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All-In Summit: Bill Gurley (0:00) Bill Gurley takes the stage at the All-In Summit (1:29) Bill's Presentation: Searching for Feynman Links to additional resources mentioned in talk and used in research: p3.institute/searching_for_f… @bgurley
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This is absolutely huge. It's thrilling for me to see a bold bet like this actually paying off and all of us will get to benefit. Congratulations!
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…
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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…
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…
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Replying to @garrytan
Garry, you're great, but this is a bad take. We've raised $200M+ from philanthropy and have worked with most major funders. MacKenzie Scott's process was one of the most thorough. They asked for a lot and went deep — but only on what actually mattered. No BS. We received $15M (it was exactly the right amount for our org). You said there are "a bunch of examples in the long form post" of harmful gifts. I count two. Out of $26B given. And you're framing this as "harmful to the republic"? A billionaire wanting to give away her fortune to nonprofits too quickly — that's the threat to the republic you chose to tweet about? Out of everything happening in this country right now, the fact that this cracks your top 50 most tweet-worthy concerns is wild to me. A huge amount of philanthropy is stuck. It's a huge problem in our sector. Large endowments with big staffs and years of "figuring things out." Most pay out the legal minimum — in some cases less than the annual interest earned on principal that already generated a tax deduction. There's extensive reporting on how many Giving Pledge signatories have moved capital far more slowly than the public narrative suggests. And re: your "Stewardship Pledge" — one hour of auditing per $1M given — sounds reasonable until you do the math. Elon Musk donating half his ~$300B fortune would require 150,000 hours of oversight — 72 years of full-time work! You've just made the most elegant argument ever for why many billionaires don't give. M. Scott is actually moving capital. At scale. When you deploy $26B quickly, some grants won't work — that's to be expected. How many VCs have ended up funding companies they shouldn't have? Why is "move fast and break things" exclusive to silicon valley tech companies? To be clear: there are real, fact-based critiques to make about what's happening in philanthropy right now. This hit piece on Scott isn't one of them. This kind of framing can meaningfully hurt organizations doing real work, and I know that's not your intention. If you want to talk about what's actually broken and how to improve it, my DMs are open.
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Staying connected while socially distant. I love using the @MarcoPoloApp and when I found out my husband used to work with @vladab - I reached out to say thanks for creating this unique video sharing app to help me stay in touch with loved ones. #notanad
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The @GammaApp story is legendary. In ~2 years: ARR: $100M Users: 100M+ Valuation: $2.1B Employees: <50 Profitable?: Yes! I'm interviewing the CEO, @thisisgrantlee, next week at @pearvc's SF studio. Should be a highly actionable talk. Sign up 👇
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This is not an ad! 😂 we just love @marcopoloapp 📲 Long-distance auntlife has never been easier thanks to MarcoPoloApp! Jenny got to watch the end-of-year graduation ceremony live from Scotland. It’s real-time, it saves the videos, and it doesn’t eat your battery. We’ve
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PMs: AI is coming for your job! …but not in the way you think.... I recently posted a demo of Operator using kraftful.com to run an entire PM workflow in just 5 mins—all while I was in the shower. Here’s what it did: 1️⃣ Analyzed feedback from thousands of Slack users to surface prioritized feature requests and complaints. 2️⃣ Added insights to the roadmap. 3️⃣ Wrote a PRD about Slack Notifications. 4️⃣ Created a user story with acceptance criteria and assigned it to an engineer in @linear. The reactions were fascinating... 🔹 Thousands of PMs bookmarked the post—determined to figure out how to do this themselves (or, let’s be real, to avoid getting replaced by AI). 🔹 Some yelled that this isn’t what PMs do—claiming AI analysis of user feedback is just “crowdsourcing what to build/fix next.” 🔹 But many more were excited about what they could achieve when AI handles the busywork—PRDs, user stories, and all—so they can focus on high-impact strategy and product craft. So yeah, AI is coming for your job 😉 But it’s coming to: ✅ Help you do it better. ✅ Deliver products that evolve faster to meet real user needs. ✅ Make sure you’re not just overdosing on podcasts while ignoring user feedback. As both a product builder and a product user, I’m excited for what’s ahead 🚀 Make sure to turn on the sound to hear the AI-generated voiceover narrating what the AI agent is doing in the demo 🔊
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Vlada Bortnik retweeted
Husband and wife duo Tye @drtyecaldwell and Courtney Caldwell @ShearShareCEO run their own hair care business but noticed a problem: empty chairs. They came up with the @shearshare app that has been a game changer 💇
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1/ Today, we announced that Wild has raised a $7M seed round. Our CEO @douglassNFT spent some time chatting with @camgthompson at @CoinDesk about this exciting milestone and what’s to come with Wild! coindesk.com/web3/2023/03/09…
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Can't wait for this!
on 1.23, the outer limits of space will be yours to explore with quasar fighter by @hideogenart👩‍🚀 each #nft contains a unique game & spaceship design, programmatically created in 3D. a generative, retro-inspired game experience like no other. 🚀
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ps, there is a great and long standing app called @MarcoPoloApp which is basically a video based "slow conversation" with people or groups you set. its been great to have face to face time with friends outside of zoom calls. been using it for about two years now daily.
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Gm @wildxyz! The artist everyone should know about is... @TheRoboLinda
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So proud to be part of this ride! Wild is dreaming up better ways to experience art. I can't wait.
gm, we’re Wild 👋 We believe there is a better way to foster our world’s creativity, a 🧵.
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We’d love your 🗳️! I'm teaming up with @mozilla to discuss how we can make responsible tech choices that prioritize well-being. With your help, we can take the stage. Vote here: panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/12…
@vladab CEO & Co-founder of @MarcoPoloApp, joins us to explores what it takes to build technology that is "metrics-informed, but values-driven.” One key takeaway: Change metrics from product-driven (e.g., engagement) to human-driven (e.g., happiness). youtu.be/EldldRvDLn0
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@UnitedAirlines_ my kids flew solo today and they can't be found. Nobody at the counter knows where they are. And I'm on hold for the last 20 min.
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this is beyond words @united. you have my phone number and your answer to not calling me was "you are too busy".
@united I just finally learned that my kids have been sitting for 1.5 hour (and still are sitting) in customs at the airport bc it's been so busy.
pls respond to me asap
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Help us grow our impact in the world - come join our growth team!
Marco Polo (@MarcoPoloApp) is looking for three new members of its growth team. If you are passionate about growth initiatives and want to be part of an entrepreneurial consumer team, please check it out! #growth jobs.lever.co/marcopolo/502c…
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