Chris Paik
@cpaik
In pursuit of intentionality
Something’s rotten in startup land. When did we become orthodox? We used to celebrate mavericks. Now we only accept founders and startups from Innovation™️ University. We used to be pirates—now we’re the Port Authority. Stop gatekeeping disruption and raise the black flag! 🏴☠️
It's easier to turn attention into capital than it is to turn capital into attention.
Cheating: A User's Guide to the Social Contract docs.google.com/document/d/1pi…
We will have driverless minivans. We will not have driverless convertibles.
1: We will happily automate away trivial tasks, the way that we accept Waymo in lieu of Uber, but our web browsers are only part "labor hour." We will never ask an agentic browser to "watch an episode of Love Island" the same way we will never hire someone to eat our dessert.
One year ago, we bet the company we could will a new category of software – an AI browser – into the world. Today, the @nytimes wrote, “@diabrowser illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making AI more natural to use.” So surreal, v proud of our team 🥹😭
If you missed it the first time, here’s your second chance to watch me fumble on live TV
Morning. Here are our guest call-ins today: – @cpaik (Pace Capital) – @willbruey (Varda) – Joel Becker (METR) – @karimatiyeh (Ramp) – Dylan Parker (Moment) – @iplayedd1 (Consensus) – @ghita__ha (ZeroEntropy) – @elliothershberg (Amplify) See you all on the stream.
Venture capital is rocket fuel. Useful only if you're building a rocket. Put it in a car and it blows the engine.
Are you still cooking, or did you clock out for the summer?!!! While everyone else is OOO, we’re firing up the grill, literally and metaphorically. Cook with me @pacecap: NYC's best founders are still here, not in the Hamptons. DM for invite.
The crux of this issue is that people vastly underestimate the individual burden of having children relative to the collective benefit (likely due to being out of touch). Absolute classic example of show me the incentives, I’ll show you the outcome.
Apparently it’s bad to let your population decrease, and it’s bad to counteract falling fertility with immigration. What do you want them to do??