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Zayd Enam

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@zaydenam

Zayd Enam

4 months

Over the break I wrote down a draft for how I aspire to act in my business dealings: 1. Be discerning in your commitments, and honor them aggressively. 2. Have the courage to follow your intuition, especially when it does not enhance social status. 3. Be discerning about whom

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Zayd Enam

4 years

Perspective: email apps should not open to an Inbox view. Should open to a prioritized task list. Default behavior should be to work on the most impt. thing. Snapchat's genius was opening to camera view. The default behavior became to share instead of consume.

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8 years

New post: Why is machine learning 'hard'?

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1/3 Excited to announce our Series A and privileged to be working with the best in the business @saammotamedi from @GreylockVC , @timshi_ai , @SebastianThrun and @bhorowitz from @a16z to accomplish our mission of enabling every office worker to become an Expert on Day One.

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4 years

Tip: How to be helpful to older business partners? Offer to be a mentor to their kids - get on a call and help guide them through college choices, what to study and how to get started with hobbies... So many partners want their kids to grow up to be like you :)

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7 months

AGI House company @pika_labs created this video showcasing our creative AI hackathon with @TheChainsmokers and @Grimezsz on 10/21. @demi_guo_ is crushing it.

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4 years

Best-in-class software company culture examples: @SnowflakeDB has a very special enterprise sales culture @Zuora had a best-in-class marketing culture @stripe built the strongest builder culture imaginable They are worth studying carefully.

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Zayd Enam

4 years

Excited to announce that @cresta is on the @CBinsights list of the top 100 most promising AI companies in the world. We are just getting started!

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Zayd Enam

3 years

The best part of building a company is the opportunity to work alongside a team that inspires you daily. Thrilled to announce our Series B led by the best in the enterprise game: @carl_eschenbach at @sequoia . We are just getting started.

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Zayd Enam

7 years

@udacity self driving car spotted in wild. Likely in the new data release: I'm open-source-self-driving-car-data-famous! 🎥😉 @olivercameron

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4 years

Thank you to Andy Bechtolsheim for visiting as our special guest for Cresta demo day and sharing stories about founding Sun, Arista and investing in Google.

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Zayd Enam

12 years

Out of necessity I set a new alarm by a cron job on my Kindle. I never thought waking up in the morning could be this ridiculously awesome.

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4 years

damn. we just started asking this question at the end of @cresta pilots:

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2 years

Listening is a highly underrated trait of strong leaders

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8 months

Fun writing by @charlie_mccann who lived in AGI House for a few days:

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Who moved my chips? Life in an AI entrepreneurs’ houseshare

In Cerebral Valley in San Francisco, the next generation of tech billionaires is optimising its lifestyle

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5 years

New digs for the Cresta team :)

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3 years

How can AI act as a partner to humans to drive business results and a more satisfied workforce at the same time? Looking forward to share what we have learned at @cresta for @TheEconomist 's Innovation @Work Week. Sign up to attend here:

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10 months

It’s wild that Morris Chang had no equity in TSMC when he founded it. He bought equity along the way. TSMC now 10th largest company in world and Morris a billionaire. Hard mode.

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Zayd Enam

5 years

We threw a Halloween party and trained an AI to generate spooky stories (generating the stories live in the screen in red). Good time 😊

@plusepsilon

Motoki Wu 🌊🦈

5 years

World's first AI ghost writing party. 😱 @cresta_AI

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5 years

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” -(multiple attributions incl. Mandela and Roosevelt)

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5 months

Your best ideas come to you: in the morning, during a walk, the day after a lot of relevant reading.

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4 years

systems thinking with weak culture creates McDonalds, systems thinking with strong culture creates In-N-Out

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6 years

@andrewchen Google Streetview - ran into that gentleman a week ago and asked him :)

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Zayd Enam

3 years

how to spend an idyllic Sunday in Berlin: rent an electric scooter, travel around the city, visit Brandenburg, the wall, grab currywurst and have a picnic in front Berlin cathedral, wrap it up with a walk along the river in tiergarten

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Zayd Enam

7 months

The best AI founders start their companies at @agihouse_org

@SebastianThrun

Sebastian Thrun

@SebastianThrun

8 months

I am excited to announce that I'm launching Sage AI Labs with @kuprel . Come to the hackathon we are hosting to find out more!

