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Travis

@coloradotravis
41 posts
2025-01-16
Do you know how many times I've heard this promise about not needing ‘professional coders’ to make stuff?  —  It's nonsense and generally signals you're building the next Adobe Dreamweaver.  —  Congrats, I guess, on helping everyday people build janky, insecure apps.
2025-01-16 View on X
Semafor

An interview with Replit CEO Amjad Masad, who says the company's revenue grew 5x over the past six months after releasing a new AI coding tool called Agent

THE SCENE  —  Replit has had a turbulent year, but CEO Amjad Masad's sonorous voice was almost zen-like as he spoke to me on Monday … Bluesky: @mikefulk and @coloradotravis Forums:...

2024-07-26
Let's talk a briefly about raising venture money and how all that works, in part because it's interesting and in part to help illustrate how Vance not a serious person.  When you go out to raise a round, the most important thing and essentially your sole focus will be on securing a lead investor. …
2024-07-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Inside JD Vance's VC career: five years, two firms before co-founding Narya, investing in AppHarvest, which faced lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy, and more

Five years, three firms, two SPAC deals and a bankruptcy are the hallmarks of his stint in the tech industry

2024-07-17
Incredibly disingenuous take coming from a16z.  You simply cannot say this support is only about a pro-tech agenda unless you are very stupid and lack the ability to do even rudimentary systems thinking.  Horrible look for an increasingly tarnished brand.
2024-07-17 View on X
TechCrunch

On their podcast, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz explain why they are backing Trump, say Trump is pro-crypto, Biden's overregulation harms startups, and more

Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, says he's been a Democrat most of his life.

2023-11-21
One of the things Effective Altruism has gotten wrong, other than everything, is that moral frameworks are akin to language, money, or governance — they are large shared tropes that evolve slowly. You do not invent them out of whole cloth with your web forum buddies.
2023-11-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Ilya Sutskever and over 700 out of ~770 OpenAI staffers sign a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman unless the board resigns and reinstates Altman

- Majority of OpenAI employees sign letter seeking new board  — Board member Ilya Sutskever is among the signatories

2023-10-31
Honestly a very educational trial. ‘Margin trading’ is when your brokerage takes your money and pays back loans it used to buy arena sponsorships and mansions and invest in random stuff and slide a few milly over to dad so Barbara will chill the fuck out.
2023-10-31 View on X
CNBC

SBF blamed top FTX executives on his second day of testimony, and lawyers disputed his answers using his own emails, DMs, tweets, and more; some were profane

- FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried resumed his testimony on Monday as his criminal trial nears its end.

2023-06-13
a16z's expansion into Europe is the single greatest cultural gift we have given the world since the international premiere of “dude where's my car”
2023-06-13 View on X
Axios

a16z plans to open a crypto-focused office in London and leads a $43M round in London-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI

Over the last year it has become clear that blockchains … Reuters : London crypto move is a sign of desperate times FinSMEs : Gensyn Raises £33.8M in Series A Funding Eli Dambel / ...

2023-04-13
Me at 2am when my Uber driver asks how the poker game went: https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-13 View on X
Washington Post

In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk claims Twitter is “roughly break even”, grew agitated over misinformation and hate speech questions, which he avoided, and more

The Elon Musk portion of the Twitter Files story meets its M. Night Shyamalan ending. Chris Stokel-Walker / The i Paper : Elon Musk says he never wanted Twitter, but there's no way...

Me at 2am when my Uber driver asks how the poker game went: https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-13 View on X
New York Times

NPR decides to “no longer be active on Twitter” after the platform took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent

The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”

2023-04-12
Me at 2am when my Uber driver asks how the poker game went: https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-12 View on X
Washington Post

In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk claims Twitter is “roughly breaking even”, grew agitated over questions on hate speech, reflects on running the company, and more

The Twitter CEO provided a six-month update on his takeover in a live interview with the BBC

2023-03-10
Oh nice, a bank telling everyone things are fine. Look what thou hath wrought with thy fuckery, a16z 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. The contagion from this SIVB run has the potential to put a bunch of tech startups who had nothing to do with crypto into the ground. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-10 View on X
Financial Times

Silicon Valley Bank launches a $2.25B share sale after losing ~$1.8B on its ~$21B of US Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities

Technology-focused lender suffered loss on $21bn portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities  —  Silicon Valley Bank has launched a $2.25bn share sale …

2023-01-13
Christ, SBF has a substack. Guess the whole substack wave is over now. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-13 View on X
Axios

Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence even after ex-executives pled guilty

think there shouldn't be a paying option anymore... Dave Weisberger / @daveweisberger1 : https://www.wsj.com/... It is tiresome to read SBF's half truths. 1/ His claims about Binan...

