My sister’s been diagnosed with a rare sarcoma, motivating this search for look-a-like cases if you know anyone please let @wgibson know, his lab at Dana-Farber looks and feels like the best startups in the silicon valley they will change the future of cancer
Seeking patients with myxoid leiomyosarcoma featuring a PLAG1 fusion. We're forming a major foundation with the best minds including @drsarcoma to find treatments and a cure for this rare disease, including developing in-vitro tumor models. Know someone affected? Pls reach out!
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At @Benchmark we wholeheartedly entrust our board interactions to @zoom_us, sadly for us we are not investors in zoom so we have no agenda here beyond bearing witness to the integrity of @ericsyuan and his team
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The meteoric rise of @mercor_ai becomes clear once you meet the founders. I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined their board and will be working closely with them alongside Sundeep Jain, who brings exceptional marketplace expertise. They’ve quickly established themselves as the go-to provider for top AI companies, delivering unmatched speed and quality
AI’s Next Job? Recruiting People To Train More AI trib.al/YeMFgUc #Cloud100
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Witnessing @btaylor, @claybavor, and the team take @SierraPlatform from @benchmark's founding Series A in May 2023 to a $10B valuation today is a true 6-sigma event. It's the perfect entrepreneurial storm: generational founders meeting humanity's AI inflection point with a product that delivers immediate value with limitless potential to grow.
Find every opportunity to use their products, work with their team, and learn from their strategy. Proverbial master-class in excellence.
Today, we’re announcing that we’ve raised $350M additional capital at a valuation of $10B, led by Greenoaks, which is doubling down on Sierra.
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Telegram continues its growth unabated towards the largest network for information flows, and we believe this unlocks the opportunity to do the same for financial flows
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Had a fantastic conversation with @jaltma - he has this rare ability to draw out what truly drives his guests. We went deep on my obsession: how evolutionary biology and generalized Darwinism can unlock new ways of understanding technology entrepreneurship piped.video/vRiblwiXt-Q?si=B_1m…
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Witnessing @milesgrimshaw entry into the venture business at age 21 and his meteoric rise over the last 8 yrs stands out without equal in my 20+ yrs practicing: curiosity, insight, and passion to serve - he expands our definition of excellence, welcome our newest GP @benchmark
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As is @benchmark we remain committed to supporting this vital institution in whatever constructive form emerges
.@svangel and I are proud to join this group of investors supporting SVB for a timely resumption of business
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@mercor_ai just broke every growth record in @benchmark’s history. Their team defines entrepreneurial brilliance, perfectly leveraging the biggest labor transformation of our lifetime
Mercor (@mercor_ai) scaled from $1-500M in revenue run rate in the last 17 months, making us the fastest growing company of all time. Our growth is accelerating. We averaged 11% week over week growth in July, 18% WoW growth in August, and 19% WoW growth in September.
One trend driving this meteoric growth: the Economy is Becoming an RL Environment Machine.
Reinforcement learning is becoming so effective that agents can hillclimb any benchmark, but humans need to define the rewards to automate everything.
While everyone fears job loss, we’re creating a new category of knowledge work faster than any other time in history. The future of work will converge on training agents.
We're paying out over $1M / day to people in our marketplace and hiring experts rapidly across nearly every domain: software engineers, doctors, lawyers, consultants, bankers, and many more.
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Overjoyed for @EmmanuelMacron and France, the smartest, most progressive leader I've met in Europe, transformational for France!
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If you read one thing about the venture-capital, technology investing landscape this year, this would be my reco abovethecrowd.com/2016/04/21…
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Big milestone in the long purpose rich arc of @ExaAILabs excited to join the board in support of this much needed transformation of search for AI
We raised $85M in Series B funding at a $700M valuation, led by Benchmark.
Exa is a research lab building the search engine for AI.
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OH from a @benchmark founding partner on @jack: "probably the greatest act of selfless leadership I've seen in 35 yrs in the valley"
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For the AI Curious don't miss this trip into the pragmatic brilliance of @btaylor in this wide ranging interview with @HarryStebbings piped.video/watch?v=vRhPc0zt… I predict we'll be able to listen to this in 10 years and say "WOW....if only i acted on the insights here!"
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Voting yes on prop C. nobody is offering a better alternative today. Failure to act means further avoidance of human suffering. In a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude, more resources means more opportunities to learn and evolve. I respect that people I highly admire disagree.
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The lag time between a radically new technology (blockchain) and the killer apps feels unknowable — but when lightening strikes a universe opens: NFTs, passionate football community, and fantasy play all collide @sorarehq vividly — follow your curiosity to sorare.com
We are excited to announce a Series A funding of $50M! 🚀
Backed by a world-class team of investors & footballers.
