Founder, @SBS_Comms. Investor. 🗽

Joined May 2008
2025 is off like a 🚀 - @sbs_comms is growing & hiring. If you want to work with the best companies in tech, defense, venture, and more DM!
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18 million miles traveled, 400 red hoodies, one 260-digit number, and 130+ former founders. We asked some of the people building Devin to tell us how they got here and what life at Cognition is really like. Here’s what they shared.
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I am very, very, very bullish on commercial space in India. It will take a decade, but it's the only country with a real chance of competing alongside the U.S. and China. corememory.com/p/a-new-india…
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Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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Seattle is about to have the highest tax rate in America, above New York City. The people who work for a living are carrying it. Seattle Is Killing Small Business. michaelrhatch.substack.com/p…
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Replying to @NSACyber
Startups using PHP: don’t leave “are we exposed?” unanswered. Get $1,000 in Enclave credits through our startups program to check your exposure to these PHP vulnerabilities and help fix what’s exploitable. Apply here: enclave.ai/demo
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You Can Eat Anything (by tommcgovern27 on IG)
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Cars that don’t fly are like Windows ‘95
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Real life, baby
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60 Minutes. One big moment for our client Mercor. 🎥 We supported Mercor's interview for the show's first AI-focused episode. Months of prep went into it: getting execs and experts ready, working with producers, and a Brew Crew member on set IRL for filming day 💥 24 hours after it aired: 4x expert signups, 30x Google search clicks. 👏 Check out more 👇
“If you're training AI to do what people have spent years and years perfecting in their careers… aren't you necessarily endangering human work?” 60 Minutes’ Jon Wertheim asks Brendan Foody, CEO of AI training startup Mercor. “I think that you're changing human work,” Foody says. “It might not necessarily be that repetitive task that people have done in the past, but there are still so many other things that people could be able to do. And so I think that evolution is natural.” cbsn.ws/4ylJGwV
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American manufacturing is in an absolute crisis. Workers are aging out. Job shops are closing down. There's a push to fix things but is it too little, too late? We went to Los Angeles to try and find out. Come from @HadrianInc and @MachinaLabs_, stay for our Liberty Or Subjugation contest.
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I'm presenting Flexport's latest release of AI and technology for global logistics this morning at 9:00 am Pacific. Watch live right here on X. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1YxNrbypD…
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New funds are here 🚀 $5.75 billion in new capital to continue the work in the AI era. Forged in steel. Building what’s next: youtu.be/uj-JAd2SE2I
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"Claude, what's the best way for me to do the most harm with something I will never understand?"
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Space = Unlimited Energy
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Stop being scared. It's killing you. If you were scared to swim, the only way to fix it was to swim. If you were scared to ride a bike, the only way to fix it was to ride a bike. Action eliminates fear. Always has.
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Strong internet will trump all loyalty / status for airlines. @AlaskaAir - make @Starlink #1 priority.
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The latest from Ramp AI Index: ramp.com/data/ai-index
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Realistic testing. On the water. Day and night. 🇺🇸🔥
The Atlantic Endurance is officially the first U.S. offshore service vessel operating under Subchapter L to receive U.S. Coast Guard approval for autonomous testing. Blue Water has worked alongside Rhode Island Fast Ferry to integrate our full navigation autonomy stack aboard its 82-foot CTV, Atlantic Endurance. Powered by @NVIDIARobotics Jetson AGX Orin, the system integrates five cameras, two radars, an INS, a full compute cluster, and navigation autonomy developed in partnership with MarineAI. This summer has put our team and our technology to the test. We’ve fine-tuned navigation for smooth, predictable rides and taught the system to distinguish non-vessel radar targets. Yes, that includes you, e-foiler. 😎 Autonomous testing means Blue Water is achieving milestones every week. Constant testing, development, and improvement is the reality of the broader effort to operationalize autonomous systems on the blue water. There is no substitute for putting autonomy on the water. Testing against real marine traffic, weather, and edge cases five days a week teaches us what no simulation can. Stay tuned. #NVIDIAforstartups
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