CTO @freestylevc β Expert in Residence @firstround β Operating Partner @ Virta Ventures β CTO Coach
San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2007
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If you thought spam and robocalls were annoying today just wait until a super-intelligent self-sovereign economically-independent distributed slop-swarm starts hassling you for a buck.
Maria Palma from the @freestylevc team wrote a great piece about the future of agentic payments - machines paying humans, machines paying machines, itβs all getting very interesting very fast. Check it out here: medium.com/p/when-machines-pβ¦
When agents transact, everything changes. How we go from bad bots to good bots and why today's financial systems aren't set up for agentic payments today - More on that here - medium.com/p/when-machines-p⦠and shout out to @PaymanAI @AtumLabs @crossmint @fewsats @Nevermined_io @trySkyfire
Delighted to have Maria joining us on the Freestyle team! We have already collaborated on some fascinating AI opportunities and Iβm excited to keep digging in together.
Delighted to announce Iβve joined @freestylevc alongside @dsamuel @jennylefcourt @dsb - canβt wait to build with them and continue backing the next generation of exceptional founders! For more details, check out the announcement here: shorturl.at/kfy1E
700+ of 770 employees have signed - thatβs a very impressive amount of alignment for any tech company - particularly for one that was so fractured last week.
one way of healing a divided workforce is to act so incompetently that the condemnation of your behavior becomes something everyone can unify around. β at San Francisco, CA
wired.com/story/openai-staffβ¦ Ilya: βI threaten to quit and join the person I fired unless you bring him back, hold me responsible for this terrible behavior and make me resign from the boardβ.
If this was an episode of Silicon Valley we would say it had gotten too absurd. β at San Francisco, CA
Since AI is going to kill us all anyway Iβm taking a Waymo to the OpenAI reception. β at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
It seemed for a moment that the wordcels had taken the lead with LLM prompt engineering, but the shape rotators have fired right back with magic levitating rocks.
This is thoughtful and prudent but also fits into the standard playbook of the dominant player asking for regulation and slower pace of innovation. Competitors trying to catch up wonβt be as cautious, and regulation (if it happens) will only slow pace in some countries.
Planning for AGI and beyond: openai.com/blog/planning-forβ¦
or perhaps sooner than thatβ¦ xitter.cf/bchesky/status/1519831β¦
cnet.com/news/google-rolls-o⦠I think 20 years from now we will view the concept of adjusting someone's salary up or down because they decided to perform the same work somewhere else to be a strange concept.
As evidenced by my lack of influencer-rap you may safely assume I am not laundering $4 billion in bitcoin.
