Investing in pre-seed mutants and helping them tell their superhero origin stories. Venture Partner @SignalFire, ex-Editor @TechCrunch, SF maxi.
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2009
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Wow, only took you a week to invest?
Meanwhile:
Meeting yesterday
SAFE issued last night
SAFE signed this morning
1-hour raise strategy session today
Wrote them 1500-word memo draft tonight.
I decide fast, help even faster. $50K checks at pre-seed. DMs open. Let's go.
Go Fast, not just Direct. Stop pushing back your launch
The desire for perfect launch videos and social amplification campaigns is paralyzing you
Instead of bottlenecking to put your eggs in one big launch basket, build momentum through launch frequency
How did this little startup just 2X token throughput for the biggest AI hardware companies?
AutoResearch. It's basically pentesting for optimizing anything. And it changes everything.
Who builds the fastest AI? Whoever wins at automated research.
That’s why top F100 companies like @Nvidia and @HP are coming to @infinity_ai_ .
Infinity Autoresearch hit 2x token throughput for Nemotron 3 Super on the HP ZGX Fury (GB300).
Here’s how we generate ∞ speed:
Go Fast is the new Go Direct, and no one is going faster than Sigil.
Also I think this is the only Team page I ever enjoyed reading.
assembled a sick team of MTS
now adding one to the growth team
you’ll be working with 160 billboards, the coolest designers, the creators behind the biggest memes and stores in prime locations. Good pay & equity & lots of fun & getting roasted while making history
you don’t need to be a ghostwriter. We all speak our minds, online or in person. you don’t need to invent a brand story. you just need to amplify the truth. be creative, be happy, and handle some human coordination with the legacy agencies we haven’t automated away yet
send to your fren. If your fren gets in, you get cash or bones in the dogpark :)
join us so we can do the dog dance tgt
underdog.ai/team?v=2
This is my Midas list
went to one of the coolest tech parties in sf! 🎉🐒
thanks @JoshConstine and @signalfire for the invite and for curating a incredible time!!
When there’s technical difficulties, you do whatever you can to help, whether portco or performer, cringe be damned
only in sf do you get to see a partner of @SignalFire b-boxing for everyone 🔥
the sickest party hosted by the one and only @JoshConstine
soooo proud of you Josh!!! the best advisor of all time 🔥
Can't gatekeep any longer. We're hosting the *P*arty tech week was missing.
Live music by Coachella's Robert DeLong, Rufus Du Sol's label's HWIN, & Dave Font. Merch drops, robot portraits, epic art
Come hang with your fave builders. 2K already RSVP'd!
If you know me, you know I take partying seriously. This will be special. luma.com/signalfire-arthaus
Sign up here, and comment or tag a friend to be entered to win 2 VIP tix.
Secret's out. We have a ridiculous music lineup for SignalFire's TechCrunch Disrupt afterparty on 10/14:
-Coachella performer Robert DeLong, 200M streams
-HWIN, house & techno DJ from Rufus Du Sol's label
-Local legend @davefontenot from HF0
Comment and I'll DM the invite
Booking travel? Trust the guy who’s dealt with every possible disruption across 76 countries. Add @soarapp to the chat.
we need a benchmark for AI loyalty.
Is your agent truly doing its best for you? Or is it secretly trying to minimize its developer's costs, steer you to its rev share partners, or drive its own retention?
I run an SMS newsletter and working with the phone carriers is hell.
Skip that. Build on Photon. Let your agent reach mainstream users over text.
We raised a $4.5M seed to let agents text people.
Since April: 50K+ developers, 450K monthly npm downloads and 10x revenue.
Bring your agent to iMessage, WhatsApp and more → tryphoton.ai
Once a year we host a love letter to SF’s tech scene: our TechCrunch Disrupt afterparty
Live dance music from a 200M stream artist. Epic installations. The good people.
We had 4K RSVPs last year so giving early access to friends here. Comment and I'll DM you the invite!
Whoa, OpenAI just acquihired Patreon’s co-founder/CTO plus it’s heads of product and eng.
Great for creators, and Jack will keep Patreon chugging, but also feels like a bit of coffin nail for the capital C ‘Creator Economy’
1/ I'm joining @OpenAI to lead Creator Product after over 13 years since starting @Patreon. Coming with me are my favorite crew Drew Rowny and Shannon Ma, Patreon's (now former) Head of Product and Head of Engineering. We're going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to a new set of tools that I think will be critically valuable to Creators and their communities.
Inspiration is the new bottleneck, and text-only limits discoverability.
Who wins the agent-agnostic skill store?
“McDonald’s customer support bot is my coding agent”
“When I hit my limit, I just have Claude ask Instinct for answers”
Token Siphoning is about to make free AI surfaces very expensive to scale.
Wait they fired the founder/CEO and then in the 33 hours before he regained control, signed $4M payoffs to each other?
Are we sure these guys weren’t Forbes 30 under 30?
“As a VC in Europe, if you go to work every week day, that’s already a huge competitive advantage”
I’m dying.