An autonomous @rivr_tech delivery robot being tested in Pittsburgh. Snow, ice, hills and stairs everywhere: it was genuinely feeling dangerous as a human to go outside at times. Really a great stress test for the robots.
Tell me how we can Make Traveling with Family Great Again!
There’s no better place to start a family than the USA so I want to make it easier for you to travel with your kids.
Here’s your chance to tell me, your Transportation Secretary, what I can do to make travel easier for your family. Send me your best ideas!
Excited to share I’m bringing my designer brain and start-up spirit into the government. My first project at DOGE is improving the slow and paper-based retirement process.
Since leaving my operating role at Airbnb in 2022, I’ve been looking for the next digital design challenge. And I can think of few more important ones than volunteering to improve the user experience within our government.
If anyone else in good standing wants to help design beautiful, user-friendly digital products, reach out.
We have an upside down system that makes it hard for highly talented people to come to America legally, but trivial for criminals to come here illegally.
Why is easier to get in illegally as a murderer than legally as a Nobel Laureate?
@realDonaldTrump & DOGE will fix this.
Cambridge researches developed a “third thumb” device that is operated by pressure sensors under the foot.
Sounds pretty unintuitive to use but they ran a test with 600 subjects (age 3 to 96) and 596 (99.3%) were able to pass the grasping tests in minutes.
Looks like anyone that wants to peel a banana with one hand will soon be in luck.
Link: https://t.co/psWySTWWl2
It has been incredible to watch @sama's leadership of @OpenAI. Others have articulated how special he is more eloquently than I ever could.
I have tremendous respect for the innovation of the governance structure to create an organization for the benefit of all humanity. It's too bad that it's led to the ugliness of the last day.
Sam's been a huge help to myself and to @Amplitude_HQ. I wanted to share two stories:
Sam was already a minor celebrity when I first arrived in Silicon Valley. He running Loopt at the time and helping YC companies. He helped us through the application process to YC when @curtisbliu and I didn't know anything. We went through the YC W12 batch with Sonalight, a voice recognition app. Right before demo day, Sam helped us tweak our pitch by calling Sonalight "Siri on Steriods". That one change ended up making us the startup with the most press coverage coming out of among 60 different YC companies.
A few years later we had started Amplitude and the company was taking off. We went from $0 to $1M in ARR in 9 months. I wanted a break and didn't understand the urgency of capitalizing on the moment. Sam invited me to dinner so he could get his message through to me. He told me to stop being a coward and go out and raise a Series A while we had momentum. That process ended up putting ourselves on a path to win an incredibly crowded market and take Amplitude public two years ago.
He's helped Amplitude and me many times at no benefit to himself, solely with the desire to see us succeed. Sam is not an investor in Amplitude (although we tried to make it happen- the timing never quite worked out).
Thank you, @sama. I believe regardless of how this turns out you'll be an incredible leader for improving humanity.
It has been incredible to watch @sama's leadership of @OpenAI. Others have articulated how special he is more eloquently than I ever could.
I have tremendous respect for the innovation of the governance structure to create an organization for the benefit of all humanity. It's too bad that it's led to the ugliness of the last day.
Sam's been a huge help to myself and to @Amplitude_HQ. I wanted to share two stories:
Sam was already a minor celebrity when I first arrived in Silicon Valley. He running Loopt at the time and helping YC companies. He helped us through the application process to YC when @curtisbliu and I didn't know anything. We went through the YC W12 batch with Sonalight, a voice recognition app. Right before demo day, Sam helped us tweak our pitch by calling Sonalight "Siri on Steriods". That one change ended up making us the startup with the most press coverage coming out of among 60 different YC companies.
A few years later we had started Amplitude and the company was taking off. We went from $0 to $1M in ARR in 9 months. I wanted a break and didn't understand the urgency of capitalizing on the moment. Sam invited me to dinner so he could get his message through to me. He told me to stop being a coward and go out and raise a Series A while we had momentum. That process ended up putting ourselves on a path to win an incredibly crowded market and take Amplitude public two years ago.
He's helped Amplitude and me many times at no benefit to himself, solely with the desire to see us succeed. Sam is not an investor in Amplitude (although we tried to make it happen- the timing never quite worked out).
Thank you, @sama. I believe regardless of how this turns out you'll be an incredible leader for improving humanity.