Astasia Myers

Thrilled to share I've joined @Felicis as a GP ✨ I've long admired their commitment to founders, new categories & high-conviction bets. I'll continue to invest in my favorite categories of databases, dev tools, infra & AI from inception to Series A. felicis.com/insight/astasi…

There are no amps loud enough to honor this rock legend.

Infrastructure founders can no longer pretend to be behind-the-scenes players. AI is pushing them into the spotlight, demanding they think like consumer brands. Competitive edges are taking shape. The market is cutthroat and the stakes are rising.

For businesses, future of AI performance lies not in model alone, but in understanding and controlling the data pipeline. Data-centric AI is back with vengeance.

For AI real bottleneck isn’t generation. It’s ideation and retention. Solving that unlocks daily use, not just one-off novelty.

I love this because with all the advancements in AI we are still talking about cache invalidations🤣

ICML 2025: Evals, evals, evals RL, RL, RL Safety, safety, safety

With this next wave of AI and RL, verification is critical. It is simultaneously our biggest constraint and our greatest opportunity.

AI code generation is shifting from IDEs to the terminal. AI SWEs are moving into more complicated production systems and deeper DevOps tasks. If you are building here, DM me

What is AI? What is human? Being human is breaking being “on-policy”

We talked about Cognition's acquisition with @jeffreyhuber (Founder & CEO @trychroma): "It's a big get for cognition. They kind of needed like a horse in that race." "Yes, agentic coding is part of the long-term play here but you can't go straight to streaming. You want to…

This year's Felicis Fellows was a total blast! Thank you to all the incredible AI students for joining us! Interested in Felicis Fellows? DM me.

AI won’t just change the game, it’ll reshape the field

There is a big difference between knowing you can take care of someone and feeling that you have to

Is the US Justice Department to blame?

If I was a founder pitching a VC I’d start every pitch: 1) Sharing my background and why I’m the best person to start the business 2) My unique insights into the market that will help me win 3) The 3 reasons why the company is an incredible opportunity Make it easy to say yes

Because awareness and distribution is more important than ever before? But seriously, if you are an early stage founder: 1) build your personal brand and 2) if you don’t outbound customers with intensity

My friend just joined Windsurf on the GTM team…

Was it just me or was this a long week?

Nvidia's market cap: May 2023: $1 trillion February 2024: $2 trillion June 2024: $3 trillion July 2025: $4 trillion 4X in 2 years...

All durable workflow companies eventually become durable AI agent platforms