Siqi Chen
@blader
🏗️ Love to build stuff (@runwayco, @sandboxvr, @postmates, @zynga) people love. 💸 Investor @amplitude_hq, @mercury, @owner, @elevenlabsio, @meetgamma ++
we spent the last four years reimagining what finance can be, unburdened by what has been. runway makes clear the significance of the passage of time in the context of all in which your business lives and what came before you. this is the result 👇
genspark is one of the fastest growing AI companies of all time and ahead of its time on every application and everyone is still sleeping on them. remarkable.
We used the same prompt from OpenAI's launch demo this morning and got the result below. One shot.
one of my portfolio companies exited today and i just got PAID! water’s on me next time folks!
new runway website just dropped! the old website was legendary for its time but a lot of people couldn't figure out what we actually did, so we made it a lot more boring because we're grown up now proud of the team's work on this! runway.com
well that escalated quickly . (if you’re in the peninsula we are at the edgewood exit on the 280. come have some very unprofitable vc backed sparkling lemonade until we run out!)
excited to announce my newest seed investment: lemonaidly. the founder is young but extremely charismatic and relentlessly resourceful. it’s got electrolytes!
what i realized when i quit twitter for a month is that twitter is basically like the real world except 3-6 months in the future
btw i quit twitter for about a month between may and june to see if it would help with my adhd and i became more distracted and less happy so now you don't have to
people are going to lose their minds when they discover what the i in ebitda stands for
$2bn seed round, putting in a money market account at a 4% APY. That makes Thinking Machines Lab a $80M ARR company already. Founders, what stops you from doing this?
if true the remaining team should sue the shit out of the founders. unconscionable lack of integrity.
Here is most of what I’ve gathered on the Windsurf / Google Deal The founders and dozens of engineers are going to Google. This group, along with the preferred shareholders will be sharing the $2.4B headline number. The exact split is unknown but investors are making some money…