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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

9 years

Press says: "X has raised $170 million in VC" I hear: "Founders and employees at X sit below $170+ million in liquidation preference"

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Ryan Hudson

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8 months

Congratulations on finding a soft landing

Deva Hazarika

@devahaz

8 months

Loom just sold for $975M cash after about 8 years and raising a total of ~$175M, and TechCrunch thinks the CEO has to “put a positive spin” on the deal because their last round at market peak was at a little higher valuation — this is a home run startup outcome, period

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@SphereVegas Sphere

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Four years ago today, these people and I announced we were selling @honey to @PayPal . What an incredible team 🧡

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@JoePompliano Looking up

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Ryan Hudson

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11 years

Honey is now the #1 trending startup on AngelList - thanks!

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7 months

@BillAckman Integrating the smartest people in the world into our common culture is one of the most important roles elite universities could play. But only if that culture is valued by the university.

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@ketau

7 months

@rrhoover Proud @honey was one of the first things you personally posted. ☺️

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

3 years

Tom Brady is like if Jordan took the Wizards to the Finals. 🐐

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

5 months

I guess @honey will forever be a Nevercorn. Founded Nov 2012 but couldn't raise any $ until 2014.

aileenlee

@aileenlee

5 months

It’s been 10 years since the original unicorn analysis (when we accidentally coined the term)🦄 So, our @CowboyVC team dug into new data. The tech industry has changed a TON! ✨ From 39 to 532 unicorns ✨ Pendulum swung HARD from consumer to enterprise ✨ Business types,

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

7 months

My brother is running for congress in a new wave of reluctant politicians that will attempt to restore sanity to government.

Paul Hudson

@PaulHudsonMI

7 months

Let's be crystal clear: "From the river to the sea" is nothing less than a call for the eradication of Israel and the annihilation of its people. My opponent Hillary Scholten just voted against censuring her colleague Rashida Tlaib…

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

3 years

The people who say what they think are the ones who get to decide how the world is going to be.

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

7 months

@sweatystartup you're teaching very different lessons than you think

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

2 years

Today I’m thankful that everyone with my email address in their list will send an email in the next 48 hours so that I can finally unsubscribe from everything.

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

@emollick we've crossed the point where ALL data should be assumed to be synthetic

kepano

@kepano

2 years

1940s: the detonation of nuclear bombs contaminates nearly all steel on Earth, resulting in the need to scavenge low-radiation pre-war steel from sunken shipwrecks 2020s: ChatGPT contaminates content with synthetic text, resulting in the need to segregate pre-LLM sources

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1 year

The amount of context needed for GPT-4 to write this is crazy: In a world of bytes and pixels, a tale unfolds, Of a tech company named Honey, its story to be told. Born from the minds of two visionaries bright, An idea that soared, like a bird in flight. George and Ryan, the

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5 months

@honey only ever wanted to be on this chart 😔

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@ketau

5 months

@immad At @honey we built this minus the ‘AI’ part to power our app shopping experience. If you want to build this there will be a lot of external technical issues from the fraud detection systems at merchants cancelling orders because they look like fraud. They each use an unknown

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5 months

@henrysward I’d still be supportive of an opt in Carta secondary liquidity program. The problem is very much not solved for founders, employees or early investors.

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@ketau

5 months

@amasad

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

@EndWokeness On the plus side, they did make the updates. For journalistic integrity and transparency, they should note headline corrections as they would do for other corrections to a story.

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@ketau

8 months

@mualphaxi All the news that’s fit to print

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

6 years

and while Papa gets a lot of recognition we all know that Nonna was there with him at every step. I love this sign she kept posted somewhere she would see it regularly ;)

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

4 years

A reminder that no matter what happens this week we are all just tiny creatures stuck together on a rock spinning through the universe

Eric Brummel

@Brummo

4 years

Here’s another stabilized sky timelapse, this time at Crater Lake, Oregon. The water was still for most of it, which created a nice mirror for the stars. I also got my astro-modified camera working, which provides more vibrancy in the nebulae in the Milky Way. #EppurSiMuove

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@nealkhosla I did this (a long time ago) and later as a founder it gave me an untaught view into VC partnership dynamics and VC behavior in a downturn (2008). But, it also later took me 3 years to raise literally any money so… probably 💯

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

2 years

@jessegenet But my Coinbase glass is only 20% full

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

@jessegenet 'nearly $1B acquisition' <- there you go with the spin

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

6 months

Home Alone is a top 5 movie all time

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

2 years

Fwiw we never spent any of the money

Ilya Strebulaev

@IlyaStrebulaev

2 years

An average (median) #unicorn returned 27 (8) times the #capital raised at the time of exit (i.e., going public, a sale, or a liquidation/bankruptcy). Even after adjusting for the time value of money and the dilution of #investors , these are likely very impressive returns. #vc

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8 months

@jessegenet don't you know you can buy an ENTIRE TechCrunch with the missing $25,000,000

AOL buys TechCrunch

Technology blog site's founder Michael Arrington to stay on after takeover by internet giant. By Mark Sweney

www.theguardian.com

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

Former TechCrunch editor-in-chief admits there is a broad 'holy war' by most media companies against tech

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@ketau

8 months

The Techno-Pessimist Manifesto

Marc Andreessen's manifesto: AI and tech will save civilization

The case for accelerating rather than regulating tech does not mention "unintended consequences" — or climate change.

www.axios.com

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

3 years

True story there once was a hive on the roof of our Santa Barbara office. I don’t have the precise bee count however.

kepano

@kepano

3 years

20,000 bees took over a tech company’s empty office, but apparently it wasn’t @honey .

