Time to admit co-ed gyms were a mistake

I'm hiring my next Chief of Staff. You won’t know every field I work in. What matters is how quickly you learn, the questions you ask, and whether you can think from first principles. You’ll help evaluate opportunities and work with founders building consequential companies. Technical background preferred. Three-year commitment. Menlo Park, in person. Apply: jobs.ashbyhq.com/khoslaventu…

The future is a merchant product that makes one’s inventory available via MCP / headlessly and accepts agent payments. I suspect shipping can be done thru fedex/ups/usps direct from merchant at similar cost when you strip out the Amazon take rate (ie merchant can spend more if needed to ship quickly). The moat isn’t what it is anymore. That is why they are blocking.

BREAKING: Mass Shooting Plot Targeting Sri Venkateswara Temple in Aurora, Illinois, Foiled A 19-year-old suspected white supremacist, Alexandros Paporakis, has been arrested for allegedly plotting a mass shooting at a Hindu place of worship in Aurora, Illinois. Investigators say the suspect had been planning the attack for two years and allegedly targeted Indians and South Asians. Police recovered an AR-style rifle, ammunition and tactical gear. A potentially devastating hate-driven attack may have been prevented. Paporakis worked as a cashier at a Taco Bell in Arlington Heights for nearly seven months. According to a co-worker who spoke to investigators, Paporakis regularly made racist remarks, particularly targeting Indians. He openly identified himself as a white supremacist and frequently spoke about Nazis and armed struggle.

Scoop: Decagon has had early M&A talks with ServiceNow & others. It has hired a bank to evaluate inbound interest, but could choose to raise a funding round instead. Company was last valued at $4.5B, but growing AI businesses demand significant premiums businessinsider.com/ai-agent…

“[Google] knows Gemini is going to cannibalize Google Search, and the numbers are staggering." "I saw last week, search is way, way down.” “But they have all these other businesses: YouTube, Waymo, Gmail, Android.” “They can literally kill the thing that funded all those other businesses because now they have all the other businesses.” “If all they had was search and they never built those other businesses, they'd be in a world of hurt right now.” USV co-founder @fredwilson:

Google, the Most Trusted Tech Brand in America funda.ai/reports/from-collye…

Scoop: @sriramk is raising $500m for a new VC fund axios.com/2026/10/07/white-h…

In this interview I tried to argue that a post-scarcity society will benefit working people. It was largely a rhetorical failure. People don’t trust that the benefits will be distributed, and tech optimists have to fix this communications issue.

Sources: Flock Safety is weighing a potential sale and has held preliminary talks with outside advisers (@rogoswami / Semafor) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

I’m joining @GoogleDeepMind to build world models and interactive media experiences. This move means I’ll be dropping out of @StanfordGSB and stepping down as its co-student body president. I’m incredibly excited for what’s next. I still believe deeply in the value of an MBA, and I’ll write separately about how I made the decision to leave Stanford. For now, I wanted to share some of the thinking behind what’s next:

RSI is not a binary event, it is a continuum of compounding loops -- and we are already in the continuum.

This is fucked. OpenAI heard rumors of Alpoge and Buckman’s work with Codex and trained on their in progress work to scoop them. Offering to publish together when you stole their work is pathetic, demanding Buckman cut out his coauthor as well is … I don’t know what to say.

There's a startup in the current YC batch that's growing at 57% a week. And not because they started last week; they've been doing this for a couple months. They can't keep growing at this rate for too many more months; you run out of atoms; but they're likely to be big.

VCs saying the TAM of an ai personal assistant is just SF Do you not think people in Minnesota have to-do lists lmao

A lot of VCs (myself included) used to shit on the ex-banker/consultant founder archetype. But I'm increasingly realizing I was wrong. In an age where building is easier and distribution/execution is still hard, these programs are the perfect training grounds. 2 years at McK/GS/etc. teaches you how to grind, how to sell to enterprises, how to work effectively in a team, and gives you a deep understanding of business models. Exactly what it takes to succeed as a founder in 2026.

What the Gemini team did on X trying to ride the GLM-5.3 flash hype will be studied as one of the clearest lessons in marketing on how to publicly embarrass your own brand.

The next couple of years are among the most important in history. The economy is transforming an order of magnitude faster than ever before. If you have the opportunity to work obsessively on an important mission and choose not to, you may regret it for the rest of your life.