Kevin Kwok
@kevinakwok
i promise you as a child it was like being taken to see the face of god
the fact that you literally used to have to go to blockbuster in person to rent a movie is shocking
If carmack was doing the IMO the high school kids would have had a robot sitting next to them. Having to walk up to proctor to ask clarifying questions
Trying to start blogging again. Will cross post here for a little bit, but not too long, because blech. johnolilly.com/2025/07/21/yak…
I can share some of the Mercury lore here, but the tldr is that since almost the very beginning, we've treated support as an element of our overall Product surface. As we grew, the second team that was split off into its own domain was our "Support Product" team. We (Whitney…
Update: I joined @AnthropicAI to lead AI for State & Local Government! aka making government better with Claude :) Last year I met 20K+ voters running for office in SF. One of those was @DanielaAmodei, President & co-founder of Anthropic 🧵
one unexpected thing of the last decade, is that everyone expected early firms to own majority of downstream investing in their best companies. and with very few exceptions this really did not happen.
Interesting- Brian Singerman and Lee Linden are raising a $500M+ fund-of-funds: 20% to pre-seed/seed funds, 80% to partner with those funds leading Series B’s. Smart strategy imo. Industry Ventures runs a similar playbook, has been a great partner to us
I love these. And also hope this format of reflections started by @nabeelqu becomes ubiquitous
Some reflections: calv.info/openai-reflect…
These worries that social contract is being broken with these new deal structures is wrong. If anything these structures are example of social contract holding so much that these deals are being structured very expensively in order to make sure investors and employees participate
Someone make a prediction market on the deal's terms when all said and done will have dividend be pro rata to cap table. i want to see that market
Confirmed that investors in windsurf are receiving money