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Y Combinator has helped create more than $800 billion in market value over 20 years. Thank you to Paul, Jessica, Trevor and Robert and Happy Birthday to the fixed point combinator that changed the world.

@morrisor this is great, what’s it from?

The concept of “stress wood” is an appropriate metaphor for many things, including raising an independent child and creating an enduring startup.

@gruber how do you reconcile this with 'the cook doctrine'? daringfireball.net/linked/2024/03…

@arram not yet :/

So what's the verdict on using the Vision Pro as an all day monitor replacement?

@ashugarg arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462 from deepmind team earlier this month, defines levels similar to autonomous driving.

All this talk about AGI, yet I am struggling to find a good definition of AGI/creiyeria by which we would evaluate whether something models AGI. Any opinions /anything I should read ?

@erikapullum we were *just* talking about this at lunch. open to a quick chat/zoom? would love to hear more.

I want Figma but for data transformations. My whiteboard is great but also sometimes not specific enough for what I'm trying to do.

1/ I was talking to a friend who just got into @ycombinator S22 batch. Finally gave me the push to finish a post I've been writing slowly for some time now. What Happened to the Class of W11? —  YC 11 Years Later. @MichaelandMa/whatever-happened-to-the-class-of-w11-yc-a-decade-later-c15174d81d7d" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@MichaelandMa/…

@arram @ycombinator @ZeroCater Feels like yesterday 🤯

Congrats! Clay raises $8 million round led by Forerunner, General Catalyst, and others to build a beautiful and private home for your people techcrunch.com/2021/08/30/cla…

1/6) India is on fire. 7 people will die/min unless we set up hospital beds+oxygen. Sending concentrators is not sufficient. Hospital beds need that and more! So, #PoojaMalik, #NeerajGarg and I decided to set up onemorebreath.org. I will donate $20/re-tweet upto $100K

@bunsen @firstround Congrats!

Personal news: I've joined @firstround - I'm pretty thrilled about it 🎉. Here's the short story of how I landed this role. A thread... (as they say on #vctwitter)

@Sigalow See also:

CNN published a search tool that allows you to find any organization that accepted PPP. I was surprised to see over 41,000 non-profits on the list, including the “Citizens Against Government Waste” that campaigns for budget cuts.

@VerizonSupport Home bill

@verizonfios have called 4 times now over 1.5months to get billing issue resolved. Each time I’m told I’ll get a call back and never do. Just now told I was being transferred to customer advocacy group and transfer went to a dead end and hung up on me. Can you help?

@ryannielsen Whoa, congrats!

@nicholasbs congrats!

@alexrovner just came across your scaling spark slides (slideshare.net/arov/scaling-s…), any chance there is an accompanying video out there?

My sister taught me long ago to ask “will this matter in 10 years?” Great advice. twitter.com/paulg/status/6…

@nettak got the chills just thinking about it

Launched The Million Dollar Homepage 10 years ago today.. how time flies!