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THE FULL STORY OF RAMP - how @eglyman and @karimatiyeh built their first company together. - how they turned @tryramp into a hyper-growth company. - surviving and thriving in wildly tumultuous markets. - many more insights into the fascinating world of modern fintech.
Ramp is completing a $150 million Series D-2 funding round, raising the company’s valuation to $7.65 billion. This round was co-led by @khoslaventures and @foundersfund, with additional new investors @sequoia, @GreylockVC, and @8vc. Our existing investors @ThriveCapital,…
dubai for @token2049 — who will be there? 🤝
Please join us! ...even if you were protesting us a couple years ago. No hard feelings 🙃
🚀 We're excited to announce our Silicon Valley National Security Hackathon in San Francisco on May 4th-5th at @SHACK15sf! In collaboration with @ShieldCapVC, @anduriltech, @foundersfund, @IqtLabs, @VannevarLabs, @StanfordGKC and Stanford's Defense Tech Club. Two days of…
.@foundersfund partner @traestephens on taking @anduriltech public: "I think there's a window that will make sense for us but certainly not in the next year." @dee_bosa chats with him on defense tech, an AI bubble, investing in @OpenAI, and more.
It was an honor to talk #defensetech with @anduriltech co-founder and @foundersfund partner @traestephens on stage at the #UpfrontSummit! “I'm going to do my best to make the world not only a different place but also a better place — I think that is my role.”
Learning how to do VC? Take every pitch you can. That doesn't mean wasting an entrepreneurs time! You need reps and so do they. It will be hard to predict which founders blow you away. Some of the investments I made in my first year while I was still learning ended up being…
Learning how to do VC? Take every pitch you can. That doesn't mean wasting an entrepreneurs time! You need reps and so do they. It will be hard to predict which founders blow you away. Some of the investments I made in my first year while I was still learning ended up being…
Listen to @HarryStebbings 's excellent interview with @traestephens... Trae's an incredible investor and also (obviously) my co-founder at @anduriltech 😎
Listen to @HarryStebbings 's excellent interview with @traestephens... Trae's an incredible investor and also (obviously) my co-founder at @anduriltech 😎
Patient paralyzed from the shoulders down plays chess with the help of the @neuralink chip in his brain. "It was like using the force on a cursor, and I could get it to move wherever I wanted."
We're releasing our mission 1 pharma results today!! We have a detailed scientific paper you can read through, or the one-liner is... Them space drugs cooked real good And thanks to @TheAlexKnapp @Forbes for covering our pre-print publication today
We're releasing our mission 1 pharma results today!! We have a detailed scientific paper you can read through, or the one-liner is... Them space drugs cooked real good And thanks to @TheAlexKnapp @Forbes for covering our pre-print publication today https://t.co/X1TXfsWUXp
"I don't believe that things enter stasis. I think the future is some sort of incredible utopia or humanity is over. Those are roughly the stakes." @micsolana
conversations about the future tend to bifurcate between a belief technology will kill us all and a belief there is no risk at all in innovation. in fact, we’re obviously at risk of the apocalypse, but that’s a good thing actually. hereticon is back.
conversations about the future tend to bifurcate between a belief technology will kill us all and a belief there is no risk at all in innovation. in fact, we’re obviously at risk of the apocalypse, but that’s a good thing actually. hereticon is back.
Devin is the first agentic product I’ve seen that successfully tackles multi-hundred step tasks by balancing long-term planning, skills, and memory. one of the few AI startups worth paying close attention to. congrats to @ScottWu46 and team, and grateful to have FF involved
Devin is the first agentic product I’ve seen that successfully tackles multi-hundred step tasks by balancing long-term planning, skills, and memory. one of the few AI startups worth paying close attention to. congrats to @ScottWu46 and team, and grateful to have FF involved
Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer. Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. Devin is…
Things are indeed about to get real, real weird. I spent the last couple of weeks using a coding assisstant AI that can create web sites, debug code and do massive coding jobs all on its own. It's name is Devin and it's backed by $21 million from Peter Thiel and others.…
At last night's @StrictlyVC event, @traestephens, General Partner at @foundersfund, shared the ideal case for a VC
Sharing our investment in @AvailProject Over the past few months, we’ve gotten to know the Avail team better and quickly realized they are one of a kind... [more below]
Sharing our investment in @AvailProject Over the past few months, we’ve gotten to know the Avail team better and quickly realized they are one of a kind... [more below]
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Please join us! ...even if you were protesting us a couple years ago. No hard feelings 🙃
🚀 We're excited to announce our Silicon Valley National Security Hackathon in San Francisco on May 4th-5th at @SHACK15sf! In collaboration with @ShieldCapVC, @anduriltech, @foundersfund, @IqtLabs, @VannevarLabs, @StanfordGKC and Stanford's Defense Tech Club. Two days of…
🚀 We're excited to announce our Silicon Valley National Security Hackathon in San Francisco on May 4th-5th at @SHACK15sf! In collaboration with @ShieldCapVC, @anduriltech, @foundersfund, @IqtLabs, @VannevarLabs, @StanfordGKC and Stanford's Defense Tech Club. Two days of…
.@foundersfund partner @traestephens on taking @anduriltech public: "I think there's a window that will make sense for us but certainly not in the next year." @dee_bosa chats with him on defense tech, an AI bubble, investing in @OpenAI, and more.
