2023-11-20
Infrastructure is everything
TechCrunch
Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI
Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …
2021-06-25
Holy moly! Congrats Dylan and the Figma team! My favorite moment was seeing Figma used at a women's hackathon as a teaching tool for getting started two years ago. But closing $200M isn't bad :). https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
UI design and prototyping tool Figma raises $200M at a valuation of $10B, quintupling its valuation since last year
2020-08-25
We have worked with Austin since he was a 17 year old applying to the Thiel Fellowship and we started 1517 to support him and other dropout founders. We didn't know if his ideas were crazy or crazy awesome. Now the world knows. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Luminar, a lidar tech startup backed by Peter Thiel, Volvo, and GoPro's founder Nick Woodman, plans to go public via a $3.4B merger with a SPAC
Bloomberg : Tweets: @fpontaza , @thestalwart , and @dstrachman Tweets: Fernando Pontaza / @fpontaza : 5 years ago two Guatemalans walked into a room in SF and met a teacher and a ...