Krish Mendapara
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Krish Mendapara
@krish_mendapara
🇨🇦 @matrixbiotech // z fellow
San Francisco, CA Katılım Mart 2024
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a common topic i hear from undergrads these days is YC vs. @speedrun.
i don't really know about yc, but everything good in my company happened because of speedrun. i still remember the day we got in, in a small shitty Airbnb in Rincon Hill, 3 months into incorporation.
speedrun is where I became friends with the best founders of this generation like @sekaiapp @rjvir @gao_zibo, speedrun is how i raised from @generalcatalyst, and speedrun is how i moved to SF.
this is the best startup accelerator now. if you're an early-stage team building in healthcare or consumer, DM me for application advice and a scout check. I'll help you get in front of the team.
andrew chen@andrewchen
ok - dropping big dates/news for a16z speedrun: - starting TODAY, founders can apply for the 2026 program that runs July 27 to Oct 11 in SF here's the link: speedrun007.a16z.com/ac - we will be investing up to $1M and funding 70+ companies over the next few weeks - But there's also $5M in credits/tokens/etc from AWS/GCP/Open AI/Azure/NVIDIA/Deel/Stripe/etc. You'll also work with our amazing operating team (GTM, talent, brand, people, and more), and join our community of elite founders - we offer a Global Founders Program for international founders, to help with visas, banking support, relo recommendations - yes you can be solo (but better if you're further along, and have built a team). No you don't have to have an idea yet. Yes you have to know how to build (even if you're not technical) - Also, in other news: speedun is officially moving full-time to SF. (prev it alternated SF/LA) this is for all the obv reasons - we've continued to have an insane lineup of speakers, including the founders of Carta / DoorDash / Twilio / Figma / Zynga / Airtable / Twitch / and of course, lunch/dinners with Marc/Ben alongside a16z team - and much more - the deadline for applying is May 17!
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Wanted to find a better way to meet people @socraticainfo, so I built Socratica Scroll
Scraped 580+ personal websites from symposium attendees, and made it super easy to scroll through them!
socraticascroll.com
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@adiprasadd @modal @hackwithtrees @Waymo @TencentGlobal @kyanyang_ @kevinjosethomas @shreybirmiwal good stuff 🫡
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🏆 1st Place @modal inference track @hackwithtrees
Inspired by the @Waymo world model, we aimed to get as close as possible in 36hrs using open an open model from @TencentGlobal hosted on modal!
cc: @kyanyang_ @kevinjosethomas @shreybirmiwal
see more: tinyurl.com/76wmt6ha
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Krish Mendapara retweetledi
@KrishivThakuria Being able to remove attachments when editing messages lol
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I'm going to build a version of ChatGPT for myself with all the features I wish existed
Will open source it once it's solid
What are some features you wish ChadGPT had?
Krishiv@KrishivThakuria
I built your app ChatGPT with threads:
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you just became a VC
you’ve got $500k to deploy
which founders in biology are you betting on?
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Mississauga -> Waterloo -> SF pipeline should be studied
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Krish Mendapara retweetledi
nvm we made it
@krish_mendapara
Liam McNamara ⁂@mc_liamm
A couple weeks ago I landed a position at one of the best neuroscience labs in the world, bringing me to California next term. Today, I was denied the grant funding to make that happen. Distraught, I took a walk by the water to reflect, where I met a guy named Jake. He was just singing and playing guitar in the dark, on his own, so I asked him how long he’d been playing for. What followed was a 40 minute conversation about art, expression, balance, and meaning. He told me about his paintings of the mountains, the poems he used to write for his family, and his time in school. I told him about the hobbies I used to love, the things I used to create, and how I’m far too busy to do any of those things anymore. The world isn’t so bad; take some time to lock out every once in a while.
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the best customer service i've ever had is service ontario. the bar has been set by doug ford and co
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@liam_builds @adiprasadd @shanebarakat_ Plus the big programs at mac are all lifesci/mhs, so a lot of the builders r in bio x eng, at uwo and queens, commerce/ivey r the big modifier, and bio I think is less risk adverse
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@liam_builds @adiprasadd @shanebarakat_ @adiprasadd @liam_builds I think it has to do with the fact Mac is gen eng first year, everyone’s too worried (rightfully so) about matriculating into the eng they want, so they don’t build things, aka they are by default one year behind, this is a valid take
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@liam_builds @adriandlam_ 🫣already looking forward to it!
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@adriandlam_ And it’s probably in Oakland next to a drug hotspot
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This fall, Waterloo will be electric.
Want to live with the best? Then apply to live @akatoshouse now.
Applicants receive priority invites to our events and coworking sessions.
BONUS: post-tour reactions from @casperkeyidong and @jefcodes
(more to come!)
akatos.@akatoshouse
Applications for Akatos, Waterloo’s first hacker house, will close this Sunday at 12PM EST. We are a house for Waterloo’s best founders and builders. Our applicants so far are incredibly talented! If you want to join, don’t miss out and apply below 👇
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We're hosting Waterloo's FIRST AI Chess Hackathon
This fall, team up in 3s and join 200 of the best AI engineers to build Chess Grandmasters
Winner will be declared in a tournament style showdown
Only one can take the queen...
chesshacks.dev
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