2023-01-12
Christ, SBF has a substack. Guess the whole substack wave is over now. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-12 View on X
Axios

Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence, even as ex-executives plead guilty

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Thursday published his account of how the crypto company collapsed.

2023-01-03
Dear Barry, This is all your fault and definitely not our fault for completely cocking up the diligence. Just want to make that super clear now that people are going to jail and stuff. You are the Ponzi; we are just Ponzi affiliates which is like way different. Okay thx, CW https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-03 View on X
Bloomberg

In an open letter, Cameron Winklevoss accuses Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert of engaging in “bad faith stall tactics” after Genesis halted withdrawals

Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group Vignesh Karunanidhi / Watcher Guru : Cameron Winklevoss Accuses Barry Silbert of “Bad Faith Stall Tactics” Walter O'Leary / LinkedIn : Wal...

2022-12-02
Wow. Good Morning America actually pulls off a half decent interview, and appropriately edited. Unlike *all* the other coverage, this is actually worth a watch. A couple interesting takeaways. 1/3 https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-02 View on X
New York Times

A video and live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried being interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times' DealBook Summit, covering FTX, Alameda, and more

FTX, the crypto exchange Mr. Bankman-Fried founded, declared bankruptcy this month in a failure that wiped out billions of investor dollars.

2022-12-01
Wow. Good Morning America actually pulls off a half decent interview, and appropriately edited. Unlike *all* the other coverage, this is actually worth a watch. A couple interesting takeaways. 1/3 https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-01 View on X
New York Times

A video and live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried being interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times' DealBook Summit, covering FTX, Alameda, and more

FTX, the crypto exchange Mr. Bankman-Fried founded, declared bankruptcy this month in a failure that wiped out billions of investor dollars.

2022-11-17
This thread... yikes. It appears Sam did simply take ('borrow') a billion dollars. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-17 View on X
CoinDesk

Bankruptcy filings: FTX CEO John J. Ray III, who oversaw Enron, condemns SBF's “unprecedented” management, describing a “complete failure of corporate controls”

The former FTX CEO's unconventional style is under the spotlight as bankruptcy professionals pore over the exchange's collapse.

It's difficult for me to imagine how completely brain dead you have to be to believe you're gonna get away with the things described in this thread. This man just said he's gonna go raise $8b and continue operations. Holy shit.
2022-11-17 View on X
CoinDesk

Bankruptcy filings: FTX CEO John J. Ray III, who oversaw Enron, condemns SBF's “unprecedented” management, describing a “complete failure of corporate controls”

The former FTX CEO's unconventional style is under the spotlight as bankruptcy professionals pore over the exchange's collapse.

This is all so much worse than it looked at first. Which is saying something. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-17 View on X
CoinDesk

Bankruptcy filings: FTX CEO John J. Ray III, who oversaw Enron, condemns SBF's “unprecedented” management, describing a “complete failure of corporate controls”

The former FTX CEO's unconventional style is under the spotlight as bankruptcy professionals pore over the exchange's collapse.

Wow this is another stellar one. Not so much “employees” but more like an ensemble cast of embezzlers who would wander through the shared space, to re-up on drugs and snag a few hundred milly. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-17 View on X
CoinDesk

Bankruptcy filings: FTX CEO John J. Ray III, who oversaw Enron, condemns SBF's “unprecedented” management, describing a “complete failure of corporate controls”

The former FTX CEO's unconventional style is under the spotlight as bankruptcy professionals pore over the exchange's collapse.

2022-11-16
How about we just start with “it wasn't supposed to be a bank” and see where the conversation goes from there? https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-16 View on X
Reuters

A look at SBF's desperate efforts to raise $7B+ from Sequoia, Apollo, TPG, the Saudis, and others; FTX's internal accounting software hid FTX-Alameda transfers

As customers withdrew billions of dollars from crypto exchange FTX one frantic Sunday this month, founder Sam Bankman-Fried worked …