Another 9-figure food company is trying to shut down our lab testing startup. LMNT is suing Oasis federally for sharing independent lead results in their supplement. Defending a federal lawsuit can cost millions of dollars. Given we are a bootstrapped independent startup this makes defending ourself economically challenging. We have taken no outside money and continue to pay large fees to independently test more products. We’ve published corrections to all their claims, yet they refuse to settle. Big food brands are trying to make consumer transparency too expensive to defend. We built Oasis to stand up for the billions of consumers aspiring to live their healthiest and know the truth.

Today, we’re launching an ambitious new school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy. Based in San Francisco, The Academy serves the most promising young high school graduates. We think this can be an elite institution that attracts top tier talent. One that prepares students for the future rather than remaining stuck in the past. The #1 goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era. They'll learn primarily by pursuing their own projects, either individually or in groups. There are classes and guest lectures, too, from some truly amazing people who have built modern-day Silicon Valley. The Academy is designed as a network, since that’s the reason students go to school in the first place. Core to that network are our 10 Founding Partners: Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe. The network includes over 50 hiring partners and over 200 speakers and mentors. To join as a hiring partner or faculty member, you can apply on our website. We raised $42M in funding led by @a16z. I'll be CEO and @pmarca and @eriktorenberg will join me on the board. Applications are open for our Founding Class Fellowship, which will be one year and tuition-free. Eventually, pending regulatory approval, we plan to offer a two-year program that charges tuition, similar in cost to an elite private university. We're looking for the most unusually ambitious young builders on the planet. Come join us in San Francisco: theacademysf.com/

Went Beastmode again @Kalshi

Hi Jasmine. How many of your OpenAI shares will you bet me that humans are not extinct in 2030? You can probability weight your wager. That will tell me everything I need to know. I am good for any amount you choose. I don’t mind pacing - I hate BS scare tactics. 🧐

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

CAN'T STOP WINNING. 🎮 Build the wall. Deport. Fill a Trump Account. LIVE - PLAY NOW 📲 ARCADE.GOV

please @UseCorgi leave me alone.

“I’ve never said this publicly before. When I was made a partner at Sequoia I was homeless. I had zero money. I slept in my car. I showered at 3000 Sand Hill Road.” @dougleone on being the only homeless partner that Sequoia's ever had:

We’re sorry to see that OpenAI put out a note saying they plan to block Cursor users from accessing OpenAI models in three months. OpenAI models serve about 5% of Cursor user traffic, and we’re speaking with the OpenAI team to resolve this. Cursor was one of the very first users of OpenAI, we’ve worked closely with their team for years, and we’ve trusted their platform to be neutral infrastructure for our business.

a16z GP Sarah Wang on what Michael Truell said when she asked him about Claude Code: "He said... 'Look, we are going after the biggest market in the world. There's going to be competitors. In fact, there's been a rotating cast of characters from the very beginning. Microsoft Copilot was the first one. Claude Code is one of a rotating set of characters. We think in big markets, you're always going to have formidable competitors. That does not scare us.'" "I just remember being somewhat blown away by the clarity of that comment, the lack of fear. There's humility as well, like it's humility mixed with bravado, and I just think that is kind of the winning combo when you're going after these juggernauts like that." @sarahdingwang