Sam Cates

investing time and capital in people

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@mattaparker Easily solved by living in the sunset. Happy to get cfa next time we hang out :)

[Sam Cates @samcates]

I just mean that the feeling you describe, being behind despite all evidence to the contrary, is the same one I feel as a parent. I feel like at 25 or 30, I would just put more hours into ‘catching up’ and the biggest thing parenthood has taken away is that feeling of unlimited time. So I connect the two, and I was wondering if they felt similar to you too.

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@JayChiarella93 @bobbyfijan @ResonateVision @JohnsonEmma Came to say this, and that the anecdotes are prevalent but mostly wrong. Classic SF though, bad marketing pushes people out. As someone who got none of their choices, we ended up somewhere better than any of them any.

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@yoheinakajima 🙋🏻‍♂️

[Sam Cates @samcates]

An out of this world team, and ambition to match. They could do it on Mars but they're already doing it on Earth today if you can believe it.

[Lewis Jones @thelcjones]

Introducing our tech roadmap at @cosmic_robotics to start autonomous city construction on Mars in the mid-2030s.

Our team includes senior talent from SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Zoox, Nuro, and Autodesk.

We're already deploying robots on large-scale construction sites.

Link to roadmap in the thread below:

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@AKWilk Imagine Elon Musk is Tom Brady, and VCs are Alex Guerrero

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@maiab Nuance matters! But replacing a Safeway with a Safeway and a lot of new housing is as easy as it gets.

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@itunpredictable @vagueslop That seems like… their goal

[Robert Wachen @robertwachen]

We're at the biggest compute inflection point in history. Etched is moving faster than ever.

I'm incredibly grateful for our team. We've poured our lives into Etched for three years. It's hard to believe how far we've come and harder to believe how far we must go.

There's no better time to join us. We're just getting started.

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@grant__gregory 🎉🎉🎉

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@cynthiamcgillis Both can be true 🙃

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@PhysicsBliss This is the Twitter conversation I’ve been looking for

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@lpolovets @purrmin

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@bobbyfijan Wait where does the latter exist??

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@KunalsLab @bryce Leopard print tracks

[Sam Cates @samcates]

Introducing the American Dynamism Cinematic Universe

Grant has been leaving bread crumbs for 5+ years, no doubt people will start noticing more now

[Grant Gregory @grant__gregory]

After 9 months of putting this together, I'm excited to finally share a project that I've wanted to exist for years now: The State of Adventure Capital

[Sam Cates @samcates]

Liking this may entice Donald to post more. Do it for the greater good.

[Donald Lee-Brown @PhysicsBliss]

More takes:
1. Using AI for tasks like summarization and call notes is a consensus take. If you are here, you are behind the curve. But it's easy to catch up - @NotebookLM , @meetgranola , etc.
2. Most 'deep research' tools do deep *search*, not research. Don't confuse them.

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@ahmedshubber25 Big if true

[Sam Cates @samcates]

@jmduke @itunpredictable What could cloudflare do better? Just asking relative to every other trash or unsustainable option