Lucas Pulliza @lucas_pulliza

ex-Private Equity (Alpine, Gemspring) / ex-@BCG; tweeting about investing, AI, politics; "no one remembers who took 2nd place" - Enzo Ferrari lucaspulliza.com manhattan Joined December 2024

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Lucas Pulliza @lucas_pulliza

2 days ago

2 recent AI/workflow frustrations: - Resume updates: Chat gave me 9.5/10 after 5+ iterations, then 6.8/10 next day w/ no changes (interestingly, Claude/Grok/Gemini all ~6.5–6.9). - SSD upgrade: Chat missed driver/OS install format (+simple relevance). A 8-min YouTube tutorial was…

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Lucas Pulliza @lucas_pulliza

4 days ago

Can you be committed to the process of what you’re doing without being emotionally attached to the results? That’s the difference between someone who works hard (when the stars align) and a hard worker. The latter sprints even if the distance is unknown.

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Lucas Pulliza @lucas_pulliza

4 days ago

Information can be automated. Attention can’t. AI will "read" for you, but it can’t do the sitting. With pleasure reading down ~40% since 2000, the scarce asset is an attention span adequate enough to develop original thoughts.

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Lucas Pulliza @lucas_pulliza

5 days ago

Very impressive that @AlphaSchoolATX students scored 5’s in APUSH after <75 hrs w/ an AI tutor. ~20% of the usual grind. Closed loops have long powered B2C (e.g., adtech attribution). The next wave is B2B/industrial: real-time telemetry + AI. Fusion of physical + digital is…

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Lucas Pulliza @lucas_pulliza

5 days ago

Feature request @sama. After a deep research query, ChatGPT defaults back to auto. Better user experience and saves OpenAI from wasted compute/cost/energy

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laura @lauradang0

5 days ago

Instead of asking “what do you do for work?” Start asking “what exciting things are you working on?” You get a whole different answer

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Lucas Pulliza @lucas_pulliza

5 days ago

I continue to see secondaries clearing in the mid-90s because evergreen/interval funds out-bid sophisticated buyers who come in at the mid-80s. They don't see better R/R. They just can’t afford to sit on cash from fresh capital inflows. Any undeployed cash balance drags quarterly…

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Lucas Pulliza @lucas_pulliza

6 days ago

Wild that "ChatGPT usage is surging: Prompt volume jumped nearly 70% from January to June 2025" (Bain)

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Michele Wang @michelelwang

7 days ago

our team at openai is hiring technical staff to build frontier evals for finance. If you're passionate about measuring real-world capabilities, have a love/hate relationship with Excel, or are an ex-banker/ex-investor with technical skills, please reach out!…

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a16z @a16z

2 weeks ago

Don't keep climbing the same hill if you don’t even want what’s on top. @cdixon's 2009 essay "Climbing the wrong hill":

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Lucas Pulliza @lucas_pulliza

2 weeks ago

Typed just “if” into Amazon. It autocompleted the exact Economist headline sitting on my chair. (Not in my search history.)

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Danielle Sassoon @D_Sassoon

2 weeks ago

I had the opportunity to address the incoming students at Yale Law School today. My remarks were published in the FP, and are available here. thefp.com/p/what-justice…