White Noise
@wnoise_
GP at a firm you know, flâneur, girl dad
I will pay $2,000 to anyone at Google who can convince me why each naming convention is maximizing shareholder value. Serious inquiries only. DMs open: - google beam (tv thing) - gemini live (real time gemini) - project mariner (web agent) - agent mode (project mariner for…
I've been an Apple Notes loyalist for over a decade. @NotionHQ Q&A features finally convinced me to port all of my notes over. Already paying dividends, and AI meeting notes just a cherry on top. h/t @ivanhzhao & team. chatGPT integration would be great too.
SF... ...so back! (but seriously keep your shop open past 5pm and make it hospitable for cute girls and you will win)
Sup guys, I’m Neel - I moved to SF two weeks ago to build a coffee shop! I think SF is a beautiful city full of really interesting people doing incredible things. No other city better encapsulates the expression of human agency, and I love the “you can just do things” culture of…
this is literally just muji
Imagine a minimal store named “Store” that sells nothing but products with no branding whatsoever.
the smartest founders in my portfolio have unanimously instituted a policy for their teams to 'ask o3' before talking to humans. Some even require deeplinks to the chatGPT conversation as part of any request. I.e. 'did you try to solve this problem with AI'. Apparently it's…
Legendary run. So much more to come. We will all deeply miss the Dalton Pivot Bananza - which has given rise to iconic companies like @Whatnot @posthog @retool & more
After 12+ years, 25 batches, and the privilege of advising >1,000+ startups, I’m transitioning to Partner Emeritus at Y Combinator. YC changed my life. I’m grateful to the thousands of founders who trusted me with their journeys, my fellow YC partners and teammates, and to Paul,…
when will we see United States v. Anthropic PBC? pretty clear from the United States v. Microsoft findings of fact that obstructing 3P vendors from first class OS-level API access was not kosher & anticompetitive / negatively impacted consumers. In this case, foundation models…
With less than five days of notice, Anthropic decided to cut off nearly all of our first-party capacity to all Claude 3.x models. Given the short notice, we may see some short-term Claude 3.x model availability issues as we have very quickly ramped up capacity on other inference…
Only a matter of time until the little chatGPT desktop app becomes the default macOS. Already is if you use it in full screen ;) @OpenAI
2007 Mac OS X: peak desktop class UI 2025 macOS: google docs with vista aero glass apple has lost it it’s your turn to make something better
iOS 26 liquid glass design looks like a PM googled ‘best Cydia jailbreak themes for iOS 7’ and slapped the first one on. Today Apple threw in the towel on software. Wouldn’t be surprised if my daughter’s first iPhone uses OpenAiOS. Frankly, most jailbroken themes are better.
tell me you're locked in without telling me you're locked in. 2hr turnaround on a Tuesday night. Probably even got to dogfood agent mode :) x.com/mntruell/statu…
Happy to report that this is fixed too!
Salient example of cultural acceleration / ‘history’ creation in real time. Soon there will be full-scale reenactments published weeks / days after the fact. What does this do to the ‘big’ moments?
Amazon is making a movie about the OpenAI board drama
the primary rate limiter to the builder's progression / software creation over the next decade is how quickly the @cursor_ai team can innovate on agent mode. Then everything is constrained by imagination
the builder’s progression there’s a pattern i keep seeing in myself, in friends, in builders trying to grow: stage 1: build for yourself you’re in flow. no need to explain anything to anyone. you know exactly what you want. every friction is a personal itch. you move fast. it…
associates must have had a field day with the cow puns 'mooving on' 'high steaks investment'
Halter — The Apple of Cow Collars. ~$36M ARR, ~2x YoY Closed $100M at $1B post led by @bondcap — congrats & welcome to the unicorn club. Fun one.
I went to Medellín, Colombia, with my boys last weekend. Here’s what I learned about B2B SaaS: 🧵
Is there room in the market for a startup that creates better stories for lab-grown diamonds? For example, take 100 out to space, put few in the Louvre for a decade —same diamonds, better stories, higher margin and/or faster transition into post-lab-grown world?
my wife said this on my birthday once
The front gate at Headquarters is closed until further notice. Please use alternate routes for Thursday, May 22nd.
experimented with an X 'boost' for $50 which promised ~50K engagements or so. 24 hours in, showing 45 impressions... am I doing this right? @Support