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@eladgil
Elad Gil
9 months
I used to think growing a small vegetable plot would be a way to commune w nature, be at peace w the world After slugs, aphids, mildew etc I realize I had it backwards Gardening is a Darwinian death match w/nature & battle for scarce resources Sad at this loss of innocence
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@eladgil
Elad Gil
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When I started my first company we were 5 people & 2 Google engineers offered to join "as a package" @ low price of just 10% each. Said their alternative was to start a company I said "great-you should go start your own company" And they both stayed @ Google another 5 years
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@eladgil
Elad Gil
3 months
Things I don't know about AI markets - a list of questions about our ever changing world :)
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Elad Gil
5 months
Throughout history of tech some of biggest companies in world started off highly capital efficient 1970s: MSFT bootstrapped until pre-IPO 1980s: Dell bootstrapped until pre-IPO 1990s: eBay and Y! raised minimal $ 2010s: Instagram and Whatsapp stayed lean 2020s: Midjourney
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@eladgil
Elad Gil
2 months
Shots on goal often more important than perfect execution
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@eladgil
Elad Gil
2 months
Increasingly wondering if this AI wave is what the 90s internet wave felt like- *Giant tech disruption *Who wins at ~everything up in the air *Incredibly fast changes every week in tech and capabilities *User behavior moving fast Everything suddenly feels up for grabs ๐ŸŒช๏ธ
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@eladgil
Elad Gil
9 months
When I started my first company, I was paranoid about sharing information or telling people what I was doing outside of the company When I started my second company, I was much more open with information to investors, advisors, other founders in the market etc
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Elad Gil
2 months
We are living through the AI equivalent of ZIRP
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Elad Gil
5 months
A founder I know was going to meet with a big name and asked for advice for meeting. Tips 1. Start the meeting with agenda so person realize you will make good use of their time & show you prepped 2. Come with something useful for them. Intro they may not have within yourโ€ฆ
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Elad Gil
1 year
If it doesnโ€™t ship, it doesnโ€™t exist
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Elad Gil
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We are right on the cusp of large changes. May take 10 years to fully show up, but the tech is all here to do it Simple example - Every book will be launched in 100 languages at once, with audio versions of them all Tech is here today. May take a decade to substantiate "Theโ€ฆ
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Elad Gil
8 months
The 1960s "overpopulation is going to kills humanity, cause mass famine, and should cause us to halt progress and not have kids* thing" didnt quite pan out *remind you of anything today?
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Elad Gil
1 year
Anyone working on AI/co-pilot for next-gen data stack? E.g. co-pilot to help navigate dbt, Spark etc etc versus "better BI visualizations" or "text to SQL"?
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Elad Gil
2 months
The ex-Palantir network has an impressive set of founders ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Elad Gil
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Elad Gil
4 months
Things to do when asking for an intro: -Start a fresh clean email with a relevant subject line someone can forward easily. Dont reply with a bunch of crap inline alongside other musings, questions etc -Explain who you are and why you are interesting/special. Drop some brandโ€ฆ
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Elad Gil
2 months
Two of the most motivating forces are the excitement of something new, and the excitement of winning
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Elad Gil
4 months
Who would be on a real 30 under 30 today? Interesting to wonder by sector - which sectors today have the most young people with lots of responsibility or impact? Who are they? Maybe in retail it is Mr Beast and Kylie Jenner? CC @patrickc
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Elad Gil
1 year
OpenAI has hit the magic moment Google had 2003-2008 where -it was shipping interesting significant products on regular basis (Gmail, Chrome, Android, bought Youtube etc) -it sucked in much of best talent -it was center of tech (and popular business) universe
@gdb
Greg Brockman
1 year
Plugins for processing a video clip, no ffmpeg wizardry required. Actual use-case from today's launch.
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Elad Gil
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"Is the west talking itself into a decline?"
