Sam Kirschner

VP & Investor @VillageGlobal 🌎 Previously building @gigascale @beondeck @thehousevc I like data, startups, earth, and it's people 🤝 From CO ⛷ Currently CA 🌄

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

If AGI is close why do I need to submit a Google form to use my phone number across two Claude accounts

[Anne Dwane @adwane]

Worth a gong indeed @feross & team @SocketSecurity! Congrats on the new round and on detecting 1,000+ zero-day supply chain attacks per week and protecting 20,000+ organizations like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Vercel. Growing revenue 500%+ YoY, Socket has emerged as a go-to security platform for AI-native companies.

@SocketSecurity is hiring!!

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

Is it boomer of me that I absolutely hate emoji reacts in gmail

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

Productivity hierarchy:
1 - Single and not looking
2 - In a great relationship
3 - Single and looking
4 - In a bad relationship

[Sumeet Singh @sumeet724]

I am thrilled to announce Worldbuild I, a $30M fund to partner with founders when conviction cannot be outsourced.

I sat down with @alexrkonrad to share our story (link below).

We are a thesis-driven firm that focuses on the nuances, runs toward new ideas, and aims to lead with original thought.

Worldbuilders we aspire to partner with create new categories, play infinite games, and produce a gravitational pull of attention – just as the most ambitious founders & creatives in history have done.

While quietly laying the foundations for the firm, we have been fortunate to partner with founders at the earliest stages of their journeys, including Evan at SF Compute, Paul at Browserbase, Srikanth at Truffle, Baiju at Aetherflux, and more.

Worldbuild is in many ways a culmination of my life experience and what will now be my life’s work. I have always found myself surrounded by entrepreneurs: my dad, my wife, my best friends; and there is nothing more fulfilling than being their consigliere and first call.

If you’re building your world, I'd love to connect.

[Max Kilberg @maxkilberg]

Founders, please don’t FOMO VCs unless I’ve already invested, then by all means

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

Garbage in garbage out is a classic adage, but the fun thing with LLMs is that good data in can still be garbage out

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

Alright who the hell did this

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

Who thinks Claude wrote it's own Excel extension

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

Felt dated today meeting a 20 year old who didn’t know Amazon started out by selling books

[Hadrian @HadrianInc]

We've been working to bring something big to The Shoals, and now, it's time. On March 20th, we'll be launching our newest facility - Factory 4 - in Alabama.

Expect:
• 2.25M sq ft of manufacturing
• 1,000+ jobs created
• $2B in Private/Public investment
• Remarks from @SenKatieBritt, @SenTuberville, @RepMikeRogersAL, @Robert_Aderholt and other senior officials
• A private concert from our favorite rock band of all time, local BBQ, and the best entertainment Alabama has to offer

Building for America is worth celebrating. Apply for an invite here, spots limited → https://t.co/NU2vZ0vVKW

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

YouTube: https://t.co/Mn4PFv96FI

Podcast: https://t.co/LKOfmMzi5U

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

The best agentic engineer I know by a long shot is @hTrapVader

He was a data scientist at Clubhouse when GPT-4 launched and got so deep into it that, when layoffs hit, he just kept going. He burned through a bunch of his life savings to see how far he could push the tools.

That eventually led him to Reid. He's been running Reid's AI work ever since, including building his digital twin — Reid AI. Today he spends more than 12 hours a day using the latest tools to find the edges of what's possible.

I sat down with Parth to talk about how he thinks about coding agents, how he pushes these tools to the limits today, and where he thinks this is all heading.

Give it a listen and let me know your thoughts, links in thread

[Village Global @villageglobal]

. @hTrapVader spent four months burning through his severance on GPT-4 API calls, then cashed out his 401k to keep going. He came out of that running Reid Hoffman's AI work, including building Reid AI from scratch.

He's been deep inside coding agents longer than almost anyone. In our latest episode of the podcast, Village Global Vice President @sam_kirschner sat down with Parth to talk about how AI tools have evolved, how he coordinates a fleet of them daily, and what he thinks is coming next.

A few highlights from the episode:

"The ceiling now is no longer 'can it build this web app.' It's 'does it start operating more like an organization?'"

"I'm managing 45 different agents. I'm the bottleneck. So you remove yourself, you let the agents manage sub-agents — and the ceiling for orchestration goes up."

"AI is a power user technology. You have to be a little obsessed to get the most out of it."

Full episode link in thread.

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

The crazy part of this CA law is that you have to tell founders it's not mandatory to fill out. What founders will do this survey out of the goodness of their hearts?

So low response rates, potentially biased results. Waste of time for all involved and nothing accomplished

[avlok @avlok]

A new California law (FIP VCC) is forcing VCs to ask portfolio company founders about their sexual orientation, disabilities, and more – all so it can be reported to the state.

We built a new system to help funds on AngelList comply without ever seeing individual founder responses.

To preserve founder privacy everywhere, we've decided to make the system available to any fund for free, regardless of who they work with for fund admin.

You can use it today: https://t.co/c4eHYXBPG7

[Village Global @villageglobal]

Celine Halioua on why the fastest path to a human longevity drug starts with dogs:

"We've cured most diseases in mice. But a mouse doesn't really age the way we do. A dog naturally ages over time. A dog naturally develops dementia. They develop Parkinson's. They develop cancer like we do."

"Maybe you are willing to run that billion-dollar lifespan extension study if the probability of success is 40% instead of 9%."

"For a dog drug it's like 50 million all in from idea to approval. It is much more reasonable to fund the entire life cycle into commercialization."

@celinehalioua, CEO of @loyalfordogs on the Village Global Podcast.

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

Full episode→

YouTube: https://t.co/Gp44EYTbtg
Podcast: https://t.co/LKOfmMzi5U

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

We were an early investor in @celinehalioua's first round at @loyalfordogs — when it was just her, an idea, and a "poorly designed slide deck" (her words).

Six years later: $250M+ raised, FDA efficacy and safety milestones cleared, and the largest clinical trial in animal health history.

I sat down with Celine to talk about the whole journey — how she raised a quarter billion dollars pre-revenue, why dogs are the fastest path to a human longevity drug, and what the future of Loyal looks like as the drugs get closer to hitting the market.

Congrats to Celine and the Loyal team on the $100M Series C!

[Celine Halioua @celinehalioua]

Loyal has raised a $100M Series C from age1, Baillie Gifford, existing investors, & more

this brings Loyal's total funding to over a quarter of a billion dollars

we are building the longevity pharma, starting with dog longevity. thanks @FastCompany for the exclusive ->

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

@MollySOShea @HadrianInc @2112Power America

[Sam Kirschner @sam_kirschner]

Holiday party for @HadrianInc last night.

First one was at a small restaurant in LA, second at factory 2, this one on battleship IOWA.

Amazing to see this company grow, can’t wait for next year on an aircraft carrier @2112Power