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Jude Gomila

@judegomila

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Explorer of universes. Previously founded Golden & Heyzap. Early $ into Linear Mercury Gusto Astranis Solugen Ironclad Benchling Boom Stoke and many unicorns.

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Joined April 2008
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@judegomila
Jude Gomila
5 years
1/ My team and I at Golden have been working diligently for the last two years to map out 10bn+ fascinating topics in high detail. Today we are officially launching, announcing a $5m seed round from @a16z @foundersfund , GigaFund and others thread below ->
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2 years
1/ I’m proud to announce that @Golden has raised a $40m Series B led by a16z crypto to build the decentralized protocol for knowledge: Blog post: & nutshell thread concerning incentives, tokenization, data NFTs, anti gaming, mechanics and use cases👇
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Jude Gomila
3 years
I don't think people give enough credit to @naval to opening startup investing to other people [eventually anyone in the long run]. Venture hacks was the crack in the dam. Angel List built the network. Angel List syndicates to SPVs to Rolling Funds. Whatever next?
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Jude Gomila
5 years
A good test of what you read, watch and listen to, is how resistant it is to summarisation.
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Who wants to solve this? $1000 bucks if you can.
@fermatslibrary
Fermat's Library
4 years
The convergence of the following series is still an open problem in Mathematics
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Jude Gomila
3 years
So is Jack Ma moving to Miami as well?
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Jude Gomila
1 year
Factual accuracy is going to be crucial for a positive AI future. @Golden has just launched a @OpenAI ChatGPT plugin which integrates the Golden Knowledge Graph and Query Tool into ChatGPT. Let's see what it does and how it works...
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Jude Gomila
4 years
1/ Back in 2017 I embarked on a journey to go build a database of all knowledge. Today, we're announcing that @golden raised $14.5m Series A backed by @a16z @DCVC @TheGigafund Harpoon Ventures and others with @pmarca joining the board. More below 👇
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Jude Gomila
5 years
1/ If you want to find out what is in the Y Combinator S19 batch, @Golden has compiled (using public signals) a near complete list of truly exciting companies. If we are missing any or you want to help improve the data you can edit the topics.
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Jude Gomila
5 years
If you would like to learn more about Naval Ravikant's recent thinking, we compiled everything we could find: please correct if we have any mistakes or missing anything.
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Jude Gomila
2 years
We have a V0 landing page up at We are making good progress on the whitepaper and prototyping a test build atm. Let us know your thoughts or if you have whitepaper skills...
@judegomila
Jude Gomila
3 years
Investigating taking Golden web3 and building out the decentralized knowledge store. Let me know if you are interested in working on the project or even just commenting on the potential mechanics.
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Jude Gomila
5 years
For anyone wanting to know which non stealth companies were in the latest YC batch, we compiled on Golden a full list of Y Combinator W19 batch if we have any mistakes please edit the page/data. Some very interesting companies in the batch.
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Jude Gomila
1 year
1/ I’d like to share a fun little demo we have been hacking on @golden We attempt to answer factual questions in a more accurate way using the Golden Knowledge Graph by providing a retrieval enhancement to GPT-3. Golden Retriever: Thread👇
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Jude Gomila
3 years
1/ We're launching @Golden Open! Golden Research Engine is now publicly open. You can request any entity/topic-based data and our research engine will find it for you. Also access to Query Tool, Lists, Pipelines, Import CSV now open. 👇
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Jude Gomila
4 years
@arrington i heard about someone who had completely outsourced their job to someone else and only shows up for rare voice calls.
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Jude Gomila
5 years
I've been told by my 2 visa lawyers that H1B transfers [same title to title] now are extremely difficult and have 60% RFE [request for more evidence], slow time scales and high rejection rates. We now have illiquidity in the skilled H1B workforce in the US.
