Today, after 7 years in stealth, I, @emeskey and our co-founders are proud to announce @keplercompute. The world is much better off when we give power & intelligence to the people. When everyone can become their highest selves by pairing their human creativity with the exponentially rising intelligence from our magnificent computers. Our goal is to unlock the power of frontier intelligence for everyone by pushing memory and logic chip manufacturing to the limits of physics. To achieve this, we will move the world from one of compute scarcity to abundance where we can make orders of magnitude more chips per dollar and can lower datacenter energies to the limits of physics. We will use physics to ensure we have enough chips and that we can power them on. Why is compute scarce? Today's dominant approach - shrinking transistors with EUV - has run into $20B-$40B fabs that take years to build. Sized against that risk, the industry (quite rationally!) grows capex much slower than AI demand that can grow 10x in a year. In the current system, scarcity is built in. A different way is possible. We founded Kepler on the following beliefs: 1. It is possible to build leadership chips without a dependence on EUV 2. It is possible to achieve multiple orders of magnitude more intelligence per watt by evolving chips 2D Silicon to 3D Beyond silicon 3. It is possible to get much closer to the physical limits of computing than we are today while staying within mainstream digital computing Memory is the biggest binding constraint on AI compute and so we start with a new frontier of AI memory- approaching the bandwidth per watt of SRAM, going up to 10x beyond the capacity of HBM. We use 3D and materials innovations that allow for leapfrogging leading nodes while requiring no EUV lithography and allowing us use fabs that already exist. 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. We have raised $468m, built our own 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, please 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…

In 2008, @labunleashed pitched every VC in Boston with an idea called TaskRabbit. Every one of them passed. So she bootstrapped it herself for 18 months, running the whole thing out of her apartment. She was the first engineer and the first task runner all the way through. The company grew, and @IKEA eventually bought it for over $100 million+. Now she runs her own fund, Precedent VC, and she's built it as the exact opposite of the system that rejected her back in 2008. Cold decks get scored on the same rubric as warm intros. If a deal scores high, the founder is on the phone within six hours. The full arc from bootstrapping alone in Boston to running her own fund and writing a book about it is in the new episode of The Luba Show. Timestamps 00:00 Trailer 01:12 Intro 01:21 Ballet background and SF Ballet board 06:12 TaskRabbit's origin story 10:52 Move to the Bay Area 23:00 Selling TaskRabbit to IKEA 33:03 Letting go of founder identity 35:37 Launching Precedent VC 38:26 AI-powered deal scoring system 41:26 Investing philosophy and founder fit 54:30 Founder green and red flags 58:26 Why she wrote Breaking Precedent 01:07:12 Parenting and work-life balance 01:10:46 Defining success 01:12:20 Outro Loved talking to Leah! Episode available on all platforms.

For women entering the founding and startup ecosystem, Taskrabbit founder @labunleashed has a wealth of insights, especially on why you shouldn’t hold yourself back. Listen in on the latest episode of Build Mode for our full interview with her: spr.ly/6014B6UVqu

☎️OPEN CALLS - WEDNESDAY (2/4) AT 12pm ET☎️ Task Rabbit Founder @Labunleashed joins @RandiZuckerberg to talk about the evolution of marketplace & how AI is transforming (super-charging) this space today! Dial 844-942-7866 with your questions for @RandiZuckerber & @Labunleashed!

New Episode! "Breaking the Bias: Samara Hernandez of Chingona Ventures on Capital, Culture, and the Future of Funding" What happens when difference becomes a competitive advantage? In this episode o… Player links & show notes: breakingprecedent.com/e/1414…

New Episode! "Breaking the Silence: Derrick “D-Nice” Jones on Music, Movement, and the Legacy of Club Quarantine" What happens when culture becomes a form of leadership? In this episode of Breaking … Player links & show notes: breakingprecedent.com/e/1414…