Founder of @we_CoLearn. #VC Partner at @LearnCap. Growing economic systems for shared prosperity. #EdTech #KF20 at @KauffmanFellows

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Every founder I have met will raise at market valuations and in frothy markets raise too much. So Yuri’s well intentioned advice is basically never followed. More useful advice, raise at top of market and spend as if its bottom of market. Then you can easily cover a downturn.
Founders often think that raising more money gives them more optionally, but counterintuitively in practice the inverse is often true. The reason is that money has a way of getting spent no matter how much you raise, and spending more is often uncorrelated with achieving your next milestone. So the only thing that happens is that 18 months in you have a similar amount of progress to show regardless of how much you’ve raised, but if you raised a lot you’ve taken some paths off the table (bridge rounds, smaller Series As, etc).
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We're looking for entrepreneurial scientists to join our team at Intercept (part of Public Goods @stripe)! Come join me and @nanransohoff @jmazz_1 on our quest to radically reduce the burden of respiratory viruses!
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I’ve been looking forward to today for 3 years Today we’re announcing Foundation - Chroma’s solution to memory Our research preview of this technology builds self-improving memory from your agent sessions. Try it out at trychroma.com/foundation
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Overheard in SF: “Humans are going to human.”
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Own Your Agents!! — Livestream nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1yGBeeWDj…
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don’t give your alpha up. use @TrustedRouter
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Aalo was started at the perfect time. Our goal is to create the ideal energy product for powering AI data centers. Google search volume for "AI":
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Overheard on day 2 in San Francisco, "I'm pimping my warehouse deals."
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Big thanks to @NYSE and @Nasdaq for supporting our launch yesterday. Who is going to open the first stock exchange in space? @TerraFirma_Inc is willing to be the first IPO on Mars
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Today, we’re announcing that we’ve raised $115 million in funding, including a $100M Series A led by @kleinerperkins. America has lost the ability to build, and we’re here to restore it. My co-founder, @NoahMcGuinn, and I left our jobs at @SpaceX , where we worked on programs including Starship, Starshield, and @Starlink, to build a company that will solve construction’s greatest challenges. Infrastructure is the foundation of civilization, and construction is the precursor to innovation. If America wants to build a brighter future for the next generation, we have to make it faster, cheaper, and safer to build. That’s where @TerraFirma_Inc comes in. We’re a new type of company, a robotic construction company that builds the full technology stack needed to deliver an order-of-magnitude improvement in one of the world’s oldest, largest, most important, but least efficient industries. We are building technology that expands what’s possible in construction on Earth, and then we'll use that same technology to build megastructures and colonies on the Moon and Mars. We’ve made tremendous progress over the past year, growing the company more than 10x in the last 12 months. We are performing projects across the world. By the end of October 2026, we are on track to operate 3 of the top 3 largest robotic construction fleets in the world, each on a different continent, bringing unprecedented speed, scale, and efficiency to some of the world’s most complex critical infrastructure projects. This funding will allow us to step on the gas and scale our manufacturing, software, operations, and construction deployments, including work on massive commercial and government contracts. We’re building the future of construction right here in Austin, Texas, and scaling it globally. If you want to be part of the team changing the world, now and on Mars, join us. Our Series A was led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Glade Brook Capital Partners, BANNER VC, Saga Ventures, Trust Ventures, Definition, PEAK6, Magnetar Capital, and Ravelin Capital. Huge thanks to all of our angel investors, friends, and family who have helped and supported us throughout this journey. Apply here: jobs.ashbyhq.com/TerraFirma-…
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Someone please create a human version of @YouTube , zero bots and zero slop allowed. Will pay $50 a month to get a guarantee I will never click on slop again. @YouTube sucks now.
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PS, our crack marketing team also updated the website this week and it might be the coolest thing I've ever seen. aalo.com
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Tomorrow is a big day for Aalo, and the future of clean energy on Earth.
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Episode 3 of "Critical Thinking" is live: Inside the Aalo-1 Core. @yasir_fission sits down with Aalo engineers (and resident PhDs) Firas Abdullatif and David Jaluvka for a dive into reactor physics, the Aalo-1 core, and the designs choices that went into it. Firas and David walk through Aalo's combination of UO2 fuel, liquid sodium coolant, and a graphite moderator, and the tradeoffs that came with each. You'll also learn about reactor physics from the ground up: how fission actually works, fast vs. thermal spectrum reactors, why HALEU supply chain matters, and how neutronics, thermal hydraulics, shielding, and manufacturing all have to come together to make a reactor real. If you caught Episode 2 (sodium coolant), this picks up where that left off. Link: piped.video/7DaZw_fzD2E
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In the 1980s, the world added ~230 GW of nuclear capacity. (in 10 years). A new reactor connected to the grid every 17 days on average. Insane.
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Aalo has received DSA approval from DOE for our 10 MW reactor, zero-power criticality! This is the equivalent of an NRC license in DOE space. We've been working towards this milestone at Aalo for 2.5 years. This was a very ambitious project under the DOE reactor pilot program for a bunch of reasons: ➡️ 10 MW, commercial-scale system. This is a system with the full-scale amount of fuel, moderator, controls, etc, necessary for powering AI data centers. Proving out this supply chain is a big deal. In the coming weeks we'll be taking it to zero power criticality, and then going to full-power operation in the months that follow. We'll be getting the factory set up in parallel to mass-produce it. ➡️ Built everything ourselves, from scratch. We started with a green field, and within 4 months finished the building, facilities, policies & procedures, reactor, shielding, instrumentation, control, etc. People thought this would be impossible to do on this timeline for a reactor of this size, but we've done it. Hyperscalers care about speed, and we're showing that moving fast is possible at commercial scale. ➡️ Achieving criticality before July 4th. We set out to ensure we met the president's order, and we are on pace to do so. We only started hiring at Aalo 2.5 yrs ago. It was questionable how realistic it was to take on all of the above while being one of the younger nuclear companies, but we are on track to pull it off. Insanely proud of the team for all the hard work, nights and weekends that went into this. Full blog post will be linked in comments.
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We need a @YouTube alternative that has a hard no AI slop policy before we can’t differentiate between AI and human content. Once we can’t, we are at the endgame.
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