
co-founder and cto @quantilytix | building @sozofix
Harare, Zimbabwe
Joined October 2010
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A startup isn't supposed to make money.
It's supposed to grow fast and maximize the odds of returning a multiple to its investors.
Once you take VC money, your job is to increase value, not generate profit. If a company in my portfolio is sitting on profits, I'm annoyed. That cash should be going back into growth.
If you own 100% of your company, do whatever you want with the profits. Pay yourself a dividend. Buy a boat. Your call.
With VC funding, it doesn't work that way. Dividends sometimes become acceptable after an IPO, long after anyone still calls the company a startup.
Profit isn't the goal, it's what's left when you've run out of better places to put the money.
5 years ago: Starlink is such a stupid idea. Anyone wasting money investing in this Musk scam deserves to lose everything.
Today: Starlink is essential to the defense of an invaded nation. Access to Starlink is a human right! Nationalize it!
The first one is a lay up difference of 2 squares but still the quickness is still a marvel. The second one really shows that his mind is just ridiculous not just on Math but on reading and understanding.
Jack is always in the kitchen🔥. A native-speech model is huge for bantu language because it keeps the tone that is lost in text pipelines. I can't wait to read the paper. Open source it so we can distill it.
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
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