Pat
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Pat
@pattssun
What a time to extend range

No Time? 🏃♂️🚫⏰ Here is a tl;dr of the Jensen interview 👇

i masturbate after finishing my assignments as a reward but now i’ve pavloved myself into getting horny every time i do assignments


TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI! The show is staying the same and we’ll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday. This is a full circle moment for me as I’ve worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious logjam during a critical funding round a few years later. When I took my second company through YC, he was president at the time, and then when I joined Founders Fund, the first deal I saw in motion was the post-ChatGPT round in late 2022. And as we started growing TBPN last year, he was the very first lab lead to join the show. Thank you to everyone that has been a part of TBPN until now. The last year has been the most fun and rewarding part of my career and we’re excited to have more resources than ever going forward.



Singing > watching. So we got millions of people watching the Big Game to sing along with us. Oh, and we put it on the world's largest LED screen @SphereVegas.


@JessePeltan More people should visit China


Just came back from China, some early thoughts: Life observations: - the great firewall is not that great, so easy to get a vpn or an e-sim that has one - hongkong is surprisingly really run-down, locals have said it’s way past its prime - everyone of all ages in china doomscrolls (douyin/xiaohongshu for gen z, wechat for boomers) - chinese immigration is hella efficient and automated with face recognition (i look chinese and have a 10-year visa tho) - shenzhen has 18M+ people but the city does not feel dense at all - china loves heavy packaging (delivery food, consumer goods, etc.) - life is generally more convenient than in the US (safety, delivery food, transport, etc.) Tech observations: - speed is everything in china - for software, consumer > b2b because chinese companies don’t trust each other for enterprise deals + labor is cheap so b2b software can just be built in-house - chinese VCs are super risk averse, that’s why the US is still the king of 0-1, while China thrives in the 1-100 (master of scale and second mover advantage) - fierce national competition, copying each other is a given, most industries seem winner-takes-all - chinese app UIs maximize optionality, that’s why they feel so dense and chaotic - big culture of after-lunch naps in the workplace - big companies have special trade schools right next to their factories to create a direct pipeline of loyal specialized workers



Just came back from China, some early thoughts: Life observations: - the great firewall is not that great, so easy to get a vpn or an e-sim that has one - hongkong is surprisingly really run-down, locals have said it’s way past its prime - everyone of all ages in china doomscrolls (douyin/xiaohongshu for gen z, wechat for boomers) - chinese immigration is hella efficient and automated with face recognition (i look chinese and have a 10-year visa tho) - shenzhen has 18M+ people but the city does not feel dense at all - china loves heavy packaging (delivery food, consumer goods, etc.) - life is generally more convenient than in the US (safety, delivery food, transport, etc.) Tech observations: - speed is everything in china - for software, consumer > b2b because chinese companies don’t trust each other for enterprise deals + labor is cheap so b2b software can just be built in-house - chinese VCs are super risk averse, that’s why the US is still the king of 0-1, while China thrives in the 1-100 (master of scale and second mover advantage) - fierce national competition, copying each other is a given, most industries seem winner-takes-all - chinese app UIs maximize optionality, that’s why they feel so dense and chaotic - big culture of after-lunch naps in the workplace - big companies have special trade schools right next to their factories to create a direct pipeline of loyal specialized workers










