Deedy

VC at @MenloVentures. Formerly founding team @glean, @Google Search. @Cornell CS. Tweets about tech, immigration, India, fitness and search.

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Many startup employees do not recognize the sheer litany of ways that a founder can screw you over without you even knowing. Founder trust is one of the most important things to look at when you’re joining a startup. From cutting you out of M&A, screwing your retention pool, overdiluting your equity, firing you before your cliff, not having attractive options exercise plans, poor 409a price management, not telling you about QSBS / early exercise, blocking you from participating in secondary,…

I asked Fable 5.1 to generate a cursive font in English with a fountain pen and it absolutely nailed it. The model seems to have a really strong handling of graphics with code.

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We’ve seen the Jevons Paradox happen for coding, but now we’re seeing the numbers for video. Making animated short dramas is 10x cheaper and 450x faster with AI, and it’s led to >12x more creation and 10x more views on China’s TikTok.

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The H-1B program is no longer a viable way to come to America: higher fees, higher wages, wage ranked lottery, thinner safety nets for spous...

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5 human records were beaten at the World Humanoid Robot Games in China that ended a few days ago, fully autonomously! Across 51 events, two...

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AI systems tend to recommend the same thing when you ask "What is the best product for <X>?" I tested 3 models across 20 different product ...

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Unfathomable to think that Steve Jobs predicted what we see with AI today, in 1983… “The problem was you can’t just ask Aristotle questions...

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I love when people think a company has no moat. That means at least one of its moats is that no one wants to compete.

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Met a kid y'day who has 50+ agents running with a harness tuned for cyber security and a search index of CVEs with a QLoRA'd GLM 5.2 and tri...

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I can now officially say it: OpenRouter is being acquired by Stripe! Although we cannot comment on the price, this marks one of the fastest...

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Big day for the Menlo portfolio. — Wispr Flow raises $280M led by us at $2B. ~40x YoY rev growth and a total of 60B+ words dictated. — Hig...

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Made a lil website that takes a "mood" and turns it into a whole experience: a playlist of songs, ambient noise and a looping video backdrop...

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The Gavin Baker vs. Sholto Douglas exchange on the economic concentration of power of AI is one of the best AI debates. Here's a gist with s...

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This is a beautiful homage to the young Indias, all under 27, building difficult hard tech, who decided their dreams don’t need to ask for p...

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This article goes down as one of the most batshit insane things I've read in AI world. "We’re back to the stage of being our most familiar ...

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Insane that Levent Alpoge just dropped this cryptic text constructing 12 Hadamard matrices under order 2000. Ironically since Fable refuses...

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"Lovable has no moat" is the most common take in the valley, yet… — $500M+ revenue run rate, 7x year over year — 900M+ visits / month to Lo...

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The next few years in SF will be incredible. Many big lab employees will leave . The idea of sailing into the sunset is temporal and will ...

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Changes in H-1B regulations have crushed Indian IT services companies (WITCH), who are down -70% from peak, while BigTech remain steady but ...

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Deep dive into AI text-watermarking and what EU's AI Act actually mandates about AI detectability. How it works: The SynthID paper from De...

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