
Claude@claudeai
Introducing Claude Science, a new app designed with every stage of research in mind. Artifacts traced to their code, environments managed on demand, and 60+ optional scientific databases that you can connect. Available now in beta.
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This is VERY cool.
I know these nonprofits will benefit from the fellows. But even more than that, I hope the fellows come away inspired and see the world a little differently after learning about the orgs doing the hard, critical, often overlooked work in our communities.
Anthropic@AnthropicAI
We’re launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program matching people early in their careers with US nonprofits. We'll teach 1,000 people to use Claude, and pay them to use AI to advance their hosts’ missions. anthropic.com/claude-corps
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One more I forgot until just reminded:
3. Khosla Ventures wanted to invest in our Series C. Vinod took me, Michelle, and Lee out to dinner after he’d given us a term sheet. Near the end, Michelle and Lee got up to use the restroom. Vinod leaned over and said: “I’m impressed with you, not so much with them, what if you fire them and I’ll give you all their stock?” I think the charitable read was it was a test of my character. But I was so offended that we never spoke again. Literally blocked his number.
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Two of our worst VC stories:
1. A Sequoia partner passed on Cloudflare because he didn’t think a woman could lead a security infrastructure company. Seriously. 🙄
2. I got introduced to @pmarca. Meeting got scheduled for a Monday, which should have been a clue. I thought it was just a casual meeting. He thought it was a pitch and brought the whole @a16z partnership team. Hilarity ensued. 🤪 At one point one of them said: “You don’t seem very prepared.” Which was true because I wasn’t. I framed the rejection letter they sent.
GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg
I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A. 12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going. I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital. You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious. It's a dance. And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious. If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird. No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there. It is weird.
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Having the right language to describe what you want - in animation or beyond - is critical to going from “anyone could do this” to something special.
Curious to see how long this edge will last.
Emil Kowalski@emilkowalski
To get good animations from an AI you need to get good at telling it what you want: - "stagger this list of items" - "make this animation direction-aware" - "spacial consistency", "crossfade", "layout animation", I made a motion vocabulary for this: animations.dev/vocabulary
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The venn diagram of people who can imagine boldly, operate excellently, and build with community might be small, but it's that much more important to find them.
Move quickly, but don't speedrun through decades of experience and ignore the hard lessons learned.
Nan Ransohoff@nanransohoff
New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)
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@drewcoffman I really wanted a Fwb-specific list of fav restaurants, bars, stores per city
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using an existing community as the gate for a new app is the 'web3' social thing i still want
fwbtweets tried this with a houseswap app that required you to be a member
would’ve been incredible
Cory Etzkorn@coryetzkorn
Billion dollar idea: Hinge, but we fill it entirely with people from X
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Once you build your internet stack on @obsessedapp it scans everything and gives you a brief of what's important. Obviously, I had to add a shader animation.
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