Consider co-hosting an event for SF/LA Tech Week! Deadline is 8/21 ⏲️
we opened a new office in Jackson Square (woo!) just in time for SF/LA Tech Week that we're hosting coming up
If you want to co-host an event, the deadline is this Friday, 8/21
Want to run a panel, dinner, demo night, happy hour, we'll put it on the official calendar and send a ton of traffic and leads your way.
submit here:
Everyone will be there- Anthropic, AWS, Databricks, ElevenLabs, Deel, Gamma, Google, IBM, SAP, Adobe, Canva, Atlassian, Cloudflare, Datadog, Elastic, Vercel, Cursor,, Fireworks, Exa, Deel, Okta, PwC, Fenwick, HSBC, Axios, Braintrust, Auth0, Fin, Hyperagent, HappyRobot
get in before Friday and you're part of the calendar launch in early September — a coordinated push across our 400K email list, the full host network, a16z and speedrun channels, and everywhere else we can reach.
this is the single biggest marketing moment we run all year. it trends on X every time. easiest exposure you'll get this fall
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Co-hosting my 1st office hours in the brand new office for @speedrun with the amazing @tkexpress11
My genuine request for the AI labs: please don’t train LLMs to use semicolons for writing; it’s my fav punctuation to use. We already lost em dashes to AI
Felt like reading an epic; one of the most exciting stories in tech in the past few years 🚀
What an incredibly talented & driven group of founders! Privileged to have got to known them at the start of their journey 🚀
Introducing Alpha (A001) - 13 fellows who spent the last 8 weeks building their companies with us in SF.
This is our earliest-stage program for students, dropouts, and recent grads with the conviction to run straight into building a startup.
Most started Alpha as solo founders, still figuring out what exactly to build. Within 8 weeks, they went all in on building, talking to customers, growing their teams, and even getting their first revenue through the door.
Meet our founders ↓
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Come work with us! 👇
we just kicked off speedrun 007 (our biggest cohort yet), and we're excited to share that we're hiring!
looking for a marketer to help grow the @speedrun brand. You'll own the campaign for founder applications and help us find even more amazing companies for future cohorts.
you'd work with me, @andrewchen, @SamiraBehrouzan, @Chen + the full a16z speedrun team.
Application link 👉 - we'd love to meet you!
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I have worked 40 hr chill weeks & also worked 80 hr weeks with extreme deadlines. How my manager treated me was the most important factor behind whether I wanted to keep going (& also time to commute 😅), not the hours or intensity
Great insight from @lennysan newsletter
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Thought provoking insight from the co-founders of Decagon on how AI could create a completely new category of customer relationship
This conversation with @DecagonAI co-founders Ashwin and Jesse revisited something I've been thinking about for a while:
It's easy to look at AI in customer service and see a cheaper version of the same job, when really the more interesting part is the unlocked second-order effects we cannot even imagine yet.
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It’s wholesome to see @pmarca & @andrewchen get excited talking about what their AI agents can do for them
In the next few years, you will probably hear the term “world model” a lot. This article does a great job of defining it
next @speedrun batch starts tomorrow 🔥
The 2nd brain use case of quick information storage for structured retrieval / plan generation grows stronger by the day
My girlfriend has thousands of TikTok’s saved- day trips, vacation ideas, restaurants, gifts, etc. I couldn’t keep track of it.
Now she texts the videos to Hermes, it watches them + stores in a vault, I text the agent to pull from her lists and plan. Magic.
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Been years since college but I still remake these apps from scratch every 6 months; it takes an hour these days; I don’t know why 😂
men will make one of these three apps in college:
1. productivity app
2. writing/journaling app
3. calorie counter app
Insightful take on fundraising
fundraising masterclass from @travisk
on valuation: "I'm always saying it's at least this and it can go up, but I start low... so it only goes up, so that everybody's pumped, leaning forward"
start low, get bid up. anchoring initial price too high is a rookie mistake
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BIG Update: I’m joining @a16z as an Investing Partner on the a16z @speedrun team! 🎉
I’ll be focusing on early-stage investing as part of speedrun, where we invest up to $1M in exceptional founders building great companies, & give them unfair advantages to succeed. If you are or know a founder who wants to win, I'd love to meet you! I'm especially excited about compelling novel ideas in AI dev tools, agent RL & evals, data, & infra in general.
For those who have known me over the years, you know how much joy I get in supporting those around me. From working countless nights to support my brilliant teammates at @scale_AI, to spending thousands of hours in my leisure time making free videos for millions of students in Bangladesh, I have given my all to support those doing their life's most important work. That has always been my personal mission.
So, when I met the speedrun team, a team that works relentlessly to make early bets & support founders from the very beginning of their journey, I knew this was the dream team for me. I am thrilled to join this shared mission with @andrewchen, @Tocelot, @tkexpress11, @emilybenn12, @kenanhsaleh, @far33d, @marcussegal, @ndrewlee, & the rest of the team! It's time to build.
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