John Seyer @alliancecloud

andres freund: genius programmer responsible for one of the most widely used pieces of software in the world, just single-handedly stopped a huge attack from happening. nyt journalist: 'i am too fucking stupid to understand his work and won't even try but it's very boring!!!'

Which one is better? AWS, Azure, or GCP? The good news: This might not matter soon! The guy who created the AWS CDK created Winglang, an open-source language designed from the ground up for the cloud. Winglang abstracts the differences between cloud providers by defining a…

Some good news: most lawyers are about to become obsolete "DLA Piper, a global law firm pioneering technology innovation in the legal sector worked with C3 AI to create a first of kind generative AI application to streamline the analysis of complex legal agreements. In just…

“The problem that Google faces today relative to the likes of OpenAI and Perplexity is very similar to what we did to Microsoft 20 years ago. What ChatGPT in particular has made us realize is that many of the tasks that we have so far labeled "search" and where we click on blue…

Othman Laraki @othman

2 months ago

“The problem that Google faces today relative to the likes of OpenAI and Perplexity is very similar to what we did to Microsoft 20 years ago. What ChatGPT in particular has made us realize is that many of the tasks that we have so far labeled "search" and where we click on blue…

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As a manager, I've had direct reports that short circuit career conversations with statements like "My goal is to eventually start a company." With such folks, my playbooks is as follows. Put them in a position where they can drive execution and lead projects with ambiguous…

Can Big Tech actually field generative AI products? (1) Ever-escalating demands from internal activists, employee mobs, crazed executives, broken boards, pressure groups, extremist regulators, government agencies, the press, "experts", et al to corrupt the output (2) Constant…

YC is employs fewer than 100 people yet over 4,200 people fraudulently claim to be currently working at YC (not education, not YC alums) on their LinkedIn resume. Is there someone at LinkedIn who can help us clean this up and make sure people who claim to work at YC actually…

Gemini and Google's Culture The Google Gemini fiasco shows that the biggest challenge for Google in AI is not business model but rather company culture; change is needed from the top down. stratechery.com/2024/gemini-an…

I'm done with @Google. I know many good individuals working there, but as a company they've irrevocably lost my trust. I'm "moving out". Here's why: I've been reading Google's Gemini damage control posts. I think they're simply not telling the truth. For one, their text-only…

Google Public Policy @googlepubpolicy

2 months ago

I'm done with @Google. I know many good individuals working there, but as a company they've irrevocably lost my trust. I'm "moving out". Here's why: I've been reading Google's Gemini damage control posts. I think they're simply not telling the truth. For one, their text-only…

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Love how Etsy has loads of craftsmen in places where craft survives (Lithuania, Poland, etc.) and you can order hand-made stuff at not-crazy prices, supporting someone's high-quality cottage industry, and expanding their addressable market. The Internet's original promise.

Founder of Trader Joe's set up a bonus system where overperforming store managers are the highest compensated employees of the business — more than those at HQ He wanted to avoid any incentives for them to want to get into the bureaucracy Big tech companies should take note IMO

Agree. Most VC's have not built enough companies to have earned the right to advise founders. Making the wrong choice of VC is the founders fault. Just getting a "VC job" doesn't qualify you to advise founders. Whose opinion to trust on what topic is the most important thing…

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5 months ago

Agree. Most VC's have not built enough companies to have earned the right to advise founders. Making the wrong choice of VC is the founders fault. Just getting a "VC job" doesn't qualify you to advise founders. Whose opinion to trust on what topic is the most important thing…

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E155: In conversation with @TuckerCarlson (plus 25+ mins at the end breaking down the @OpenAI chaos) -- departure from Fox News -- biggest issue facing the US today: rediscovering national alignment -- why prosperity begets self-destruction -- media control -- current…

Very surprised by Naval's take here. Studying Silicon Valley history it's clear that tech is there for three major reasons (among others): 1) William Shockley moved to Palo Alto to be close to his sick mother. There, he set up Shockley Labs and recruited tremendous talent to…

Airchat @getairchat

5 months ago

Very surprised by Naval's take here. Studying Silicon Valley history it's clear that tech is there for three major reasons (among others): 1) William Shockley moved to Palo Alto to be close to his sick mother. There, he set up Shockley Labs and recruited tremendous talent to…

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I thought @elonmusk’s interview with @andrewrsorkin was one of the great interviews ever. Musk is a free speech absolutist which I respect. I think he is entirely correct that he and @X are treated unfairly and inconsistently by advertisers. @tiktok_us @instagram @facebook and…

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I thought @elonmusk’s interview with @andrewrsorkin was one of the great interviews ever. Musk is a free speech absolutist which I respect. I think he is entirely correct that he and @X are treated unfairly and inconsistently by advertisers. @tiktok_us @instagram @facebook and…

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My favorite Charlie Munger story: In 1953, Munger was 29 years old. Recently divorced. Lost the house. Huge social stigma of divorce back then. His 8-year-old son, Teddy, was diagnosed with cancer. The leukemia was incurable. No medical insurance - Munger paid for all…

The 3 greatest tech acquisitions ever: ▫️Facebook buys Instagram for $1B ▫️Google buys YouTube for $1.7B ▫️Microsoft buys OpenAI for $0B

The SVB, FTX, and OpenAI debacles have proven that boards are underrated.  Here are some things I’ve learned about building boards from @HubSpot that I hope might help other founders. 1. VC’s “can be” excellent board members.  Yes, they are self-interested, but their interests…

Atlassian is crossing $3B in ARR, growing 37%, and it’s worth a stunning $70 Billion And … it’s generating $800m+ in free cash flow a year This are the types of SaaS companies the public markets are valuing highest today 5 Interesting Learnings: 🔽 🔽 🔽 🔽 🔽

I want to tell you a very spooky 👻 story of the time prod drowned in a hurricane. The year was 2012. I was the Director of Engineering at a startup in Durham, NC. Our entire infrastructure was hosted on bare metal with Internap in Manhattan. And then Hurricane Sandy made…