Kaba
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Kaba
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if attention is all you need, train yours

yesterday we had @kevinweil (VP of Science Open AI; fmr head of product at IG and twitter) come hang with the @speedrun founders one thing he said jumped out: >> we asked: "what startup opportunities do you find most interesting?" >> Kevin: 80% of the world's data is private. OpenAI won't have access to it. Getting access to that data (or creating data) and building a business on top gives you a real moat.

For most of history, expertise was scarce, constrained by time and reach: one person, one career, one lifetime. Now, for the first time, we can encode, evaluate, and scale it. We believe the wisdom that once took a lifetime to build shouldn’t take a lifetime to find. Today, we’re excited to announce that @AfterQuery has raised a $30M Series A at a $300M valuation and that we’ve since surpassed $100M in annual revenue run rate, to build the data layer of professional AI.


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This may not seem like a big deal. But if getting to ASI is increasingly a function of 1) inducing the origination of scarce context, and 2) access to the permissioned environments where that context is likely to be originated, a lack of trust becomes existential for OpenAI. Progress is increasingly downstream of trust.



Peter Thiel: “AI chips will get commoditized.” Yes, the value in AI has largely accrued to the semiconductor level so far amd concentrated largely in $NVDA. But this is bound to change. In chips, you can stay as a monopoly only if you have an exclusive partnership with the monopoly in a downstream market. This is how $INTC dominated CPUs for decades, by partnering up with $MSFT. We can’t see such a partnership in AI, industry dynamics don’t allow it: - Downstream market is fragmented. - Price/performance drives decisions. As a result, the more AI workloads shift to inference, the more fragmented the AI accelerator market will become as inference-specific chips or custom chips of hyperscalers will be used more. Yes, it looks like most of the value has accrued to $NVDA right now but it’s almost certainly not sustainable. This is why I don’t own it despite seemingly attractive valuation. Its base is already too high and it’ll certainly struggle to maintain it let alone grow.


NEW EPISODE: @jack & @roelofbotha unpack @blocks 40% staff cut and rebuilding the entire company as a mini-AGI. This isn’t “use AI to make people more productive.” It’s making the company itself the intelligence. If you’re a founder or operator wondering what work looks like in the next 5 years… this is the episode. The evolution looks like: • Manager mode = Pyramid 🔺 (command & control) • Founder mode = Flat ➖(founders decide fast) • Dorsey mode = Circle 🔵 w/ AI at the center, humans at the edge, and decisions flow from customer inputs → AI → humans steering it I’ve tried killing org charts before. Brutally hard. But we never had these tools. This is rewriting the CEO playbook for the AI era. Buckle up. 00:00 Existential Dread & Hope 02:56 AI Replaces Hierarchy 07:22 Block’s New Three Roles 26:47 Flattening the Company, Fast 35:23 Getting the Board to Buy-In, Fast 36:50 Building a Great Board 41:29 Founder CEO Lessons 48:18 Second Acts & Conviction 56:22 Timeless CEO Traits




@ashebytes the human is the loop the sensor is the actuator the harness is the sandbox the attention is the weight the model is the product everything must be created bottoms up and node (person) out

@akoratana @JayaGup10 this is part of a broader convergence. when computer security _is_ alignment: 1) enterprise security, observability, tooling will come to consumer 2) the enterprise will need real time query/policy enforcement of associate endpoints 1 converges b2b + b2c, 2 cloud + local

@tmrohan @michaelonx_ new tech => new delivery mechanism => new biz model(s) this incongruence is wildly under discussed next token prediction on someone else’s computer is just saas

We’re pricing tomorrow’s companies against yesterday’s business models. Seed is under-priced.







Sam Altman predicted in 2024 that a one-person billion-dollar company "would have been unimaginable without A.I., and now it will happen." He just emailed the NYT saying he won a bet with tech CEO friends over when it would arrive, and that he "would like to meet the guy." The guy: Matthew Gallagher, 41. Spent $20K and two months building a GLP-1 weight-loss telehealth company out of his living room in LA. The stack: ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok writing code. Midjourney for images. Runway for video ads. ElevenLabs handling customer calls. Custom AI agents stitching it all together. $401M revenue in year one. On track for $1.8B this year.






