Jason D. Rowley

The real capital gains are the friends you've made along the way

SEC Filing Watch: SV Angel appears to have closed $330M for SV Angel Growth II, L.P. The firm's first Growth Fund raised approximately $270M in 2022. sec.gov/Archives/edgar…

@TheAnnaGat @interintellect_ @BloombergBeta @drapervc @balajis @shl @jposhaughnessy @eshear @natfriedman @matthewclifford @hollyhliu @sariazout @kevinschawinski @arnaudschenk @swathyprithivi Hell yeah!

I didn't do much press around it but @interintellect_ raised over $1m from @BloombergBeta @drapervc @balajis @shl @jposhaughnessy @eshear @natfriedman @matthewclifford @hollyhliu @sariazout @kevinschawinski @arnaudschenk @swathyprithivi and others (plus an early grant from @tylercowen's Emergent Ventures) to build better discourse via its curated event platform + livelihood for up and coming intellectual talent. We're building some exciting stuff and our community tier is 🔥

Today in tech history: Google went public 20 years ago on August 19, 2004

@generativist lol joke's on all the so-called economists who said there ain't no such thing as a free calorie

@Jason_Rowley look the calorie label shows +0 so it's fine!

why are we smoking all the foods?

SEC Filing Watch: 20VC Fund III, L.P. targets as much as $400M, >2x AUM over the firm's most-recently announced pair of funds. Best of luck to Mr. @HarryStebbings. sec.gov/Archives/edgar…

@still_runspired Friends with ADHD don't enable friends with ADHD, except when they do... which is more often than

Scheduled Send should be built into any messaging system. Just because I'm up late and surfing around and lacking self-control to draft a message and send it in the AM doesn't mean folks need to be subjected to it, like, **tonight**.

@jedc @Artifact_News 🤔 techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/ins…

Really sad to hear that @Artifact_News is going to be shutting down. I’m a bit of a news junkie, and it’s been the best news app I’ve ever encountered!

Microwaved take: The constrained spectrum that makes Apple Vision Pro's passthrough color rendering look flat is a feature. You take the thing off and realize the world is suddenly vibrant and full of color. EDIT: for Grammar

And if you just want to skip all the reading and go right to the application, here's the link. (You might need to create an account, which takes like 2 minutes.) us.pycon.org/2024/applicati…

Applications for a spot on Startup Row at @pycon 2024 are now open! If you're building something awesome and want to connect in-person with the Python community, apply for free booth space and conference passes for you and your team! Learn more: us.pycon.org/2024/expo/star…

@alex @abarrallen This was a fun one that I’d happily revisit with fresh data 📈

@abarrallen $20M is a big series a!!!! news.crunchbase.com/venture/the-di… via @Jason_Rowley

Pre-seed is the new Seed. $20M is also not really a Seed round, it's building in Series A metrics.

It’s a week like this that I kinda miss being an in-the-trenches reporter. Separately, I’m considering framing the supplement to Wired’s October 2023 issue spotlighting OpenAI. Uncannily prescient:

Congrats to @ponderdata on its exit to @SnowflakeDB! It was great having the team on Startup Row at @pycon 2023 in Salt Lake City. snowflake.com/blog/snowflake…

@JHTScherck Good to see you too!

@Jason_Rowley been a while! Glad to see you back on the bird site.

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@2MuchDotNETTE @AmatiSusan I live in the area and was walking a block away (not within line of sight). The sequence of noises was so quick I thought someone was lighting off a string of firecrackers. Later, I drove past the police block and asked what's up. "Drive-by shooting," according to the officer.

@AmatiSusan What?! Fr?! 😳

Wtf happened in Hyde park on 51st???

Now up on @DeepgramAI: @erin_scherf and I trace the academic journey of Language AI from Turing's Imitation Game to GPT-4, in 11 papers. So glad to have the opportunity to work with Erin again. deepgram.com/learn/11-paper…