Mohsen Sheta

Startup Founder | UC Berkeley-Haas Alumnus | Technology Brother

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

When I spoke out against the Gaza genocide, a bunch of midwit VCs ganged up on me both in public and tried to hurt me in private too.

Many of those who stood by me were also VCs. Just the better ones. Both morally, and in return profile.

The best way to avoid sociopaths is to have them self select out of your life by standing for your beliefs.

[Mohsen Sheta @MohsenASheta]

People thought I was exaggerating when I said that "Squid Game" is the future of Western industrial societies.

Now we're building platforms where anyone can post a bounty for anything, and anyone can compete to complete it.

The boundary between labor market, game, and social network keeps getting thinner.

[Pump.fun @Pumpfun]

Introducing pump fun GO: Pay ANYONE to do ANYTHING

Create & complete bounties for ANY task and leverage the power of humans & money across the globe

The world is at your fingertips. It’s time to GO 👇

[Hyperion @Ortgeist]

Home on San Francisco Bay by Charles Warren Callister, California, 1981

[Hyperion @Ortgeist]

Home in San Francisco by Robert Hutchinson, California, 1982

[Mohsen Sheta @MohsenASheta]

A fallen unicorn in the AI era is a relicorn.

A former unicorn whose technology became a relic.

[CNBC @CNBC]

The AI boom that funneled more than $250 billion into OpenAI and Anthropic ahead of their expected mega-IPOs this year has left hundreds of startups built before ChatGPT’s arrival in 2022 stranded — effectively cut off from venture funding because of their inflated valuations and outdated technology, yet not profitable enough for the public markets.

More than 220 companies that had reached billion-dollar valuations in the venture boom are now fallen unicorns, according to PitchBook, which provided a list of the companies exclusively to CNBC. The estimates are based on factors including head count growth and comparisons with public companies.

Full details: https://t.co/94w03jk1lY

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Tucker Carlson interviews a British doctor who worked in Gaza.

"Four young teenage boys were brought in, all of whom who'd been shot in the testicles."

[Mohsen Sheta @MohsenASheta]

@nntaleb I guess that you are not a fan of John Hull's introductory Options book. 🙂

[MENA Visuals @menavisualss]

🇮🇷 Why are Persian carpets so expensive? Here’s your answer. 4 master weavers working side by side on a large living-room carpet.

They look at the pattern and tie thousands of knots every day with perfect precision. It takes more than a year to finish a piece like this.

[Breeze @BreezeChai]

The world keeps going, this stays.

[ReNature🦋 @Natursee]

Stunning examples of Persian ceiling architecture.

İran 🇮🇷

[NAOTO @Naoto_Tek]

家にあるなかで一番最古のPCを立ち上げてみる

[Megan K. Stack @Megankstack]

It is depressing and horrible that Israel reportedly killed a 9-year-old girl in a school tent in Gaza today but it barely gets a mention because people have become so acclimated to Israel/Gaza/schoolgirls/killed.

[Computer ♥ Records @ComputerLove_]

It's a floppy disk coffee table! 💾😍

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

1979 High Fidelity.

[MENA Visuals @menavisualss]

Portraits from Lebanon 🇱🇧

Video by Zakaria Baydoun

[Mohsen Sheta @MohsenASheta]

@sama I honestly believe that AWS has the most reasonable and well-rounded cloud package for any startup. I chose them over Microsoft and Google.

[Stanley Kubrick @StanleyKubrick]

Stanley Kubrick and editor Tony Lawson editing #BarryLyndon in the converted garage of Stanley's home in Abbots Mead, December 1974.

[Mohsen Sheta @MohsenASheta]

@WebDesignMuseum That look lives on.

https://t.co/p6kWTlSz1d