CEO, Payam Music. Founder #HourOfCode, @Codeorg: 100M students. Early investor: FB, Dropbox, airbnb, Uber, SpaceX. Board of Directors: Axon.
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I have a big career announcement:
I’m taking my experience teaching computer science to hundreds of millions and connecting it to my lifelong love of piano.
Announcing Payam Music: the first nationwide piano school, with a new way of teaching—the Payam Method—endorsed by Hans Zimmer and showcased on 60 MINUTES and USA TODAY.
With Payam Music, students learn faster, they outperform traditional methods, and they even learn to write their own music. Every year our students rank nationally for their composition and creativity.
If you’re worried about kids’ obsession with screens and social media, the solution is to give them a new obsession: piano. ❤️🎹❤️
Proven over 10 years, the learning outcomes of the Payam Method are extraordinary, and so is the team behind it. Besides Hans Zimmer, we’re announcing the support of iconic business leaders including Mark Cuban, Dara Khosrowshahi, Michelle Zatlyn, Drew Houston, and many others.
Payam Music is available in cities around the US and expanding rapidly. Our schools teach 1-on-1 lessons, in person and even online. We have limited spots, so if you or your child want to learn piano, sign up now! And if we don’t have a school near you, join our wait list, we’re growing fast.
Fall in Love with Piano
payammusic.com
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Learn computer science, code with AI
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My god this is such a good speech that every SWE needs to hear. You know what? Every person should hear it
Keep the happy memories, eyes on the reality, be excited about the future. That’s the best that anyone can do
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Cognition is unstoppable!
Congrats @ScottWu46, @Walden_Yan, @RussellJKaplan, @EmilyyCohen, and gang.
It's crazy how many other @Neo Scholars are part of the team that is building this unbelievable business. We're proud to be an early investor.
Cognition has crossed $1B in annualized revenue run rate.
This milestone belongs to our customers. Here's how a few of them are building with Devin.
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With so many new AI bots each week, I want an AI bot that installs and tries the latest AI bot to tell me if it’s worth switching to.
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I've come up with a novel idea for how humanity should deal with AI risks.
It's powerful and deceptively simple. In fact, it can be stated in one sentence.
And it relates to something I learned from Elle Woods. (thread 🧵)
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Any tech employees with a big IPO coming up, please check this out!
(And please consider giving to @codeAI)
If you want to save money on your 2026 taxes, signup for one of our free #DAF education webinars this Thu 9/24 or Mon 9/28 — info: PracticalVC.com/DAF ✅
Learn how to donate #startup stock or #VC funds to your own DAF (Donor Advised Fund), and save $25K-100K or more on your taxes every year💰
This can be *very* useful if you’ve had a big #secondary sale or #IPO in 2026, a large #capital gain, or just ordinary #income to offset🧾
You can also use your DAF to #invest tax-free in #startups & VC funds, or give to #charitable groups #nonprofits that have positive impact on the world📈💪🏽🕊️
DAF education webinars are hosted by @PracticalVC + @UI_Charitable
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Microscopic astronaut microbes to terraform Mars 🤯
Today, Pioneer Labs is announcing our first step towards terraforming Mars. 🚀🌼
With equipment that fits in just a single rocket launch, we can convert Martian dirt, water, and air into enough building materials to construct a small city on Mars.
To do it, we made the first microbe for Mars. We found the best microbe on Earth and used evolution to teach it how to source all of its nutrients directly from Martian materials.
The first astronauts will be greeted with safe shelter already filled with water, oxygen, and rocket fuel for the return journey.
This is the first step toward using biology to make Mars a friendly place for life. It lets us live off the land and helps us build the next great frontier.
It's the first of five organisms we need to green Mars ⬇️
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Banning screens isn't enough. The ultimate solution is to find a healthier and more wholesome outlet. This is a key reason I decided to lead Payam Music — to help children fall in love with piano.
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My daughter just started piano with Payam Music! It's a very cool methodology.
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My conversation with legendary investor @mcuban about a top reason he invested in a piano school: to help get kids off phones and screens. Please share this message to inspire budding musicians, and encourage parents to check out Payam Music.
payammusic.com ❤️ 🎹
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BREAKING: Seattle’s business community is putting City Hall on notice over public safety.
