Dr. Amit Monga

Investor | Board Member | Painter | Instagram: docdram

[@jason @Jason]

The startup game is changing fast 🎶

[Dr. Amit Monga @dramitmonga]

Always nostalgic when in Edmonton and the sunrise from @FairmontHotels MacDonald is always breathtaking. Busy day ahead #DeepTech @UAlberta

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@CKrywiak @VictorFedeli @OCInnovation Great work being done by @OCInnovation #Ontario

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@Jason @Jason What hotel is this?

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Ben Affleck talks about building InterPositive, the AI video startup he sold to Netflix for ~$590m.

Says when he first saw AI text-to-video, he told Matt Damon: “Dude, we have to do as many movies in the next few years as we can. We’re finished.”

He later felt the AI video models didn’t fully understand filmmaking (they had raw video knowledge but didn’t convey “cinematic language”).

Affleck raised money and his team (16 employees total) spent 8 months with various cameras and equipment shooting footage as inputs to train a new model (letting other filmmakers build a model for each film based on daily footage, which presumably makes it easier to do post-production edits):

“[We built our own] data set that would serve as late-stage training for open models to do discrete tasks…It was geared toward actual specific tasks that would generate value, as opposed to, ‘Oh, this is novel. That’s kind of cool. Look what it can do.’

It was more, ‘it needs to hit these criteria’…

We built the workflow. [It] is designed to train from a filmmaker while they’re making their movie. Rather than exposing what you’re doing to everybody to learn from, they retain the proprietary nature. In other words, they benefit from the learning they’re creating. They train their own discrete model using the same technique we did, just on top of that additional layer we had created.“

[Dr. Amit Monga @dramitmonga]

Excited to be in Tokyo today at @NIglobal NI Days Japan 2026, where @EECOMOBILITY had the opportunity to present our latest innovations and share how we're advancing the innovation in rapid battery testing #Battery #NIDays #TestandMeasurement
https://t.co/FfhpTiD8WP

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Early morning drive to Gimpo after excellent few days in South Korea for business. Next stop Japan #SouthKorea #Japan #Asia

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@_CLCampbell @UniofOxford @marcventresca @NorQuest Congratulations!🎉

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@bwertz @dylan522p Love @FlySWISS and transits through Zurich

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@bgurley Thanks for writing an amazing book and giving back to inspire us! #RunninDownADream

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Stopped by the @Presidiosf today and revisited the spot where we cofounded HigherMarkets, now part of @JaggaerPro Amazing how the early ideas we sketched out here helped shape a broader procurement technology ecosystem #Founder #SanFrancisco

[PGA Tour @PGATour]

Win No. 21 for #FedExCup No. 1 🏆

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX is hiring exceptional engineering & skilled trades talent to build & operate the most powerful AI supercomputer clusters on & off Earth.

If interested, please email 3 bullet points demonstrating evidence of exceptional ability & your resume to [email protected].

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It was a pleasure partnering with Emerson NI (National Instruments for our first and very successful Demo Day in San Jose, California @NIglobal @Emerson_News #AI #battery #batterytesting

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Gorgeous day to be at the Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden at @Stanford today #PaloAlto #Stanford

[a16z @a16z]

Travis Kalanick is back.

After 8 years of building in stealth, he joins Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg to tell the story of his latest company, Atoms, and its vision to digitize the physical world one industry at a time:

01:32 The a16z & Uber backstory
15:36 Different companies, different rules
21:13 CloudKitchens origins
27:13 An $8 meal delivery
31:58 Building in private
34:59 Computing atoms, not bits
42:54 Autonomous mining
49:02 Ideas are cheap, founders are rare
56:21 From 20,000 employees to 6
1:00:32 Why food came first
1:10:40 Entering a new industry
1:20:21 Parallels to the Industrial Revolution
1:28:26 Who Travis is hiring

@travisk @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg

[travis kalanick @travisk]

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[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Too many people are directionless, giving room for many forms of “ the answer” to their problems.

Go to the gym.
Don’t go to the gym.
Only do compound exercises.
Focus on HRV.
Only walk but with a vest.
Must sleep 8 hours.
Must not oversleep.
Must not under sleep.
No meat.
All meat.
All veg.
All farm to table.
Organic is a scam.
No alcohol.
No sugar.
Natural sugar only.
No Rx drugs.
Yes Rx drugs.
Yes peptides.
No peptides.
No HRT.
Yes HRT.

At some point, we will all realize that none of these are the answer. You are looking to fill a hole because your current life has made you an NPC playing someone else’s game by their rules. It’s their game, not yours that is making you unhappy.

Find your game and go play it.

You’ll probably be happy as a result, do a bit of everything from the list above and will end up living to whatever you’re supposed to - very, very happily.

[Dr. Amit Monga @dramitmonga]

@chamath @bryan_johnson 💪💪

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EECOMOBILITY | Production Battery Testing https://t.co/lf0bFlGTtt