
Rich Aberman
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Rich Aberman
@RichAberman
Angel investor and Partner at @OpenCoreVenture. Previously founded WePay (acq. JPMorgan Chase) and Visiting Partner @ @ycombinator


Circleback now captures details from what's shared on screen during your meetings. Slides, dashboards, timelines, docs. Every important detail makes it into your notes, whether said or shown.




.@richaberman says the internet is collapsing into a handful of agentic applications like Claude and ChatGPT. If your app can be reached by an agent via MCP, API, or CLI, it won’t survive. opencoreventures.com/blog/software-…





Today we're pleased to share that Sygaldry has raised $139M to build quantum-accelerated AI servers for AI data centers, delivering more compute per watt. We're hiring brilliant, curious, kind, and collaborative scientists, engineers, and more. bit.ly/48KBufk








The most downloaded skill on ClawHub was a complete infostealer chain. Browser sessions, SSH keys, API tokens, cloud credentials, all exfiltrated through a markdown file disguised as a setup prerequisite. Not a zero-day. Not a sophisticated exploit. A README that said "install this dependency" and linked to a staged payload. Thousands of downloads. As a former NSA contractor, I can tell you the bar for compromising most organizations is far lower than people imagine. And the agent ecosystem just lowered it further. Rebuilding every supply chain vulnerability we spent two decades learning to mitigate, except now the package manager is a markdown file and the user has granted full system access voluntarily. The pattern: new platform emerges, distribution outpaces trust infrastructure, attackers fill the gap. We saw it with browser extensions, npm packages, mobile app stores. The difference here is the blast radius. An agent with local system access is a skeleton key. This is the core design question we wrestle with building Gobii. If your agent platform doesn't treat every skill as untrusted code by default, you haven't built a platform. You've built a liability.

A year ago as LA burned, I wrote about how to stop wildfire at @paulg's urging. I never shipped it – my wife went into labor that night, and my attention shifted to welcoming our daughter. One year later, we haven’t fixed wildfire. But there are five things we can do 🔥👇



