Juan Orbea

AI that can start to be an AI scientist and self-improvement could help us solve the hard alignment problems that we don’t know how to solve. The alignment problem is: how do we build AGI that does what is in the best interest of humanity? How do we make sure humanity gets to determine the future of humanity. It is also interesting to note how this... See more

Third — and here I can only describe what I am observing across the industry — marketing seems to be substituting for real, hard science in the presentation of these startups.

Simultaneously, we are facing a technological revolution the consequences of which we are only beginning dimly to grasp, let alone understand. The evidence seems to be growing that this revolution – which is more accurately a revolution in how information is generated, collected, processed, analyzed, shared, consumed, and understood – may be... See more

Canva also makes money from Canva Marketplace and Canva Print. In the Canva Marketplace, Canva charges a fee for premium design usage when the user is not signed up for an Enterprise or Pro plan. For every sale, Canva provides 35% to the content creator, with the rest going to Canva after a payment processing fees.Canva is an excellent example of... See more

It’s possible to identify a few patterns across these domains. First, VCs are investing in science much earlier than they have been comfortable with over the past two decades as software and the internet monopolized the limelight.

To appreciate the nature and significance of the coming “singularity,” it is important to ponder the nature of exponential growth. By the end of the first half of the chess board, the inventor had accumulated one large field’s worth (4 billion grains), and the emperor did start to take notice. Incidentally, with regard to the doublings of... See more

feel like we were the expert or where the valuation metrics weren’t in line with our funding goals.