Partner at Plug and Play Ventures. Fintech & AI Fund. Recovering lawyer, MIT MBA, Chilean sea bass.
San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2012
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Also, go bankrupt every ~8 years and need to be bailed out by the government...
Best analogy I've heard recently for the bear case on AI (via @unpopularvc)
AI firms are like the airlines.
Amazing invention
Changed the world
Everyone uses them
Trillion dollar biz
.....but....
Extremely competitive
High capital requirements
Absolute garbage investment
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We built a financial classification model in 30 minutes that beats Jev.
93% accuracy on BANKING77. Zero retrieval overhead. Zero external dependencies.
Small models trained right > large models + retrieval.
Read the analysis: oumi.ai/blog/jev-vs-fine-tun…
@oumi_ai @Koukoumidis #finetuning
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Calling all engineers and data scientists interested in Physical AI! We’re building a cohort of technical talent interested in building agents powered by our physical world model, Newton.
Sign up below to be among the first AI/ML experts to join us for Newton Meetups, and if selected, you’ll get open platform access and a customized Newton Agent for your use case.
🔗 Apply here: archetypeai.io/newton-meetup…
I'm not crying, you're crying
Today, we’re launching Bland Speech v3 - The world's first Human Speech Engine.
In @designarena’s Audio Realism benchmark, Speech v3 is the top model, outranking Elevenlabs, Grok, Cartesia, and OpenAI.
Trained on over 100 million real, human conversations: businesses, developers, and creators can now create any audio they can imagine.
To showcase this, we used 5 seconds of old footage to help James, a 49 year old father who recently suffered a stroke, get his voice back.
Try it for free at bland.ai/speech
Full length documentary below🧵
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Big seed round to kick things off for fintech funding this week!
Maximum raised a $30M seed led by @CRV
Maximum is building an AI-native OS for banks: ledger, payments, compliance + risk infra designed to replace the legacy cores from FIS, Fiserv & Jack Henry
No biz stats yet since they just came out of stealth, but their first full bank core migration is underway now
Founder @randyafernando is a 3x founder w/ 2 prior exits: sold Vault to @acorns in '17 + Power to @marqeta for $275M in '23
forbes.com/sites/boazsobrado…
ouroboros
Routing commoditizes the models.
Apps commoditize the routers.
Models commoditize the apps... xitter.cf/cursor_ai/status/20799…
Inventing travel insurance from first principles.
AIRPORTDELAY from @Kalshi has been filed. They already have markets listed for individual airports, this is broader in scope and would allow for any airport along with
- being based on % of total flights vs. number of flights
- two source agencies for settlement, primary is @FlightAware and secondary is Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) making for more robust settlement criteria
cftc.gov/IndustryOversight/I…
Eugenio Gonzalez retweeted
🚨 The era of general-purpose AI is over.
Today we're launching Oumi. 🚀
The platform that lets any team build custom AI models — in hours, not months.
Just describe what you need. Oumi builds it. #VibeML
Higher quality. Lower cost. Fully yours.
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🚀 Bitstack raises a $15M Series A led by
@13bookscapital, with the renewed support of our historical investors: @AG2RLAMONDIALE, @serenavc, @PlugandPlayTC, @HelloStillmark & @ycombinator.
In just 3 years, we’ve become the #1 French crypto app, by building the easiest, most trusted and most secure way to save in bitcoin.
More than 300K users have already saved €300M in bitcoin on Bitstack.
Today, we’re excited to introduce the Bitstack Card:
💳 Europe’s first VISA debit card with up to 1% Bitcoin stackback on every payment, unlimited
⚡️Instant, fee-free round-ups to automatically invest spare change into bitcoin
🏦 Access to a cash account with an FR IBAN, issued by one of France’s largest banks
We’re pioneering Bitcoin rewards to make saving effortless and accessible to everyone.
People don’t want points.
They want bitcoins.
Beta opens Jan 13, 2026, first 5,000 only.
The next chapter begins. ✨
Strong bull case for @Oumi_PBC
