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@gopalkraman @southpkcommons @spencerc99 @eddiejiao_obj @annieqxx @johnjyang @shermangrewal club spc

our March demo night @southpkcommons showed us a the future of digital public squares, interactive dramas, and ambient intelligence. how we live and work is changing... h/t @spencerc99, @eddiejiao_obj, @annieqxx, @johnjyang, and @shermangrewal for showing us how.

@etpuisfume FOMO

can confirm, the spritzes aren’t safe in the city this week

Epic is as epic does. Always a great day, when representing @spc_india and @southpkcommons. Cheers to this goated team, founders and crowd.

my friend at Anthropic said they’re routing your requests specifically to the dumbest model (his name is Steve and they made him by distilling a CVS receipt)

Claude: "Go ahead and paste your API key here when you have it" Me: *pastes API key* Claude: "NO you fucking IDIOT"

Cringe is the path to glory.

At quick glance it's easy to miss what makes @GammaApp special (+worth $2.1B) because it feels familiar: slides. But Gamma isn't about slides. It's about storytelling. @thisisgrantlee dropped by @southpkcommons to share how to build a profitable AI company. (00:00) - Intro (02:41) - The Frustration With Slides That Sparked Gamma (04:02) - Reuniting With Co-Founders From Optimizely (08:46) - The Real Competition: Behavior Change (10:37) - The ‘Bet the Company’ Moment and the SVB Crisis (14:43) - Why Gamma Built a Lean Team and Hires Slowly (17:49) - Why Storytelling Is a Core Founder Skill (20:51) - How Gamma Balances AI Automation With Human Creativity (23:40) - Why Founders Must Survive “Cringe Valley” (31:17) - Building Gamma for Prosumer and Enterprise Growth

@ditzikow @josephfkrause @RadicalAI @faunarobotics @EricNewcomer 👀

NYC is becoming a hotbed for frontier tech. Hear from a few of the names leading the way including @josephfkrause (@RadicalAI) and Rob Cochran (@faunarobotics) on March 31st @ SPC NYC moderated by our friend @EricNewcomer.

@JPBrebner @thisisgrantlee @GammaApp @southpkcommons I'm only watching this talk if it's in gamma format

When @thisisgrantlee was pitching early investors for @GammaApp, one called it "the worst idea I've ever heard" and then hung up. Grant and Gamma (valued $2.1B) are doing ok. No word on the investor. Full talk out tomorrow @southpkcommons.

@OnaRoy88 @spc_india ➡️➡️➡️➡️

Why We are not an Accelerator, @spc_india The entire acceleration/incubation mindset rests on one premise → that the primary problem founders face is velocity, and it can be solved en masse - with curriculums and templates. It can lock in on a dangerous metric - velocity without vector. It should not. Acceleration without direction is just the rapid dissipation of energy! In thermodynamics, this is entropy -> work that produces heat but no useful output. Without deliberation and direction, speed will only compound the average...or worse, end up compounding the speed of failure. Speed before conviction, compresses the wrong path. At SPC, we claim the anti-accelerator label proudly. We believe that for the founder, the most critical phase of the journey is often the agonising and deeply personal descent into 'minus one', way before any ascent. Because we know what actually causes failure - and it's the lack of conviction. The lack of clarity and direction. Speed is a tool. Direction is the work. It's the quality of thinking that happens, before you land on THE idea. Real momentum comes from asking 'why; first and insisting on the only right answer. That work can't be rushed by a cohort's rhythm. And it cannot be manufactured. You cannot bypass the friction of discovery, with artificial kinetic momentum. So we invest at -1.

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We're pretty excited about our March lineup. To say the least.

it’s on slack bro. it’s in the drive. i just put it in the notion bro i literally sent it to you on teams. did you check the airtable bro? it’s in the box bro. it’s single sign on, it’s on okta bro. no you need the yubikey. check your deel bro, it’s on gusto. check outlook bro

Opinion: From ‘profound sadness’ to ‘reckless energy’: One Silicon Valley veteran’s coding journey with Claude. Read more: thein.fo/4aPxjAx

I wrote a new piece for @default_friend’s blog. I argue that Gen Z is trapped in a Borgesian archive, unable to establish a clear relationship to the cultural past. Link below 👇

snail mail startup Escargot is proof you can raise $2.8M off one killer pun