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Elad Gil
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If you are in a market where PLG is possible and you refuse to do PLG, someone else will and may take your market
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Elad Gil
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Need to bring back large scale inspiring monuments, statues, art, architecture to cities Am working on something here. More coming soon
@Culture_Crit
Culture Critic
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This is what American cities looked like a century ago. Everything you see here was demolished. Why? This is what happened... (thread) ๐Ÿงต
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Elad Gil
1 year
1/N "Defensibility & Competition" Is the "wrapper on GPT" co defensible? Is any early SaaS company? This posts argues most startups start without moats & build defensibility over time
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Elad Gil
2 months
Urgency needs a source to power it Organizations default slow down Without a motive force (ie you) to move, things default wont
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Elad Gil
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Bees are back
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Elad Gil
1 year
Anecdotally seems like founder migration was: Early COVID -> leave cities and become nomads Mid COVID -> Miami & Austin Jan-Aug 2022 -> Move to NY Aug-Sep 2022 -> Stasis Oct-Now -> Move back to SF
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Elad Gil
3 months
This year it looks like >4 companies will reach GPT-4 level models Given its lead, one could guess OpenAI should be at GPT-4.5 or 5 This should reshape some segments of both AI world, as well as open up the next set of industries to transformation by GenAI
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Elad Gil
2 months
Conversation w/ @arthurmensch CEO of @MistralAI @figma *Mistral models *OS & opencore AI *Fine tuning, context windows,... *Vertical AI models *EU & French startup scene
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Elad Gil
5 months
Coinbase is worth $30B again
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Elad Gil
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Huberman's podcast = him dating 6 women at once My podcast = me stopped in street by AI engineer who wanted to point out nuances of nearest neighbor search in various vector DBs
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Elad Gil
1 year
More AI companies with sudden virality + paying customers should just bootstrap 0. Running co for cash may be best success 1. If it does scale, being profitable or near to it creates lot of options 2. it may not scale, or only work for a few months 3. Why get on theโ€ฆ
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Elad Gil
2 months
So good
@thogge
tyler hogge
2 months
Jensen Huang is clearly one of my favorite founder / CEOs ever now. This guyโ€™s interviews are top tier.
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Elad Gil
9 months
Top 5 biopharma companies all but 1 started in the 1800s or earlier ๐Ÿคฏ
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Elad Gil
2 months
Search products in 2000s used to be fact-centric or directional (help you navigate to X). Search is increasingly merging w LLM chat products. Search has now split into 3 types of products: -Search engine. Help me find facts / get somewhere -Opinion engine. Here is what myโ€ฆ
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Elad Gil
2 months
Reminded this week that velocity to ship is 1 of 3 major keys for an early stage company
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Elad Gil
1 year
At this point LPs in venture funds should just wire money direct to NVIDIA & skip the LP->VC->Startup->NVIDIA steps
@charliebilello
Charlie Bilello
1 year
Nvidia spiked to a new all-time high after reporting earnings/revenue beats. YoY revenue growth was down 13% in Q1 but Q2 guidance was massively above expectations ($11 billion). That would be a new record high for revenue (prior record: $8.3 billion) & a 64% YoY increase. $NVDA
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Elad Gil
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Just realized USV analyst/associate program spawned not 1, but 3 awesome founder/CEOs - @jml_campbell - CEO of Tagomi, sold to Coinbase, @christinacaci - CEO of Vanta @thedanigrant - CEO of Jam ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Elad Gil
8 months
Should be noted only two companies in list w โ€œequalโ€ cofounders w same equity (3 total have two) One of great myths of tech is equal cofounder ownership as norm vs exception
@jasonlk
Jason โœจ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งSaaStr LDN June 4-5โœจ Lemkin
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Wow Klaviyo is a new record for Founder-CEO ownership at IPO: 38.1% Edges out Atlassian co-founders just a smidge who were at 37.7% (although Atlassian co-founders together owned more and are still #1 ) Really helps to burn almost nothing on the way to IPO (just $15m)โ€ฆ
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Elad Gil
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๐Ÿ”ฅ @NoPriorsPod #1 for technology right now ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Elad Gil
5 months
Full DealBook interview with @elonmusk
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Elad Gil
4 months
Big congrats! ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@perplexity_ai
Perplexity
4 months
We are happy to announce that we've raised $73.6 million in Series B funding led by IVP with participation from NVIDIA, NEA, Bessemer, Elad Gil, Jeff Bezos, Nat Friedman, Databricks, Tobi Lutke, Guillermo Rauch, Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan.
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Elad Gil
3 months
LOL love this commentary "Sequoia - the GOAT" "Benchmark- the GOAT" "Founders Fund - amazing with Airbnb etc" "USV - kings of DPI" "Elad... [confused look], Elad Gil is really popular with founders - this was a founder survey right?...." โค๏ธ
@twistartups
This Week in Startups
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a recent LP survey asked 91 VCs at 69 different firms: "which firms would VCs put their own money into?" (h/t @EricNewcomer ) top choices included familiar names: @sequoia , @foundersfund , @usv , @eladgil , @benchmark @Jason breaks down why:
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Elad Gil
2 months
If you are a crypto company, the next 12-18 months will be a very good time to sell, should you chose to exit....
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Elad Gil
4 months
I wish โฆ @anduriltech โฉ started a clothing line so I could exclusively wear their gear for all occasions Cc โฆ @PalmerLuckey โฉ โฆ @traestephens โฉ โฆ @mttgrmm โฉ โฆ @SchimpfBrian โฉ
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Elad Gil
3 months
โ€œThe Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential commandโ€ - George Orwell 1984 SF, Oakland & increasingly LA telling us crime is "dropping" while retail stores continue to close due to crime & threat of violence to workers ๐Ÿค”
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Elad Gil
3 months
Seems to be going just fine
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@FortuneMagazine
FORTUNE
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Coinbase is doing everything right. That might not be enough.
