Dave Pack
@davegpack
Founder @try_olive_AI (http://tryolive.com). Former VC & Head of Launch & Global Expansion Strategy @Bird 🌎🛴🌍 I'm bigger on LinkedIn 😂
I’ve joined Cognition to continue to work on the future of software engineering. I was employee #2 at Windsurf and have worked on AI+code for years. There’s never been a more exciting time and place for it than now at Cognition. I had a place at Google DeepMind as part of the…
Woah
It’s a privilege to welcome Windsurf to Cognition. Here are more details in the note I sent to our Cognition team this morning: Team, As discussed during our all-hands, we are acquiring Windsurf. We have now signed a definitive agreement and we couldn’t be more excited. Here’s…
BREAKING NEWS: We just launched our newest products @eightsleep ✅Pod 5 ✅Hydro-powered Blanket for 2x thermal coverage ✅Base with zero-gravity elevation & surround-sound w/ @hubermanlab content ✅AI that monitors your health while you sleep Get yours👉eightsleep.com
I’m back in the zero to one stage (after running a multi-hundred million dollar co for 6yrs 😅) & remembering how fundamentally different this is. When you have a team and customers and a working business — you get pulled. You wake up with a million requests from people and…
🚲 Lime’s IPO Rumblings & The Future of Micromobility @limebike is making a big PR push amid speculation of a 2026 IPO. As someone who previously led global expansion strategy at Bird and, at one point, considered myself the world’s foremost expert on scooter depreciation…
🚀 How to Stand Out as a Junior VC (Without Annoying Founders) I recently saw a junior VC with a small follower count get 16. MILLION VIEWS on @X . How? She posted a simple pic of an air mattress with the caption: 💭 "Moved to SF with an air mattress and a dream." The trolls…
moved to SF with an air mattress and a dream
Let’s go @D_R_Farrell
while @deepseek_ai has been in the headlines, @onlookdev has hit #1 on Github's trending repos
Fascinating that agent mode (a la OpenAI operator etc but UiPath back in the day) continues to mean replicating a human that clicks around on a website vs having machines talk machine to each other (API mode). Maybe that changes over time as agent-specific infra gets built.
I absolutely love when founders give out their playbooks on @LinkedIn and @X . A few months ago I saw an awesome post about how @austinh___ and his company @unifygtm used a fundraising announcement to generate a viral post and millions of pipeline. At olive, we copied this…

100% @RickCarusoLA
Even if you didn’t vote for real estate tycoon Rick Caruso in LA’s last mayoral election, you’re basically a moron if you don’t do it this time, since we’re going to have to rebuild the entire city.
Even if you didn’t vote for real estate tycoon Rick Caruso in LA’s last mayoral election, you’re basically a moron if you don’t do it this time, since we’re going to have to rebuild the entire city.