I announced earlier this week that I am leaving Meta. I am deeply grateful to Mark Zuckerberg for showing what a truly founder-led company can achieve. I am incredibly optimistic for Meta’s future.
At Meta, I was able to witness the most exciting opportunities in enterprise AI. That’s why today, I’m announcing that I will be joining Fireworks as CFO. I am thrilled to be joining a founder-led growth company where I can roll up my sleeves and put my experience to work.
Fireworks has the right mission for the moment. Companies will use AI to build on what makes them distinctive: their data and expertise. Specialized intelligence gives them a way to capture those advantages and own their “alpha.” Open models offer price points that allow the technology to have the greatest impact. Fireworks is building the platform to make all of this possible.
I’ve known and respected Lin @lqiao for a long time. As I’ve spent more time with her and the people at Fireworks, I’ve become increasingly bullish on what they are building. There’s a remarkable depth of technical talent here, coupled with a very practical focus on what customers need.
I see AI as the most consequential technology shift of my lifetime. I’m excited to get to work and help build a business at the center of it.
I highly recommend @markpinc’s new book - Life at the Speed of Play. I had the opportunity to work for Mark at Zynga and witness the effectiveness of the tools he outlines in the book for entrepreneurs. Plus it’s just a fun read.
Sharing Mark's thoughtful piece about why we should be optimistic about AI and why Meta is working on empowering people with this critical technology.
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1/ It's very sad to learn of Dikembe's passing. I had the pleasure of living next door to him my sophomore year at Georgetown. He was a friendly, larger-than-life personality. Once for my birthday my mom had sent me a pan of brownies. #DikembeMutombo
2 / I was sitting at my desk and saw Dikembe walk by and asked him if he wanted one. He said "yes," ducked into my room and proceeded to carefully slice the brownies.
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Amazing win by USA Cricket. One of the bigger international upsets in any sports that I can remember.
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WHAT. A. FINISH!!!! 🤩🤩
#TeamUSA wins their second match of the @ICC @T20WorldCup against Pakistan by 5 runs! 🔥
#T20WorldCup | #USAvPK | #WeAreUSACricket 🇺🇸
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I am hoping Congress makes enough money though insider trading that they won't want to take up the Biden capital gains proposal.
This civilization first appeared 15,000 years ago and died out 14,975 years ago…
The Indigenous people known as the Huichol first appeared in the highlands of Central Mexico some 15,000 years ago. According to their ancient traditions, both men and women would experience the pain of childbirth. Here's how it was done: the father would position himself on the rafters with a rope tied around his scrotum, while the mother would pull on it while giving birth.
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The original yarn painting is from a Huichol artist named Guadalupe de la Cruz Ríos, was made somewhere between 1960 and 1974, and did not depict a historical birthing custom. It is suggested that the 'tradition' might be based on an old trickster tale.
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Researchers are rushing to recreate the exciting room temperature superconductor results coming out of South Korea. It reminds me of another day back in 1989 when two University of Utah chemists, Pons and Fleischmann, announced they had demonstrated “cold fusion.” 1/
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As we poured over the results, something fishy stood out. The temperature went up gradually starting at about 6pm but then starting coming down in the early morning. That wasn’t consistent with the paper. 6/
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