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5 years

the best mentors force you to raise your standards, for yourself and for others

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@saammotamedi @GreylockVC @timshi_ai @SebastianThrun @bhorowitz @a16z "Ben Horowitz from a16z, said Cresta’s software is powerful enough to stand out in the crowded field. He is betting that customers will be swayed by the company’s product rather than be captivated by the “positioning and branding” of larger tech companies"

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Founder of Google's Moonshot Factory and Udacity makes a big new bet

Cresta, a startup co-founded by founder of Google’s X moonshot factory and Udacity, raised $21 million to tackle A.I. and call centers.

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3 years

Awesome to sit down with @saammotamedi and share how things got started @cresta - we're just getting started!

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Greylock

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The @Cresta team believes AI should help people, not replace them. In the latest #greymatter , CEO @zaydenam & @GreylockVC 's @saammotamedi discuss how AI is shaping the future of customer service by extending human capabilities

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5 years

Cresta is on the 2019 Breakout list!

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4 years

Great to have the student entrepreneurs from the CMU Swartz center visit Cresta today. Bright folks!

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4 years

A+ cofounder: @timshi_ai A+ VP of eng: @dork_matter A+ idea: @cresta A+ VC: @saammotamedi A+ feature: look out for December 2020 cc: @founderbrags

@jasonlk

Jason ✨🇬🇧SaaStr LDN June 4-5✨ Lemkin

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It's worth waiting for: The A+ cofounder The A+ VP of Engineering The A+ idea The A+ VC The A+ API The A+ feature Not forever. But for longer than your gut says. Go long

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4 years

We are very fortunate to be working with the best: @saammotamedi and his team at @GreylockVC

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Saam Motamedi

4 years

@GreylockVC 3/ @zaydenam , @timshi_ai and @SebastianThrun are extremely talented, customer centric entrepreneurs who have built the leading team in this area. We're thrilled to be supporting them and their team. Read more about our partnership with Cresta here 👇

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Zayd Enam

3 years

Enjoyed sharing my take on how AI is closing the gap between what we want software to do and what it is currently capable of:

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a16z

3 years

What was the most significant or overlooked trend in enterprise this year? 24 company builders and the a16z enterprise team weigh in:

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Zayd Enam

4 years

Coming soon: how Cresta got its first Fortune 500 customer the week after incorporating...

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Paul Graham

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If you start a startup that can only reach users by doing deals with big companies, the default outcome will be that you run out of money and die while waiting for them to make up their minds.

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Zayd Enam

4 years

We are live! Great insights and best practices from best contact center leaders on how to shift to remote contact centers

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Zayd Enam

4 years

I think my dad has a much higher NPS than me 👌. Awake craniotomy is very difficult. glad you are feeling better @theRealYLH

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Yasser Latif Hamdani

4 years

I'm so grateful I've gotten yet another chance to beat my brain tumour. Thank you, Dr Athar Enam and Aga Khan Karachi for a skillful awake craniotomy procedure. To family & friends for their endless prayers. May you and yours stay safe. This is me crawling back into words:

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4 years

I had a great time chatting with Chip Alexandru on how machine learning can augment human expertise and why Cresta is starting with sales teams:

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IMPLEMENTED (AI, Advanced Analytics)

Conversation with Zayd Enam, Co-Founder and CEO Cresta

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5 years

1/2 Big step towards BMI: Key open challenges: - ECoG surgically invasive (only technique that works, electrode on brain surface) - Non-invasive techniques need strong signal processing (SP) to deal with skull - More data for deep learning SP to work

Brain signals translated into speech using artificial intelligence

Nature - Technology could one day be used to provide a voice for people who can’t talk.

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4 years

important message from my MOM:

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Great piece by @chandna on how sales has changed and how @cresta can help:

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7 years

Great article. Covers some of our supervised learning work to make salespeople more efficient and effective:

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7 years

Ben Franklin did. not. mess around. when running the Pennsylvania Gazette in the 1700s ( source: )

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6 months

thanksgiving is a great time to build!

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Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD

6 months

After 2 wks, half at @MGHNeuroOnc and half at @NeuroOnc #SNO2023 , nice to be back in my own labspace with my tools to continue building the implant against #glioblastoma . Thankful for @UTSWNeurology and Dr. Habib for the independent space and @UTSWBrain and ASCNO for the funding.

