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Proud of Austin for carving its own technology identity rather than trying to be SF-lite.
Amazing companies here, and likely many more in the near future.
Grateful to be backing a few companies on this list.
Today, we are excited to announce the first annual Austin Deep Tech 50.
Austin has become the hub for some of America's best deep tech founders, so we brought together 8 VC firms with a local presence — @overmatchvc, @valor, @8vc, Banner VC, @BCapitalGroup, @TheAmbitionCap, @ensemblevc, and Trust Ventures — to vote on the 50 startups making the biggest impact.
Together they've raised $10B+ in the last 12 months.
Full write-up: overmatch.substack.com/p/202…
The full list 🧵👇
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i'm a brown, second-gen immigrant, raised in dallas and went to UT. the kids in the picture are like me
we are americans
we grew up playing sports, watching football. we go to the tailgates, we get rowdy, and we go out after we win
and we love our school, state, and country🤘🏾
tried cybercab today to get to work and it truly feels like a new chapter for AVs. owning and driving ur own car is going to become a preference rather than a necessity.
anyone else feel waymo's got lobotomized? is this just an austin thing? they are taking the longest route recently
avengers level team wow
Announcing Discovery Loop!
I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The four of us have worked together for 14 to 30 years, and have helped build some of the world’s most used products, infrastructure and AI models, and we’re excited to turn our attention to this ambitious endeavor.
♾
Learn more at: discoveryloop.com
shiv retweeted
Was about to build a map of Austin Texas startups but realized someone already did it and its so clean
atxmarketmap.com/?c=antler
S/O @_shivsid
feature idea: combo quote-tweets. for when the juxtaposition between two tweets is so good u can't ignore it. it's like a spotlight into how your brain connects ideas on ur own algo/tl. better than screenshotting + qting someone imo
no adding your own commentary either. the connection should just click with others without explanation, which is the whole fun of it.
ui looks just like a regular qt but u just select which post a / b sits where. @nikitabier
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This is another big economic win for Austin...
Apollo selects Austin as site of second headquarters
US private capital giant Apollo Global Management has selected Austin as the site of its second headquarters, picking the Texas city over two locations in Florida, according to two sources briefed on the matter. The $1tn in assets investment group has been planning a second headquarters from its longtime base in New York City, the FT reported in March, and said its new offices will house the bulk of its new hires. Apollo conducted an internal survey among its top dealmakers to decide between Palm Beach, Miami, Nashville and Austin as a preferred location for the second headquarters. Apollo never shared the results of its survey with employees, and chief executive Marc Rowan decided to anoint Austin its second home, one of the people said.
ft.com/content/036a838f-8209…
lfg!!
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"You will have so many opportunities to do the wrong thing: To gossip, to lie, to cut corners, to take short cuts. It’s never worth it, because then it makes it harder to like yourself. No amount of money or fame will make you feel good if you aren’t proud of how you’ve acted."
00's summer songs are fucking euphoric. is this just nostalgia at work or does today's music just fail here?
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Making this corridor something filled with carefully planned, thoughtfully executed; energy production, housing, great architecture, nature preservation, law & order, near zero bureaucratic obstruction, all secured against global threats, is a national project worthy of America.
Inspired by rising gas costs from the Strait of Hormuz's closure, I used @google's new Solar API and public data to construct an interactive estimate for how much your home address could save on energy with solar.
check it out and try @AbodeMoney for more savings
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