lucy chen
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lucy chen
@lucychen_
applied ai phd dropout @stanford. I lead eng at Claude Code @anthropic. my thoughts are my own

Rasmr called Avi live to ask how a competitor raised $31,000,000, Avi explained that "Silicon Valley is broken"... the competitor raised $31 million at a $300 million valuation on the exact same terms he had asked from General Catalyst, meaning they could have written the same check to him instead. Avi argued the raise was driven by "hardcore nepotism" and VCs preferring a moldable, "buttoned-up" founder over someone like him who "does what he wants" and can't be controlled. Despite the call going viral and bringing massive inbound interest, Avi refused to capitalize on the drama, saying he'd rather build real revenue and "mock these guys on the business front" than raise money off manufactured attention.














Will I be the first one-person billion-dollar company? I don't care. My goal is to be the first one-person company to help a billion people get into the new AI economy. That's Polsia. Fun talking through it with the extremely talented @willsclips_ on his behind-the-scenes documentary.











