Leonard Speiser

Venture Studio (Currently), Columnist (Space & Time) Past: Clover (acquired), Markov, Bix (acquired), eBay, Intuit, CSFB, and MIT.

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

Anti-Turing Test: To figure out if a company that claims it is using AI is actually using humans to do the job.

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

Great post from my co-lead on observations about our high school robotics team: https://t.co/XDXtJtq2gA

[Dinari @DinariGlobal]

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[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

Congratulations to @HenrySpeiser, Het, Maxwell and Filip on their Hackathon project.

[👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige]

My favorite: a @scratch interface for teaching people robotics! 🤩

Ideal state would be to have this in *all* high schools and colleges, both for simulations and real-world robots. Huge! And the demo gods were satiated, worked flawlessly:

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

Non-stop launches from the Daffy crew

[Adam Nash @adamnash]

At @DaffyGiving, we've learned something simple but powerful: giving is contagious, but it needs more voices.

So this giving season, we’re seeing what happens when those voices come together to compete in the Voices for Good Challenge. 🎙️

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

@jamescham Guaranteed to be right 50% of the time.

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

Why do LLMs love emojis so much?

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

Prompt Peep? Script Spill? Prompt Funk? Script Flip?

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

We need a name for when AI outputs get displayed by accident:

- Explain that Powerwalls are not stocked directly in the warehouse.
- Reassure him that there is an open ticket monitoring the delivery status.
- Let him know you've personally actioned the ticket to get an update.

[Reve @reve]

Reimagine reality. https://t.co/EkfxuKirKC

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

Well, @Airport_FRA has now surpassed the Paris airport as the worst run. Passport control has no staff. No bins at xray. Stairs and buses to planes. Planes breaking down. Constant flight delays. Went through it two days in a row and can confirm it is consistently a problem.

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

@sampullara @oliviali_ @Duane1024 There might be like 30 of them in someone's garage. Probably need to be flashed with the consumer software.

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

@sampullara @oliviali_ @Duane1024 Making some pizza bao from Costco right now!

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

This order from China for parts shows the impact of tariffs on a student project. The sad part: This is still massively cheaper than any US manufacturer.

[Adam Nash @adamnash]

Very excited to share the @DaffyGiving 2024 Year in Review 🎉

DAFs are growing fast. Over the last decade, donor-advised funds have grown at an annualized rate of over 23% per year. 🏎️💨

Last year Daffy grew 104%, 4.4x faster. 🚀

[immad @immad]

Bummed to miss this week's podcast with @leonardspeiser and @rajatsuri, which covered Clover's journey from startup to processing $300B+ in payments, the unique challenges of building hardware, and Leonard's new venture studio model with enterprises like JLL and Prudential. Be sure to give it a listen. 👇

[Adam Nash @adamnash]

Daffy launched with a very simple concept:
Save. Invest. Give.

@DaffyGiving gave members 15 pre-built portfolios to help grow their impact... but our members wanted more.

So we are giving them more.

Introducing 100 quintillion more ways to invest for charity. 🤯

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

I like that I can have Claude analyze an entire court case immediately to get the details I can't find in the news. "the President plays no direct constitutional or statutory role" in counting electoral votes. VP's role is as Senate president, not executive.

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

@CollegeBoard I think it is a little absurd that you require students in California to fly to other states to take the SAT because you have a massive shortage of test spots, especially considering it is now done on the computer and requires no training for a school to host it.

[Adam Nash @adamnash]

Today marks an exciting milestone for @DaffyGiving 🙏

After an incredible year of growth & feedback from our members, our team of talented designers decided to rethink our member experience from the ground up.

We call it Daffy 2.0 🚀

https://t.co/PGlldi4I4N

[Leonard Speiser @leonardspeiser]

@Andercot @chr1sa You will want to pop some vitamin D to protect you from all the sun we get down here. ;)