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Peter Kim Frank 🌱 retweeted
DevRel at Midnight is being eliminated, so I'm looking🫡
I run developer orgs: advocacy, education, docs, DX
I also ship: 16 Claude Code plugins that check AI code before a dev sees it
Previously: Polkadot, New Relic, Puppet, Vonage, Amazon
Director / Head of / VP - Remote ✨
I run developer orgs: advocacy, education, docs, DX
I also ship: 16 Claude Code plugins that check AI code before a dev sees it
Previously: Polkadot, New Relic, Puppet, Vonage, Amazon
Director / Head of / VP - Remote ✨
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Some great NYC invedtors on this list 🗽
Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for ~$12.9bn. But who gets the 💰? My usual breakdown below 👇
*Investors are sharing ~$7.3bn of profits on <$400m invested. A cool ~20x blended.*
*1) The single biggest winner here? Lux Capital.* 👑
Lux is taking the crown for the most $ returned in wo rounds they led (Series A & Series C) generated ~$2.6bn combined. They also participated in the Series B.
Congrats to @wolfejosh and team. The $15.0m Series A alone will return ~132.5x the capital invested, or ~$2.0bn. The most lucrative round in absolute $ returned.
*2) Backing an exceptional team paid off with a >1,000x return for Betaworks and the angels* 📈
The story few people know: Hugging Face started life as a chatbot for lonely teenagers... You sent it a selfie and a sad emoji, it told you it understood. Quite far from where it landed!
That is why backing an exceptional team in @ClementDelangue, @Thom_Wolf and @julien_c is always the right thing to do. It paid over 1,000x for Betaworks, Kevin Durant and Thibaud Elziere.
*3) Founders and team are crushing it: not taking too much dilution along the way paid off* 👏
I estimate they will share ~$5bn in proceeds, assuming no secondary was taken along the way. A life changing outcome for them and many employees.
Taking a 15% attributed option pool at exit, this would mean ~$2bn for the team and >$3bn to share for the three co-founders. Legendary!
*4) Salesforce Ventures is cementing its reputation as one of the very best corporate VCs.* 🥇
Salesforce is adding Hugging Face to its long list of successful exits: Snowflake, Zoom, DocuSign, nCino, Auth0... Very few investors can claim as many successes, let alone corporates.
The $235m round they led returned $675m in just three short years. Meanwhile, Salesforce's own stock has been flat for the period. Capital well invested!
*5) This is a little bit of a heartbreak: but I wanted to congratulate @joinstationf here:*
Hugging Face walked into StationF as a 4-person team on day one, June 2017. Back when it was a chatbot for teenagers. They went through multiple corporate programs (Microsoft, Ubisoft, then Naver). Unfortunately they were not investing or taking equity at the time - but they contributed to making it possible. And so for that: hats off.
And of course, congratulations to all others involved: Addition, Sequoia, Coatue and many others. No one will be left out!
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Barefoot bodega owner in knee deep water and pounding rain using a broom handle to clear the sewer drains. Neighborhood MVP
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Great opportunity 👀
hey x,
@contralabs_ai is hiring Researchers in SF/NY that are interested in making AI better for creativity.
You will collaborate directly with the frontier labs on cutting edge projects that directly impact the tools creatives use every single day
tag someone who could be interested!
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Peter Kim Frank 🌱 retweeted
Incredible.
A liberal coalition is finally forming to push back against both the far right and the far left.
This week, they launched @thepromise2026, a public pledge with 13 sitting Congressmembers and candidates signing on, openly breaking with the DSA wing while refusing to
Their commitments:
"We are capitalist, not socialist."
"We want safety, not lawlessness."
"We are responsible, not reckless."
"Government should solve problems, not create them."
"We are mainstream, not extreme."
"We are proud, not ashamed of America."
This is the kind of pro-America, anti-authoritarian coalition American politics desperately needs.
More of this, please.
A liberal coalition is finally forming to push back against both the far right and the far left.
This week, they launched @thepromise2026, a public pledge with 13 sitting Congressmembers and candidates signing on, openly breaking with the DSA wing while refusing to
Their commitments:
"We are capitalist, not socialist."
"We want safety, not lawlessness."
"We are responsible, not reckless."
"Government should solve problems, not create them."
"We are mainstream, not extreme."
"We are proud, not ashamed of America."
This is the kind of pro-America, anti-authoritarian coalition American politics desperately needs.
More of this, please.
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Love this. What is old becomes new. Hard social graph growth as a feature not a bug.
A couple years ago I bought the domain friendster. com. Then I got the trademarks. Now Friendster is live in the App Store as a social network where you can only add friends by tapping phones in real life.
Here's how it happened:
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“letting one bill go into effect” (because it passed with a veto-proof majority)
Last month, the City Council passed two bills related to the constitutional right to protest — one for houses of worship, and one for educational institutions.
Today, I’m letting one bill go into effect, and vetoing the other. I’d like to take a moment to explain why.
As Mayor, the right to protest, prayer and protection are guaranteed for every New Yorker.Community noteMamdani’s claim of vetoing one bill while “letting one bill go into effect” omits context: the houses of worship buffer-zone bill passed the City Council with a veto-proof 44–5 majority. Mamdani vetoed having buffer-zones at schools, which passed without a veto-proof majority.
politico.com/news/2026/04/2…
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Had a 630am tee time once and the starter had already smoked his cigar down to the butt.
I think about it all the time like how early did he get it going?
I think about it all the time like how early did he get it going?
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