Dave Wehner

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@charlieholtz @natfriedman @alexandr_wang Congrats Charlie. This will be awesome and Meta is lucky to have you on board.

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I announced earlier this week that I am leaving Meta. I am deeply grateful to Mark Zuckerberg for showing what a truly founder-led company can achieve. I am incredibly optimistic for Meta’s future.

At Meta, I was able to witness the most exciting opportunities in enterprise AI. That’s why today, I’m announcing that I will be joining Fireworks as CFO. I am thrilled to be joining a founder-led growth company where I can roll up my sleeves and put my experience to work.

Fireworks has the right mission for the moment. Companies will use AI to build on what makes them distinctive: their data and expertise. Specialized intelligence gives them a way to capture those advantages and own their “alpha.” Open models offer price points that allow the technology to have the greatest impact. Fireworks is building the platform to make all of this possible.

I’ve known and respected Lin @lqiao for a long time. As I’ve spent more time with her and the people at Fireworks, I’ve become increasingly bullish on what they are building. There’s a remarkable depth of technical talent here, coupled with a very practical focus on what customers need.

I see AI as the most consequential technology shift of my lifetime. I’m excited to get to work and help build a business at the center of it.

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@sliccardo We are lucky to have you as our representative!

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@schrep It would be great to get your perspective on this if you have time chat.

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@JTLonsdale Glad you are weighing in.

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My favorite snippet was when discussing his online social network Tribe. “I believed newspapers had no alternative but to promote us because their classifieds business was dying. I didn’t realize they had another option, which was just to die.”

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I highly recommend @markpinc’s new book - Life at the Speed of Play. I had the opportunity to work for Mark at Zynga and witness the effectiveness of the tools he outlines in the book for entrepreneurs. Plus it’s just a fun read.

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@markpinc That put a smile on my face.

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Sharing Mark's thoughtful piece about why we should be optimistic about AI and why Meta is working on empowering people with this critical technology.
https://t.co/VXOKkH5RUj

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@johnarnold One of the many innovations you can trace to Bill Veeck.

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@johnarnold I clicked on this thinking it was a juicy story - then I realized “Oh its that Dialog? I went to that conference in 2008.” Talked largely about business, policy and tech issues. Missed sex or cult day I guess. Didn’t go back because they raised the price for over 40 year olds.

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@markpinc At first I thought this might be a highly immersive version of Cafe World. Now I am just hungry.

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@gauravkapadia Congrats Gaurav! This is awesome.

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@markpinc Looking forward to reading this!

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@dcsandbrook @TheRestHistory @ApplePodcasts @holland_tom Well deserved!

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@jamesproud James - Great to see Substrate launched publicly! Thanks for all the hard work to make the next bleeding edge of semiconductors! Onward.

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@JoshuaKushner Congrats Josh!

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@CassSunstein @tylercowen @MargRev Awesome. Love that podcast and looking forward to it.

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@lessin Now that few people in Silicon Valley drink this suggests that the ability to ship user-friendly products will decline. Then a lack of success will lead to drinking and the balance will be restored.