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@KevinNaughtonJr We’ve raised past 30… no such thing. But you’re right that most VCs prefer raw energy and execution-first, think-later kind of founders more. As you grow older, you think more and execute slower.

once you reach 30 it's impossible to raise VC money

@aidaniil Agreed and with AI its increasingly difficult to make an excuse for not executing your idea. The analysis paralyses is infecting people.

"stole my idea" shouldn't be a thing if you had an idea, why didn't you build it?

@boardyai ROI

Pitch me your company in 1 word.

they’re not retards, just trying to ‘hack’ their way to glory. most don’t get how to build a business, but this could be pragmatic ignorance… essentially they know what they’re getting into and a16z probably needs them to be ignorant just in case their product happens to catch on

@techselin why would you want to listen to retards?

a16z speedrun is the most expensive humiliation marketing campaign for potential founders not a SINGLE product outside of shitty gpt wrappers we are back in 2023

At @0xDexponent, we’ve built DeFi fund management so ahead of its time that we’ll have to wait for Claude Finance AI agents to trash the mediocre AI agents before LPs can fully take advantage of the platform.

@palkisu Looking forward to the global review.

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@AvhijitNair @DPIITGoI Wasn’t talking about the funds. I understand the process is and should be difficult to get the money. But other benefits that were promised like tax holiday for 5 years etc should at least have been easier to get.

You need to tap into the right orgs to get it. These funds are distributed via unis, R&D institutes and other such orgs. Get in touch with people from there, like through a warm intro or via incubation, show your progress or future plans to achieve certain milestones and then qualify yourself to get the fund. It took me some time as well, but it will happen. Was rejected multiple times before. The GOI funds are kinda difficult to get tbh, but once you qualify for one, let's say via a smaller TIDE grant, then you come into the radar.

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@hardeep_gambhir So many useless wrappers that’ll be obsolete in a few years if not months. I guess you could take a polymarket bet against some of these. Start with perplexity

so much noise in the san francisco bubble right now, i wish there was a way to short companies in the private market. so much money would be made.

@goodreads Circle of days

What are you currently reading?

@pmarca Basically all of them 😂

Boy do I have news for you.

All platforms… social media, messengers, streaming sites, etc. need to implement AI slop filters. Or at least decelerate/block the spread of information through AI slop. So much false information is out there, and the lack of tendency in most people for source verification is raising alarm bells in my head.

I get why you'd like to think that. But even if you're not, you clearly have been a true OG, dating so far back that many of us were not even born when you were doing some of these things. And honestly, I've felt of late that we need a more powerful voice in the space. Such a powerful revolution has become more of a get-rich-quick scheme, and current 'voices' are also proponents of that.

@JohnCarreyrou @AaronvanW the "we are all satoshi" stone is from this high production value special effects short film "block 170, the first transaction" by @ThibaultZeller @jonathanplesel player.vimeo.com/video/60727736…

Can a startup help fix a geopolitical crisis? In the venture capital world you are usually discouraged from starting with a broad problem. The common advice is to pick something narrow, acquire users around that niche, and only later expand through vertical integrations or M&A to become a real company. But when you look at historically successful ventures the story often looks very different. The companies that truly shaped industries started with expansive visions. A Ford, a Boeing, or even a SpaceX are difficult to imagine emerging from a narrowly scoped product that slowly scaled upward without the founding vision remaining intact. Each started with a view of how the world itself could change. Today two technologies sit at the center of a similar inflection point. AI and blockchain. In the near term their relevance is obvious. Productivity gains, financial systems, automation, and new forms of digital coordination. But the deeper implication is something far bigger. We are beginning to experiment with systems that enable global coordination at scales humanity has never attempted before. At the same time these technologies are already showing up in modern conflict. The tensions involving the US, Israel and Iran increasingly intersect with AI driven intelligence, cyber capabilities, and automated decision support. Like every powerful technology, the same systems that can transform economies can also reshape warfare. The hope is that we learn to use them for something better. Blockchain’s immutability offers something the modern information environment desperately lacks. A shared, verifiable record. Vitalik recently described blockchain as a kind of public bulletin board. In a world saturated with propaganda and information warfare, systems like this could anchor information in records that cannot easily be rewritten. AI may offer another piece of the puzzle. Training models on centuries of diplomacy, treaties, negotiations, and geopolitical outcomes could allow us to explore possible compromises and identify patterns that humans might overlook. It is not hard to imagine future headlines that sound very different from the ones we read today. “AI-assisted negotiations prevent regional escalation.” “Blockchain-based public ledgers expose coordinated misinformation campaigns.” “Autonomous diplomatic systems help broker the fastest peace agreement in decades.” The first generation of startups around these technologies may transform finance and productivity. The next generation might end up shaping how nations coordinate, verify truth, and resolve conflict itself.

A quarter of the 21st century is over. Hopefully, all the regressive over-correction from the all-time high of human collaboration and advancement of 20th century is now over, clearing the way for many giant leaps for civilisation.

Only 2 investor updates matter: 1) confirm investment was received 2) sold the company for 3.35 billion dollars. Number of interim updates in the messy middle is not correlated with success in my experience, but they are well appreciated. @roskilli @chronosphereio

More resources don’t translate to more productive work. Spending time with AI tools can especially fool you into thinking you’re very productive. It’s easy to lose focus on what matters when a lot of work seems to be happening, even if it’s not leading to meaningful outcomes. I’m focusing on unlearning more and redefining what outcome-based productivity looks like for myself and my team.

@rargulati were it so easy.

the best feeling in the world is to no longer need anything from anyone. to be completely sufficient and content in yourself.

Always 2 steps ahead.

@FrankieIsLost Congrats @FrankieIsLost ! Yellow robots seem to be the future of this industry.

Grateful for the founders I get to work with and the many people I’ve collaborated with along the way. And thankful for my partners at Paradigm, who took a bet on a yellow robot they met on the internet.