Ben Daniels @bentdaniels13

investing @ IBM Ventures Joined July 2012

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Aaron Levie @levie

2 years ago

Pretty amazing confluence of new technologies all landing at the same time. Haven’t seen a period like this for a decade and a half when we had cloud and mobile emerge together. Never a better time to be building software.

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Matt Turck @mattturck

2 years ago

The "last mile" between LLMs/foundational models and an application that can actually be deployed in production at scale is both very tricky and a wonderful opportunity area for startups.

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Matt Turck @mattturck

2 years ago

Currently recruiting ML engineers, 10+ years of experience in LLMs required

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Roy E. Bahat @roybahat

3 years ago

And I expect next YC class to have a few treasury management startups...

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zerohedge @zerohedge

3 years ago

Ok seriously for a second, if the Fed is backstopping a facility which gives banks full collateral credit for unrealized losses due to rate hikes, the Fed is basically saying it's entire hiking cycle will reverse and all bonds will eventually trade back to par?

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David Ulevitch 🇺🇸 @davidu

3 years ago

In retrospect, it should have been called "The American Technology, Innovation, Defense, Manufacturing and Jobs Creation Bank." Would have made my conversations in Washington DC today much easier.

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Mitt Romney @MittRomney

3 years ago

Silicon Valley Bank’s shareholders and executives lose it all, as they should. Depositors in good faith, however, should recover and have access to their deposits in order to meet their payrolls, pay their suppliers, and to prevent contagion.

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Hemant Taneja @htaneja

3 years ago

While there are many conversations underway, we are opening our statement to the broader VC Community to signal our collective need for a strong banking partner for our community. To add your firm, email [email protected]. tinyurl.com/VCCommunitySVB… #SVB

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Hemant Taneja @htaneja

3 years ago

Several VC leaders met today to discuss the aftermath of SVB’s downfall. This is a joint statement from all of us. @Accel @altcap @BCapitalGroup @generalcatalyst @eladgil @GreylockVC @khoslaventures @kleinerperkins @lightspeedvp @MayfieldFund @Redpoint @RibbitCapital @upfrontvc

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Mark Suster @msuster

3 years ago

Fully endorse 👇🏼👇🏼

Hemant Taneja @htaneja

3 years ago

Fully endorse 👇🏼👇🏼

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Austen Allred @Austen

3 years ago

At some point it would be really nice if those of us trying to run companies could go a solid 12 months without a once-in-a-generation black-swan macroeconomic event

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Pedro Franceschi @pedroh96

3 years ago

Brex is now offering an emergency bridge credit line for SVB customers to meet their operational spending needs. Apply here: brex.com/svb-emergency-…

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant

3 years ago

It will be rather telling if elite financiers and investors can swiftly cobble together $44 billion to wildly overpay for a beleaguered social media network at the behest of Elon Musk, but cannot find a way to stabilize a bank integral to the entire Silicon Valley economy

Dan Primack @danprimack

3 years ago

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Andrew "Andy" Manoske @a2d2

3 years ago

SVB was solvent before the run. I can’t believe we just footgunned Silicon Valley’s primary source of startup and VC financing for fucking engagement and to pretend to “add value” to portfolio companies. This is an incredibly dark day in the history of venture capital.

Mike Dauber @dauber

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Sarah Catanzaro @sarahcat21

3 years ago

Why aren't there better APIs for fine-tuning?

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Naveen Rao @NaveenGRao

3 years ago

What many don’t realize is, on the other side of a ChatGPT session is a $150k server that costs ~$16/hr. The server goes 24hrs/day and can time slice efficiently. But the economics of scale aren’t that different from a human. AI won’t be free like search was, at least not for…

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JJ @JosephJacks_

3 years ago

GitHub stars are necessary but not sufficient.

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Aaron Levie @levie

3 years ago

We’re now officially in the era of AI-first software. Mobile transformed our apps, cloud transformed our hardware, AI transforms our information.

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Aaron Levie @levie

3 years ago

Incredible to think that a chat interface for AI casually released in November has led to the pivot of the world’s largest tech companies within a quarter. What an exciting time to be in tech.