travis kalanick

Uber founder. Atoms CEO

[travis kalanick @travisk]

@foxenflask @GGuptaSF Dayummmm nice board

[travis kalanick @travisk]

Fun fact, @GGuptaSF has had 5 direct reports become public company cfo’s 🤯 🚀📈

Unrelated, we’re hiring finance badasses to help us build … any tips?

[travis kalanick @travisk]

The band is coming back together… the epicenter of the brain trust is activated…

[travis kalanick @travisk]

@TarunVaish_ @GGuptaSF On it

[travis kalanick @travisk]

The band is coming back together… the epicenter of the brain trust is activated…

[Gautam Gupta @GGuptaSF]

Excited to share that I have joined Atoms as CFO! https://t.co/QgtnHE24x2

[travis kalanick @travisk]

@joeben JoeBen, we had a front row seat but you were the man in the arena.. watching you make your dreams come to life has been an inspiration .. excited to finally be in the arena with you!!

[travis kalanick @travisk]

@joeben JoeBen, we had a front row seat but you were the man in the arena.. watching you make your dreams come to life has been an inspiration .. excited to finally be in the arena with you!!

[travis kalanick @travisk]

We’re hiring.. ⛏️

[TBPN @tbpn]

.@travisk's pitch for why young people should join his new startup Atoms:

"I'm not out there pitching some lame-sauce dude who doesn't want to work... This is why Atoms is cool. You're not dropping an app in the App Store. You're automating a 2 million pound machine [in the Amazon] going 35mph carrying gold."

[travis kalanick @travisk]

any tips? https://t.co/jFagfLx3f5 😎😉

[travis kalanick @travisk]

https://t.co/SEzWZtFurm

[travis kalanick @travisk]

@McclaneDet @DavidSacks @elonmusk “EvERyOnE DiSTilLLs … DisTiLLiNg dOEsn’T makE a difFeRence”…

the models are great, everyone should distill to make them greater… just got to make sure US CO’s can boldly do the same

[travis kalanick @travisk]

.@DavidSacks @elonmusk

The Chinese models are distilling off American models… my guess is American models can’t legally do this without being sued by Chinese AI companies in American courts .. 🤔.. and distilling a Chinese model is really theft from an American company…

What should American AI and IP policy be here?

If distillation isn’t enforced against, then everyone should be able to distill from everyone else.. otherwise one arm tied behind American models’ backs.

Maybe systems need to get better at preventing distillation techniques, and problem solves itself?

[Denise Wu @denisewu]

There’s a large grain of salt!🧂

Kimi is still calling itself Claude.

[travis kalanick @travisk]

Grey is not black and white… too much grey and you’re constantly looking over your shoulder… too little and maybe you haven’t pushed hard enough

There is only so much grey you can have in your life… but If something that is grey turns black and white, then that allows you to go to the grey somewhere else

[Adam MacBeth @adamac]

@travisk Never thought I’d see TK advocate for steering away from legal gray areas 🤔

[travis kalanick @travisk]

@adamac Grey is not black and white… too much grey and you’re constantly looking over your shoulder… too little and maybe you haven’t pushed hard enough

[travis kalanick @travisk]

@lior_eth @DavidSacks @elonmusk @grok said it’s real

[travis kalanick @travisk]

@sidharthkmenon If American companies are distilling Chinese models, then they are already distilling American closed source foundation models…

[travis kalanick @travisk]

In my experience, China rolls different on these topics… if you’re in China and you tell a business colleague

“dude, they frauded me, they took my stuff!!”… the natural response is..

“why’d you let them?!.. get your shit together”…

<loose translation of convo in mandarin>

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: China claims allegations that its AI firms illicitly distill U.S. models are “misguided and counterproductive.”

[travis kalanick @travisk]

@dennismuellr @pmarca @jack @naval @emilmichael @bhorowitz Lolz

[travis kalanick @travisk]

First day at our new Austin office. Video of my 5 minute jet ski commute to work.. 😏😅😂