They all steal your ideas. Except Venice.

What a fun way to kick off the All In Summit. Excited for @Jason to become an @AskVenice maxi

I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea. I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics). The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency. In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them. They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it. I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen. I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same. I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that. Number one tip: act with agency.

Venice is powering the first robot ever to climb Everest. Scaling new heights with private, unrestricted inference.

Weekend AI projects on the Venice API Giving an Agent a Wallet and a Budget: docs.venice.ai/learn/wallet-… Meeting Notes with Speech to Text: docs.venice.ai/guides/media/… Extracting Structured Data from Documents: docs.venice.ai/guides/tools/… Building a Tool-Using Agent with Function Calling: docs.venice.ai/guides/featur… Building an Audio Research Notebook: docs.venice.ai/learn/audio-r… h/t @sabrinaesaquino

In addition to the API giving you access to all models and modalities with a privacy layer, now this. No excuse not to use Venice.

Control over intelligence is the defining fight of the coming decade. Whoever owns the AI delivery stack owns a direct window into your interior life. They log all your chats, train on them, and will hand them over when asked. And in the end, they decide the terms on which you'll get to access the most powerful systems humankind has ever built. Venice flips that. On Venice, your AI is yours. Not licensed to you, not gated on their terms, not logged and monitored for compliance, but fully yours and completely private. All of the best open and closed models are accessible through their fully private and uncensored platform and APIs. Just as Bitcoin made money unseizable and Apple made phones uncrackable, Venice makes AI unsurveillable. No company, lab, or government gets to read your conversations with your AI. Only you. This will only become more important. A society stays free only as long as its most powerful tools answer to individuals instead of institutions. AI is about to become the most powerful tool we have, and the next decade decides whether it's something you own or something you're granted. Free societies are built from citizens who assert their freedoms rather than wait to be given them. That's why we're incredibly proud to lead Venice's $65M Series A. Check them out at @AskVenice.

A couple months ago I joined Venice, and it's kicked off the most exciting chapter of my career. Diving headfirst into AI, getting to know a phenomenally cracked team, and being part of a mission I believe in deeply: privacy without compromise, and user sovereignty that's respected rather than negotiated away. There's more to innovation than making life easier in the short term in exchange for an unknown. AI is a known unknown, and that shouldn't be lost on those of us building in the space. We have a unique responsibility to be stewards of what the future holds. It's already reshaping the fabric of our society, and not nearly enough people are thinking hard about the implications. I feel lucky to not just witness this moment but to build inside it. Thank you @ErikVoorhees & @jesseproudman for inviting me to be part of this journey 🫶🏻

Sam Altman walked into YC, offering founders $1M in free tokens for a slice of equity. Jason's advice: run. OpenAI is watching your token usage, ranking the winners, then shipping the top 5 as native features. Get off the frontier models, use open source, and own your data. @Jason

I can’t believe I happen to be in New York when the knicks win the championship - it makes me both miss the energy of this city and also want to run away from the chaos

Truly S tier tokenomics

Never thought I'd be that person walking around talking to myself all day into Wispr into Telegram to communicate with my Hermes agent that I set up through a VPS

Venice by Voorhees is the clearest AI growth play A few broad strokes I want to point out 1/ Fundamentals wise Venice has 3 million+ users and Yan is estimating a 12 month forward ARR of ~$260M. This means VVV trades at 2.5x forward revenue (Circulating market cap). This is rare in Crypto especially at a time when stakeholders want real revenue. 2/ Thesis wise people desire private inference while accessing open source models without sending their data to China. This is hard to do (China APIs, or intermediaries that route anywhere). Venice is private and hosts some models on private data centers and some in an E2E TEE Fashion for extreme privacy. Yan covers all of the tiers. Venice solves the market for those who want private inference but can't setup hardware at home and dont want to send data to China. I've talked about this a lot that its very hard to find a subscription service, that is private, lets you access leading open source models with zero data retention. Enterprise wise @YanLiberman is right the enterprise no data retention plans are solid from AI Labs, but they are API based and get very expensive. With Venice you can get similar guarantees on a $68/mo subscription, if you graduate from a user to enterprise API plan for work privacy guarantees your bill goes up 10-20x (this happened to us!). Net I think more enterprises/businesses use venice than we are assuming to save money vs graduating to enteprise AI tiers for similar privacy guarantees. 3/ Founder wise Erik is the guy who took down SBF live on a podcast. He's the guy who got the entire conference going at Permissionless on AI. When Erik eventually goes up against trillion dollar centralized AI founders to share the vision of private/open source AI he will inspire folks and bring them into Venice. The best storyteller is king. 4/ Future wise I think the biggest jump is autonomous agents holding VVV/DIEM, accessing models, earning capital and buying more VVV/DIEM for more usage. Then Agents build out their entire AI economy. Disclosure I am Long $VVV. H/T @ErikVoorhees

$750M+ gone from defi in 2026. drift, kelp, now litecoin… litecoin’s MWEB was added years after launch as a privacy extension, and the exploit hit the seam between the base chain and the extension. privacy shouldn’t be an afterthought when you're dealing with this much capital

Not your keys, not your data…

We’re about to see a massive shakeup in winners / losers, and who can pivot quickly. Projects are already falling off left and right - this is just going to further the gap.