Mitch Cooney
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Mitch Cooney
@mitchcooney
currently @paladincap / former @stepstonevc
Washington, DC Katılım Haziran 2017
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Launching a DC sports + local tech media platform
Ex-Washington Post journalists: if you want to earn more, have real freedom, and build something from scratch that dominates old media, let’s talk
Facts-first, no corporate guardrails, ship it and own it
Gonna be electric
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@JamesBarlia @AccionVLab @arborview_cap @Ardent_VC @stroupe @CanapiVentures @DataTribe @meaganmetz @Seanglass @FlourishVC @goodallkate @NickSuperina @HustleFundVC @haleymbryant @innerloopcap @justinlabel @m_gittleman @kstcapital @PaigeSoya @M_Bressler @OriginVentures @Paladincap @QuonaCapital @razorsvc @resilience_vc @ridgelinevc @michaelawsutton @phillipjung @squadra_vc @mmealling @SCV_Cyber @HankThomasDC @VenturesVeteran @ZealVC @NasirQadree @mbluciani @Camber_Creek DC venture ecosystem 📈
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@AccionVLab @arborview_cap @Ardent_VC @stroupe @CanapiVentures @DataTribe @meaganmetz @Seanglass @FlourishVC @goodallkate @NickSuperina @HustleFundVC @haleymbryant @innerloopcap @justinlabel @m_gittleman @kstcapital @PaigeSoya @M_Bressler @OriginVentures @Paladincap @mitchcooney @QuonaCapital @razorsvc @resilience_vc @ridgelinevc @michaelawsutton @phillipjung @squadra_vc @mmealling @SCV_Cyber @HankThomasDC @VenturesVeteran @ZealVC @NasirQadree @mbluciani @Camber_Creek Like I said, probably missed some important people, but baller list imho...
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Loved this optimistic perspective detailing the last 250 years of vast technological progress - worth the read
a16z@a16z
Welcome Christian Keil to a16z's American Dynamism team. Today he asks, “If you had just five minutes to tell a Founding Father about the last 250 years in America, what would you say?” Read his answer: a16z.news/p/technology-i… @pronounced_kyle
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Mitch Cooney retweetledi
“Easier software creation means more software. More software means more developers, not fewer. We should expect many thousands of new businesses each year as a result, & a similar explosion in second-order jobs.”
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“What happened to auto industry employment? It grew. Massively. In 1910, US auto plants employed 76,000 workers. By 1929, that number reached 471,0004. Mass production created mass consumption, & mass consumption demanded more workers.”
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Worth the quick read by @ttunguz on the potential parallels between the productivity gains derived by Ford’s Model T assembly line & the recent gains seen via AI coding tools — we are just scratching the surface of the abundant 2nd order effects of AI.
Tomasz Tunguz@ttunguz
In 1908, 253 American automobile manufacturers competed for the market. By 1929, just 44 remained. The assembly line didn’t just change how cars were made. It changed who got to make them. Ford’s Highland Park plant, operational in 1913, slashed the time to build a Model T from 12 hours to 93 minutes. That 90% productivity gain restructured an entire industry. Manufacturers who couldn’t match Ford’s efficiency faced a simple choice : adapt or exit. The consolidation was swift. Between 1908 & 1929, 83% of automakers vanished. Some merged. Most failed. The survivors shared a common trait : they adopted Ford’s methods. General Motors, Chrysler & the handful of remaining independents all built assembly lines. An analogous revolution is happening in software, with important differences. AI coding assistants now reduce development time by 55-81%. The curve is familiar. Ford took six years to achieve 90% time reduction. AI coding tools reached 81% in five. The slopes are nearly identical. What happened to auto industry employment? It grew. Massively. In 1910, US auto plants employed 76,000 workers. By 1929, that number reached 471,0004. Mass production created mass consumption, & mass consumption demanded more workers. The real explosion came from second-order effects. By 1929, for every one person building a car, seven others had a job because that car existed. Dealerships, service stations, repair shops & supply chains employed nearly 4 million people. The industry didn’t just create more manufacturing jobs; it spawned an entirely new economy of “enablers” that was 8x larger than the core manufacturing base. The software industry will follow a different pattern. In autos, capital intensity consolidated power. It’s the opposite in the world of AI. AI data centers, the assembly lines of software, enable hundreds of millions of developers to build software as if they had the capabilities of an automobile behemoth. Any developer can access state-of-the-art models with a laptop & a credit card. Easier software creation means more software. More software means more developers, not fewer. We should expect many thousands of new businesses each year as a result, & a similar explosion in second-order jobs. tomtunguz.com/the-model-t-co…
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“What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.” getflack.com/p/standing-out
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"In a world flooded with AI-generated text. “writing-first practitioners” have an edge that only sharpens. These are professionals who write to think, not just to market - and their cultivated voice and hard-won networks can’t be prompted into existence"
every.to/p/the-heyday-o…
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"Even if AI does all of the jobs, humans will still want humans, creating an economy for labor precisely because it is labor." stratechery.com/2026/ai-and-th…
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Mitch Cooney retweetledi
The Commanders are going back to the future with a $3.8 billion stadium rising on the former RFK Stadium site.
Backed by roughly $1.1 billion in public funding, the project leans into the franchise’s past while building for what’s next.
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Mitch Cooney retweetledi
The Technology Brothers Have Silicon Valley in Their Thrall. Now They’re Coming for You vanityfair.com/news/story/the…
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“Advances in AI have caused a seismic shift from a world in which answers were crucial to one in which questions are. The big differentiator is the ability to craft smart prompts.”
hbr.org/2024/05/the-ar…
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Mitch Cooney retweetledi
@jbahrdestefano I'm at mcooney@paladincapgroup.com if that's easier!
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@mitchcooney cool if i send u more info? via dm or email?
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Has anyone here spent time in the security space?
Taking a look at a company and trying to dive in + learn from those who know much more than I do
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“Current estimates on Amazon Kindle are that almost 1/5 of recently self-published genre books included A.I.-generated text. (In their paper, lay readers— judges who weren't creative-writing students— preferred the artificial output to human writing even in the earlier versions”
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“Students compared 30 A.I.-generated passages— one imitating each author in the study-with passages written by colleagues. They weren't told what they were reading; they were asked which they liked best. They preferred the quality of the A.I. output in almost 2/3rds of cases.”
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newyorker.com/culture/the-we…
AI distrusting writing is just the tip of the iceberg… as LLMs increasingly add parameters and improve operational performance, AI v human works will be indistinguishable & potentially preferred…
w/o paywall: archive.is/QFjOQ
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