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USV
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We invest at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal pressures
- Check out @nickgrossman on @tbpn at 4 ET today to talk about The Rebel Alliance and the Emergent Agent Stack.Happy Wednesday. On today's show: - @markpinc (Zynga) - @luke10ferrari (Bending Spoons) - @wayneting (Lime) - @nickgrossman (USV) - @SHUBH17_ (Integral) - @_jeff_liu & @_JonWang (Assort Health) - @EliotPence (Dominion Dynamics) - @JulianHoenig (Amble) See you on the stream.
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Hiring 2–3 designers for ongoing contract work. The job: turn complex ideas into clean, simple diagrams. Often. You: enjoy translating into pictures, ship fast, want your work to be seen. NYC-based and up for collaborating in person now and then. Me: Shouldn't be - It's a wildly exciting time. We believe the Rebel Alliance will produce many of the most important companies of this era — not despite the power of the large model providers, but because of the ecosystem dynamics playing out around them. We are actively investing across this
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Wrote this in March and the part about open weights models potentially throwing a wrench into the economics of Anthropic and OpenAI has gone up in likelihood since
Blog post: AI Bubble or Not? continuations.com/ai-bubble-or-n… - USV repostedLooking for venue ideas for the first general assembly
- USV repostedOne of the more fun pieces we've worked on in a while. Made the decision at the last minute to invite a lot of people in to give feedback before publishing. Incredible how much it sharpens your thinking and how it pushes you past the nerves of putting your ideas out there.
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The biggest risk in AI is concentration: of power, capabilities and economic wealth. Who can doubt it with trillion dollar companies and government now already controlling a massive part of it? So we need more rebels and more rebel alliance like this one from @usv and friends. - USV reposted
“the Rebel Alliance will produce many of the most important companies of this era — not despite the power of the large model providers, but because of the ecosystem dynamics playing out around them.” agree. - USV reposted
bringing early technologies to market often requires a vertically integrated strategy to show whats possible and smooth rough edges of the infra (think AOL which bundled an ISP, content, email and instant messanger) As tech/markets mature, solutions often unbundle into
