Abhijeet Patra

I really like this framing from @zackkanter on what being a founder is about for him, "I want to spend my life working on hard problems with smart people, and I want to look in the mirror every day and ask myself how good am I really? I think that’s the ultimate dream for a founder — to find out what their limits are."

A cheeky pattern I've seen a few times: - Raise money from venture/SV style investors at high pre-money valuations to start a "holding company", often with some thesis like "we're going to add technology to an old industry" (money often raised at 30x earnings or some insane pre-money... See more

>OpenAI was founded in 2015. The seminal transformers paper “Attention is All You Need” wasn’t published until 2017. You have to be in the water. https://t.co/ZISuilCoGv

Nitto Boseki (aka Nittobo) is currently the only company in the world able to provide the highest-end glass cloth, a material essential for making high-powered AI servers. https://t.co/xxtkSdHRQi

In conformance with the pharma-financed mainstream media’s mantric ritual of dutifully parroting the propaganda tropes spoon-fed them by vaccine makers and their captive regulators, @guardian on Friday pronounced thimerosal, the ethylmercury-based vaccine preservative, “safe.” Opining under the headline, “CDC vaccine panel to review ingredient RFK... See more

Uber founder Travis Kalanick on how to hire the best people Travis gives two pieces of tactical advice: 1. Write a truly inspired blog post “Write a truly inspired blog post that describes the company, the mission, the vision, how it's amazing, why you're amazing and why it's going to be... See more