Who is doing seed round in 2026? I want meet people doing seed round in USA
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"You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything. 11 of them will work. Just pick one and do it.”. Dennis Hightower, who at the time was head of Disney International.
https://www.nfx.com/post/9-habits-world-class-startupsHe asked me why I wasn’t doing something, and I responded by explaining the pros and cons of two different ways of doing it. Thoughtfully, he replied “You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything. 11 of them will work. Just pick one and do it.”
The best Founders avoid over-analyzing. At a startup, you don’t have time — and the result will most likely be marginal. Pick a way and do it. Be consistently decisive.More from that article: Speed is a formula for success because: Rapid product beats the competition Rapid results build team morale, leading to even more results Rapid results generate more interest (from the press, customers, prospective hires, etc.) Rapid results increase... "You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything. 11 of them will work. Just pick one and do it.”
Dennis Hightower, who at the time was head of Disney International. He asked me why I wasn’t doing something, and I responded by explaining the pros and cons of two different ways of doing it. Thoughtfully, he replied “You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything.... The AI Safety case for UpTrust: AI "Facts" 40% from Reddit, 24% from YouTube, 20% from FB. I knew this to be true but nice to see the numbers:
This good to remember when you get info from LLMs.
But also, in a non-UpTrust world it gets worse: "User Generated Content" on these sites is becoming increasingly AI generated (our startup accelerator is literally teaching all the startups how to do that to keep up with the competition). So as time goes on, these 'sources' will get more or more distorted and self-referential.
I know these models are gluttons for data, any and all. But wouldn't it be nice to identify the most trusted folks that the most trusted people in any domain trust, especially the ones that are trusted across political divides? And then train the models on those people, or use those people to fine tune the models?
https://www.semrush.com/blog/ai-mode-comparison-study/TIL UpTrust is in a startup accelerator 😅 Also yeah, super big problem and growing. Pre-2023 data is like gold, but also data cleaning and filtering strategies are becoming increasingly necessary (and AI can't be relied on for the filtering).... "Why did our friends stop posting on social media? | BBC Global". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN4MNdCAnWA <-- the first 30 seconds speaks directly to why we think UpTrust is desirable for individuals.
#whyUpTrustOn the positive side, I feel warmed by the kinds of conversations happening here. And I have the delightful experience of pitching UpTrust to investors over and over again, and watching their hopelessness turn to possibility as I explain how we've changed things.... The anti-uptrust
First time I'd heard of Cluely, a startup that whose website explicitly says "invisible AI to cheat on everything" and raised $15M from a16z. Check out 21 yr old founder Roy Lee at 9:50 in this podcast "theres not enough viral content to go out.... American aristocracy could learn some things from the old world. A big American founding myth is that we eliminated the aristocracy from our government, but the real American innovation is making it much easier to join the aristocracy starting as an outsider.
Sure, great. A little closer to meritocracy, one hopes.
But governance is complex enough that you’d ideally want to be trained from birth to do it. Programs of similar intensity to olympic training, for example.
That was a potential upside of the previous method. You had a limited set of preselected kids who were almost certainly going to rule one day, so you could put them through the training to do so. It often worked pretty well.
Now anyone who is good at twitter can ostensibly rule without knowing anything about how to do it.
Remember Boaty McBoatface? Our current timeline is the spiritual equivalent of running an internet poll to determine who is in charge of a nuclear reactor. Except orders of magnitudes more reckless and dangerous than that.
We need a better synthesis.
#DeepTakesThanks, this is helping me remember the amount of headroom we have on designing a training program that's better than what e.g. GW Bush happened to go through....