Geoffrey Woo

AI is trained by a supercomputer studying a collection of writing. This collection is called the training set. State of the art AI models like ChatGPT have read every notable piece of writing ever written by every human in history. The foundation labs ran out of human writing a long

Venture capital may appear like an exclusive club of smart people making lots of money, but in reality, it’s a very competitive game with thin and delicate edge. 1. VC is a lottery disguised as an ultra-high end luxury product. Lotteries are negative expected-value games. Majority of startups fail,

Andrej Karpathy recently declared the current state of AI as “slop.” He fails to consider that humans are even sloppier. The average office worker human is a slop machine: bullshit decks, bullshit emails, bullshit analysis, bullshit coffee and lunch breaks. It’s all performative, paper shuffling. You might say, “But

If you want to win, go faster. If in doubt and uncertain, go faster. If you want to make $1B dollars, go faster. If you want to change the world, go faster. Whether you’re founding a startup or investing in them as venture capitalist, you’re in a ruthless

I used to believe that money, fame, and power were fungible, each readily interchangeable and swappable. For example, if you have money; wear designer and flex cars and planes to look cool, and then contribute to politicians to puppeteer policy. If you have fame, parlay into business deals and then

Everyone knows that most VCs are useless. But no one defines what a useful or good VC is, nor do they tell you how to determine the degree of goodness. We define the attributes of VC goodness, so you as a founder can identify a good VC to work with

OpenAI’s ChatGPT birthed a multi-trillion dollar ecosystem of companies. Large-language models (LLM) are on track to replace humans for every category of intellectual work. If your job is currently done on a computer screen, that job will soon be done cheaper, faster, and better by the computer itself. Computers

All venture capital firms sell the same product: financial returns to LPs. GPs take LP money to buy shares in promising startups at a low price and then sell those shares later at a higher price. I run a successful VC fund with Jake Paul (Anti Fund), and I’ll

The art of problem solving is about intelligently breaking down complex problems into simpler ones. I fondly recall reading Jeffrey Dean’s classic MapReduce paper in a graduate-level algorithm course at Stanford as a classic example. MapReduces takes a large task, chops it into smaller pieces, processes them in parallel,

Why is there something vs nothing? In other words, why is there a universe versus nothing at all? Is this a meaningless question because clearly I exist, and presumably, you as the reader exist too? How is nothing defined? The empty set is not nothing. Is this even a well-constructed