Ro adopted the Bernie/AOC banner for the same reason why none of his tweets get traction & he gets ratio’d every time: he is deeply uninteresting as a person & politician. Say what you want about Mamdani and AOC but they are compelling people & natural politicians; Ro has the charisma of a chalkboard. This forces him to grasp at whatever trendy idea/group he can draft off & leech from. Tech was an easy target for the grift when it was widely popular and a great source of fundraising, now it’s DSA populism as the flavor of the week. He fails to get the love that Bernie, AOC, Mamdani get because he isn’t one of them, just another old rich politician looking for the path of least resistance to power.

Because of FSD, this is probably now the safest vehicle on the market for families. It’s like Hanukkah came early — thank you on behalf of all parents, @elonmusk !!!!

It’s the best feeling when you have your first working session with a company right after investing and walk away even more bullish on the business 🙌 (… 👀 you know who you are!)

everyone is #1 on their own benchmark. really grateful to @micro1_ai for independently sourcing the real world data and manually correcting the ground truth to produce this evaluation. one surprising takeaway: you cannot take reliability for granted. none of the other benchmarked systems achieved > 95% completion rate. that's a difference you feel in production.

When precision matters most, trust the benchmarks and go with the most precise option.

What are the most overlooked companies today that are most likely to produce the next "PayPal Mafia" (ie alum who go on to create iconic bizs)? Not the obvious answers (ramp, mercor, etc)... I'm curious for the non-obvious picks. 👀

10 years ago, saying you want to be good at SEO meant you start investing today and see the fruits of your labor in 1-2 years. Today, it feels like companies are executing on SEO strategies and seeing the results within weeks or months. And no, im not just talking GEO/AEO.

Over the last decade, we’ve built robots that can run marathons, harvest food, and even dance. But robots still aren’t very good at the simple tasks we use our hands for, like unpacking groceries or tying a shoelace. Most rely on simple grippers that aren’t much better than a claw machine. Dexterous manipulation has long been one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics, but humanoid robots need it to be useful in the real world, from warehouses to homes. The traditional approach to training robotic hands involves collecting data through teleoperated robots, but it’s expensive, slow, and unscalable. @_jaku_xu and @JayLiStanford Li got to know this problem well while building humanoid robots at Tesla, where they had the idea to flip the paradigm: instead of having a human control a robot via teleoperation to train AI, they wanted to get better data from actual human hands. With @proceptionAI, Jack and Jay have built the hand that robots have been waiting for: ProHand. They worked closely with hand surgeons to get the anatomy right, using the latest hardware breakthroughs like “soft,” skin-like sensors and finger actuation that mimics tendons. When they showed ProHand at Y Combinator Demo Day, everyone kept asking them whether there was a human underneath the table with their hand sticking out. They’ve also built a data layer with ProGlove, a sensorized glove that humans can wear to collect real motion data to train ProHands — because the ProHand so closely resembles a human hand, a human can wear the same glove that covers the robotic hand (no robot in the loop required). Proception is officially shipping ProHand and ProGlove to researchers and robotics companies today. I’m proud that @firstround got to lead their Seed Round, alongside BoxGroup and Y Combinator.

If you’re struggling to find PMF just pivot to something data center related and experience the magic of market pull.

Whenever I have personal shit going on, it serves as a great reminder that every person I meet / interact with has their own stuff going on, too. Never hurts to be nice.

i'm hosting a small dinner with the best founders in difficult vertical ai spaces on 7/1- finance, healthcare, legal, and more. it'll be great to share notes on building trust, enterprise sales, and more! dm me or comment for the invite

This is an incredibly exciting company. H/t @bryantchou and his whole team 🙌

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All 4 World Cup games ended in ties today, which means fans spent $200M on tickets and didn't see a single team win a game

TIL Why do companies get fined massively for sending unsolicited texts, but politicians spam all day? Because politicians exploit a legal loophole: if a volunteer manually clicks “send” for each text, it bypasses the TCPA auto-dialer ban. Whichever politician closes this loop hole will have a much higher chance of winning their election than if they just keep spamming our phones… 👀

Well put