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5 months

The reason @agihouse_org works is because starting a company is a creative process and art inspires art.

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10 months

A girl in shanghai told me I have generous eyes and I’m going to remember that compliment until I die

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3 years

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” -(multiple attributions incl. Mandela and Roosevelt)

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3 years

Really enjoyed my conversation with @jameskotecki for #MachineMeetsWorld and sharing some of the funnier things we've found during our deployments of #AI as well as how AI can make us more empathetic.

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9 months

Been reflecting on this and think it's the reason FAANG tech culture is devolving into general antipathy and entitlement. Hang out with doctors or artists and SV tech culture attitudes just seem unhinged in comparison..

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Zayd Enam

9 months

An opera singer sees the joy on audience faces when she sings. A doctor sees gratitude when she heals a patient. This gives work meaning. A software engineer sees lines of code. It’s too abstract to have meaning. This is a problem.

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2 years

Nothing funner than winning a competitive deal :-)

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Zayd Enam

5 years

Welcome @plusepsilon - one of the 4 people who have ever solved my NLP interview problem 😄 Super excited to be working with you!

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Motoki Wu 🌊🦈

5 years

It was a rewarding 1.5 years at @Chegg . Met some great people that I truly care about. Starting this week, I am joining the impressive team at @cresta_AI . 🚀

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5 years

Where to find amazing talent that the market severely undervalues: salespeople selling bad products, engineers building amazing products with no business, marketeers building brands in niche and competitive industries.

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Jobs are evolving: In the next decade more people should focus on decentralized physical work like construction, carpentry, and mechanical trades. Centralized physical roles have always been prone to automation, and AI is reshaping cognitive jobs. There is already a shortage

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shrink chic: the fashion style where all your clothes are slightly too big because you’ve lost weight but you can’t replace your wardrobe because you plan on losing more weight. it’s in. confirmed.👌🏽

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Why sensor redundancy is important

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This Image Is Why Self-Driving Cars Come Loaded with Many Types of Sensors

When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal.

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3 years

Exciting announcement coming out 7:30 AM ET. Stay tuned!

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2 small thoughts on loyalty: 1) it's a long-term investment. it seems sub-optimal in the short-term but if you make bets on the right principles it pays off long-term. 2) you only realize the value of loyalty after the pain of disloyalty.

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We need a social media that focuses on character

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6 years

. @nalgene has a recurring revenue model made possible by the @TSA airplane water bottle policy

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“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?” -thus spoke Zarathustra

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3 years

so hungry. i think it's time for an in-n-out run...

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9 months

An opera singer sees the joy on audience faces when she sings. A doctor sees gratitude when she heals a patient. This gives work meaning. A software engineer sees lines of code. It’s too abstract to have meaning. This is a problem.

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Zayd Enam

4 months

In biz it’s often worth trading a few IQ points for courage, clarity and confidence.

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6 months

wow!

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Alex Roe

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an unsolicited review from one of our Summit users about the impact Summit has had on their life:

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Zayd Enam

5 years

@anantpb congrats buddy😊Amazing company!

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The little-known software company has raised new funding at a $1.05 billion valuation, despite public market turmoil.

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A mission is inauthentic without sacrifice.

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3 years

some big news coming SOON.

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Zayd Enam

4 years

Academia breeds political in-fighting because of its structure. Unlike a military org. it is unstructured (generates the best ideas but causes informal influence). Unlike a fast growing company there are a fixed number of opptys. for grants and tenure (breeds zero-sum thinking).

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3 years

strawman: The strongest engineering DNA comes from a consumer background The strongest marketing DNA comes from a SMB background The strongest sales DNA comes from an enterprise background

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3 years

@jasonlk Dude, the quarter ends 1/31

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Zayd Enam

4 years

SMBs are the most hit right now. # of bankruptcies will give us best indicator whether the economy will be able to return to normal post-COVID. It’s a very lagging indicator but so far only 18% more Chapter 11s in 2020 vs. same period in 2019.