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2 months
I'd like to announce that @Golden has been acquired by @ComplyAdvantage . This takes us on a new mission of using the knowledge graph to fight financial crime. Comply Advantage is an AML (anti-money laundering) company which performs KYC (know your customer), KYB (know your
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Jude Gomila
3 years
It is rare to get 1000x on an investment but BTC has just done it for me beating out my best unicorn angel investment by 9x.
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Jude Gomila
4 years
0/n: Science and engineering twitter: far UVC 222nm lighting has potential for rapid, retrofittable, cheap, effective, human safe, multi situation deployment to stop spread of COVID-19. However, there are questions I have in order to figure out its applicability. Here goes...
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Jude Gomila
5 years
I'm going to call it right now is the next unicorn you don't know about.
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Jude Gomila
5 years
gamestop, $400m market cap and crashing, 200 stores, what would you pivot it to be at this point: sandboxVR sites? gaming merch/swag? VR gyms? meditation sites/float tanks? ice cream stores? coffee shops (+gaming)? vr cat cafe? 1h love hotels? amazon 4star store? 5 star store?...
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Jude Gomila
2 years
11/ Right now we are in the testnet phase and giving points to users who are contributing through various means: submitting, validation, code, security etc. Once we take the token live, we will airdrop up to 1% of the tokens to the initial community.
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Jude Gomila
3 years
This year has showed us, for future election security we need 100% transparent voting systems with cryptographically secure voting + open source systems so that zero people can argue with the outcome.
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Jude Gomila
4 years
What kind of wild fire prevention technology and fire stopping tech are people working on?
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Twitter is one of the most under valued companies in history.
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Jude Gomila
10 months
I almost got car jacked this weekend in the bay area with my 2 kids in tow. Garry IS the crisis comms.
@garrytan
Garry Tan
10 months
Do I need crisis comms or are we trying to fix society honestly and without compromise?
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Jude Gomila
4 years
12 years ago twitter cost me 50cents per tweet (via sms). Today it can cost you your life.
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Jude Gomila
3 years
Anyone got ideas on how you can build a Robinhood [zero fees] without the trades going through Citadel?
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Jude Gomila
3 years
1/ We may have to shift our conversation from UBI to UBO, where O for ownership. Ownership mechanics are very different from purely receiving income...
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Jude Gomila
3 years
Investigating taking Golden web3 and building out the decentralized knowledge store. Let me know if you are interested in working on the project or even just commenting on the potential mechanics.
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Jude Gomila
6 months
The age of abundance starts with a new age of abundant discovery.
@JimPethokoukis
James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️
6 months
Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolvable math problem
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Jude Gomila
3 years
Just remember if you really really really want to, you can build anything in 2021. Take that finger to the keyboard, the pen to paper, the wrench to the bolt and that iron to the resistor.
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Jude Gomila
10 months
Everyone has a 'silence threshold'. Mine was broken this weekend. Time for the bay area (tech and non tech) to unite around @garrytan around the quest of having a growing and sustainable living; safe for your kids, work and pleasure. This is a lot more than saving a city or an
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Jude Gomila
9 months
This YC batch is the biggest acceleration signal I have seen for a while. It's incredible how much GDP, growth and human capability that will come of this batch. This is a real gear shift and litmus test for AI, AI copilots and general automation.
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Jude Gomila
5 years
We need the equivalent of an SSL cert for videos being produced to know they are not deep fakes. Be careful what you believe...
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Jude Gomila
4 years
We have now entered the age of biotech. Everyone is awake.
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Jude Gomila
4 years
We can do it. We can build the vaccine. We made the atomic bomb, landed on the moon, went supersonic, teleported particles and saw the limits of logic with godel's theorem.
@ricburton
Ric Burton
4 years
“We’ve never successfully developed a vaccine for any of the existing 6 other corona viruses” - @naval
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Nanoelectric components with the ballistic resonance effect will be coming our way in the future, thermal to mechanical resonance from internal energy only. Heat speakers, heat sink chargers, heat motors, new thermal camera lenses for mobile phones etc.
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Jude Gomila
3 years
Clubhouse has correctly productized the irish exit.
