Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures
@heyjchu
Partner @khoslaventures, founder @ Koality (exited), OG @PalantirTech, @Opendoor, @Docker, ML @facebook
Warm fuzzy reminder from my wife. I've personally invested in the growth of 4 new grads in my career #1 became CTO of a series F co #2 joined OAI and was a core researcher on GPT3 & 4 (hi @tszzl)! #3 got to sr staff @ Meta in 3 years The last one works with me right now 🙂
I like how Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test as an indicator of effectively what he thought would be AGI. And we've just completely forgotten about the term since 2 years ago since we've blown past it
I'm proud of @ScottWu46 and @jeffwsurf for finding such a perfect outcome in tough times. Proud to be an early backer of @cognition_labs. Investments are always people and character first and I hope to back all the great companies that will come out of the new Cognition.
To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this…
I don't care if you're a VP at a hot startup or a place like Google. If you can't describe how a mission statement recursively breaks down into an org design, you're a junior manager at best and overleveled by like 8 layers. Period.
Any senior designers want to help me with some due diligence and try a really cool AI design product?
Sometimes on Twitter, you actually get tidbits of deep wisdom
Becoming an RL diehard in the past year and thinking about RL for most of my waking hours inadvertently taught me an important lesson about how to live my own life. One of the big concepts in RL is that you always want to be “on-policy”: instead of mimicking other people’s…
Go to cursor. Get the evals. Bring it back to Anthropic.
BREAKING: Claude Code PMs Boris Cherny and Cat Wu have returned to Anthropic after a brief stint at Cursor.
Contrarian move that's working out really well for one of my friends: Shack up in a tier 2 city with a great university (Seattle, Austin, Atlanta). Hire the best from that university. Easier to hire and close, better coders than Stanford, less of a retention problem
We're drunk on our stupidity, again. Bribing founders with homes? Free secondaries as % of investment? Celebrating founders who leave the team out to dry? Counting GMV, bookings, distribution contracts, and equity raised as "ARR"? Manufacturing positive GM by burying COGS?…
I... Might have made a mistake not investing in xAI. Clearly a massive market with few competitors because established research labs aren't willing to go this far. @elonmusk take my (@vkhosla's) money please?
Elon Musk has launched an AI anime girl companion for SuperGrok subscribers
idt this is true. conversation started at 5pm on fri they seem to have been hung out to dry x.com/russelljkaplan…
Incredibly excited to share that Cognition is acquiring Windsurf. What an insane weekend - from first call after 5pm on Friday to a signed definitive agreement this morning. There’s a lot to build!
Windsurf being acquired by Cognition is like your wife leaving you for your best mate and so you shack up with her sister the next day… 🤣
Lolwut. Cognition acquires the Windsurf remaining shell.
A Stanford Sophomore floored me with this comment today: It's easier as a Stanford student to get into YC than get an internship at a reputable company. Everyone knows this and every batch there're Stanford founders who did it because they had no other options.