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Zayd Enam

4 years

@saammotamedi @GreylockVC @timshi_ai @SebastianThrun @bhorowitz @a16z In the technology business it is all about the product and it is why we have been laser focused on driving results for our F500 customers over the past 2 and half years. Hear about why Ben made the bet on Cresta:

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Zayd Enam

6 months

Observation: with current software and market trends there are an order of magnitude greater "mini-VC" opportunities in AI. Where the opportunity is not enough to underwrite a classic VC $1B+ outcome but is at least $100M+. These teams will raise a smaller amount of capital, hit

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7 years

"when you don't create things, you become defined by your taste rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude ppl. so create." _why

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8 months

summer is over. it’s time to build

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4 years

Things I am grateful for: espresso, dark chocolate, lifting weights, sunshine, watermelon, runny yolk, a warm handshake, a warm hug, in-n-out

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5 years

Critical next step for this research is to segment on dark vs milk chocolate.

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Just saying.

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9 months

Visit China and Elon's vision for X will feel crystal clear..

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6 months

Seeing how hard @sequoia pivoted away from crypto in the past year and where @a16z still is tells you everything you need to know about the philosophy of the two firms.

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7 years

Great advice: Instead of just goals, focus on creating systems that make it easier to succeed

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Zayd Enam

4 years

Helping AI understand tone and empathy is still a work in progress. Happy to have discussed that and #AmazonHalo with @bryanrwalsh . Read more @axios :

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Amazon's new Halo health wearable device will be able to track your emotional tone

The device's tone-tracking service raises questions about user privacy.

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thomas edison said “genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”. which is why he invented deodorant.

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"Learn the rules like a pro so that you can break them like an artist" -Picasso

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Bullish on murals over paintings. Our phones have raised the bar for visual stimuli from small screens. Expansive visual stimuli from murals still novel to brain.

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@pmarca e.g. Nietzsche

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Great conversation between @withfries2 and @jadtnaous on the Future of Decision Making. Check out the Cresta reference at 10:51 :)

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The Future of Decision-Making: 3 Startup Opportunities

As organizations continue their digital transformations, the way they make decisions changes. In particular, organizations are:- Pushing decision- making fur...

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Been digging into why so many of the world's greatest novelists emerged in Russia in the 19th century: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Chekhov. Relevant for LLM training. More to come.

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4 years

Building is how we reboot the American dream. What we build in huge quantities, like computers and TVs, drop rapidly in price. The things we don’t, like schools, housing and hospitals, skyrocket in price... every American can realize the dream by building

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Top engineers, ops, and finance pros thrive on details. Sales & marketing stars? They are concise & straight to the point with effective narrative.

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What does 2029 look like?

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Ten years of progress in the Boston Dynamics robots.

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wake me up when the AI tourists leave

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3 years

Really enjoyed my conversation with @donfluckinger for @techtarget discussing how Cresta fits in with @AWSCloud 's new Contact Center Intelligence services — and what changes are happening in the market. Read more here:

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Folks @GainsightHQ created a market out of scratch for a non “hair on fire” problem. The team @okta has built an amazing company from a decade of hand-to-hand combat and smart strategy. Talent from both companies has learned to how to build companies on “hard” mode.

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let's go tom!! @chai_research @agihouse_org mafia

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elvis

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Blending Is All You Need Based on the last month of LLM research papers, it's obvious to me that we are on the verge of seeing some incredible innovation around small language models. Llama 7B and Mistral 7B made it clear to me that we can get more out of these small language

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Probably the most useful book that I have read in 2019. Has sparked a lot of interesting conversations and inspired me to study work cultures outside of Silicon Valley (hospital operating rooms, financial institutions etc.)

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@martin_casado Agree with your meta point that we need more systems thinking in AI!

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Loquat season 😋 They are in season for a short period and bruise easily and so are not available in stores. Best eaten fresh off the tree!

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@mihail_eric deep object creation vs shallow copy of reference to object

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Or just act with conviction on long term technology trends…

@mattturck

Matt Turck

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When the Bitcoin ETFs get approved and VCs realize they’re going to need to pivot back from Gen AI into crypto

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Picasso was one suave mf-er, an artistic genius, birthed cubism, the only artist to be wealthy in his lifetime and regularly dropped concise and deeply profound thoughts like “good artists copy, great artists steal”

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Zayd Enam

4 years

Happy to have shared some of the wisdom I've learned with other young entrepreneurs with @techroundUK . Take a look here:

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Zayd Enam, Co-Founder at Cresta: Transforming Contact Center Agents Into Experts

Cresta is combining the science of artificial intelligence with the art of communication to observe customer interactions and uncover top agent behaviors that lead to successful customer outcomes,...

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