David Haber
@dhaber
General Partner @a16z. Previously: Firmwide Strategy @GoldmanSachs, Founder, CEO @onbondstreet and VC @SparkCapital. @Harvard biochem.
1/ In any fast growing organization – one of the best feelings as a manager or CEO is having someone who works for you that I call “Safe Hands.”
Hosted an NYC intern event on our roof today. One of them asked what year I was graduating… You know you’re old when that makes your day! 😆😎
Thanks to the Partnership for New York City for putting on these forums! #vote cc @robspeyer
Consumers should have control over their own data. This is BS anti-competitive behavior by the largest banks in the country to stifle fintech innovation.
Operation Chokepoint 3.0 Under the Biden administration, Operation Chokepoint 2.0 tried to debank and deplatform crypto: financialservices.house.gov/news/documents… That era has ended, but now the banks are about to implement their own Chokepoint 3.0 — charging insanely high fees to access data…
Scott is one of the most capable, unflappable and kind people I've had the privilege of working with. The country is lucky to have him in this role!
I am honored today to officially join @USOPM as director and help lead the federal workforce modernization effort through efficiency, accountability, and putting taxpayers first. I am grateful to @POTUS for this opportunity and to all the dedicated public servants at OPM.
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BREAKING: a16z MP Scott Kupor has been traded to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (@USOPM)
Come for community, stay for @emmzaoui’s epic challah. 👌✨
shabbat summer edition 💛 everyone in nyc is so locked in! fun hosting with my friends @a16z @dhaber @zachcohen25
Fun playing around with this @elevenlabsio digital twin. Thanks @DustinBlank for training an AI on my voice! Not out of a job… yet 😆 elevenlabs.io/app/talk-to?ag…
Legends
IN NEWS: @_MomentHQ raises $36M to modernize fixed income. Moment has raised a $36M Series B led by @IndexVentures to bring automation to the $150T fixed income market. The company also announced a new partnership with LPL Financial, the largest broker-dealer in the U.S.…
For many years the technology culture at most large financial institutions had been "if it wasn't built here, we're not interested." This POV has been changing over the past few years but AI is radically accelerating this shift. In @FortuneMagazine, I talked about how AI is…
Generative AI models championed by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have disrupted much of the classical machine learning that banks previously worked with data scientists and researchers to develop. Read more from Fortune AIQ and @ServiceNow: trib.al/3mvXrXY
What if the biggest lever to fixing healthcare isn’t clinical, but operational? I sat down with Tennr’s @TreyHolterman & Camber’s Christophe Rimann during NYTW to talk broken referrals, denied claims, and how AI, data, and automation can finally solve them. Link to our convo…
KALSHI 99% OFFICIAL PROJECTION: Zohran Mamdani wins the NYC Democratic Mayor nominee
KALSHI 99% OFFICIAL PROJECTION: Zohran Mamdani wins the NYC Democratic Mayor nominee
0/🚨 AI companies behave differently from traditional SaaS companies, and founders consistently ask us how AI companies are adapting and breaking out. After talking to hundreds of AI companies over the past few years, we think that there are a few emerging principles for…