Kenny Oseleononmen

building a bab (beautiful ass business, | @zfellows | previously @stanford @nvidia @meta @microsoft @pinecone

[Kenny Oseleononmen @npckenny]

somehow only now discovering the beauty that is composer 2.5

[Nate Dalva @dalvabaird]

Human biology matters. Scientists and AI need human data to understand health and disease.

Crownlands is open sourcing Gateway 4M, the largest single-cell tissue dataset ever released from living humans, to advance research on brain aging and neurodegeneration.

[girish @googrish]

“don’t train your own model” is common ai advice. it's wrong. your token bill's the proof.

today, we’re excited to launch castform into open preview. castform is the easiest way for you to train your own model, on your own data.

open-weights models are performant and much cheaper. when trained on your task & proprietary data, they beat closed models. the thing standing between you and that was weeks of plumbing & years of ml expertise.

with castform, model training is as simple as prompt engineering. @castformai

bring your agent traces or raw corpora. castform turns it into training data, picks the right algorithmic recipes, manages gpus, and gives you an ide to watch and chat with your model as it learns.

see what you can build with castform👇

[Daksh Gupta @dakshgup]

boris cherny goes on a podcast every three months and says something like “i’ve stopped breathing now i just wrote a breath.md” and the next day everyone in sf stops breathing

[Aristotle 🍎 @hey_aristotle]

Tiny but mighty!

We are actively hiring agent engineers and generalists to build the world's best voice-based tutoring platform. Join us! https://t.co/iMLDKYJ1v8

[TBPN @tbpn]

Minted New York is one of the fastest-growing sneaker and athleticwear brands on the internet.

Founder @MarcusMilione was on the show today.

His recent sneaker collab with Saucony sold out in just 5 minutes. To fight against bots, Marcus created fake product listings that made sneaker bots try to buy shoes weighing 10,000 pounds, breaking checkout for the bots while real customers got through.

Here's the full interview:

– Marcus' content strategy early in his career
– How Minted New York hit its quit-your-job revenue goal in five minutes on a drop
– Betting the farm on every sneaker drop
– The first major Christmas release made Minted feel like a real business
– Minted x Saucony partnership
– Staying bootstrapped in year five and building Minted slowly on a strong foundation
– Minted is 99.5% organic and does very little advertising
– How Marcus beat sneaker bots for Minted's recent drop

[Kenny Oseleononmen @npckenny]

@kliu128 thank you

[Kenny Oseleononmen @npckenny]

🥰 @jack_pertschuk fan club

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

We're introducing Cursor Automations to build always-on agents.

[Devin Plumb @devin_plumb]

Wouldn't it be easier to review the before/after of a UI component than the underlying code? 🔜

[Kenny Oseleononmen @npckenny]

.@thdxr is my newfound spirit animal https://t.co/XBxdfHjqBc

[Kenny Oseleononmen @npckenny]

@jameygannon The CTO abbrev. gets repurposed: Chief Taste Officer

[Kenny Oseleononmen @npckenny]

5.3 codex is unbelievable

[Jack Altman @jaltma]

I’m really excited to share that I’m joining Benchmark.

The past two years as a full time investor have been the most rewarding of my career. I really love venture capital, which is not something I ever imagined I’d say when I was kid, but here we are.

I love new ideas and being part of a team with a mission. I love getting to be there for people who are struggling towards goals they really care about. I love learning from people who are better CEOs than I ever was. I love the texture of the work, the competition, and the way the job lets you invest in relationships.

I love it so much that I’ve even turned into a little venture nerd with a podcast who goes around harassing great investors and founders, trying to learn as much as I can as fast as possible. I’ve certainly learned what I care most about, and what kind of investor I want to be.

What I’ve realized is that I love investing at the Series A, when there’s enough going on that an investor can be useful but not so much that you can’t have an impact. I think there are many amazing ways to practice venture, it’s just the way that most speaks to me. And as I came to realize that, I started to think about how to best set myself up to do that craft as well as possible. It became clear to me there is nowhere better for this than Benchmark; the way they’re structured, their principles, their overall approach to investing, and their track record all create an environment that I believe will let me do my best work as an investor and help founders the most I possibly can.

As I’ve gotten to know the team at Benchmark I’ve come to admire so much about each of them. Peter is truly playing his own game. A lot of what he says sounds like poetry at first, but as the ideas roll around in your head for a while you realize how much depth they have. I first heard about Eric many years ago from my friend Saji at Benchling while I was building Lattice, who described him as the most amazing board member and attributed him with a lot of the company’s success. That’s the kind of partner I want to be one day. Chetan is brilliant and truly thinks for himself; I’ve realized over time what a courageous guy he is. And then there’s my friend Ev, whose skills complement mine and who I just love to be around. I can’t wait to have him as a partner in crime.

When given the chance to work with this group I just knew I had to go.

One of my motivating north stars with Alt Capital was to build a firm and be a partner that I most would have wanted as an entrepreneur. Although I haven’t gotten everywhere I want to be yet, I’m proud of the work so far. And now I’m excited to build on that work at Benchmark, where I hope to increase my rate of learning and get armed with the power of a partnership so I can help founders reach their dreams even more.

Thank you to the companies who’ve let me invest with them at Alt Cap. I’m keeping all my board seats and supporting everyone just the same as before.

Thank you to the LPs who’ve backed me as well. I am so excited about the portfolio we have and am grateful I can stick with all those companies.

And finally thank you to my teammates, Bala, Vivek, and Nate. Bala took a bet on me and started investing with me before it was remotely obvious, and we’ve been able to grow so much figuring it out together as investors. I credit Nate with helping Alt start feeling like a firm. He joined us from First Round over a year ago and made everything run smoothly. And while Vivek joined just a little while ago, even in the short time we’ve worked together he’s had a meaningful impact on how we think and invest. They’re all joining Benchmark with me.

So pumped for this chapter.

[Devin Plumb @devin_plumb]

I love that Arc recognizes Assert URLs as PRs

[TBPN @tbpn]

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[signüll @signulll]

most people think ideas come from:

- insight
- intelligence
- taste
- reading
- vibes

but in practice they actually come from:

- building the wrong thing
- hitting a constraint
- getting embarrassed by users
- realizing the obvious thing you missed
- noticing the second order effect you couldn’t see from the couch

a really great idea is the *output* of the work, not the input.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Anyone else approved for a loan every single day 20 times or so? Overcome with joy, really

[Jack @jackndwyer]

https://t.co/wkpLCQn1ia