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Elad Gil
9 months
When I work with founders today, ones who act overly secretively roughly correlate to less success No one knows how to help you, promote you, or mention you to customers or employees for you...
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Elad Gil
1 year
I always remember when I was at Google in the mid 2000s and social was happening I was at a meeting where many people (now known as social "experts") were pounding the table saying social products had no moat and would never be sticky
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Elad Gil
1 year
Fun speaking at Stanford on Friday about "Generative AI, from Hype to Massive Products"
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Elad Gil
17 days
Reminded today of how there are people it is just an absolute pleasure to spend time with and work with โค๏ธ
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Elad Gil
2 months
Stripe 2023 letter out - "the output of businesses that run on Stripe sums to roughly 1% of global GDP" ๐Ÿคฏ
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Elad Gil
1 year
New Druckenmiller (with slides):
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Elad Gil
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๐Ÿ’พAnyone have data on founder ownership of software companies at IPO? Was hoping to optimally have: *Company name *Founders % ownership *Employees % *Investors % ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™
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Elad Gil
5 months
Coinbase
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Elad Gil
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Any favorite spots for coffee, la vibe, or email work in Santa Monica or Beverly Hills?
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Elad Gil
1 year
Increasingly wondering if major funding for OSS LLMs will come from a company that does not have a strong horse in the race For example, IBM funded much of the development of Linux Who will be the IBM of multimodal foundation models? Amazon? Someone else?
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@eladgil
Elad Gil
8 months
I have been long interested in incubating or funding this idea (and even wrote a product spec for it maybe 2 years ago)
@brian_armstrong
Brian Armstrong
8 months
We've gotten more than 150 applications so far! Awesome to see. One other idea ( #11 ) I'll add into the mix: a Web3 version of LinkedIn - it would be great if companies could issue soulbound NFTs to verify employment or credentials - build a front end to explore employee andโ€ฆ
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Elad Gil
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๐Ÿ”ฅFireside chat - me w/ @satyanadella Chairman & CEO Microsoft๐Ÿ”ฅ Live, Mon Nov 6, 11:30am in SF Sign up Topics *AI revolution *Code, productivity & AI agents *How Microsoft became a ~$2.5 trillion company
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Elad Gil
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Many early stage equity discussions / negotiations end this way Lots of misunderstandings on equity out there, and often asking random friends for advice yields bad or misinformed advice...
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Elad Gil
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What an amazing run by Microsoft
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Elad Gil
5 months
Exciting w @apoorva_mehta , cofounder & original CEO @Instacart Topics *How to parse startup ideas *Early things Instacart did that couldnt scale, got them in business *Hypergrowth at startup & people *Why start another co / act 2 in life? Video:
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Elad Gil
3 months
Working in AI right now feels like the early slope leading into the singularity. So much happening so quickly....
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Elad Gil
5 months
Excited to be part of this & for @harvey__ai to augment and accelerate legal & other teams ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@harvey__ai
Harvey
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We've raised an $80M Series B co-led by @eladgil and @kleinerperkins , with participation from the OpenAI Startup Fund and @sequoia .
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Elad Gil
5 months
Great artists ship
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Elad Gil
8 months
๐Ÿ”ฅNew update on global unicorn market cap by city and region๐Ÿ”ฅ Looked at ๐Ÿ‘€ *Where did new unicorn market cap form during COVID? *Generative AI unicorns *Ratio of Barry's/unicorns by cities (thanks to @shreyanj98 for help with this, data from @CBinsights )
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Elad Gil
17 days
Anduril keeps crushing ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿผ
@PalmerLuckey
Palmer Luckey
18 days
When was the last time a major defense program delivered a year ahead of schedule?
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Elad Gil
1 year
Calls to "regulate AI" are waaaay premature Best way to kill the goose laying the golden eggs is knee jerk regulate early Will write more on this soon
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Elad Gil
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What are the best logos or word marks of the last 2-5 years?