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Jude Gomila
5 years
Morphogenetic engineering - a field of research that explores the modeling and building of “self-architecturing” systems and focuses on the programmability and controllability of self-assembling agents.
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Jude Gomila
3 months
@pitdesi long meta, long nvidia. clear signaling
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Jude Gomila
6 years
1/ Google's gmail predictive writing experimental auto language tab complete in email is going to change communication forever. It is hidden in the settings in the new gmail under 'Enable experimental access' then 'smart compose'
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Incredible. I backed Relativity Space on April 2016 in their seed round. 4 years later. Now, Techcrunch reporting Relativity Space is raising a $500M round at $2.3B valuation.
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Jude Gomila
5 years
H1B holders are effectively trapped in their jobs if they want to stay in the US. What was a simple 1 day task to switch is now a $6k process to get right over potentially 1 year. Anti innovation. Are others seeing this?
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Why is the WHO saying this? Why are they the source of disinformation?
@WHOWPRO
World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific
4 years
If you do not have any respiratory symptoms, such as fever, cough, or runny nose, you do not need to wear a medical mask. When used alone, masks can give you a false feeling of protection and can even be a source of infection when not used correctly. ➡️
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Jude Gomila
3 years
I worked at a desk in the office for 12 years straight only to find out work from home is actually pretty amazing. - 1 hour commute turns into work or play - Rent cost turns into cost saving or home improvements - Lunch becomes family time which unlocks actually more work time
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Jude Gomila
5 months
@Rainmaker1973 now normalize away age of city and you start to get to interesting
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Golden has been nominated for a Product Hunt Golden Kitty Award 2019 in the AI & Machine Learning category. ⛳️ If you'd like to support us on our mission to map human knowledge, please help us win.✍️ Here is the voting page: 🏆
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Rolling funds are taking off. Just in the same way SaaS changed web companies, Angel List have cracked a much better way to connect capital (LPs) to innovation (startups) via insight (GPs). Well worth understanding as this will likely change venture forever.
@Golden
Golden
4 years
VCs are in the business of backing innovation, but it's rare to see innovation in the venture fund model itself. We unpack the legal structure – a series of Delaware limited partnerships – and software behind @AngelList 's Rolling Venture Funds.
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Very excited about the upcoming YC demo day being online. There are biotech cos in the batch saving real lives and companies making our future brighter. Make sure to tune in to the online demo day if you have the rsvp.
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Jude Gomila
4 years
I highly recommend reading this I had @naval on my board for a number of years: it was one of the most rapid learning phases of my life. While I don't agree with 100% of the ideas, I think there is much truth in most of them, so read every word.
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Jude Gomila
5 years
Anyone working on 10y problems let me know.
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Proof-of-X's [Let us know if we missed any/got any wrong] Proof-of-Work (PoW) Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Proof-of-Capacity (PoC) Proof-of-Burn (PoB) Proof of Proof-of-Work (PoPoW) Proof-of-Authority (PoA) Proof-of-Activity (PoA) Proof-of-Storage (PoS) 1/n
@balajis
Balaji
4 years
Worth compiling a list of proof-of-Xs. For example: proof-of-who: digital signature proof-of-what: cryptographic hash proof-of-when: blockchain timestamp There's also proof-of-location, proof-of-space, etc. Each such proof expands the scope of the ledger of record. Got more?
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Jude Gomila
3 years
Imagine if Superhuman built an OS.
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Jude Gomila
5 years
2/ Golden’s mission is to collect, organize and express 10+ billion topics in an accessible way, presented in neutrally-written and comprehensive topic pages using AI and UI to automate the process where possible.
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Jude Gomila
8 years
@Snowden Sums up many things broken with the US and power systems.
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Jude Gomila
8 years
Airbnb of electrical power
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Jude Gomila
3 years
1/ Brilliant article by @balajis Some additional points, there is another way to look at 'inherited systems' in terms of systems that are zero, negative sum or winding down from previously positive.
