3x founder building at the edge of fintech and AI.
The world is my oyster, and I’m on my way to building trillion-dollar companies.
@rovinghq @calensupport
Dear Future Bambam❤,
I hope this finds you well.
I hope you’ve let go of the trivial things that bother you about yourself, but find joy in the little things that have truly meant so much in life.
I hope you have confronted your inner fears, smashed your
Guys I’m building something really exciting and we’re raising a small friends and family round to get things moving.
If you’ve ever wanted to back a startup early, now’s your chance 😄
Drop me a message if you’re interested.
https://t.co/pqByxZGiFQ
@brettcalhounn Roving is building Brex for AI agents and their owners, giving agents accounts, cards, wallets and controls so they can safely pay, earn, trade and operate online
https://t.co/peR1LGU4Ic
@RovingHQ
the fact that a team of 22yo with 0 work experience can go into a legacy industry like banking/insurance/freight/etc. and build a massive business is evidence that industry experience is overrated and if you're smart enough you can learn decades of info in like a year
AI should dramatically increase quality of life and individual freedoms for people around the world.
The OpenAI Foundation is making an initial $250M commitment to measurement, transition support, and new approaches to broadly shared prosperity.
https://t.co/zOD8O94RjQ
Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas
As the recently expanded partnership with @AnthropicAI demonstrates, @SpaceX is offering AI compute as a service at significant scale.
We are in discussions with other companies to do the same.
Over time, especially with orbital data centers, we expect to serve AI at extremely high scale.
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
When raising pre-seed, be as "vanilla" as possible:
- No weird corporate structure
- No 10-year company history
- No complex IP ownership
- No exotic terms or instruments
Make your case easy to read. VCs don't have the time nor the desire to understand why you're special.
The conversation should be about the business. The legal stuff should be a no-brainer.
If you have to "explain" why things are the way they are, you're doing something wrong.
"So, the company is 10 year-old because we've been doing this as a service for a while. Now pivoting to a product. We're a LLC, but this shouldn't be an issue, right? Our lawyer says so. Oh, and John moved to be a professor in Germany, he still owns the patent but we gave him 5% to keep him involved."
Recipe for a disaster.
VCs are simple creatures. Don't create unnecessary noise in their minds. You won't win that battle.
Clean up your act first, then speak with investors.
(And yes, Elon Musk doesn't have to follow the rules. Wanna guess why?)
Looking for a technical co-founder to build a financial product.
Need someone strong in full-stack engineering, APIs, data infrastructure, and secure systems. Fintech experience is a big plus.
If you like building ambitious products from zero, let’s talk.