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Elad Gil
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I still get impressed by snappy sites that just load fast
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Elad Gil
6 months
So much cool new stuff from @OpenAI . We are living in a time of tech transformation ๐Ÿ˜
@rowancheung
Rowan Cheung
6 months
๐Ÿšจ BREAKING: OpenAI just released 128k context GPT-4 Turbo at 1/3rd the price. This means GPT-4 is cheaper, faster, and can now read a prompt as long as an entire book. The announcement comes with additional huge news for developers: - New Assistants API for Code Interpreterโ€ฆ
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Elad Gil
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Founders who do not communicate much to their main investors, for example, tend to die off sooner Often companies go dark when a few quarters away from death Too much secrecy to core insiders can also be viewed as a signal for fraud or lack of traction (see Theranos, FTX)
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Elad Gil
6 months
Good interview w Sequoia legend @moritzKBE re: looking to the future vs past
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Elad Gil
4 months
This research gives the same vibe as Wuhan Lab coronavirus gain of function research.... (I say this as someone who thinks other things Anthropic has done, like constitutional AI is positive/interesting)
@AnthropicAI
Anthropic
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New Anthropic Paper: Sleeper Agents. We trained LLMs to act secretly malicious. We found that, despite our best efforts at alignment training, deception still slipped through.
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Elad Gil
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Llama 3 out from Meta -
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Elad Gil
3 months
This post is not about whether a company (or other organizations) should, or should not have, viewpoints on every political and current event. That is ultimately up to the organizationโ€™s governance. However, if you run an organization that is being distracted from its coreโ€ฆ
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Elad Gil
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Big congrats to @redditspez @alexisohanian and @Reddit team on many years of work and building one of the biggest products on the internet ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿฉท
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Elad Gil
1 year
What is time horizon until 50%, 90%, 99% of โ€œimportantโ€ code written solely or predominantly by AI? At what point should one not recommend CS as a great major for jobs? If not CS then what**? (**Note: liberal arts as suggestion not realistic IMO)
@karpathy
Andrej Karpathy
1 year
Nice read on reverse engineering of GitHub Copilot ๐Ÿช„. Copilot has dramatically accelerated my coding, it's hard to imagine going back to "manual coding". Still learning to use it but it already writes ~80% of my code, ~80% accuracy. I don't even really code, I prompt. & edit.
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Elad Gil
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What is the best AI headshot service? I.e. I put in some photos and outputs a pro headshot?
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Elad Gil
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๐Ÿ”ฅFun convo w @zoink CEO of @figma *Whatโ€™s next for Figma *Expanding beyond design *How AI will change design *AI UX *Creativity augmentation & the iterative loop
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Elad Gil
1 year
Fun chat last night w @reidhoffman We discussed: -AI platforms -Open source vs closed -Big tech: what will Google et al do? -Co-pilot for everything -AI, safety, and society ***Watch here***
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Elad Gil
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"AI Platforms, Models, and Open Source" Highly speculative, overly long, probably incorrect post on: -Do foundation models become an oligopoly market? -Do OS LLMs get back by major co, country, or philanthropy? -GPT N vs GPT N-1
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Elad Gil
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Capital efficiency is sign of 1. Capital. People are willing to pay up for your valuable, differentiated product 2. Efficiency. You run a tight ship, do not overhire, and bootstrap from customers During COVID/ZIRP many people forgot about capital efficiency
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@eladgil
Elad Gil
2 months
Good advice for enterprise/B2B founders
@clintsharp
Clint Sharp
4 months
New blog post for founders: Sell The Product Before It Exists: . It's counter intuitive, but founders tend to build more than they should before they take it to market. Your product and your GTM are inextricably linked. Start selling before you build it.
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@eladgil
Elad Gil
6 months
Worth a watch - Clinton on Middle East
@yashar
Yashar Ali ๐Ÿ˜
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Hillary Clinton on the Israelis and the Palestinians today on The View. Covers everything from Hamas to humanitarian pauses to Yasser Arafat to Anwar Sadat.
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Elad Gil
7 months
Any recommendations on history books or biographies for: -Development & origins of Singapore -Development & origins of AD/Dubai/UAE ๐Ÿ™
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Elad Gil
28 days
Looking forward to fireside with Dario from @AnthropicAI and me at Google Next Wednesday
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Elad Gil
7 months
In the coming days, weeks, and months, big tech incumbents are going to come out swinging on AI *This should increase heat for for consumer AI startups *This should be positive and accelerate B2B AI access to APIs & new capabilities Exciting few weeks & quarters ahead
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@eladgil
Elad Gil
8 months
Exciting unbox of โฆ @solreader โฉ
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@eladgil
Elad Gil
9 months
If investor acts badly/spreads info, u can cut them off Some founders have 2 email lists-1 all investors ("help me w intro" & another for people who kept their trust ("Here are our metrics") Investor update templates here:
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Elad Gil
6 months
AI proxy built over weekend by @braintrustdata Allows you to easily swap in any LLM while using OpenAI SDK - so can try different LLMs, build redundancy etc ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@ankrgyl
Ankur Goyal
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Amidst the chaos, we built something: an AI proxy that lets you use a variety of providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, LLaMa2, Mistral, and others) behind a single interface w/ caching & API key management.
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