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Alfred Lin of Sequoia on “Confession with Ali Partovi”
– Childhood trouble-making and family friction
– Tough calls as an operator at Zappos, Tellme, and LinkExchange
– leading Sequoia’s disastrous FTX investment
… and much ral partner and co-head @Alfred_Lin.
(01:35) Growing Up Rebellious (“not Guai”): Taiwan to NY
(06:04) Detention for Building a Popular Computer Game
(09:38) Being Misunderstood: The Bezos Principle
(10:48) Parental Conflict: The College Fight
(13:16) Rebellion and Business: Running from History
(16:42) “The world is passing me by” - Stanford PhD Dropout
(18:00) The Quincy House Grille
(22:57) Ali's Confession and a Lifelong Lesson from LinkExchange
(32:10) “Slope over intercept”: Betting on Talent
(36:41) LinkExchange Company Success but Cultural Failure
(37:25) Tellme Networks: The Scourge of Indecisive Layoffs
(42:33) Zappos: “Head in the clouds, feet on the ground”
(43:57) FTX: The $150 Million Loss
(50:53) “That was the most crushing”: Trust Betrayed
(52:53) Uber: The $20 Billion Miss from Lack of Courage
(57:07) Closing: Lessons on Courage and Moving Forward
Alfred Lin of Sequoia on “Confession with Ali Partovi”
– Childhood trouble-making and family friction
– Tough calls as an operator at Zappos, Tellme, and LinkExchange
– leading Sequoia’s disastrous FTX investment
… and much ral partner and co-head @Alfred_Lin.
(01:35) Growing Up Rebellious (“not Guai”): Taiwan to NY
(06:04) Detention for Building a Popular Computer Game
(09:38) Being Misunderstood: The Bezos Principle
(10:48) Parental Conflict: The College Fight
(13:16) Rebellion and Business: Running from History
(16:42) “The world is passing me by” - Stanford PhD Dropout
(18:00) The Quincy House Grille
(22:57) Ali's Confession and a Lifelong Lesson from LinkExchange
(32:10) “Slope over intercept”: Betting on Talent
(36:41) LinkExchange Company Success but Cultural Failure
(37:25) Tellme Networks: The Scourge of Indecisive Layoffs
(42:33) Zappos: “Head in the clouds, feet on the ground”
(43:57) FTX: The $150 Million Loss
(50:53) “That was the most crushing”: Trust Betrayed
(52:53) Uber: The $20 Billion Miss from Lack of Courage
(57:07) Closing: Lessons on Courage and Moving Forward
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Neo retweeted
For once, it's actually lupus!
Gather Bio is out of stealth. We're building a longitudinal, multimodal AI model of every patient's health.
First product: AI-assisted clinical trial matching for lupus.
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Gather Bio is out of stealth. We're building a longitudinal, multimodal AI model of every patient's health.
First product: AI-assisted clinical trial matching for lupus.
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"The world is passing me by while I'm in grad school." - @Alfred_Lin of @sequoia on Confession with Ali Partovi. (Watch full podcast episode below)
🎙️ Watch now: podcast available on all platforms.
Alfred Lin of Sequoia on “Confession with Ali Partovi”
– Childhood trouble-making and family friction
– Tough calls as an operator at Zappos, Tellme, and LinkExchange
– leading Sequoia’s disastrous FTX investment
… and much ral partner and co-head @Alfred_Lin.
(01:35) Growing Up Rebellious (“not Guai”): Taiwan to NY
(06:04) Detention for Building a Popular Computer Game
(09:38) Being Misunderstood: The Bezos Principle
(10:48) Parental Conflict: The College Fight
(13:16) Rebellion and Business: Running from History
(16:42) “The world is passing me by” - Stanford PhD Dropout
(18:00) The Quincy House Grille
(22:57) Ali's Confession and a Lifelong Lesson from LinkExchange
(32:10) “Slope over intercept”: Betting on Talent
(36:41) LinkExchange Company Success but Cultural Failure
(37:25) Tellme Networks: The Scourge of Indecisive Layoffs
(42:33) Zappos: “Head in the clouds, feet on the ground”
(43:57) FTX: The $150 Million Loss
(50:53) “That was the most crushing”: Trust Betrayed
(52:53) Uber: The $20 Billion Miss from Lack of Courage
(57:07) Closing: Lessons on Courage and Moving Forward
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"It was just a YOLO bet, and I was a wimpy sponsor."
- @Alfred_Lin of @sequoia on Confession with Ali Partovi. (full episode below).
- @Alfred_Lin of @sequoia on Confession with Ali Partovi. (full episode below).
