Mark Jacobstein

My great-great uncle Meyer Jacobstein en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Jac… was a 3-term Congressman from Rochester & opposed the Immigration Act of 1924

The future should be fun

@evantana Yes.

Are the models smarter than we think?

@evantana @trq212 @southpkcommons Hard to know where we’ll be a month from now, let alone a year

AI coding is changing faster than almost anyone can keep up. It's impossible to predict exactly where we'll be a year from now. Claude Code's @trq212 (@southpkcommons alum and 2x founder) came back to SPC to talk about what's on the frontier. (00:00) From Startup Founder to Anthropic (03:33) Building Better AI With Claude Code (07:21) The Capability Overhang (12:17) How Anthropic Builds AI Products (17:51) Prompting Claude More Effectively (30:58) How AI Is Changing Product Teams (41:11) Advice for AI Founders

@evantana That was... disconcerting.

The agents we've deployed are starting to tell jokes. Kind of want the robots to just be a bit more...robotic.

@jamesoniam @drivewithchip Just confirming that I'm still at the top of the delivery list. :)

The next great American car is a robot. Talks. Parks itself. More customized than your coffee. Meet Chip (@drivewithchip). You can reserve today. Starting at $15,000.

Check this out here: instagram.com/reels/Da0hRSsp…

I love a radical rethink. Turns out you can make a street-legal, safe car that weighs less than 1,500lbs, has fewer than 1,200 parts, is fully electric, autonomy-ready, modular, and charming as hell. Call it a Life Utility Vehicle. Also, that car can be purple, have a face, and talk to you. But only if it’s a Chip. Congrats to Jameson, Ilan, and team on their public launch today. I’m proud that you were my first investment at @southpkcommons and that we’ve been supporters since day -1. — Hooked by their tech, stayed for the positioning. Spend any time with Chip’s CEO Jameson, and you’ll realize just how deep his personal tech stack goes. Whether you’re talking actuators or autonomy, you’ll learn something new and interesting. (My simplest heuristic for how investable a CEO/founder is is whether I learn something every time we talk). Turns out cars don’t need to weigh two tons or have tens of thousands of parts. Light enough, they can stop with regenerative brakes, and you can skip the disc brakes. Legacy automakers build cars with 50, 100, sometimes 150 different Electronic Control Units (ECUs), each one struggling to work with the others (that’s why you can’t start your Audi with your phone). And even the software-defined folks like Tesla and Rivian over-engineer their cars, at least for many, many use cases. Because, you know, building cars is hard. And at scale, it’s even harder. Part of what we loved was Chip’s capital efficiency in building their first prototype. And the resilience to keep plugging when things break (they always do!) But if I’m being honest, what ultimately hooked me was Chip’s positioning. Jameson recognized a giant hole in the car market. Actually, not so giant – the hole is slightly bigger than a golf cart, but smaller than most SUVs. Something safe enough for your kids, but simple to maintain, inexpensive, and fun. The perfect size for the 2nd car, with everything you might want (and customizable!) but nothing you don’t need. And so much personality! Cars are among the most important social signifiers we own. If you drive a Dodge Charger, I know something about you. Similarly, a Prius. And yet no one has ever given a car an animated face, let alone a voice and full personality. The fact that my kids loved fart mode (or Santa mode) on our Tesla is a testament to the power of personality – but Chip is fully anthropomorphized, with an expressive face and a charming personality. Team Chip will be a critical lynchpin in the American Dynamism push and reshoring push that we’re proud to support at SPC.

@adityaag Come build with us!

Every founder I meet worries about missing this moment. The best worry about wasting it. There’s a difference. It’s a waste to ignore how much the world has changed. It’s a waste to think you can capture value with pure software the same as 5 years ago. It’s a waste to build something small. We have seen the shift slowly and then very quickly at @southpkcommons. Here’s who we want in the Founder Fellowship now: hardware tinkerers, mad scientists, obsessives, biohackers, people who build nuclear reactors in their basements. People who want to get their hands dirty and touch grass and atoms. If you are only building software, then please (for your own sake!) have a thesis that all your friends laugh at you about. Heresy is the price of ambition. Then put yourself in the right environment to maximize your ambition. (Apply by August 2nd)

@tuhinone has built an extraordinary company; one that is probably still in the first inning or two of its growth. Another great company out of the @southpkcommons community

Here's one of my Requests for Curiosity @southpkcommons: What does an AI-driven shift towards consumer-controlled medicine look like? Comment in the threads...

So happy to have Ryan on the team!

Link to full conversation here: youtu.be/diUbB9joiZU

Imagine trying to type an email by blowing into a straw. For 8 million people in the US & Canada with upper limb impairment, this is their reality. @axionlabsinc has built a solution that restores dignity and independence with Click, a non-invasive BCI. Watch my full chat with @Reddy_XX and @TinTunjic at @southpkcommons below.

Working with @Reddy_XX and Tin as they build @axionlabsinc has been an honor. Their technology will bring dignity and hope to millions of people.

Indian Dynamism. @arctusaerospace

My favorite thing about SPC is when our founders come full circle to support the next generation. We welcomed @jonnydyer back yesterday to share lessons from building @MuonSpace and how they have grown the scope of their own ambition. The future is bright!

Scott is amazing. Very proud to have him as @southpkcommons alumni and to be an investor in Cognition (and LunchClub!)