David Chie (@davidchie) profile picture

exec search family office · vc · pe

Joined April 2010
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the moat is talent density
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David Chie retweeted
in 5 days, Folk has added 140,000 new users and gone trending in several app stores. at peak, people sent 850,000 messages in a couple of hours. if you're hungry and obsess over product and speed, let me convince you to join my team! great salary and founding-level equity.
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Early in Google's history, we would always idly talk about how we should have a hedge fund that traded since the whole world was telling us what they were thinking... If labs can't release frontier models because of safety issues, doesn't this incent them to go into areas where they can make money off the smarts to fund their next bigger models?
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I'm hiring at @perplexity_ai and looking for someone with a very particular set of skills. the ideal candidate... • eats, sleeps, and breathes native mobile apps (esp iOS) and probably preordered the Duo • has strong visual/animation chops and a knack for bringing brands to life in product • is very comfortable prototyping on device, vibing out some SwiftUI in Xcode, and putting up their own PRs if that sounds like you, DM me a video of something you've built in the last six months (either on the clock or on the side), specifically on/for mobile, that you're super proud of. and if it sounds like someone you know, tag them in the replies!
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Great article, and it’s not only technical questions! If one can get the same answer from a chatbot then what value are we contributing. dev.to/adamthedeveloper/dont…
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A fundamental belief of mine is that we are entering the age where quality of work will matter more than anything else Historically, producing any sort of work, whether a service or product, was always about finding a balance between quality and speed Almost always, you had to trade one for the other in order to hit certain timelines, milestones, or to keep promises you made to your customers With AI, that constraint is slowly going away. Speed is rarely the bottleneck for high quality anymore. Work that used to take days can now be done in the span of hours across many white collar professions The result is that speed is no longer impressive because everyone has access to it However, what these AI tools don’t give you is quality of work product. Much like anything else, these tools only produce quality at the level of the person using the tool. Just as an example, someone who has never coded in their life cannot produce the same quality of software that an experienced engineer using AI can create To this day, work completed using AI remains very distinguishable vs work created with human expertise behind the wheel guiding the AI As AI only created products and content exponentially increase, people will begin to search for human quality in the midst of endless LLM generated alternatives This will the deciding criteria for many choices that the every day consumer will make in the future. Build and create accordingly
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as bad as things have gotten in the past 4 days, they are going to get a lot worse before they get better. security leaders, never let a crisis go to waste: please go to your boards and ask for help right now. not for ai, for the basics. (we need to hold on for ~18 months.)
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spoke w/ a founder today, training thought to text models - ambitious and inspirational!
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Allied employees are about to start wearing sensors.
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looks like they are working on PII removal
✅ Aaron Fulkerson (@Roebot) has joined Anthropic.
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we've been adding to the team, so much knowledge transfer needed and as a small business we haven't had a formal training program so I made eve agents in slack that take questions (from new hire) + answers (from me + tenured folks) and turn them into lessons for the next hire.
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steel 1875 = compute 2026
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claude credits are like candy crush
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David Chie retweeted
Learn how to ask questions. Dare to ask questions nobody has possibly ever asked.
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regardless of position, if you're looking for a job in SF and don't use AI, you're ngmi.
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Just tagged and categorized 5000+ candidates against a 16 question schema. $7 and 15 mins w/ Haiku, 18 cents and 4 mins w/ JEV. Our knowledge graph is about to get a whole lot richer.
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David Chie retweeted
crazy that on @united you either pay $0 for super fast @Starlink wifi or you pay $8 to spend the entire flight trying (and failing) to connect to network wifi
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David Chie retweeted
I’m moderately optimistic that the data center backlash has peaked. A month ago there were many calls for moratoriums. The discussion feels more nuanced even in the past few weeks, changing from whether to ban to how to develop responsibly. More politicians are leaning in by directly speaking to their constituents about the issue, the concerns, and the safeguards. Developed correctly, data centers can be a benefit to a community. Sentiment on this issue spiraled so quickly with the lack of credible messengers. Communities are understandably skeptical of what the hyperscalers say. They need to hear directly from elected leaders who can acknowledge the tradeoffs, explain the protections, and make the case for responsible development. The politics remains very risky, but leaders are supposed to lead.
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instinct feels like poke
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