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

6 months

Make it less American

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

@devahaz sometimes things just don't work out and it's time to find a new home 🤣

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

5 years

George and I are very excited to welcome Emily to our board

PayPal Honey

@honey

5 years

Emily White, former COO of Snap and previously at Instagram and Google, joins Honey. NBD

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@ketau

5 months

or maybe AI but ok sure

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

2 years

@paigefinnn DFJ’s Sand Hill Road office for the insane museum of space artifacts.

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

@eriktorenberg @packyM @notboringco @juliadewahl subscribed!

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@ketau

7 months

@polina_marinova @APompliano tin foil hat storage

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

6 years

Proud of the role my grandparents played in making the world a more fair place 50+ years ago at Michigan State.

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

❤️ we can still make 2053 the world that kids of 1953 dreamed of

Packy McCormick

@packyM

8 months

I want you to close your eyes and imagine with me. Metaphorically, of course. We don’t have the technology to read with our eyes closed… yet. OK, ready? The year is 2073. It’s a cool spring day, light breeze, 73 degrees. The world hasn’t ended. In fact, it’s better than ever.

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8 months

@kepano @ycombinator I absolutely would have done this S14 with Honey... but we got rejected

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Ryan Hudson

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4 months

@Austen but but but he's "the richest person in the world" (opening line of the judgement)

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

Optimism is contagious

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

@pmarca

8 months

THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1 “You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” — Walker Percy “Our species is 300,000 years old. For the

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8 months

@AravSrinivas @_vztu not even close. C2:R4 is clearly muffins not cookies

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7 months

@BillAckman Integrating the smartest people in the world into our common culture is one of the most important roles elite universities could play. But only if that culture is valued by the university.

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

6 months

we need more congressmen like this

Paul Hudson

@PaulHudsonMI

6 months

One of my favorite parts of Christmas is getting to make sure your kid’s gifts work properly. Merry Christmas!

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4 months

if elon resigns as tesla ceo tomorrow i'll bet the stock drop is almost exactly equal to the compensation package

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

6 months

@Jay_Edlin @aashaysanghvi_ If you only look at the first $ Mucker put in that (finally) got the ball rolling it was a lot more than 300x. They got ~= YC deal after YC rejected us.

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

2 years

@naval Two dollars

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

1 year

1) Tweet a list of incredible things that people have already done with GPT-4

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

9 years

@MIT_alumni @MIT we try to get together every time one of our classmates is in town. It's LA, so there are always visitors #MITVFT

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

5 months

The @aileenlee unicorn update got me thinking 🤔 Bitcoin is up 2000x to a $800B valuation since 2013 which is by far the top performing tech 'startup'. If you count $ value of miner rewards as the investment into the network, at 15x it's also one of the most capital efficient.

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@ketau

5 months

@FutureJurvetson @matt_vanswol Or used Starlink as your primary ISP

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

6 months

@JoePompliano Perhaps they could also roll the unpaid balance into an equity ownership position in the Dodgers after he retires 🤔

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

4 months

@packyM Tired: WIRED Wired: WIRED DAO

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

6 months

Will every AI article include a disclaimer about the direct conflict?

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

11 years

'Only the paranoid survive' is something the paranoid say to reassure themselves they'll survive

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

Headline changes should be noted in corrections just like any other change to a story would be

End Wokeness

@EndWokeness

8 months

Did the NY Times think we wouldn’t notice?

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@DavidSacks @Jason Except OpenAI already patched it. The court filing repeatedly specifically asked for copyrighted text. Now chatgpt refuses to provide that:

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

The world needs more strange ideas

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

7 months

💯 And as a founder you should be able to have full context well beyond 20 people

immad

@immad

7 months

Startups with <20 people wondering what management practices to follow? Should you do OKRs, DACI, single threaded leadership, QBRs, leveling etc? The answer is: NO You need that stuff when you are too big for founders to have full context. Just ship and listen to customers.

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

@jessegenet Learning to love learning

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@ketau

5 months

@jessegenet @StanleyBrand Who’s the lucky guy?

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 years

Photo of the year

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

8 years

There and back again

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@ketau

2 years

@paulg Internal teams and agencies often use branded keywords to lower the blended CAC to help hit their personal metrics. Misaligned individual incentives with the org.

