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Father. Formerly @Gumroad. Working on something old.
reasons to expect less from ByteDance: 1) plagiarism, poor citation culture (not just @hyperzzw's case) 2) poor leadership vs Boss Liang 3) still no Truly Strong open source models; Doubao (proprietary) in line with best open weights 5) Zuck-level faith in poaching superstars
We're in a race. It's not USA vs China but humans and AGIs vs ape power centralization. @deepseek_ai stan #1, 2023–Deep Time «C’est la guerre.» ®1
reasons to expect less from ByteDance: 1) plagiarism, poor citation culture (not just @hyperzzw's case) 2) poor leadership vs Boss Liang 3) still no Truly Strong open source models; Doubao (proprietary) in line with best open weights 5) Zuck-level faith in poaching superstars
We're in a race. It's not USA vs China but humans and AGIs vs ape power centralization. @deepseek_ai stan #1, 2023–Deep Time «C’est la guerre.» ®1
reasons to expect less from ByteDance: 1) plagiarism, poor citation culture (not just @hyperzzw's case) 2) poor leadership vs Boss Liang 3) still no Truly Strong open source models; Doubao (proprietary) in line with best open weights 5) Zuck-level faith in poaching superstars
We're in a race. It's not USA vs China but humans and AGIs vs ape power centralization. @deepseek_ai stan #1, 2023–Deep Time «C’est la guerre.» ®1
people my entire professional career: "you will burn out if you keep working this hard" 14 years into my career, I wonder when that's going to happen...
Head of Talent for a16z speedrun - ex @RiotGames, @Scopely, @Amazon - lover of games, poker, surfing, running, meme'ing
I want to zoom in on something from my last post about @joinbond. Bonding is a cheaper and lighter way to support a creator or thought leader you love than a subscription because (1) you bond once and (2) you can take your money back anytime. So it’s effectively free. Your only real cost is the interest you could have earned on the amount you bonded. But are people actually giving up meaningful interest when there’s about $4T sitting in US checking accounts earning nothing? What about from the creator’s perspective? I see accounts with 250K followers and only 250 people paying $5 a month. That enormous gap shows how broken subscriptions are as a support mechanism. The thesis with Bond is that by making it cheaper for the fan, more fans will bond. Creators keep asking for one thing: a verified audience list of real people with high intent. @joinbond gives them that. Because of how bonding works, creators can identify and surface far more high-intent fans than they ever could through subscriptions, because subscriptions have so much friction. Why do creators want a high-intent audience list they can communicate directly with? Because their content gets buried by the algorithm. Even with 250K followers, your post won’t reach all of them unless you pay a platform $50–$100 to boost it. While it’s true that interest earned is lower than subscription revenue in the short term, here’s how the math could work out. A $5 monthly subscription gives a creator $60 a year from one person. Bond works differently since creators only earn the interest. At 5%, you’d need about 20 people to bond $60 to match subscription revenue. In other words, you need 20x more people bonding than subscribing. I think that’s achievable, especially since people can unbond and get their money back. The 250 vs 250K gap suggests the 20x isn’t just possible, it might be conservative.
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