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Jude Gomila
5 years
10/ If you want to find out more about what we are going to do in detail check out , also don’t forget to follow @golden to keep posted on our updates and give editing a shot by signing up here
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Twitter will save millions of lives, honestly believe that.
@rob_knight
Rob Knight
4 years
@judegomila It might take a while for the data to become clear, but I think it's totally reasonable to say that Twitter has saved lives, possibly thousands.
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Jude Gomila
10 months
'A bad plan is better than no plan' in Thiel's words, why? Counter factuals in startups are always important to discover and use to triangulate factuals. Without a plan at all, you cannot get any data as to what is wrong with your plan and iterate your plan. I.e. never making
@mikemcg0
Mike McGuiness
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Q: Best advice for a pre-product/market fit startup? One of my favorite pieces of advice on this topic comes from Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong: “Action produces information. Just keep doing stuff.” He borrows this from Paul Graham who said: “Startups are like sharks. If
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Extremely impressed with Circle Medical. I just picked up the app, booked a video based medical call, 10 mins later, was on the phone to a doctor. 10 mins later, issue diagnosed and prescription ordered. 2 hours from T0 the meds are ready to pickup. Just now need that last mile..
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Don't let the scars of failure hold back your ambitions.
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Jude Gomila
3 years
When I backed Ginkgo Bioworks in 2014 I had no idea it would NASDAQ IPO for 10s of billions of $. My favorite outcome being the stock ticker name 'DNA' What new thing should we know about that will be big in 10 years time? [Old 2012 post below]
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Jude Gomila
4 years
People have been working this weekend on making machines, software and wetware that save lives. Get building and don't throw in the towel...
@Mascobot
Marco Mascorro
4 years
@NickPinkston @tlbtlbtlb @judegomila @snowmaker Here's a prototype that I worked on this weekend. I will be sharing the design & schematics soon. Right now all it's off the shelve, but probably the UPLA filter needs an enclosure (probably 3D printed)...
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Jude Gomila
6 years
If anyone wants to seriously build a better alternative to turbotax (with full bank integration, transaction detection/classification, ML/fuzzy classifiers, gmail crawling for auto import of docs etc, better flows than TT) Let me know. I will fund you if you are doing it right.
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Get your tony stark stuck in a cave build a ironman suit mentality on...
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Jude Gomila
1 year
I know a founder who has worked on his startup for 5 years, not paid himself and struggled to have enough money for food, has almost zero $ in their bank account for 7 years, refuses to give up, working part time on minimum wage delivering food to make the bills and finally GPT
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Of the O1/H1B employee visas I ever applied for on behalf of employees. They have gone on to create 10x more jobs for US citizens and innovate the market.
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Jude Gomila
5 years
2/ Like DNA, space/time, mathematics; intertwined meaning density is paramount.
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Jude Gomila
5 years
I feel like we are working on something very important (mapping all human knowledge). Tell me if I'm wrong.
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Jude Gomila
4 years
When building a startup you must put your heart, soul, mind, blood, sweat, tears, arms, legs, back, energy and any other things you got to give into it.
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Jude Gomila
3 years
Anyone NFTed their personal genome yet? [Not recommended].
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Jude Gomila
1 year
Great to see @golden up on screen at the @Microsoft Build Conference. Factual accuracy in AI matters even more than before. Microsoft is so back in the game.
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5/ There has never been a more important time than now to build a global ledger of facts, with mechanisms allowing for corrections based on new data about our universe and new models allowing for better explanations.
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Jude Gomila
3 years
Hectocorns When thinking of what would be coined for a $100bn val startup... Given Decacorn for $10bn startups from the Greek déka, decided to go with Hectocorn from hekatón for 100. Alternatives welcome. Today I hit 14 unicorn investments and 1 decacorn from early stage.
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Jude Gomila
4 years
If we don't do correct lockdown we will be looking at millions of cases. Then 10s of millions, then 100s of millions. Don't be a spring breaker, be a covid breaker.
