Co-Founder @weekendhq The AI for Fun Company
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Launching a new company today: Weekend. Dedicated to the radical idea that AI should make life fun, not just efficient. Here's why: xitter.cf/mlchild/status/2026795…
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Lots of VCs kindof sound like this: "Your basketball team doesn't have a moat, any healthy human can throw the ball into the basket thingy. "
People who have not run companies before don't understand how much the team matters more than some imagined structural moat.
This movie is THE PRESTIGE for holmes...she's pushing the icepick into her hand for real to rescue her reputation
On the latest Cerebral Valley Show, @mlchild and I talk You Can See Everything youtu.be/--mWMg_kv64?is=poFi…
We saw EVERYTHING and think @aGuyOnMyPhone has the most insightful take...the movie is designed to make you believe Holmes!
Do it for love of the game
This makes sense as an investor observation but I don’t want to celebrate it as advice for founders.
There’s something dispiriting about treating people’s passion for their work as a problem. Is that really what we want to see in the world which already has enough mercenaries?
Vanta is a great business, and I know Christina cares about the problem she’s solving.
But I don’t way to celebrate this framing.
I want founders to keep trying to do great things. To make something they care about better, and find out how much they can contribute.
Investors should fund that ambition.
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This isn’t the same thing despite common misconception.
Predicting the color of the ball is in the world of risk: both possibilities and probabilities are known.
The analytics decision is in the world of Knightian uncertainty: the probability is actually unknown.
Sports analytics will try to convince you these are the same thing, but it’s fundamentally different. Historical numbers, comps etc do not have the precision that people falsely give them. They can be helpful in giving you directionality, but they are not precise probabilities. 51% basically tells you either option is fine, adjust for your own specific context and make your best decision under uncertainty.
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Three reasons why the data industry is dominated by young people (<28), even more so than other large AI markets:
1. We are at the beginning of a supercycle and young people are unburdened by priors of what durable equity value looks like
2. Young people have time and energy, and data is intense (part of what makes it hard)
3. AI researchers and adjacent lab employees also skew young, and these relationships matter a lot
Character.ai filing for bankruptcy while #8 on a16z consumer AI leaderboard says a lot about the state of the business (precarious!)
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Narrative violation - ChatGPT is gaining share in the consumer AI market
Even on a much larger starting base than competitors (more saturation), they've seen accelerating net new adds for the past four months
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Throwing all of my company’s confidential presentations, customer agreements, and financial models into Claude just to respond to one email
This could actually be the year of server side Swift
Google: “[Swift] has matured into a viable systems and cloud language, pairing Rust-like data-race safety with predictable, reference-counted performance.” Announcing their Swift-based cloud SDK for backend services: cloud.google.com/blog/topics…
CVAI heating up for November 12 in SF—chips, lawyers, online twitter battles...we will have it all!
newcomer.co/p/igor-babuschki…
It was so over, but we are about to be so back
NEW: Apple will launch its next big thing on October 13, a major new smart home device with a display. Here’s an in-depth look at its design, features, apps, use cases and more — bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Week 9, Game 10. SPOT THE GUBS.
A scavenger hunt on your TV. Race your friends to find hidden objects. Where's Waldo for Gubs (fishies).
You can also put a crown on your Gub. This is important.
SOON: Add yourself or your children as a Gub.
play.weekend.com