A look at “Stanford inside Stanford”, where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit
Silicon Valley venture capitalists are wining and dining 18-year-olds. — When i was a freshman at Stanford University …
A look at “Stanford inside Stanford”, where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit
Silicon Valley venture capitalists are wining and dining 18-year-olds. — When i was a freshman at Stanford University …
VCs are covering expenses like rent for young college dropouts founding AI startups; Antler: average AI unicorn founder age fell from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024
Venture capitalists are stepping in to cover expenses like rent while dropouts from Harvard to Stanford chase their startup dreams
Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on social media algorithms, studying music at Stanford, streaming, paying out $10B, creators, TikTok, influencers, AI, and more
The man who cofounded Patreon is tired of influencers making content to get clicks. He'd rather creators earn lifelong fans—and he has a plan for that. Bluesky: @vortexegg.com and @wired.com Bluesky:...
Q&A with Stanford researchers on their recent study finding that, since 2022, US employment in the most AI-exposed fields has fallen 13% for entry-level workers
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How 20-something CEOs like Cognition AI's Scott Wu, Cursor's Michael Truell, Cluely's Roy Lee, and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang are swarming San Francisco's AI boom
Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could not afford …
Sources: Applied Compute, a pre-launch reinforcement learning startup founded by three former OpenAI staffers, raised $20M at a $100M valuation led by Benchmark
The pre-launch reinforcement learning startup founded by Rhythm Garg, Linden Li and Yash Patil, is now valued at $100 million … Bluesky: @alexrkonrad . X: @alexrkonrad . LinkedIn: Alex Konrad Bluesky:...
How Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, aka HudZah, a 20-year-old math student and an “AI native” in San Francisco, is building a nuclear fusor under Claude's tutelage
Ashlee Vance / Core Memory : X: @tszzl and @kevin2kelly . Forums: Hacker News X: Roon / @tszzl : we're living in a Culture novel Kevin Kelly / @kevin2kelly : This short report by @ashleevance of curr...
Q&A with Stanford professor and IP lawyer Mark Lemley on deciding to quit representing Meta in AI copyright case Kadrey v. Meta, Trump, DEI, Elon Musk, and more
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, celebrated intellectual property lawyer Mark Lemley elaborates on why he quit and what he makes of the AI copyright battlefield. Bluesky: @wired.com Bluesky: @wir...
A look at some exciting startups from day one of YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day, including those using AI for creating music and helping lawyers review documents
out pops a professional-quality song with your custom lyrics. Britton Winterrose / @bwinterrose : irl YC demo day was just as incredible as i hoped it would be founders, new friends, old friends grate...