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SF Q2 26: the cradle of godlike technologies the spiritual crisis that follows

@gaby_goldberg huge - congrats gaby!! 💯

I’m excited to share that I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a Partner on the New Media team, focusing on the intersection of comms, networks, and investing. I’ve been working on these three things throughout my career, first in early-stage investing and most recently in comms at Rostra, writing about my perspectives and experiences along the way. For a long time, I thought these were three different paths I’d have to choose between. I’ve done comms, but I’m not just a comms leader. I write and build community, but I’m not just a writer or community builder. And I’ve invested, but I’m not just an investor. When @eriktorenberg approached me about the opportunity, he told me I could come do all of it under one roof, at a scale that wouldn’t be possible anywhere else, and crafted the right role to make it work. @a16z is the perfect place for me to manifest the full range of my interests, skills, and ambitions. Erik has been one of my earliest believers (since college!), so this feels like a long arc finally closing. I look forward to working alongside him and the rest of a16z’s brilliant team, and also hire even more great people into the firm. I’ll be taking some time between roles to touch grass and exist in the context. In the meantime, my DMs are always open.

@YGnacko raw sauce

Hi My name is Yacouba This is my first-ever post. I do a bunch of cool stuff. Let's connect!

new drop - redrum.mp4 imgs by @midjourney, videos @grok, editing @claudeai

@kyleanthony next lvl! 🔥

Just for the brand vibes

winter, 1993

this ad truly has it all: - stereotypical pseudo-@pmarca vc strawman ✅ - holier than thou moral superiority posturing ✅ - ai buzzword bonanza & cliche "killer robots" scaremongering ✅

@cleondesigns super cool!

maybe someday?

@__causasui next level

Come In Closer.

@sugarjammi @gg_lemonade

might be a stupid question but is unity still the best way to make free games have not been tapped into game dev for a while and not sure if theres some new ai dev engine out there ppl are using!

@CocoBuildsStuff would love to join!

hosting a small invite-only sake tasting night in SF with some cool founders and builders~ comment if you’d like an invite :)

phenomenology maxxing.

@brunokoba_ that would be a creative or brand director if brand is key for the business, then yes

What's the best way to hire/develop a "taste dictator" inside a company? Should every company have one?

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@yangyou signed up! ✍️

this friday: we've reserved a private evening inside the Museum of the Human Web for the designers and curious creatives who feel the weight of this legacy in their work. Designers Night @ Museum of the Human Web luma link below

LLM tetrad - enhances: cognition, prediction, pattern recognition - obsolesces: authorship, provenance, certainty - retrieves: knowledge, culture - reverses into: hallucination, psychosis, slop

@belindahuang signed up!

Less than a week out. Four designers with something to say— come hear it. Open Tab is a series of short talks on what designers are actually thinking about right now. Intimate, geared toward product designers, but really just a good excuse to get good people in a room. 🧡 Excited to announce May's lineup: • @alexkehr on injecting your design taste into AI coding tools • Lois on reinventing yourself in the age of AI • @vladgeorgescu on herding agents toward a shared goal • @yitong on design post-third impact If you're in SF, grab a spot → luma.com/c1025wvp Want to speak at a future one or partner? DM me or apply → forms.gle/FfxjPkgtZbL96Z…

latent space explorations