CEOs from Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, Nordstrom, T-Mobile, Alaska Airlines, Zillow, the Seattle Mariners, Puget Sound Energy and others signed a letter demanding Mayor Katie Wilson and the City Council take action to address public safety
They’re calling for CCTV cameras, more police patrols, a 7-minute priority 911 response standard, crackdowns on open-air drug markets, treatment or prosecution for repeat drug offenders, clearing encampments near schools and parks — and a public safety action plan within 100 days with measurable goals and monthly reports.
The letter specifically calls out Wilson's abysmal 34% approval numbers
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The @neo-funded rocket ship of the day. 🚀
We are proud to announce @keplercompute. Our mission is unlock computing for everyone by pushing memory and logic to the limits of physics.
Our team co-led one of the industry's first 3D chip-stacking technologies, has led and scaled seven generations of DRAM and multiple logic designs into billions of chips. We built the world's first commercial physical synthesis tool and techniques at the heart of the logic design industry and solved long standing challenges in ferroelectrics, invented beyond CMOS logic devices. We would love to work with you to reinvent chip manufacturing here in America.
Memory is the biggest binding constraint on AI compute. Today we come out of stealth after a 7 year bet on this problem - introducing a new frontier of AI memories - that approach the bandwidth per watt of SRAM and go up to 10x beyond the capacity of SRAM and HBM.
We raised $468m, built a dedicated fab and our AI memories sample this year and ramp to production next year. We are allocated for 2027 and will be scaling in America by 2028.
We are open for business get in touch to work together. We are also growing the group of Keplerians and would love to work with you.
Learn More @ Kepler: keplercompute.com/
Read our story in @WIRED: wired.com/story/a-new-dollar…
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Wild statement from Anthropic’s leader in charge of keeping AI safe: more than 10% chance it kills everybody within 10 years. 🤯
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
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Read this incredible profile of @LuanaLopesLara, cofounder of @Kalshi.
Luana is among the boldest founders we've backed at @Neo, and this piece brings her to life wonderfully.
(I was pleasantly surprised to see myself mentioned in the first paragraph.)
sidedoors.co/p/luana-lopes-l…
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This math problem eluded mankind for almost a century.
AI solved it in 100 hours. 🤯
We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics.
The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.
The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.
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The world needs far more software than it can build. Cognition exists to change that.
We’ve just raised over $2B at a $48B valuation, led by a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir.
Since our round in May, run-rate revenue has grown from $492 M to almost $900 M.
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AI to help the largest manufacturing companies save hundreds of millions of dollars in waste (also helping the planet / sustainability).
Sapien is the engine behind the world’s most important companies.
Today, we’re announcing our latest fundraise at a $180M valuation.
We build systems that learn how complex businesses work, enabling financial & operational optimization for the people who build everything else.
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Bottom line: the people designing AI don’t know how to prevent it from taking over.
“AI is grown more than designed. This results in an incredibly complex system that can simulate facets of human behavior. We can discover various insights about this system, in a process similar to neuroscience - and, similarly to neuroscience, its overall action evades a description we can fully understand.
The [development of] AI is largely an experimental science. We put a lot of effort into building principled algorithms and making testable predictions, but fundamentally, our large-scale training runs are experiments, and we are sometimes surprised by their results.”
I wrote about the state of AI, why I’m concerned about the next few years, and the choices we need to make to keep the future in humanity’s hands.
An Alien Mind: openai.com/index/an-alien-mi…
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For @beccaoystila and my wedding weekend, we recreated a Viking village. This video is 100% real, no AI.
Her startup Booka did all the hair and makeup, and just launched beauty support for events nationally — for weddings, parties, and conferences: events.booka.com
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Thank you to @theinformation for sharing the story about Booka’s new event platform. theinformation.com/newslette…
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Congrats to @Focus_Matcha on bringing matcha tea farming to the USA!
In Seattle, matcha cafés are popping up on street corners. But the industry's vision for Washington's role in the tea market goes beyond service. seattletimes.com/business/ag…
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