Shyam Sankar

Vlad grew up in Soviet Moldova and describes what makes America special: "When you're born outside the United States, you're exposed to a way of life that's very difficult to understand for those fortunate enough to be born here. You take certain things for granted. You assume they're like gravity, because they just exist. But they're not. What is true in the U.S. — always has been true, still true today — is that the level of agency you have is unparalleled anywhere else in the world. If you have talents and motivation, there's an infinite number of ways to define success and live a life where you have the option to thrive. That option is not available to the vast majority of humanity. You'll be burdened by your family's history, your ethnicity, your religion, your government's oppressive system. In Moldova, you're not given permission to dream. You're born to survive. When you come to the U.S., you experience literally the inverse of that — this notion of individualism. In the U.S., you have an opportunity. The U.S. frees a person to pursue their talents and interests in a way that's just impossible elsewhere."

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OpenAI’s “The Deployment Company” is stealing clients’ IP and selling it to their competitors. This used to be a conspiracy theory. It’s not anymore. Watch this clip of OpenAI’s Head of Forward Deployed Engineering (speaking at South Park Commons). He says it directly: FDE service revenue doesn’t matter to OpenAI. Only Recurring Revenue from product does. To turn FDE engagement into product, OpenAI needs three things: 1. Subject matter expertise 2. Context to train on 3. Engineering And clients are paying OpenAI for them to get all three. OpenAI’s FDE clients don’t matter to them. They’re just a data source. Indie FDE agencies, on the other hand, obsess over clients because that is their business model. There isn’t a backend offer. Indie FDE agencies make money from happy clients. The Deployment Company makes money when shoplift clients’ data. Incentives matter. Hire Indie FDEs.

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