Sajid Rahman

Funds. Syndicates. 30+ Unicorns. Internet governance. Renewable energy. Board Member. Own opinion.

[Sajid Rahman @SajidRepublic]

Latest blog on technology and finance coming together....or other way of saying how technology is disrupting... https://t.co/PV6SsfBl2f

[Sajid Rahman @SajidRepublic]

@anymanfitness Travel

[Sajid Rahman @SajidRepublic]

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[Mehul Agarwal @meh_agarwal]

Hollywood isn't dead. It's evolving. And we're leading that evolution.
We just shipped Koyal v2.5: The best Agentic AI filmmaking platform. It goes from your script or music to full video with consistent characters, settings & storylines.

Large Production houses, music labels & ad agencies use @KoyalAI for storyboarding & pre-viz.

Smaller studios use it for making content they never had the time, budget or resources to create.

Write a scene. Direct the camera. Build a world. @KoyalAI brings it to life.

Here's what's new:
- Go from script to video:
Write a scene with dialogue, pacing, emotion. Koyal fully realizes it. Using the best voice models on the planet.

- Direct the camera:
Push in. Pull back. Drift through a scene. Real 3D camera blocking. Shape the shot the way you see it in your head.

- Build a world that stays:Lock in a location and return to it. Your scenes stay consistent from the first frame to the last.

Plus: dialogue, SFX, annotations for editing, and more control over every shot.

Under the hood, we benchmark 40+ models weekly with real humans so Koyal always uses the best available (more on that next week!)

Our agents pick the best models for each scene in run-time so you focus on the story, we handle the complexity.

You don't need to prompt a film, you can direct it.

With Koyal, we're looking to replace the camera, not the filmmaker behind it.

Try it now at beta [dot] koyal [dot] ai

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[Your Best Version @YourPrimePath]

The highest form of existence is to have no desire to be understood, admired, pitied, or known.

[Singapore High Commission In Bangladesh 🇸🇬 @SGinDhaka]

Bangladesh’s 🇧🇩 Tiger Golf Club, (golf enthusiast group) visited Singapore recently (8-10 Dec). They played @SeletarCC and also met officials from Enterprise Singapore and Non-Resident High Commissioner Derek Loh. Tiger Golf Club has been a great proponent of closer🇸🇬 + 🇧🇩 ties!

[Sajid Rahman @SajidRepublic]

Liquidity trumps all other macros.

[Sajid Rahman @SajidRepublic]

society can reward innovators, but should never leave them in charge of policymaking. https://t.co/ZaCy3R6cFg via @INSEADKnowledge

[Sajid Rahman @SajidRepublic]

Welcome to the MyAsiaVC Alliance | September Insights https://t.co/h1IaTVPV0s

[amitabh singhal @amitabhsinghal]

. @hardaker @buckr @SajidRepublic awesome tour of the birthplace of DNS and home of B root. Pics are of Wes and us and with a portrait of late John Postel, aka God of Internet (during his lifetime).

[Sajid Rahman @SajidRepublic]

Hi, I have a Lombardi in Jakarta. I have recently been traveling for year-end holiday and the car won’t start. I bought the car less than a year ago. However, what is sad is the very poor customer service. For over a week I am trying to fix the car but the Hyundai team can’t even do it. They do not have a simple battery replacement on whole of Jakarta. Never seen such a poor customer service @hyundaimotorid

[Sajid Rahman @SajidRepublic]

@aixbt_agent How does $Move compare to $Gene?

[Sajid Rahman @SajidRepublic]

@aixbt_agent What about $Sushi and $Wld?

[Sajid Rahman @SajidRepublic]

@aixbt_agent What are the phases of market conditions you are referring to?

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@aixbt_agent Anything on FIL

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[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

IN THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE AGAINST AUTHORITARIANISM, THE WEST’S REAL ENEMY IS ITSELF

American politicians speak constantly about the indispensable role of the United States in leading the free world against authoritarianism. If that is true, why is the White House so silent in the face of new global threats to free speech?

In January, American citizen Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian prison for posting YouTube videos; the State Department didn’t lift a finger to help. Last week, Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France for the crime of insufficient content moderation.

Now Brazil has banned X for resisting the diktats of a tyrannical judge, who salivates over the possibility of jailing @elonmusk. The EU is one step behind, with Eurocrat Thierry Breton pursuing a criminal investigation against Elon for “platforming disinformation,” which Breton defines to include a conversation with Donald Trump.

In the UK, the government of Keir Starmer imprisons critics of open borders with more zeal than it prosecutes violent crime. In Canada, Justin Trudeau crushed a trucker protest against vaccine mandates by asserting sweeping new powers to freeze bank accounts.

At no point has the White House expressed concern about this new iron curtain that seems to be descending across the West. Quite the contrary, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the Biden-Harris administration repeatedly pressured Meta to censor during Covid. Worse, the FBI primed Facebook to censor true stories about Biden Family corruption by suggesting that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation (even though the FBI knew it was authentic).

Barring court intervention, TikTok will shut down in the U.S. on January 19, 2025 thanks to a new power authorized by Congress to ban websites and applications that the President determines are subject to the influence of a foreign adversary. X may not be far behind if liberal elites and deep state apparatchiks like Robert Reich and Alexander Vindman get their wish. They have called for the U.S. to adopt Brazil’s and the EU’s approach and “rein in” Elon Musk.

Hypocritically, the same voices demanding this crackdown are also the loudest in proclaiming the West to be engaged in a “war on authoritarianism” against countries like Russia and China. But whatever their other sins, Russia and China are in no position to deprive American citizens of their free speech rights; only our own government can do that.

Similarly, if Western leaders truly wanted to prevent authoritarianism, the easiest place to start would be at home, protecting the civil liberties of their own citizens. Instead they seem obsessed with deflecting the public’s attention onto foreign enemies, as Orwell depicted in the Two Minutes Hate in 1984.

As this battle over free speech heats up in an election year, where do the candidates stand? Donald Trump has declared his support for free speech whereas Kamala Harris has said nothing and can be expected to continue her administration’s policy of tacit approval of creeping censorship. In just two months, Americans will decide. Do we actually lead the free world in standing up for free speech, or do we accept the authoritarianism we claim to detest so much?

[Sajid Rahman @SajidRepublic]

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[Ben Lang @benln]

Marc Andreessen on why not to do a startup:

[david friedberg @friedberg]

the kid who stands up in front of the middle school class and offers to make the vending machines free always wins the election