Documentary recapping Rainmaker's historic accomplishment for the Great Salt Lake this past winter
We are the first company to repeatedly prove we're making it snow
The care, toil, and brilliance of our team was heroic
But we still need more water, the jobs not finished
Is there an upper limit on compute demand that you can point to?
We spent 60 years unraveling the wonders of serial compute (CPUs)
What does 60 years of unraveling the wonders of parallel compute (GPUs) look like?
The Transformer and Attention algos are just the beginning of organizing parallel compute.
In a recent batch talk, YC General Partner @t_blom broke down how to build a self-improving, AI-native company.
He walks through how to create recursive, self-improving AI loops, and why founders who get this right will run companies that improve while they sleep.
00:00 โ Companies Are Roman Legions
00:54 โ Copilots Are the Wrong Mental Model
01:55 โ Extract the Domain Knowledge
02:24 โ The Recursive Self-Improving Loop
04:12 โ The Holy Shit Moment at YC
05:50 โ Self-Optimizing Product and Support Loops
06:29 โ Burn Tokens, Not Headcount
07:23 โ Middle Management Is Over
08:05 โ Make Everything Legible to AI
09:40 โ Regenerating the YC User Manual
11:19 โ Software Is Ephemeral, Context Is Valuable
12:18 โ Where Humans Still Matter
Today, RADAR announced a $170 million Series B, bringing our valuation to more than $1 billion.
We believe Physical AI can transform the 80% of global commerce that still happens in stores.ย
Retailers lose an estimated $1 trillion each year because their stores lack real-time visibility into what they have and where it is. RADAR is helping close that gap with 99% item-level inventory accuracy in real time, already deployed in more than 1,400 stores with leading retailers including American Eagle Outfitters and Gap Inc. brands such as Old Navy.
We are just getting started.ย
A big thank you to our investors, including @nimble_partners, @gideonstrategic, @AlignVentures, @sound_ventures_, @ycombinator, our customers, including @AEO and @Gap Inc., @OldNavy and the entire RADAR team for helping bring us to this moment.
Mankind has always been at the mercy of the weather.
No longer.
Rainmaker is the first company in history to routinely, unambiguously, modify the weather.
Last quarter, we produced >143MM gallons of unambiguously man-made precipitation.
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Your wife should be your personal oracle, sharing all her crazy dreams and impressions and intuitions with you.
Whilst also analysing people using logic, cunning and wisdom.
Always aligned with you, protecting you in her own way.
Cute cunning oracle wife.
Closing class A CRE deals over 18 holes of golf is out
Closing multi year snowpack enhancement deals on the last run of the day at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort is in
Imagine updating your LinkedIn profile to Director of Ski Resort Partnerships
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The sheer amount of will to bring these revolutionary products to market and drive massive value is nothing short of a miracle. We live in such an exciting period of history.
The opportunity for profound products that shape the next century are limitless
one of the gifts of a career in engineering is realizing just how difficult the world we have was to achieve and the totality of effort required to maintain it.
Homeschooling should be illegal.
โBut I teach my kids better than the state!โ
Doesnโt matter, the primary purpose of elementary/middle school isnโt to teach itโs to socialize your kid. You canโt do that alone.
And this isnโt even mentioning how it can be used to abuse kids