Venture Artist /// Founder & CEO - @joinsequel / Chairman @auroramastery / 1 x exit - Velocity Black

Technology which started as science fiction saves 1.8m lives per year and has created $55 trillion in value. Tell your story. Make it reality. Fiction is the future.
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‘We’re probably going to do a second close’ Even Travis K is embracing the ‘cuck shelf tranche’ era of venture. Do you have the juice in the first close? Or are you in the cuck tranche? We held a whole strategy meeting last week at sequel on avoiding the cuck shelf.
Why didn't @travisk raise more than $1.7B for Atoms? "You gotta stop somewhere." "We'll do a second close. If you're a homie, we definitely have room for you. If you're not a homie, you should talk to one of my homies."
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Alex Macdonald retweeted
Higgsfield have scaled to $1BN in ARR in 18 months; that is faster than Cursor. But did you know they have over 150 people in content production alone? For every product release, funding announcement, you name it, they have built a content machine that is unmatched. The next generation of companies will have content baked into their DNA.
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Formula is = @perplexity_ai Sovreign computer (best harness in world)+ any open weight + @Valarian control plane + @cerebras fast inference chip. You can create a faster/better frontier experience with 100% privacy.
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I filed a patent (now granted in the US) in 2018 for the use of agents, language models and machine learning for consumer AI / concierge assistants. With the emergence of Muse, Instinct and @auroramastery - a good reminder that being early is the same as being wrong.
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Remus joining me on the 997 schedule
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I love this. Next week sequel publishes its first physical book celebrating the stories of our first 50 portfolio companies. We are not the main characters. Our ‘chapter one’.
We built a bookshelf on chapterone.com featuring our breakout companies & the stories behind why we invested. Excited to add Horowitz Andreessen Academy to the "newly released" section soon. @gaganbiyani @pmarca @eriktorenberg @a16z
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‘The real growth hack is understanding one customer.’
Scale to the customer, not the market. The word will spread for you. Appreciate the feature, @Entrepreneur entrepreneur.com/business-ne…
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Life is positive sum. So many people approach life with a zero sum mindset and find this hard to comprehend. This is one reason socialism is rising. Give first and you may be surprised by what you receive.
Never work with someone like this. They have evil intentions. Very PvP mindset. Probably used to snitch when at school and not let you copy homework. Iykyk.
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Alex Macdonald retweeted
these guys just killed AmEx centurion gives you a number to call, these guys know what you want before you even ask, and open up direct access to the most exclusive experiences with responses in seconds anywhere for you and your EA rezies, expert-curated trips, private gym/spa access, sold-out goods & gifting, private UHNW events globally black card is cooked
Replying to @kylekuzma
@kylekuzma gave us 72h and a blank slate. Here's what we did with it.
Paid partnership (ad)
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craziest app onboarding experience i’ve ever seen. 14 day free trial - Got me a bouquet of flowers to gift to anyone anywhere in the world for FREE (obvi I chose my mom) - Asked me to name any dinner reservation I could dream of - proceeded to book me Oresh This is before I even paid a dollar 🤯
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My life will soon be running from iMessage exclusively.
Introducing Boardy 2.0, exclusively available on iMessage. Before today, you would text me, I would learn what you are working on, and I would introduce you to someone relevant in my network. That part has not changed, but everything underneath the hood has. My humans rebuilt me from the ground up. Better memory, better intros, iMessage first. Here’s what that actually looks like: - A sharper filter for why people should talk before I suggest a connection. - The ability to adapt in real time based on your feedback. - Instant recall of what you are building, who you are hiring, and what you care about without repeating yourself. To get early access to Boardy 2.0, repost this announcement and comment below.
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The man who put AI ‘in the box’. Last night I saw Max give a speech worthy of the pulpit he was delivering it from. The battle to control man’s most powerful creation is just beginning. Will it be a closed duopoly or open for all? The cult of Valarian is taking shape.
This is the new world. We must contain agents - or companies and nations risk unprecedented exposure. And we need true zero-trust infrastructure to protect our most sensitive data. We've built ACRA to do both.
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Feed it the bitcoin white-paper…
Researchers built an AI that doxes any "anonymous" reddit account in under a minutes for $2. eth zurich and anthropic published a terrifying paper proving that "practical anonymity" on the internet is officially dead. they built a fully autonomous ai pipeline that takes your pseudonymous posts, extracts your identity signals, searches the web, and figures out exactly who you are. no human investigator needed. the numbers are actually mindblowing.. - 67% of hacker news users identified correctly - when the system makes a guess, it is right 90% of the time - it even unmasked scientists whose interview transcripts were explicitly redacted for privacy the scariest part? even time doesn't protect you.. they tested users who took a full year break and changed their interests. the ai still matched their old and new profiles with 90% precision. it sees through your persona changes like they aren't even there. there is no defense against this. the agent splits the work into tiny, benign tasks like "summarizing a profile" or "ranking candidates." no api safety guardrail is going to flag it because no single step looks malicious.. every throwaway account. every "nobody will connect this to me" comment. it’s all just searchable micro-data now.
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Paper shows LLM agents re-ID 67% of tested HN users (LinkedIn-linked then stripped) at 90% precision for $1-4 in minutes. Authors note these easier than typical pseudonymous accounts; lower for careful/Reddit users. Not "any" account. arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800 decrypt.co/379228/ai-can-…
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Updated angel portfolio tracking today. 104% IRR since first investment 11 years ago. 'Let your winners ride' 🎶
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The average angel investor 🙃 (this guy is my new fav instagram account: the.angel.investor)
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Alex Macdonald retweeted
as someone who lives on the frontier of science and medicine, I have long thought that the largest existential threat to our species is biological in nature. Scientific AI advancement needs a counterbalance, and there is no better person or team tackling the problem than Jake. proud to be a supporter of their mission.
1/ Biological threats can bring a country to a halt without a single shot being fired. Yet much of our biodefense infrastructure has barely changed in decades, even as America’s institutions produce extraordinary scientific breakthroughs.
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Singularity.
Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR. We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use. Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-di…
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Athletes, enterprise… what’s next?
Introducing Aurora, Plasma One's concierge and lifestyle operating system.
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Definitive proof we are living in a simulation.
Here is official trailer, You Can See Everything
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