🎙️ Watch now: podcast available on all platforms.
Alfred Lin of Sequoia on “Confession with Ali Partovi”
– Childhood trouble-making and family friction
– Tough calls as an operator at Zappos, Tellme, and LinkExchange
– leading Sequoia’s disastrous FTX investment
… and much ral partner and co-head @Alfred_Lin.
(01:35) Growing Up Rebellious (“not Guai”): Taiwan to NY
(06:04) Detention for Building a Popular Computer Game
(09:38) Being Misunderstood: The Bezos Principle
(10:48) Parental Conflict: The College Fight
(13:16) Rebellion and Business: Running from History
(16:42) “The world is passing me by” - Stanford PhD Dropout
(18:00) The Quincy House Grille
(22:57) Ali's Confession and a Lifelong Lesson from LinkExchange
(32:10) “Slope over intercept”: Betting on Talent
(36:41) LinkExchange Company Success but Cultural Failure
(37:25) Tellme Networks: The Scourge of Indecisive Layoffs
(42:33) Zappos: “Head in the clouds, feet on the ground”
(43:57) FTX: The $150 Million Loss
(50:53) “That was the most crushing”: Trust Betrayed
(52:53) Uber: The $20 Billion Miss from Lack of Courage
(57:07) Closing: Lessons on Courage and Moving Forward
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Neo retweeted
made an unreasonably complicated carrier pigeon w/ @rohankalia_
in the process: called the FAA, circumnavigated the bay area looking for helium, and inhaled too much solder.
thanks @neo for having us!
in the process: called the FAA, circumnavigated the bay area looking for helium, and inhaled too much solder.
thanks @neo for having us!
got up to some balloonerism w/ @DivijMot.
we had no idea what we were doing, which made for a hell of an adventure. we also won the @neo hackathon.
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Neo retweeted
Some of Altara’s early technical team. I’m grateful to be building every day alongside incredible teammates who bring deep expertise at the intersection of AI and scientific research.
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Neo retweeted
Introducing TRACE: deployment-time compute scaling for robot learning.
From a few Tutor demos, frontier LLM agents rebuild a robot's task in sim and train reliable, human-speed policies. Performance becomes a function of compute.
TI-0.1 is our first model trained with TRACE.
From a few Tutor demos, frontier LLM agents rebuild a robot's task in sim and train reliable, human-speed policies. Performance becomes a function of compute.
TI-0.1 is our first model trained with TRACE.
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"I thought I had such a good read on people... on whether I can trust someone. I did not."
Watch full episode: @Alfred_Lin of @sequoia on Confession with Ali Partovi (below).
Watch full episode: @Alfred_Lin of @sequoia on Confession with Ali Partovi (below).
🎙️ Watch now: podcast available on all platforms.
Alfred Lin of Sequoia on “Confession with Ali Partovi”
– Childhood trouble-making and family friction
– Tough calls as an operator at Zappos, Tellme, and LinkExchange
– leading Sequoia’s disastrous FTX investment
… and much ral partner and co-head @Alfred_Lin.
(01:35) Growing Up Rebellious (“not Guai”): Taiwan to NY
(06:04) Detention for Building a Popular Computer Game
(09:38) Being Misunderstood: The Bezos Principle
(10:48) Parental Conflict: The College Fight
(13:16) Rebellion and Business: Running from History
(16:42) “The world is passing me by” - Stanford PhD Dropout
(18:00) The Quincy House Grille
(22:57) Ali's Confession and a Lifelong Lesson from LinkExchange
(32:10) “Slope over intercept”: Betting on Talent
(36:41) LinkExchange Company Success but Cultural Failure
(37:25) Tellme Networks: The Scourge of Indecisive Layoffs
(42:33) Zappos: “Head in the clouds, feet on the ground”
(43:57) FTX: The $150 Million Loss
(50:53) “That was the most crushing”: Trust Betrayed
(52:53) Uber: The $20 Billion Miss from Lack of Courage
(57:07) Closing: Lessons on Courage and Moving Forward
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Kalshi hits $40B, Ali on Tucker, & more | Neo & Noteworthy
Check out our October recap of learnings and announcements by Neo portfolio companies and community members 💙
neo.substack.com/p/kalshi-hits-…
Check out our October recap of learnings and announcements by Neo portfolio companies and community members 💙
neo.substack.com/p/kalshi-hits-…
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@apartovi called for holding AI companies accountable and explained @votewithsway in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
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We can’t wait to see what the Neo community will learn, accomplish, and share in November. 🎉
Full post here: neo.substack.com/p/kalshi-hits-…
Full post here: neo.substack.com/p/kalshi-hits-…
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