Read @ni2las blog to find out how we will propel the game to new heights! #OwnYourGame⚽
medium.com/sorare/sorare-rai…
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my partner @sarahtavel illuminates so much in this post on what's happening in the AI startup world sarahtavel.com/p/what-midjou…
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I'll follow @scottbelsky wherever he goes -- total clarity of purpose, commitment to the magic of company building
Back To The Early Days (shifting my focus to early-stage teams/products + why): medium.com/@scottbelsky/back…
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with 3+ months of the remote work experiment behind us that can't be unseen, leadership teams can ask: now what? this is the best essay I've read on the topic, thanks @adamdangelo: quora.com/q/quora/Remote-Fir…
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The book I most heartily recommend to everyone I work with is now properly available on Amazon thanks @mattmochary for contributing this immensely valuable guide for entrepreneurs amazon.com/Great-CEO-Within-…
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One of the most important papers of the last few years: how social relationships (# and type) impact lifespan pnas.org/content/113/3/578.f…
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Nothing compares to the sense of possibilities at the beginning thrilled to be back in business with @jeffseibert @Wayne
Announcing our $10.5M Series A led by @benchmark and 72 angels. Welcome, @peterfenton, to the Digits board! dgts.co/benchmark-leads-digi…
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A brilliant move by GV and a great day for the dozens of future breakout successes @jess will enable!
Former Twitter M&A exec @Jess Verrilli is headed to Google-backed venture firm GV (again) recode.net/2018/5/1/17306082…
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Body in Big Sur heart in Paris -- Laura & kids all ok, devastated by the loss, no city more courageous than Paris
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When we think about Silicon Valley as an ethos, egoic firms seeking to “win” don’t come to mind for me, the service and abundance mindset of @RonConway does, he elevates us all to a higher level of service without making anyone feel less-than, thanks for spotlighting @bchesky
I've been reaching out to many of the people who supported Airbnb in our earliest days to say thanks. While there are a number of people who believed in us, without Ron Conway, Airbnb wouldn't be what it is today.
news.airbnb.com/ron-conway-a…
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So perceptive @eladgil --> entrepreneur driven vs thesis driven a profound dividing line blog.eladgil.com/2016/07/end…
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From the moment I met him on the @elastic board @chetanp stood out as a once-in-a-generation investor and partner to entrepreneurs, welcome our newest partner @benchmark!
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Reminded of advice that a hero of mine gave me on the core duty of a board: structure, strategy, and staff
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Actions define us, @jack leadership shows us once again anything is possible when you sublimate self interest
🐥⚡️ I'm giving ~1/3rd of my Twitter stock (exactly 1% of the company) to our employee equity pool to reinvest directly in our people.
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Feel blessed to work with @btaylor and now on the Twitter board!!! One of the truly great thinkers in our world at so many levels
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Thank you @loganbartlett for asking such refreshing engaging questions 😊
Ep 40:
- a conversation w @benchmark’s @peterfenton about his path into venture, mentors, investing in what can go right, what makes great founders & the current market
- plus Rahul Ligma & @corporayshid has a podcast
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
YT: piped.video/SbWTRq4CEUQ
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#Elasticon @kimchy keynote — astonishing what a global radically decentralized engineering team creates, a counterpoint to Silicon Valley eng culture
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Overwhelmingly positive news for the venture industry @jesskah @sequoia fully expect Jess to be the best of the new generation
Excited to help other entrepreneurs navigate the roller coaster that is startup life. The struggle is real :-) jessyoko.com/blog/2012/11/07…
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Perfect day to run a marathon,...matched my time pre knee surgery to the minute at 3:01 #bigsurmarathon
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Inspired by the energy and clarity of purpose for Twitter that @jack brings as permanent CEO, even more so after a full search
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Must read post from @elastic Founder/CEO if you have any curiosity about opensource and its evolution in the cloud
I wrote my thoughts on what made us all, our company and our community, successful over the years, and keeping true to it
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Lord Kelvin said it best : “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.” Congrats to @BrendanFoody and @mercor_ai on delivering this for AI models
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Thrilled to serve the clarity of purpose of @sketch to unlock the potential of a design and designers and the worlds of joy they create
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must read for anyone in a subscription business model: the 3 defining metrics, zuora.com/top3saasmetrics/ @Zuora @tientzuo
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best business article in ages, simplify until it hurts around your unique model, complexity kills resultsbrief.bain.com/pdfs/1…
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Thinking at the edge of software investing, our partner @chetanp – Go Slow to Go Fast: Software Building and Investing – [Invest Like the Best, EP.156] investorfieldguide.com/cheta…
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First concert ever for birthday girl Natalie, thank you @Joshua_Redman @BrianBlade and @SFJAZZ we will remember the magic of tonight forever, on for two more nights!!! sfjazz.org/tickets/productio…
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Thanks to @quora for the opportunity to answer questions last week -- such a vibrant engaged community quora.com/session/Peter-Fent…
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Excited to join @aikarjal on the board at Robocorp!
Introducing Robocorp and how we see the RPA market shaping up with open-source.
robocorp.com/blog/introducin…
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To @btaylor @kevgibbs @molly_g and the entire @quip team congrats and onwards to the next 500m dau!!!
Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M tcrn.ch/2asW2gh by @ingridlunden
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just pulled out of my uber in a garage at Charles-de-Gaulle, the driver mauled by taxi thugs, awful
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If you haven’t heard this I urge you to listen to it today in honor of @repjohnlewis what an inconceivably great soul onbeing.org/programs/john-le…
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Ouch 😣 The salience of this $3b mistake remains as fresh as ever — as with @tobi — the compounding magnitude of my gaffe creates (unexpectedly) more admiration and positive motivation thank you for quantifying it 😉 @scottfarkas and @mcannonbrookes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Genuine passion & interest in entrepreneurship from @fhollande, making positive changes, big thanks to @Xavier75
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RIP Mary Oliver
I Go Down To The Shore
I go down to the shore in the morning
and depending on the hour the waves
are rolling in or moving out,
and I say, oh, I am miserable,
what shall—
what should I do? And the sea says
in its lovely voice:
Excuse me, I have work to do.
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Developers now have a way to create RPA with the freedom of open source and cloud-native technology @RobocorpInc, techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/ro…
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Fresh insights into the well studied but poorly understood world of marketplaces
I just published The Hierarchy of Marketplaces — Introduction and Level 1 (first installment of three) link.medium.com/u5KRgy7ul7
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Twitter's new Exec Chair @omidkordestani unparalleled in his ability to attract/motivate the best, he's passionate about the future @twitter
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RIP Tom Perkins. Will always remember our long dinners this last year: grace, wisdom, and curiosity. Young at 84.
Tom Perkins has died at 84. The venture capital pioneer's firm nurtured companies like Amazon and Google. nyti.ms/1YcVw7I
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the biggest innovation in engineering education in our lifetime @42born2code now in the US *thx* @Xavier75 piped.video/watch?v=9OKfktv3…
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My partners and I @benchmark have dreamed of working with @ryanspoon for 15 years, he defines excellence in everything he does and seeks (with great success) to raise everyone to their full potential, welcome to @SorareHQ !!!
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5/ No question that the industry has failing marks for diversity. We must fix it. And we all share in that responsibility
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For the nearly all data that is timeseries data..a compelling new offering from Timescale
So excited to announce Timescale Cloud: the first fully-managed time-series database service that works on AWS, GCP, & Azure. Fully production-ready with built-in HA. Starts at $2.64/day (less than a cup of coffee). Sign up today and get $300 in credits!
blog.timescale.com/timescale…
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Stanford's Robert Sapolsky on depression: 50 mins that will change your view of the mind forever piped.video/watch?v=NOAgplgT…
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The free TON phenotype of the brilliant TON genotype now coming to life — major validation of the scalability and integrity of @tonlabs and @communityTon
FIDE proudly announces a landmark partnership with @tonlabs, the core developer of the Free TON Network, to launch ChessNFT.com - a new, holistic chess non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem.
Details: fide.com/news/1413
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The @BerlinPhil app worth downloading if you love classical music: Digital Concert Hall
appsto.re/us/pCSdH.i
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Thrilled to be working with @acoustik and @michaelfreedman - meteoric adoption over the last 9 months of @timescaledb. Postgres, SQL, timeseries data... medium.com/@acoustik/raised-…
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ICYMI @JeffBezos last week, nobody comes close recode.net/2016/6/1/11826718…
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A defining Twitter moment given to humanity: "I ring the bell to open freedom, you don’t have to be big & powerful to change the world"
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Wild, @WillFenton learned chess this week and challenges this guy in the jardin du Luxembourg
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Twitter feels electric on #GSWvsOKC filter, ensures I stay wide awake in Paris - the best seat in the house!
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Great opportunity for female founders to meet with an exceptional investor audience
Proud and excited to be part of such a great group, and look forward to meeting great female-founded companies on Nov 30th. Apply! femalefounder.org.
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3/ Deeply sorry that my quote failed to properly convey. To be clear, the venture industry only gets better with diversity.
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ICYMI a Great White ate a seal by Alcatraz yesterday -- and to think we swim there 😬 sfist.com/2015/10/11/video_a…
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Californian condors paying a visit vine.co/v/Ou0ihK0g73B
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Breakthrough new offering @newrelic projectseymour: algorithmic feed for your application (ML, Anomaly detection,root cause analysis...)
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Rare window into the primary data coming out of the @Zuora and @tientzuo the impact of COVID-19 on the subscription economy: zuora.com/2020/04/08/subscri…
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Worth reading if you’re building or curious about the future of micro services and infrastructure software servicemesh.io @wm
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🐥⚡️ Some news: I'm going back to @Twitter! I believe completely in this team. I love this company. And I’m in for the next chapter!
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@adambain from day 1 you've inspired us to serve twitter: selfless, authentic, and aspirational, and you're just getting started :-)
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Thanks for inviting me @mikkelsvane and being a joyful conversationalist — if only your editor was with me at your board meetings I would have said more with less words over the years 😉
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