Ilian Georgiev

"curious honeybadger who cares about people" | alleged "product-market-fit scientist" | twitter casual

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

One of the most relentless teams I've had the honor of helping, living in the future like they do!

[Peggy Wang @peggy_wang]

1\ We built a 3D simulation of a small town populated by fully autonomous AI agents inspired by @joon_s_pk's Stanford Generative Agents paper. We called it TownWorld and live streamed it to Twitch

[Peggy Wang @peggy_wang]

1\ We built a 3D simulation of a small town populated by fully autonomous AI agents inspired by @joon_s_pk's Stanford Generative Agents paper. We called it TownWorld and live streamed it to Twitch

[Pejman Nozad @pejmannozad]

I’m incredibly excited to share that Arash Ferdowsi @arashf Co-founder and former CTO of @Dropbox has joined Pear as our newest Visiting Partner! 

https://t.co/AZCiohYHvc

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

Pear-fect news! 🍐 Congrats to @pejmannozad and @MarHershenson, the GPs of @pearvc, for a 3rd consecutive appearance on the Midas List. Pejman is #1 for Seed! It's been an honor learning from your relentless energy and brilliant intuition every day this last year. 🙏

[Pear VC @pearvc]

We're excited to see our Founding Partners @pejmannozad and @MarHershenson on the #ForbesMidas List, which recognizes the top 100 investors worldwide.

The thing we're the most proud of is the true partnership between Pejman, Mar & the entire Pear team.

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

@arfrank @NotAFintechCo Fantastic list! I will work though it, top to bottom.

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

@elonmusk And the self-nominated replacement heads are officially kicking off the Dunning–Kruger World Cup in the replies.

[Pear VC @pearvc]

📣Introducing PearX: an early-stage bootcamp for founders

🧑‍💻15 companies max
⌛14 weeks long
💲Up to $2M check sizes
🍐The way we do pre-seed

Founders or those looking to make the leap to entrepreneurship, learn more here ➡️ https://t.co/SFmzVlkfp0

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

@yanda @OpenAI That’s exactly what @ashe_cs is building

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

“As soon as I am ready to dismiss an idea, I tell myself ‘Wait, wait, wait - that person is smart; what are they seeing that I am missing?’”

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

Fantastic to hear @dougleone sharing his lessons from @sequoia at @pearvc to a packed room of students and founders!

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

“There are many roads to heaven… and I chose mine to be a competitive badass”

[Pear VC @pearvc]

Yesterday, we hosted an in-person Demo Day at Filoli Gardens and 13 companies pitched to a packed room. We were thrilled to be back in person after so long with this impressive cohort of founders. We'll be sharing these pitches out virtually early next week, so stay tuned! 🍐✨

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

@zebriez One thing that helped me was to set up an cost per hour for time, even if a modest one. That liberates you to pay for more services that will save you time.

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

Homomorphic encryption means that servers do not have to decrypt your data to operate on it. For example, you can have all your information on Google servers, and search it like now, but no one at Google or no government agency can ever see any of it.

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

The emerging and niche field of homomorphic encryption will transform technology in the next century for the better. Feels like free-lunch, era-starting magic.

[Brie Wolfson @zebriez]

"Actual great opportunities do not have “Great Opportunities” in the subject line."

...and 102 more things to think about from (IMO) one of the best thinkers out there

https://t.co/QVN8zeTCcS

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

@NielsHoven Haha, great point!

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

@shreyas Say “No” and deliberately make some customers unhappy - signs of a real strategy; trade-offs are defensible.

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

@lennysan @shreyas The knowledge is there and it’s deep. But you two know how much time it takes to publish great content. The best PMF finders / founders are maniacal and don’t have the time. So, currently the main medium for teaching is founder to founder coaching. Great for a podcast.

[Ilian Georgiev @Illeto]

@lennysan @shreyas Especially true when it comes to the pre-PMF best practices. Most published product thinking is by and directing at people who are at companies well after finding PMF. Simple cause- that’s where not only most product people work, but where branding is essential for career success