@tribelaw
Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️
4 years
It took three months to reach 100,000 cases of COVID-19 Coronavirus worldwide. The second 100,000 only took 12 days. That’s what exponential growth looks like.
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Jude Gomila
2 years
1/ For 3 years, @Golden was building the web2 attempt at superseding wikipedia and only a small community was around to build it [in the hundreds]. We switched to web3 protocol approach and there are now 12,000 people (and growing) entering data into the system as we speak.
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Jude Gomila
8 years
Flexible concrete, slabs won't crack. Likely useful for SF and earthquake zones. Uses a polymer mix...
@inhabitat
Inhabitat
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Flexible ConFlexPave #concrete is tougher, thinner and lighter than conventional mixtures
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Jude Gomila
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AMC and Gamestop should merge. Offer up gaming merc inside the cinemas and cut the gamestop store retail location cost out completely. Also may as well throw in GoPro while your at it. Rebrand the entire thing GO.
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1/ YC standard deal -> $500k 14 years ago, @immad and I got $30k for doing YC We negotiated 2x normal amount ($15k) sitting on a sunny pavement with PG We got into YC months early but used all our budget on visas ($20k) and accom ($3k/mx3)....
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Jude Gomila
5 years
What it's like to go through Y Combinator...
@Rainmaker1973
Massimo
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Volcom teamed up with Stab to install a 30-meter floating docking anchored in the middle of an A-frame peak in Bali, Indonesia to demonstrate how surfers can easily run and hang loose on perfect waves rather than paddling. It's called "The Dock"
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4 years
Just opened 10 investor updates in a row, all had graphs up and to the right...
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5 years
3/ Fewer symmetries/more random -> more interesting.
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Jude Gomila
2 years
2/ Crypto luminaries, operators, founders and investors also participated: Protocol Labs ( @protocollabs ), @juanbenet (creator of @ipfs ), Raj Gokal ( @rajgokal Cofounder of @solana ), Dan Romero ( @dwr ), OpenSea Ventures ( @opensea ), Arash Ferdowsi ( @arashf cofounder of Dropbox)...
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Jude Gomila
5 years
8/ In order to make money while doing this we have released an advanced query tool to query the Golden data set, provide fine-grained alerts and allow companies to figure out how to make decisions. & check out an example output here
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Jude Gomila
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1/ I've gone back & forth a lot on whether ad-based search business models will survive. I think they wont. If search user intent can be directly hooked into GPT like functions (realtime data, knowledge, functions, explanations, generation, etc): the ad model is going to die.
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Jude Gomila
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4/ We have set out to use various techniques to help bring leverage and automate solving the problem including: topic prediction, taxonomic detection, summarization, event detection, cross linking, structure data detection and ultimately the writing of prose using AI.
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Jude Gomila
3 years
When prices are down, build. When prices are up, build.
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Jude Gomila
2 years
6/ It turns out that if you want to record 'facts' about the universe it's useful to take something and make a statement about it relative to something else. For example, [Elon Musk] [is CEO] [SpaceX] This is called a 'triple' containing a subject, a predicate and an object...
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Jude Gomila
4 years
Product market fit is a bit like a spaceship traveling through the universe looking for a deep gravity well. Sometimes you can slingshot off a small star to move a little faster in the search but really your looking for a blackhole: the draw is so large you just get pulled in.
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Jude Gomila
3 years
Anyone working on lab grown almonds? (For water saving?) Nuts idea.
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Jude Gomila
4 years
1/ Listen in on my interview with Harry Stebbings of 20VC. We talk mental models, investing, mapping knowledge, algorithms for investing and understanding. I have to say, I enjoyed this immensely. @twentyminutevc @golden
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This tweet is to double check a shadow ban check on twitter my twitter for tweeting about threads and other things. Like if you can see this. Would be great tech for partial shadow bans :> i.e. ban everything but the serinus canaria domestica :>
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