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/

Once you watch Claude or some other LLM do a task that used to take you 3 hours in the span of just 3 minutes, all work starts to lose its purpose Have been hearing the same sentiment from many of my friends in middle management across tech, finance and other office jobs All the years of experience you culminated at your field suddenly seems useless You used to feel valued for your expertise in a niche domain, but that knowledge has now become commoditized You begin to wonder how many more months until upper management and executives realize that they don’t need to pay your salary anymore Maybe they can replace you fully. Maybe they can hire someone for 50% of the cost to do the same task with an AI It is the impending sense of doom and despair. The loss of purpose from your life’s work disappearing losing value in front of your eyes Truly an incredible time to be alive

Possibly the best cold DM I’ve come across:

well I was a multimillionaire at 20 only difference between me and you is that I didn't have to tell others my age feel free to go through my tweets before you try calling me a liar because it was all public

one of the biggest risks for investors is not even the company running out of money it is the cofounders falling apart that is why your history together matters so much. how long you have known each other, what you have already been through, and whether you have built anything together before make sure you mention this when pitching VCs

One of the most important pushes a strong Board can make is helping you evaluate your team and organization. Boards can help you see people clearly because they aren't blinded by daily interaction, the need to be loved, respected, or feared, or by history or baggage. They can remind you how excited you were to hire XYZ person, and how that person didn't live up to expectations. They also remember the times you stuck your neck out for someone, and how right you were. As a management team member, you likely have loyalty and confirmation bias toward people you have grown up with over the years. One of the most important things each and every year is to evaluate whether someone will be up for the challenge of the coming year. Our bias is yes, but we should look for disconfirming information rather than confirming evidence. Your Board should help you assess this with your executive team, but it's also on you to do a similar exercise with your team down the ranks.

What happens as the cost of creating software goes to zero?

I can use any harness I want and it's the same personality and full memory of my personal AGI

how to fundraise in 1356 words tl;dr don’t run out of money. and have relationships. and build a giant vision. and...ok there's kinda a lot. we'll get to all of it, but here's the shortest version I could write

Mercor now spends 3X as much on LLM inference as we spend on employee salaries. Our inference spend creates so much ROI that it’s additive to headcount, not replacing it. It’s becoming increasingly clear how we get to ~10% GDP growth: 1. Within 5 years, as AI diffuses throughout the economy, companies will spend as much on inference as they spend compensating knowledge workers today. 2. Knowledge-worker compensation is roughly $40T/year, so this would eventually mean ~$40T/year of inference spend. 3. If wages remain roughly constant and companies profitably absorb that much inference the way AI-native companies are today, the economy needs on the order of $40T/year of additional final economic output to support it. 4. Producing ~$40T more annual GDP in year 5 than a ~3% growth baseline implies ~9% annual GDP growth on average over the next five years. Based on the ROI we’re already seeing from inference at Mercor, this feels reasonable. AI-native companies are a leading indicator for the global economy.