Markie Wagner
@markiewagner
Founder of Forge
History is defined by top players pursuing good quests. Today, we are in a crisis. Silicon Valley's best — our top operators, exited founders, and investors — are almost all on bad quests. @traestephens and I write about quests in @PirateWires piratewires.com/p/choose-good-…
We asked @traestephens about his "Good Quests" essay with @markiewagner. "Lots of super talented former entrepreneurs took the route of Big Head in Silicon Valley (HBO show) to rest and vest." "That feels like a moral failure of tech. Founders operating on God Mode should focus…
A little over two years ago, @markiewagner and I published an essay in @PirateWires entitled "Choose Good Quests" that blew up way more than I was expecting. I was also surprised that more than a few readers were able to read between the lines to see the theological…
A manifesto for founders in tech: Choose Good Quests, by @traestephens and @markiewagner "There are certainly bad quests that are hard, and (a few) good quests that are easy." Read it here 👇🏻
Essay: Choose Good Quests, by @traestephens and @markiewagner "There are certainly bad quests that are hard, and (a few) good quests that are easy." a must-read for founders in tech 👇🏻
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accepting a side quest
Agreed 100% @markiewagner @micsolana @PirateWires piratewires.com/p/choose-good-…
This is a poetic post by @traestephens and the @PirateWires team This one is personal for me as Trae and Peter backed my last company @Expanseinc I feel like I can’t post this without calling out the obvious, that I became a VC Now the least I can do is back hard, good quests
1/ History is the record of TOP players completing GOOD quests. This is a moral imperative. Check out the latest @PirateWires post by @markiewagner and I and ask yourself what the world would look like if our best players all took on good quests. piratewires.com/p/choose-good-…
If ChatGPT is Pong for LLM, this is at least Space Invaders level🤯 - Facts extraction - Automated "Database" creation and population for quantitative questions - Recursive Q&A for qualitative questions 👏@markiewagner @yasyf
@yasyf and I built Summ, an open-source tool that provides intelligent search and question-answering across large sets of transcripts. ⚡️ We turn your unstructured transcripts into queryable SQL and JSON! Try it out and read how we did it here: markiewagner.com/summ
One of the more polished open source tools we’ve seen!
@yasyf and I built Summ, an open-source tool that provides intelligent search and question-answering across large sets of transcripts. ⚡️ We turn your unstructured transcripts into queryable SQL and JSON! Try it out and read how we did it here: markiewagner.com/summ
it’s like this is the grammys of being an unhinged manic young person
Congratulations to our newest class of Thiel Fellows! businesswire.com/news/home/2023…
Excited to share that I will be joining this year’s class of Thiel Fellows! So many of the people I respect and look up to have gone through this program. I’m honored to be joining that lineage — thank you to the fellowship for taking the bet on me businesswire.com/news/home/2023…
Hands down the most important article I’ve read in years. Incredible job by @traestephens. piratewires.com/p/choose-good-…
2. Choose Good Quests by @traestephens & @markiewagner piratewires.com/p/choose-good-…
tech is facing a crisis of bullshit. important to ask yourself "am i really making the world a better place rn, or am i just building another SaaS company on a beach in bali." from @traestephens and @markiewagner: happy thanksgiving, choose good quests. piratewires.com/p/choose-good-…