Jake McGaw

Running Ops @Pluralis

[Alexander Long @AlexanderLong]

Whole section on Pluralis in Chamath's substack this week right under details of Anthropic's monster round.

[Pluralis Research @Pluralis]

Today we're releasing Agora: the first ever pretraining stack that allows non-collocated consumer GPUs to be competitive with centralized clusters

Agora is 15x faster than Megatron-LM in this setting and is only 1.5x less efficient in terms of tokens per unit compute than TorchTitan on H100s, despite running on devices that have no NVLink or InfiniBand support.

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

@rayn_ong Maybe you can afford a bit of Pappy now @rayn_ong

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

@intothemetabert The feeling of victory when you can reach the last couple of Pringles in the tube really does make them successful.

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

@heyelaha @jjxe_ @maxmarchione @rayn_ong @theavoboy Feeling all the love from @rayn_ong ☔️Thanks for a great night team!

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Founder cheat sheet:

- Celebrate wins
- No meetings one day a week
- Prioritize mental health
- Assume VC will dry up
- Zag when others zig
- Prioritize product design
- Be profitable, you'll sleep better
- Iterate on growth engine
- Iterate on storytelling
- Have fun

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

@bigyahu The weather report in Sydney for the next week...

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

Interviewed someone for a grad role yesterday

Their CV, studies and results were exactly what big4/consulting recruits, but they didn't want that

Openly citing "how predictable, and boring" their friends said it was

More grads are looking at tech for a viable path. How cool

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

@rayn_ong I think the 20 beers may be the root cause problem this thread has been looking for.

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

@rayn_ong You’re lucky he didn’t slide a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle out and make you pay for your sins.

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

@stefanvonimhof How many “Life’s a Beach” mugs did you find at that place?

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

@intothemetabert Probs not the best opener

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

@heyelaha *adds GSD to skills on LinkedIn

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

@NathanClark_ Now that's taking the passive out of passive aggressive.

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

Passive aggressive hack of the day:

Ever have someone ask you a lazy question you know they just cbf to google?

Google the exact question for them and send them a link to the search result.

Problem solved.

[Cut Through @cutthroughvc]

It’s live: https://t.co/kwfgRTlusO

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

The amount of new EV's landing in Aus and decreased cost is awesome.

One big issue; renters, people who don't own car space, those who want to road-trip will be locked out of market. They won't be able to easily charge their vehicle.

Know anyone looking to solve this problem?

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

@laurenjcapelin I mean, the box says 16+ and doesn't provide an upper limit so you're probably safe.

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

Years of experience is the worst proxy for validation.

Like, I have 26 years of life experience yet still mix up the definitions of "Mirror" & "Window". You'd think 4 years of life experience would teach you that.

Quality > Quantity.

[Jake McGaw @jakemcgaw]

@emilyscasey It's always the ones that sneakily subscribe you to 5 different Newsletters without mentioning. Then when you want to unsub you have to decipher a riddle, make it through a maze, and fight the final boss. Only then do you earn the right to get off 1/5 newsletters.