After 11 years of admiration and friendship, I relished the live studio session in London, together with the legendary @HarryStebbings @twentyminutevc!! We covered the gamut! Including why you need to really love each investment, how "the right kind" of nepo baby can make an exceptional founder and why photonic computing may be the next great computing platform ... piped.video/watch?v=PDaGwInq…

Smartest guy I know

The only way to fix healthcare is to make the customer the most powerful participant in the system. Period. End of story.

Investors are betting the $5 billion AI music startup Suno will be the next Spotify bloomberg.com/news/features/…

This is wild, amazing and beautiful! Turn up your volume!

Welcome to the v6 era. Our best models yet, built in partnership with artists and producers. Here’s how the family works 🧵

Proud to share that Mikey has been named to @TIME's 2026 #TIME100AI list! It’s an honor to be recognized, and a testament to our amazing team and community building this future with us. We're grateful to build tools that let everyone experience the joy of making music. Check out the full list here: time.com/collection/time100-…

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This is a phenomenal team! Before taking our capital (at the getgo), @cbondaatje insisted on flying to Boston so we could take a walk together and get to know each other a bit. That is already stand out in a world of super transactional seed stage investing & I loved our walk around Harvard square together. Basically: There's a gap between what data centers offer and what AI workloads actually need, and right now it gets closed by hand. Aranya is the multicluster operating system that turns any bare metal into custom production-ready clusters in 48 hours, by automating everything from individual kernel drivers to federation across clusters. And now, in less than a year since commercializing, they're already operating roughly $500M of GPUs for the most demanding inference workloads in AI. We at Founder Collective are incredibly grateful to be involved with @cbondaatje , Aryamika, Sasi & team @AranyaInc 👏 👏 👏 👏

Frontier drug discovery programs require frontier capabilities. Today, we’re excited to share that BMS will be using Chai’s models to support the discovery of new therapeutics. Since rolling out Chai-3 to partners at the start of this year, we’ve partnered with @EliLillyandCo, @Novartis, @Pfizer, @argenxglobal, and now @BMSnews. Many of the world’s leading biopharma companies are now using our models to go after diseases. Scientific discovery is the domain where access to frontier AI matters the most. At @ChaiDiscovery, we’ve seen first hand how our latest model generations can make the difference between discovering a molecule and not. We’re excited to work with @BMSnews to break new ground in medicine and science.

Imagine walking down a street and seeing a string of $20 bills on the sidewalk, stretching as far as you can see. You'd be tempted to start scooping them up. But perhaps no one else has touched them because they're spilling from a local gangster's suitcase, and everyone knows he takes revenge on anyone who does. Or imagine walking a beach and spotting strange foreign coins glittering in the sand. Tempting to grab, until you realize they're heavy, precious, covered in unfamiliar script. You'd need secure storage, and it'll cost you dearly just to learn what they're worth and how to convert them. Talented entrepreneurs have a knack for spotting currency on the ground that others walk past. The rarer skill is knowing which bills are worth the trouble. It's not that they aren't real money, it's that they may not be yours to pick up. Folks in complex enterprise sales understand this well. The difference between the statement of the bounty and what it takes to move the opportunity through the pipeline. Founders who've worked in healthcare know the gangster well. Crypto founders know all about the alien coins. Some beat both games anyway, but they're the exception, not the rule. Boom times breed this temptation. We saw it in the dot-com bust, group buying, the scooter wars, crypto, NFTs, and now AI too. Don't walk past real opportunities. Just be honest with yourself about whether it's actually yours to pick up. This parable was inspired by one of my mentors, André Perold.

Have so enjoyed working with this team!

“I’m convinced that technology and art go together – and always have, for centuries.” @ArtistHockney Amazing! 👇

Gonna need a bigger wall

We exist to help the @DeptofWar and allied militaries deter conflict, and if necessary, fight and win it. "I've been to war. I never want to see my kids have to go to war. I thought there was a better way to help deter conflict: autonomous systems and the proliferation of drones." For @Forbes, @mhunterhart tells the story of our founder @brandontseng2, alongside other veteran entrepreneurs, in celebration of America's 250th. Full article below. Autonomy for the world. The greatest victory requires no war.

Voices is officially live on the Suno mobile app for iOS and Android! 📱✨ Now you can record your vocals directly from your phone and use them across your tracks. Just hit the '+ Voice' button on the create screen, record for at least a minute, and let the music flow. (Pro and Premier plans have unlimited access, and free plans can try out a limited version!) Jump in the app, record your voice, and let us know how it's working for you in the comments!

Thank you again @HarryStebbings and the phenomenal team @twentyminutevc Spotify 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/2G1… Youtube 📷 piped.video/watch?v=PDaGwInq… Apple Podcasts 👉 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

RT @suno: Great songs start with ten okay ones. Get to them faster — brainstorm, demo, and find the version worth producing on Suno.

The U.S. is simply not investing enough in R&D "If you look at the amount of money being spent in China on energy efficiency and energy research, I don't think we're spending enough. We need much more money being spent on R&D. We need more of the DARPA R&D that finds its way into every nook and cranny of the economy. Cutting that spending, which goes back into society, I think is problematic." @dafrankel What does the US not do today that it should be doing @rabois @shaunmmaguire @2112Power @ZachBDell @altcap

Multi-stage investors can be powerful allies...provided you have traction right out of the gate. If you don’t, the odds of being abandoned by your investors rise dramatically. @dafrankel makes the case for dedicated seed funds, in conversation with @HarryStebbings on 20VC.