Anjney Midha
@AnjneyMidha
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in the early days of @AnthropicAI
so much had to be done from scratch
it’s a miracle the company exists at all
however, now, so much is off the shelf
entirely new rates of frontier progress
are now within reach for new labs
all you need is the right mindset
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2 yrs ago, @arthurmensch and I shook on @MistralAI's series A at a $2B post and i joined the board to accelerate the mission of open model research
today, @MistralAI closed its $3B+ series D on a $24B post, the largest European equity raise ever
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in honor of astra pushing the frontier this weekend, we @amppublic are going to free up ~1K chips (interconnected) from our internal research pool for interesting projects for the next 2 days as a grant
reply below with info on your project, and how many nodes you'd like
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unfortunately, the VC copium crisis goes deeper
the rot doesn’t end with boomers
it’s also the entire cohort of bloviating analysts they hired who’ve never founded or operated anything meaningful before
luckily, many are now being replaced by seasoned operators (plus AI)
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nothing alarming here at all
just a casual military display
‘always come in through the front door’
- @bhorowitz
In VC, retirement sets in the day you stop reading, updating. Simply brutal articulation of what was/is wrong with venture by @AnjneyMidha.
Every one of those partners in VC must listen to this. Don't be cope.
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closed out the week with some old friends from @discord where i used to run the platform ecosystem org
it was hackweek this week - an annual tradition
the demo was…insane to say the least
the singularity is definitely here
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Just amazing!
authority in the new world ecosystem is a dissipative structure. it will hold its shape only as long as energy can flow through it without friction. but if you become the bottleneck, the environment will reroute the river to ensure acceleration. the old world non technical losing their mandate in real time!
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Giddy up.
Why have fuck you money if you don't say fuck you every once and a while. Respect, excited for the next generation
RT @animesh_garg: this is a crazy realization.
Since many of the big VCs missed out on the BIG wins in AI, the cycle of reinvestment is b…
The fall of the boomer non-technical VC is the beginning.
Next on the chopping block are boomer non-technical politicians. They are going to be utterly incapable of leading society through the change that’s to come.
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DAYUM!
Well said.
cowboy hat👴. Nice dig.
Preach. As an emerging VC - with co’s “returning the fund” by Series B that had no established VCs in their first round - my take is it’s less about boomers & more about ppl w/ no operating/founding experience trying to quant their way into early stage, which is all about talent recognition & upside mgmt vs downside protection.
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“it’s like tenure faculty positions in academia”
especially as a current grad student pursuing a career in venture, there is a striking number of similarities between these spaces
incredibly excited for the next generation of investors trained under exceptional mentors like anj
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Leading from the front with a founder heart and spine! ❤️🔥
Agreed. The next gen is watching how VCs handle frontier tech
