Rayan M retweeted
I'm thinking about my mom today. She loved the month of November and so enjoyed the gathering of family for Thanksgiving. She shared her special cornbread dressing with all her girls. I've continued the recipe and handed down to my children and grands. Tradition is a powerful thing.
Goodness me, that's a lot of amateur diagnosis and sweeping judgment packed into one post.
In San Francisco you have the narcissists pretending to be autistic and autists who genuinely believe they have narcissistic social skills. The former are very effective at big tech politics and fundraising. The latter are a combination of unintentionally hilarious and extremely frustrating to socialize with.
I can absolutely see data residency becoming another line item on the invoice. Enterprise pricing has got out of hand.
The chart has taken a rather dramatic turn. Those little faces are doing their best to make it look cheerful.
If the visa records exist, surely the sensible thing is to check them before declaring someone worked illegally.
In October 2024 the Washington Post claimed Elon Musk worked illegally in the United States in the mid-1990s while building Zip2, his first company. The piece cast him as a hypocrite on immigration. Joe Biden repeated the line on camera the same weekend.
Elon Musk answered within hours. "I was in fact allowed to work in the US." Then he named the papers: "I was on a J-1 visa that transitioned to an H1-B. They know this, as they have all my records."
The Post leaned on former associates and a 1996 funding clause that gave the Musk brothers a deadline to sort out work authorization after venture money arrived. What the loudest framing skipped is that the US government keeps those visa files, Zip2 still raised capital, and Compaq bought the company in February 1999 for about $300 million. Elon Musk later became a US citizen through the legal process. Legacy media led with "worked illegally" anyway.
I'd prefer AI to flag suspicious payments for a person to check before it starts freezing people's cards.
Does anyone else have to read tech memes twice to work out whether the acronyms are part of the joke?
Less than a third of tasks completed by the best models. AI agents still have quite a way to go.
We're launching Bank Arena: 52 long-running banking tasks across several banking apps.
We gave frontier computer-use agents a bank to run, from recovering transfers to settling merchant payouts. The median task takes experts ~75 minutes to complete, and the highest-scoring models completed <31% of tasks.
Here's what we found ↓
Rayan M retweeted
Every CEO I talk to wants every dollar their business spends on tokens to be visible, attributable, and controllable, like any other spend.
At Ramp, we’re building the accounting platform for inference.
Our cost per million tokens is down about 80% this year while token usage is way up. We want to help every business get to this (and better) outcomes.
I'd rather hear about a demo freezing halfway through a pitch than another polished story about a garage.
I think you can tell a lot about a company by whether people feel comfortable disagreeing with the founder.
Day 13 of reading a @paulg essay every single day (13/235)
Today, I read "The Right Kind of Stubborn" and "Haters".
I read two today because I was not able to make time to read yesterday.
The reason I chose these essays is that the titles caught my eyes after filming a documentary all day today about @boardyai.
The first word that came to my mind right after interviewing @andrewdsouza was 'A good listener'.
I was able to see this from the morning standup.
Many ideas popped up during the meeting, and Andrew listened carefully to all of them.
Andrew asked a few questions. It seems like a refutation at the beginning, but it turned out to be a fair dispute.
In his essay, PG said: "I can't think of anyone more determined than the Collison brothers (from @stripe), and when you point out a problem to them, they not only listen, but listen with an almost predatory intensity."
I saw this in Andrew today. He was one of the best listeners I've ever seen.
When I visit a startup for an interview, I can tell what the employees think of the founder by their attitude.
This is a common pattern in unicorn startups — they treat their founder like "Boss". They take care of small details like water, straws, etc. Their employees try their best to make every moment perfect for their boss.
Shame on me, but before the filming, I thought @boardyai might have a similar atmosphere because @andrewdsouza built a multi-billion dollar company before starting Boardy. (There were 300+ people working in there)
I spent all day today in @hf0 with @boardyai , but I was not able to see any moment like that. Boardy people do not hesitate to bring new ideas in front of everyone including Andrew. To be honest, it was like looking at university students who're preparing the final project. (but with way more talented people)
There's a famous proverb in Korea. "Rice plants tend to bow their heads as they grow ripe." It's very simple. But that does not mean it's easy.
That is an absolutely ridiculous amount of money to raise in a month. I can't even imagine the spreadsheets.
