Mauricio De Simone Beiner @mdsrt

BREAKING: Sequoia has officially measured 20 years of “hype” Results finally revealed today.

Konstantine Buhler @Konstantine

2 weeks ago

Should you chase hype or ignore it? The tech industry has been debating this for decades. So at @sequoia, we dug into 20 years of hype data. This summer, I worked with Sequoia intern @ochonaut to measure hype over the past 2 decades. The chart below ranks the most hyped topics

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Game of Life on Penrose tiles

Cilantro almost always goes into a dish last, while cumin usually goes in first. The chart tracks when 12 common ingredients enter the recipe, from the first step to the final one.

Ridiculous in 2011 All of us in 2026

So exactly the same ways we've been coaching sales reps for 20+ years

Brody Ford @BrodyFord_

a month ago

scoop: Microsoft is coaching its salespeople on how to better compete with Anthropic and OpenAI. main arguments: lower cost, better security, more complete platform. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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How different everything is since I built my last software company: - Coding: 95% different - Support: 90% different - Product: 50% different - Sales: 30% different - Marketing: 10% different

where's google wave when you need it

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Ishan @ishanxtwt

2 months ago

I am a vibe coder. Scare me with one word.

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Here's a snapshot of the biological insult from international travel. It takes your body over two weeks to fully recover. It's a big price tag. One international trip per quarter is a reasonable balance. Time to recover: > sleep duration: 2 days > grip strength: 5 days > mood: 1 wk > cortisol: 9 days > sleep quality: 2 wks > blood glucose: 2 wks

Imagine spending years mastering Regex right before LLMs arrive

Google trained an AI to predict your neighbourhood's income by counting the coffee shops, bus stops, and high-rises on a map. Nobody told it what income was. The model is called S2Vec, published this month by Google Research as part of their Earth AI initiative. It takes the built environment (every building, road, park, and business in an area) and converts it into a layered image. Three coffee shops and one park in a grid cell become pixel values. The AI then reads that image the same way a computer vision model reads a photograph. The training method is the part that matters. S2Vec uses masked autoencoding: you show the model a patch of a city with chunks missing, and it learns to fill in the gaps. Show it a cluster of high-rise apartments next to a subway station, mask out a section, and it predicts a grocery store belongs there. Do that millions of times across the globe and the model learns the deep spatial grammar of how cities organise themselves. No human ever labels a region as "financial district" or "suburban residential." The model figures out those groupings on its own from the geometry of what's built where. The output is an embedding, a string of numbers that acts as a mathematical fingerprint for any location on Earth. Feed those embeddings into a prediction task and S2Vec can estimate population density, median income, and carbon emissions for regions it has never seen before. On zero-shot geographic extrapolation (predicting for regions entirely absent from training data) S2Vec was typically the best-performing individual model. It matched or beat satellite imagery baselines like RS-MaMMUT and outperformed GEOCLIP on socioeconomic prediction. The best results came from combining S2Vec with satellite image embeddings. Built environment data alone couldn't capture vegetation, terrain, or transportation patterns well enough for environmental tasks like tree cover and elevation. But fused together, the two modalities outperformed everything else. The standard approach to geospatial ML has been hand-crafting indicators for every new problem. Predicting air quality meant building a bespoke feature set. Estimating housing prices meant building another one. S2Vec replaces that with a single general-purpose representation that transfers across tasks. The training data is map features, not satellite pixels. That distinction is pretty important to understand. It means: map data updates faster, costs less to process, and covers built infrastructure at a resolution satellite imagery can't always match. A satellite sees rooftops. S2Vec knows there are three cafes, a pharmacy, and a bus stop underneath them. Google's broader Earth AI pipeline now has three foundation models working in parallel. 1. PDFM for population dynamics. 2. RS-MaMMUT for satellite imagery. 3. S2Vec for the built environment. Stack them and you get a system that can read a neighbourhood the way a local understands it.

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Selling enterprise deals? How does your sales cycle length vs. ACV track against these ~120 well known sales orgs?

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When I moved to new york, I found it hard to visualize what commute times actually looked like. The same dilemma occurs every time you move, or even book a hotel: what's actually accessible in 20 minutes of public transit? Deployment link below

Entrepreneurship is more about stamina than it is about genius

Fundraising benchmarks for software (see - mostly AI) companies in the latter half of last year. All-time peaks for median seed valuations, close to that at Series A as well.

Analogies are like mistakes.

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ZaiNar emerges today from 9 years of stealth. The company has developed a totally novel technology that tracks the location of anything that emits a radio signal (phones, drones, vehicles, IoT devices, anything with cellular or WiFi). No new hardware needed, and you get sub-meter accuracy for location and sub-nanosecond for timing sync. As AI moves into the real world with robotics, autonomy, and live agents, having location services like ZaiNar's becomes essential.  It is radically different from any other approach, more akin to a spread spectrum interferometer as a software overlay. And they are built into the 5G cellular standards allowing carriers to offer more precise geolocation than ever before. Today’s news: zainartech.com/news/funding