dv’s 2nd Account

Iap .org / 1-Prct .com

[Lorimer Ventures @LorimerVentures]

@LorimerVentures 4th annual hashtag #NYTechWeek event might've been our best one yet! Our community of 200+ founders, builders, investors, and friends came together for a night of live demos, drinks and great conversation in a beautiful gothic refectory in Chelsea.

Special shoutout to our portfolio companies🐎@zocomputer and🧠@GammaApp as well as our friends from🍃 @trywindmill for the amazing live demos.

Huge thanks to @VanderbiltU for opening up their stunning refectory on their brand-new NYC campus, and to @_nicolealonso for capturing the whole evening so beautifully.

If you're raising a pre-seed or seed round, we'd love to chat.

[weisser @julianweisser]

Trying something new: Solo Talk

Solo Founders Podcast guests have been on a tear:

$30M raised
$10M ARR
Bootstrapped to 8 figures

I rewatched the first six episodes and pulled one idea from each that deserved more commentary.

01:14 @bencera: automate 80%, the 20% is taste
04:26 @pk_IV: why the solo culture is "beautiful"
07:31 @chudson: don't take a co-founder of convenience
11:05 @ekuyda: the personal is universal
14:45 Daniel Francis: when the mission does the work
18:14 @yasser_elsaid_: "it's very hard to lose as a solo founder"

[TBPN @tbpn]

Board released the first digital board game console late last year to great success.

Today, it's giving families the ability to vibecode their own games, with help from Board's prepackaged templates and assets.

Founder @brynnputnam breaks it all down:

[AGI House @agihouse_org]

Sergey Brin (Google co-founder) sat down for an unscripted fireside chat with Rocky Yu to open our @GoogleDeepMind Build Day. 🧵

[Herasight @herasight]

The predicted IQ spread between their top and bottom embryo is ~24 points. People often underestimate how much siblings can differ genetically.

We do more than IQ: we also screen for common diseases and NDDs such as severe autism. Book a call if you’d like to learn more: https://t.co/pS6DVW45x8

[dv’s 2nd Account @webmixedreality]

RT @alexsllater: I don't carry cash, but I still want to give back.

Someone should build a card machine for homeless people, give them o…

[Edge City @JoinEdgeCity]

The Edge Esmeralda 2026 Community Calendar is live ☀️

Every talk, workshop, workout, dinner, and side room for the next four weeks, in one place.

Agent-friendly to make it easier to navigate.

Browse, RSVP, host your own ↓

[TonyVT SkarredGhost @SkarredGhost]

Acer Re-enters XR with New AR & Smart Glasses
https://t.co/4f05Ac8S0f

#smartglasses #augmentedreality

[Aarti @Aartiutwani]

Some of the lovely attendees at @YPOSF’s March Networking Happy Hour @tacolicious 🌮 Incredible food & drinks, conversation & connection…as always!

can’t wait to see you at our Wednesday, April 17 event at SHACK15 from 🪩💃

[Rod Wong, MD @docrodwong]

a standing ovation for daraxonrasib at asco. over 40k oncologists, entrepreneurs, investors, and patient advocates together celebrating revmed's breakthru in the fight against pancreatic cancer. u never forget these moments. it's what innovation is all about.

[TBPN @tbpn]

Gigascale Founder and former Meta CTO @schrep says new solar startups will go after installation costs rather than compete with China on solar panels.

"If you look at a solar farm, you lay down all this steel and put up all this framing for the panels. When that panel was the most expensive thing on the field, then [startups producing solar panels] made sense."

"But solar panels are now the cheapest thing in the field. All the rest of the stuff costs more than the panel."

"I think what we're going to see is startups saying, 'Let's rethink how we actually deploy solar from a form-factor and automation perspective. And just go after installation costs.'"

[Michael P Gibson @William_Blake]

1517 makes millions ignoring this graph

[Tripo @tripoai]

Introducing Project Eden, a world model research preview from @VASTAIResearch

Project Eden is a persistent, multiplayer world model that fundamentally breaks from existing paradigms by decoupling the underlying world state from visual rendering.

Instead of treating the world as a sequence of transient frames, Eden treats it as a structured, evolving environment that runs continuously, can be modified by user actions, and can be consistently observed from any viewpoint.

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

We might be on track to have 112 speakers this year for CYC26.👀

CFP is closed and we are going through all the submissions now trying to narrow everything down.

As a reminder, Virtual tickets are free.
In person is $40 and 100% is donated to charity!
food covered!

[Corgi @UseCorgi]

So much fun hosting a poker night with our friends @SignalFire, packed with founders and operators from the ecosystem.

Reminder that we have a space in the heart of SF for community events like this. The whole point is creating room for people to meet and for serendipity to do its thing.

[RawDawgDon @RawDawgDon1776]

@titoamboy @NickJFuentes

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Dope set at the @CIMCAI conference

[Simply Neuroscience @simplyneurosci]

🎉On May 30, Simply Neuroscience celebrates its 7th birthday! 🥳

[Casey Sapp @CaseySapp]

One thing I’m noticing in the AI discourse as of late and that @bgurley is keenly making the case for on the @allinpod_clips this week is that @Anthropic may be following the Nick Land playbook more closely than most realize with his “Dr. Frankenstein” theory.

For those not familiar, Nick Land is a philosopher revered by some in Silicon Valley since the 90’s who has argued that technological forces will accelerate beyond human control and eventually direct the future of human civilization. Gurley assesses, and I think accurately so, Anthropic is pursuing a structurally similar outcome. The catch is that Anthropic’s vision is framed as benevolent, but structurally it is the same argument.

Anthropic presents it as a moral responsibility — build superintelligence safely and steward it responsibly — but unlike Land isn’t explicitly celebrating the eventual loss of human control.

Whether this characterization is fair or not, it strikes me as one of the more interesting lenses for understanding the emerging philosophical divide inside AI. Should we accelerate or restrain AI, and is it an autonomous systemic force or will it remain something humans actively steward.

High quality episode this week driven by the release of the Pope’s letter “Magnifica Humanitas”. I️ want to see more conversations like this.

And, Bill, Go Gators.

[AshutoshShrivastava @ai_for_success]

AI ate VFX.
Gemini Omni Flash is absolutely 🔥