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

3 years

If you're gonna play the Game Stop, you gotta learn to play it right. You've got to know when to HODL 🎶

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

10 months

@jessegenet nothing says "I don't do podcasts" like this is the only microphone I could connect to my laptop

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

@Austen Will be interesting to see how increased ad inventory effects ad CPM (or not) and what impact it has on creator earnings and $GOOG earnings over next several quarters. My guess: CPMs hold and material upside to earnings.

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@ketau

8 months

@mualphaxi It’s time to disrupt TechCrunch

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

6 months

Only 35% of American's were alive the last time a person was on the moon.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

6 months

Only 66 years from first flight to landing on the moon, but now half a century has passed since the last moon landing. That cannot be our high water mark as a civilization. Humanity should have a moon base, cities on Mars and be out there among the stars!

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@AustinScholar Also, 1/4 of 6th graders do better than 1/2 of seniors

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@ketau

8 months

@kepano @ycombinator our exit would have contributed ~$1M per company in the batch (81 in S14)

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

7 months

@obviceo smart move, kid

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

@anuatluru I suspect they negotiated to $1B and there are $25M in team retention stock grants not reported in the deal

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

7 months

or... Amazon and Apple are smart enough to slow roll it and let OpenAI take the heat

Ashlee Vance

@ashleevance

7 months

So Amazon made Alexa and then was like, "Cool, we're never touching this thing again no matter how much AI advances."

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6 months

@Jason no they wont

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 years

The rarest of space artifacts: a gently used rocket.

SpaceX

@SpaceX

8 years

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@meredithperry @jessegenet Gummy vitamins was the first healthcare plan offered at Honey. Doubled as the only free snacks available to encourage adoption of this alternative medicine approach to employee wellness.

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

The secondary front in the information war is X v MSM

Accounts Musk recommended on X are connected to a teen and a U.S. soldier

One social media account recommended by Elon Musk for coverage of the Israeli war with Hamas appears to be run by a London teenager, another by a U.S. soldier.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

@gannonbreslin disagree. depends what you're trying to build and very few companies do anything worthwhile on social media. most would be better off never hiring for that role. it's the modern day 'get a PR firm' best practice that creates the optics of work but would never back out $ on paper

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

4 months

The credits in this page are like someone knows they are getting a Nobel Prize in 20 years

Sora: Creating video from text

openai.com

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

5 months

Congratulations Michigan on the Rose Bowl win from this Spartan.

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

@roblabonne Sounds like a very simple chrome extension. Who wants to build this with me?

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@ketau

6 months

@rsg @jasonlk This

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@ketau

4 months

Great news for LA

Dustin Rosen

@du_ro

4 months

👋Announcing $102M across our new @WonderVentures IV pre-seed fund & 1st-ever Opportunity Fund to invest in LA's best founders earlier than anyone else! Thanks to the founders who allow us to be part of their journeys & the LPs who believe in our mission.

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With openai sora launch I *highly* recommend reading the Prometheus story intro to Max Tegmark's book "Life 3.0". 20 min that will definitely shape how you think about AGI emergence

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

www.amazon.com

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@ketau

5 months

@blakeir Incredible! Gooooooo Lions!

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@ketau

5 months

@andrewkimARK @blakeir Yes please

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@ketau

8 months

@Austen Maybe it’s strategic. Tim Cook doesn’t need to be hauled in front of congress to fight the front lines of the AI wars but their market position makes them the default long run winner on any features that gain mass adoption (and therefore less political heat)

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@ketau

5 months

Go Lions!

Paul Hudson

@PaulHudsonMI

5 months

I went to the last Lions home playoff game. It was for my birthday. My 10th birthday. In 1992. It’s been a long time coming! Go Lions!

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

wait, who echoed these claims? @wsj

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

8 months

I’m pro magic rock

Andrew Côté

@Andercot

8 months

There's a magic rock called Plutonium-238 that radiates half a watt per gram for 80 years and fuels the simplest most reliable energy producing device ever made, the RTG. In 1988 we thought "yep don't need that anymore!" and stopped producing it. Thank God @NASA asked @ORNL to

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

4 months

This is correct. I wonder how broadly it applies to all professions.

immad

@immad

4 months

1/ Why AI is not going to replace programmers: When I was in college studying Computer Science in 2005, I was told that out-sourcing to India will remove the demand for programmers. It was a real fear! AI replacing coders, I think, it’s based on a similar misconception 🧵

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Ryan Hudson

@ketau

2 years

People believe what they want to be true

Austen Allred

@Austen

2 years

Someone referenced the notion that you can't work productively for more than 5 hours/day, and I realized I had always heard that but had no idea what the notion came from. Googling around you find and endless number of sites linking to each other, but eventually found the study.

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6 months

Note: excludes Tesla 🤔

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5 months

@sm bitcoin up 2000x with $800B valuation. what kind of 'corn is that?

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