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founder @florafaunaai, prev @menloventures
We raised $6.5 million to build the world's most powerful creative tool.
a baby gecko spawned in the FLORA office today should we keep him?

hosting a creative tech event at the FLORA office tomorrow!
hosting a cowork & build for creative technologists with @florafaunaai in NYC, if you're tinkering on something (or not), come hang out, and if you're feeling really crazy, give us a mini demo. rsvp below
Today, history has been made. Veo 3 image-to-video is now here – a landmark moment in the history of moving image art. Just like film was revolutionized by the introduction of sound, generative AI has made leaps with this groundbreaking model. Try it for yourself in FLORA.
only in SF do you have to defend being dripped out
don’t be afraid to get dressed: in my early 20s, I dressed more in the Silicon Valley uniform (company t-shirt, hoodie, jeans) - because a friend told me not to “scare the engineers by reminding them you’re a woman” and because I looked even younger than I was, and felt nervous…
as an excel power user I feel like they need to ensure the keyboard shortcuts in excel are carried over nearly one-to-one it’s like how the electric piano has the same set of keys as a grand piano
We asked @nicochristie (Co-founder @Fundamental) why they didn't just build on top of Excel. “We actually wanted to recreate Excel entirely with feature parity, not just layer on top of it.” “The people capable of doing this are so out of distribution for regular users that…
FLORA customer love on Facebook Marketplace I gave him a good deal on my espresso machine

came across @florafaunaai's product philosophy. no boring step-by-step chat stuff, just a blank canvas where your ideas live as connected nodes. feels like thinking out loud. need of the moment!
we’re hiring a founding designer at Ponder to help us reinvent video creation. fully in person in NYC, 6 days a week. 25,000 creative professionals are waiting to use what you design. artsy, experimental creative technologists only — no traditional UI/UX.
enough about forward-deployed engineers we need more forward-deployed angels was thinking about this because one of our angels Umesh Khanna (@forwarddeploy) has just been pulling up on Sundays and going deep with us on the product problems we're dealing with, designing growth…

just got my copy of Hardware by @HipCityReg for the office elite coffee table book & sick content
