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“I can send it out there and they can look at it it can fly with the target it can loiter there for a while and it can send back video and I can say okay is that Frank or is that an Iranian drum or a M…”
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“My favorite one of all time is Civilization I have to say. That was the Civilization I and Civilization II my favorite games of all time.”
“Genie 3 which is the reception has been super incredible... people are like this is you know I saw some very extreme comments being like we're in a simulation”
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“I drove a Honda Civic that was like, you know, just like, you know, when you graduate from high school, you know, they give you the keys to your older brother of his POS car.”
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“you have systems uh uh some systems that we work on like Alpha proof Alpha geometry that are getting you know silver medals in maths olympiads which is fantastic but on the other hand some of our syst…”
“Let me just start the show by saying I love Plaude.”
“For me X is the best way to be best place to be an AI haha but I I can't follow 25,000 people anywhere else and and share that with you right”
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“One of them was Gmail, which is actually kind of the inspiration for socket.Oo was Gmail one day decided, well, email is too slow and synchronous. What if we added chat on top of Gmail? And it was an …”
“I just bought a new MacBook Pro...when you put 48 gigs of RAM on these things and this new M5 processor, it is like scary how much faster and better these this hardware profile is.”
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“The recent success of Chat GPT and similar AI chat bots is because they're even simpler than Google.”
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“Let's start with Oracle. You mentioned the 50 billion dollar CAPEX. A lot of it on data centers, a lot of this on things that they've already kind of promised as well.”
“The Bible is just way ahead on that right... they're very got very sticky to the workflows and all that”
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“Nanoblocks, I will say, if you go on Amazon, they sell them on there.”
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“My I my accountant said, "No, I'm sorry. I don't use Zero. You shut it down." I had to cancel Zero and go to QuickBooks.”
“Intuit I remember when I started a company was after Google. I basically tried to use this company called Zero XRO and I was like, "Let's use Zero. It's like the new it had just started. It seems like…”
“So, Coyote is a is a it's a tiny little card game that I designed with uh some of my friends at Exploding Kittens, which people might recognize.”
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“I'm not sure if you know many of you guys are familiar with the company Fiverr. This is essentially a company that helps people freelance in the gig economy.”
“Netswuite is an ERP that runs your business they have a much much deeper mode than say Zenesk which is a lighter workflow mode so that is a mode you can say it's one maybe Zenex is 0.5 Netswuite is a …”
“It was like Stripe and Gusto and uh Instacart at the time. Uh, and it was just an amazing experience for me and it it made me really want to work in startups and specifically to do my own YC ventureba…”
“I'll be following a tradition of great YC companies like Bracks and Deal and Ripling that have sold into uh their batchmates really successfully.”
“I'm wearing a pair of glasses now. I don't know if you can see it, but it's got cameras on it. These are the Ray Band Meta. Okay, they're built by by Meta.”
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“And then these Prada mules, but TBD if I keep wearing those because I don't know, they just might be a little uncomfortable. But we'll see.”
“You need to buy Twilio and Shopify and Zoom and all these tools, Snowflake.”
“Um, one thing I learned that summer was that uh Andrew Reed, his favorite company is Constellation Software. I don't know if that's hopefully that's still the case.”
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“The co-pilot was the worst of all worlds. We're not going to put it in our base product. We're not going to make the core product better but we're not going to provide so much value like a notion that…”
“So does Baron Partners fund right the big uh Ron Baron huge Elon Musk guy.”
“for Morgan Stanley users now it became a lot easier right and they have their own network their own huge client base... there's a new buyer in the market the uh the Morgan Stanley clients.”
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“31B Dense & 26B MoE: state-of-the-art performance for advanced local reasoning tasks – like custom coding assistants or analyzing scientific datasets.”
“ChatBT is by far the biggest global AI product and still only 10% of the global population is using it on a weekly active basis. So there's like a lot more to come.”
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“in my luggage, I always always always 100% carry with me Valona unsweetened cocoa powder.”
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“everyone should have to play video games if you want to be a surgeon”
“I did switch to like steak and eggs for breakfast and I found that's like a PowerUp”
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“I think the uniball micro5 pen um is the best pen overall”
“the Muji 36 or 37 in dark blue ink is a very nice pen for other reasons uh so those are the two I would use”
“you definitely want a spiral notebook because one thing that's important is you can rip Pages out frequently”
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