I left Silicon Valley 6 years ago
Why?
Because it's a monoculture
The most extreme group think of any place on the planet
Show up to a dinner party and everyone is in tech
So what do they do? They start stack-ranking each other
And it's a totally ordered set: being founder of co $100B market cap > founder of co with $50B market cap > managing partner of tier 1 venture firm > hired CEO of $50B public co > founder of $10B co > etc etc
Pure toxicity that nerfs creativty
And then as a corollary, people are especially afraid to speak truth to power as everyone knows their place in
"The Hierarchy"
Reject this nonsense. Stay weird. Think independently. Be honest with yourself. Have fun.
Massive congrats to @DavidSHolz and the @midjourney team
It’s amazing to see someone take their AI winnings and put it into hardware that can save lives
This is inspiring work, and I hope to see more of it from the AI community
I think most investors are misunderstanding how soon orbital compute will ramp
99% of the difficulty was Starship
The satellites themselves are a similar level of complexity as Starlink
The bottleneck is Starship, which I believe is almost here