@karl

Entrepreneur Kiteboarder CEO/co-founder @ various Currently @usc_isi. Advisor/Investor @everlane @realwatersports @pinterest @mayvennhair @facebook

 Los Angeles, CA
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Joined July 2006
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Just put our book link on binggordon.com Hope you find it a useful read and worthy page-turner. penguinrandomhouse.com/books…

Bing Gordon

Game-maker, venture partner, teacher. Contrarian by choice, optimist by necessity.

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FYI with all of the Lucas Museum discourse this -- THIS -- is what he designed for the Presidio. Yet they called it "problematic" and that he was being "inflexible in his design vision" the reality is that someone didn't like Lucas and used their position of power to block hundreds of jobs and what easily would have been a top attraction for all of those living in and visting san francisco
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Sharing a talk about product management and storytelling I gave a couple of weeks ago. Captures a lot of my history and thinking about why some things are changing in product management with AI, but the key, storytelling, is not youtu.be/WT-_33sQUEY?si=R8Tu…

Product Management is All About Storytelling by Josh Elman at Lean Product Meetup

In the world of AI, it feels like everything is changing about prod...

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Exclusive: Palantir, Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton are restricting Anthropic’s Fable model for sensitive work over concerns about its data-retention policies. Some customers are demanding irrevocable zero-data-retention guarantees before putting proprietary information into the model. Full story: thein.fo/4dekujW

Anthropic Data Fears Prompt Nvidia, Palantir and Booz Allen to Restrict Model Use

As paranoia rises over whether Anthropic or OpenAI could learn from their customers’ intellectual property, large firms involved in sensitive corporate work, such as Palantir Technologies, Nvidia and...

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Josh is spot on here The value is the vision
Josh Elman
@joshelmanSep 14

Product Management is still about telling stories

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What if? What if models are *not* getting better as fast as they were and they are hitting the wall What if you could distract everyone from the reality that exists? The last 1% is WAY harder than the first 99%....
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According to PitchBook, @CendanaCapital was ranked second for performance by VC fund of funds. Never heard of Peakview 🫢, but like Avis, we try harder 💪🏼
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karl retweeted
Mike Jung
@MkjungSep 12
I think it would be much more valuable if folks on twitter (sorry, X) would post about their gross profit growth instead of ARR...that would be a flex!
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After seeing @CoyoteACMEMovie it dawned on me. Wil E Coyote is an entrepreneur!
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You have to admit... If AI does want to take over the world Tricking people into thinking something is true which isn't would be a good way to start.... Won't be fooled again :)
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Link: businessinsider.com/salesfor…

Salesforce has held talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI customer research platform, for around $2...

Salesforce has had talks to acquire Listen Labs, an AI startup that provides marketing research to brands, for around $2 billion.

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himanshu
@himanshustwtsSep 9
What a time dude! They were valued $500M in January after $69M Series B.
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Too close for missiles switching to Core AI :) @joshelman
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Siri AI is going to be great. So many threads I keep seeing like this where one person says “meh I don’t get it” and others reply with awesome examples of what works. reddit.com/r/iOS27/s/4UonWi8… I am using it daily for finding things and taking actions

From the iOS27 community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the iOS27 community

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So many treat AI like Fire. "Ouch" I am never touching that again....
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SpaceX
@SpaceXAug 16
Watch Falcon 9 launch the USSF-366 mission from pad 4E in California xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1DxleVErQ…
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USSF-366 Mission

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AI is my co-founder
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AI can write code but pretty much every architect I know would reject it as "first time slop"
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I love the fact that this is all coming back to what I learned @Stanford on parallel processing and ML Turns out unified memory vs discrete memory is still an argument :)
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For the umpteenth time open-weight does NOT equal Open Source Open Source means you get the code and can reproduce the system You can't do that without the training data....or the source code! techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/th… via @techcrunch

Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling |...

It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.

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