It was an honor to talk #defensetech with @anduriltech co-founder and @foundersfund partner @traestephens on stage at the #UpfrontSummit! “I'm going to do my best to make the world not only a different place but also a better place — I think that is my role.”
Learning how to do VC? Take every pitch you can. That doesn't mean wasting an entrepreneurs time! You need reps and so do they. It will be hard to predict which founders blow you away. Some of the investments I made in my first year while I was still learning ended up being…
1. Biggest Advice to new VCs Meet with every single company in the first year. Have no standards. Build a benchmark for what great founders look like. It takes 500 pitch meetings before you know what you're doing.
We're releasing our mission 1 pharma results today!! We have a detailed scientific paper you can read through, or the one-liner is... Them space drugs cooked real good And thanks to @TheAlexKnapp @Forbes for covering our pre-print publication today
We’re excited to share the results of our first pharmaceutical process in microgravity today. Our processing hardware performed flawlessly. Our mission is to now enable cost-effective high-cadence access to enable next-generation therapeutics. Our results and pre-print below:
conversations about the future tend to bifurcate between a belief technology will kill us all and a belief there is no risk at all in innovation. in fact, we’re obviously at risk of the apocalypse, but that’s a good thing actually. hereticon is back.
Things are indeed about to get real, real weird. I spent the last couple of weeks using a coding assisstant AI that can create web sites, debug code and do massive coding jobs all on its own. It's name is Devin and it's backed by $21 million from Peter Thiel and others.…
The compounding power of the Ontology. The American Industrial Base. Is. Back. @anduriltech, the flame of the west!
fresh new collab brewing we at @anduriltech have been working with @PalantirTech to deploy Foundry internally with an initial focus on streamlining our S&OP process look at that acceleration 🤤
At last night's @StrictlyVC event, @traestephens, General Partner at @foundersfund, shared the ideal case for a VC
Sharing our investment in @AvailProject Over the past few months, we’ve gotten to know the Avail team better and quickly realized they are one of a kind... [more below]
The day is here! We’re unfolding the cards! Avail raises $27m, led by @foundersfund and @dragonfly_xyz to accelerate the unification of web3! With this, we’ll build the Avail trinity - a three-phase roadmap aimed at unifying multiple ecosystems in web3. Consisting: • Avail…
Expect the unexpected! So excited to announce our $6.3M seed led by @foundersfund and @a16z with participation from @CapitalAlso, @LongJourneyVC , @BoxGroup, @humbavc At @NorthwoodSpace we have our sights on building a data highway between earth and space. We are designing…
Exclusive: @bridgitmendler is adding space CEO to her list of actress, singer, and songwriter. Introducing Northwood Space, which aims to mass produce ground stations and is backed by @a16z, @foundersfund and more: cnbc.com/2024/02/19/dis…
Great talk by @johncoogan applying zero to one in the defense technology space The pace at this event is rapid
Greatly appreciate @johncoogan and @foundersfund for their involvement in the El Segundo Defense Tech Hackathon — sharing how “Zero to One” principles fit within defense tech
Varda was just granted the first-ever part FAA 450 license to re-enter a spacecraft on American soil Huge congrats to the team and thank you to the FAA for enabling our success!
Very few VC firms I would want to work- but @foundersfund is high on list. @briansin nails why w @Jason. Play the game on the field. Adapt or die. Founder consigliere. Concentration. Lots of shared DNA. Killer. #Ikagai youtu.be/o5Z0-d5w18M?si…
.@ScottNolan tells us what he thinks about the Elon-haters and how Founders Fund is unique in their investing approach. Scott, a partner at Founders Fund, has been there 12 years and was one of the first hires at SpaceX tenoneten.com/podcast
If you’re building a satellite business, getting to orbit cheaply isn’t enough. You also want to get there in hours, not weeks or months, to avoid $Ms in opportunity cost. With that in mind, today Impulse announced #Helios, designed for the most important missions above LEO.
Introducing #Helios, our new high-performance kick stage. Helios is designed to transfer 5+ tons from LEO to GEO in under 24 hours, dramatically cutting customer launch costs and time to operations. Check the design specs 👉 impulsespace.com/updates/impuls…
On Monday, we recorded a podcast with Flexport's Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) about the Houthi attacks on container ships in the Red Sea, if the US should get involved, and how the attacks have been designed to provoke an escalation into all-out regional war. When we were…