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rarely here, building Marin with my best bud @avicolors, first hire @withshepherd

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2020
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Great read on building an AI-services company. I work with two (@hanoverpark and @RivetTax) and Danil's lessons apply for anyone looking to build a generational company with this time of business model.
Just launched my blog: The Power of And. danilk.substack.com/p/the-po… It is about building AI-native services in the real world where software meets regulation, capital, compliance, and operations. First post: why cross-functional excellence is the real AI moat. And you can read a rant version of it in the X article below. If you are building AI that touches the spreadsheet economy (legal, consulting, insurance), this is for you.
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This is the right position for those who want America to win. For those who want America to lose for their own personal gain, I have no respect. Zero.
Elon’s stance on immigration has been pretty consistent. Here’s him outlining it in 2023:
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Need some urgent help from @stripe @stripesupport @patrickc to resolve an issue and ensure our workers can get paid this weekend! If anyone can help us escalate with their team internally, would be huge 🙏🏽
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Let me add to this to clarify...when I was young, one great piece of advice I got was be the non-complainer. When asked by someone to do something, I would do it. When asked to build a deck, I did it. And obsessed about every word, transition, image and animation until I felt it was pixel perfect. This took time. When asked to build a model, not only did I try to understand the purpose, I made the model flexible, structurally sound and elegant. This took time. When asked to work on a project, I took it on head first, developed some sense of it and then wrote a few pages explaining what I had learned and why it may be valuable as the project went forward, or didn't. This took time. Meanwhile, I didn't have time to gossip, I didn't have time to make friends at work, I didn't have time to complain. I made myself indispensable to my superiors by being a reliable worker. They then took me into the rooms they were in because I was essential to them doing well. Eventually, as they transitioned further upwards, I took command of the rooms they used to run. This is how the process is supposed to work. So if you want to get into the rooms where it happens, don't complain and don't get distracted. Be a reliable worker to those you work for and with. The rest takes care of itself.
Such a great message and A+ career advice from @chamath Worth a listen.
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Excited to unveil Procore’s recent study with @withshepherd which shows that top Procore users have loss rates that are significantly lower than the industry average. That’s not just progress—it's a move towards safer, smarter construction. shepherdinsurance.com/blog/s…
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Replying to @JTLonsdale
America, ride or die
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Because I am raising concerns about the flood of unvetted illegal immigrants overwhelming American cities, the press will often characterize me as “anti-immigrant”. As an immigrant myself, nothing could be further from the truth. I am very much in favor of increased and expedited legal immigration for anyone who is talented, hard-working and honest. It is bizarrely difficult and agonizingly slow to immigrate to the USA legally, but trivial and fast to enter illegally! This obviously makes no sense.
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Congrats to @justdlevine, @MoFromYYZ, Steve, and the entire @withshepherd team on their $13.5M series A! This team’s been on a tear the past 18 months, partnering with top brokers and launching several new products that redefine commercial insurance as a platform - not just a product - to move the needle on preventing loss for customers. shepherdinsurance.com/blog/a…
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Found an iPhone on the side of the road... Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282 Survived a 16,000 foot drop perfectly in tact! When I called it in, Zoe at @NTSB said it was the SECOND phone to be found. No door yet😅
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You know the US defense/aerospace industry is in bad shape when our planes are less safe and reliable than those coming from a European company with a 35hr work week whose employees go on strike every 15 minutes.
Video of the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max making an emergency landing in Portland after part of the aircraft blew out. The plane had just taken off and had reached 16,000 feet before returning to the airport. The aircraft was new, having just been delivered in October.
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Danil retweeted
Ahead of the next Chat8VC (Dec 5th!), we’re excited to share this demo highlight reel from the Oct 26 edition, featuring Dima Syrotkin/@Pandatronai, Danil Kolesnikov (@withshepherd/Condense), Matt Rastovac/@respellai, & Molly Cantillon/NOX: vimeo.com/888869982/3b1a8e18…
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Excited to have @RLanceMartin joining our webinar on evaluation this Wednesday! In case you've missed it, Lance has done some awesome stuff in evaluating QA Systems - for example, check out his most recent: teapawt.org/RLanceMartin/status/16… Webinar: crowdcast.io/c/us0331q6kxv4
I'm open-sourcing a tool I use to auto-evaluate LLM Q+A chains: given inputs docs, app will use an LLM to auto-generate a Q+A eval set, run on a user-selected chain (model, retriever, etc) built w/ @langchain, use an LLM to grade, and store each expt. github.com/PineappleExpress8…
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Founders. You want @marcbhargava on your side. No one kinder, more loyal, and more helpful. He’s now the Incubator Lord. Talented with a great idea? Hit him up!
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Max Levchin: the best employees are those that believe this is their last job working for someone and next they will start their own company 🚀
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Danil retweeted
New company milestone/record today: Submission to bind in *less than 24hrs*. For context, it takes incumbents 3-4 weeks. The @withshepherd team is on 🔥🏎🚀
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More escorts than entrepreneurs at that last party. – at Miami, FL
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Danil retweeted
We are trying something new with our recruiting emails by including team pictures in them. It's a way to give a snapshot of what life at Shepherd looks like. T This one is extra special 🤗
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Danil retweeted
We've recently started to use Mantine and absolutely love it. mantine.dev/
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