Tony Wang

Managing Partner @500GlobalVC. Tech adviser, investor and executive. Previously: operator at @Google @Twitter @Color

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I don't get enough credit for not stepping on my dog.

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Me, driving home after picking up In N Out

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@AndrewDai @haslindatv @BloombergTV @jpmorgan Let’s go Andrew!

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@HeinrichKuttler All of our kids loved kicking in it! Congrats on the newborn!

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@nvidia I’ve walked by this restaurant so many times and always thought it had a modern traditional feel to it.

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Even though many labs have stopped publishing, it’s great to see frontier research is alive and well. This one 👇🏼 from @hardmaru at @SakanaAILabs

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For over a decade, we’ve accepted that end-to-end backprop is the only way to train deep networks. But holding the entire network in memory all at once is why AI training is hitting a resource wall.

We found a new way to break the network into blocks and train them independently. The trick? Treating the network’s forward pass like a diffusion model denoising a signal.

This reinterpretation slashes the memory needed to train deep models. In our #ICLR2026 paper (https://t.co/PK5h0mqQSo), we matched end-to-end performance across ViTs, DiTs, and LLMs. We did this while training just one isolated block at a time.

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@hardmaru 1) What

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By definition, only a few investors have a power law company in their portfolio. But even fewer venture funds consistently invest in them at the earliest stages. Nice to see @500GlobalVC continue to be one of the top VCs on the power law list.

[Dealroom.co @dealroomco]

Venture returns follow a power law. Only a handful of investors bend the curve.

Just 1.5% of VC-backed startups ever reach $100M in revenue. 89% of investors have never backed one.

A small number of VCs back power law outcomes again and again. The 8th annual Power Law Investor Ranking names them — the top 50 global power law VCs 👇

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@tanayj @LangChain @braintrust @genspark_ai @extendAI @traversal_ai @cognition @GetArtisanAI @AirOpsHQ Just on schedule @eladgil

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@KiteVC @DravenweX Those are crazy stories. Anyone doing water sports indeed have near death stories. Sobering.

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@cljack My kids are on year 3 of asking about the answer. I refuse to tell them and robbing their thrill once they figure it out

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@EricNewcomer @vkhosla Taps sign 👇🏼

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“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you”

-Werner Heisenberg
1932 Nobel Prize in Physics for the creation of quantum mechanics

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Vague posting going beyond ai research labs. There should be a thread of all time vague poasts.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

REJECTED. Perpare for HELL

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Vaguepoasting by AI labs, in this case @OpenAI getting a little too vague 🤨

[Sam Altman @sama]

@pranaveight ?!

what is it

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@m2jr @joshk Legends. Also, very sad that il fornaio is now gone. Home to many inspiring conversations.

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@stevehou @Noahpinion https://t.co/UbzwalTTPx

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@jiahanjimliu @xiaochuan8688 You can’t just compare yield rates as they are often not apples to apples. Yield on process nodes will be higher than the advanced nodes, so you can pull numbers that show just the opposite if you wanted, depends on what you are picking.

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@jiahanjimliu @xiaochuan8688 You can’t just compare yield rates as they are often not apples to apples. Yield on process nodes will be higher than the advanced nodes, so you can pull numbers that show just the opposite if you wanted, depends on what you are picking.

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@jhong @Quan I think you are right. I was thinking about Fairchild.

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@Quan @jhong Ah I was thinking of this place (Fairchild and the first IC) and not Shockley I guess

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@jhong @Quan I was thinking San Antonio, middlefield/Charleston area a few blocks from the JCC?

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Has anyone noticed how expensive ice cream has become? At $10 per pint, that’s more expensive than copper and comes close to some strategic battery materials like lithium.