GTM leadership at Lyceum
Berlin, Germany
Joined November 2008
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Fat roles and thin organizations is where it’s at.
The bandwidth inside one brain is many orders of magnitude higher than between humans, so getting more context into a smaller number of brains massively improves efficiency.
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Awards are rewards for compliance and tools of submission.
King Charles III strips 15 people of honours - check the full list ift.tt/kvUEbJD
Very few people I’d bet on harder than Pari. Absolute beast. Congrats to the whole Flow team 🚀
Flow has raised a $50M Series B at a $750M valuation, co-led by Antonio Gracias (Valor) and Gavin Baker (Atreides) with Sequoia Capital, Roelof Botha (SpaceX, Block), and more.
When I became a mechanical engineer, I wanted to invent. In reality, 90% of the day to day execution work (CAD, excel, sim) was digital manual labour. That’s about to flip. The engineer’s role will change more profoundly than at any point since the invention of CAD, with humans focusing on invention, architecture, tradeoffs and judgement calls, and agents taking the grunt work.
Anduril, Joby, Stoke Space, Rivian & many more - Flow is now the default platform for requirements and verification for frontier hardware teams. But it’s not just next-gen anymore. Industry giants including General Motors PPU and Volkswagen & Rivian’s joint venture (RV Tech) are reshaping their core development practices with Flow’s AI.
The revolution is just starting. Models are getting better quickly at CAD, analysis, simulation, and tool use. In the next year, AI will move from integrating the work to doing the work.
One day, this shift won't just enable us to iterate faster, it will enable us to design a class of products that we could not have dreamt of before.
We’re hiring.
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.@L3HarrisTech says Palantir helped them beat frontier AI models in less than 2 days, at 95% lower cost:
"When we fine-tuned open source models trained on our own data, we were able to outperform the frontier models in less than 48 hours."
"The cost of our fine-tuned open source model was 95% lower than the frontier models we were using."
"AI is a commodity. It's all about the data. We view our data as a corporate asset. It's our unique hard-earned knowledge."
"We believe American defense companies should not be a vassal for frontier AI labs, handing over our data and institutional knowledge, hoping to rent back the intelligence it creates."
" We own the model, we own the compute, we own the advantage."
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says enterprises want to "own the means of production" instead of "transferring their alpha" to OpenAI or Anthropic:
"Why are [LLMs] charging for tokens if it's so valuable?"
"If it was so valuable—let's say I can make you a billion dollars tomorrow. Wouldn't I say, 'I'll make you a billion dollars, and I want 30%?'"
"Look at our financials. The reason why everyone is chillaxing with bad financials and growth while losing money, is the client refuses to pay the true cost."
"The two places that actually make money—profit, free cash flow—are our application layer called ontology, and compute."
"We can get the frontier application to be exactly the same as a frontier model without the risk of transferring the alpha of your business to another."
Via @CNBC
Vit D pills vs. sunlight
Machines vs. free weights
It makes the experience more accessible, but isolating an input doesn’t transfer the same benefits.
It’s just easier.
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We’re thrilled to announce our $23M Series A led by @Sequoia - joined by @patrickc, @collision, and @david_helgason. Honored to welcome @roelofbotha to our board.
We’ve entered a new era of manufacturing. Reusable rockets. Humanoid robots. Self-driving cars. Humanity is reinventing how it builds.
We started by building hybrid rocket engines. Along the way, we built tools that made us move faster - design, build, test, iterate.
Those tools became @buildonfloweng.
Today, Flow has become the default platform for next-gen hardware teams, powering the systems that will define our future.
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First interview with Pari Singh (@parisingh), founder & CEO of Flow (@Flow_Engineer).
0:00 Pivoting from rocket engines to software
4:44 SpaceX's design process
12:22 How hardware teams will work in the future
14:51 What happens if China and the US go to war
20:57 Regulation
23:05 Future of war: networked autonomous systems
31:40 Agile vs iterative
34:47 Starting Flow
44:31 Figuring out the right path to build the company
49:09 Increasing scope until your underestimated
1:01:14 Building a special forces culture
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My thoughts this evening are with the loved ones of Charlie Kirk.
It is heartbreaking that a young family has been robbed of a father and a husband.
We must all be free to debate openly and freely without fear - there can be no justification for political violence.
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So I tried to build a tech company from Norway and here’s what happened:
1. Two years of building without almost any money/funding, better part of a year without salary
2. Raise VC and become one of Norway’s first unicorns
3. Face unrealized gains wealth tax bill of many x my annual net salary. ofc the company is loss making and all the investors have preference shares so I can’t take out any money.
4. Call out publicly that this does not make sense. Independent of level, taxation needs to happen when you actually make money.
5. I move to Switzerland because no politician cares/listens.
6. I still don’t get any tangible and sensible answers to my criticism of unrealized gains tax, BUT I do get put up on the “wall of shame” at the socialist parties offices…
I’m Norwegian and I love Norway but the socialist politicians are taking the country down a dark path. It’s a real life Atlas Shrugged.
Here’s how insane things have gotten in Norway:
The Socialist Party has a “wall of shame” in their office with “rich people who have left Norway” - due to the outrageous taxes they’re now being charged.
Who do you find on that wall?
Startup founders like @hagaetc - who was forced to leave the country because he was paying ALL of his income (!!) in taxes.
When the Soviet Union is becoming the role model of your country, time to GTFO.
A History of Loose Log Driving in the Finnish Lapland
youtube.com/watch?v=oR59JTCF…
The only solution your support suggest is to keep reinstalling the desktop app ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And same on iOS. Even when the app very slowly updates podcasts with most recent episodes, the app doesn't sort the episodes.
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Dominic Cummings:
"Imagine if Steve Jobs or Tim Cook or Patrick Collison actually spent a large part of their day just doing photo ops.
You have a person whose time is the single most precious asset.
Yet, they're actually standing with the ambassador from Tonga Zonga, just doing photo ops for a large part of the day or going to stupid ceremonies.
These people have all grown up in a system where they just don't know any better than dealing with the media all day."
@Dominic2306, former Chief Advisor to PM, on the complete misprioritization of ministers' time and efforts.
Full episode out Wednesday.
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Under #NotreDame’s roof, what we call « the forest »
A thousand oaks, skilled carpenters and voilà!
(Pics David Bordes)
Many would benefit from reading this short book. Can’t unsee once you get it.
@EconTalker has a great primer econtalk.org/arnold-kling-on…
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Many people are hating on this video, but I actually think it's a fascinating display of the two very distinct modes that exist to relate with reality: mimesis vs. first principles thinking.
95% of people operate by mimesis. Truth doesn't matter to them as much as getting along; and their epistemology (how they decide whether something is true) is based on what people around them believe (which is obviously circular, since most of *these* people also operate that way).
The remaining 5% — people with Asperger's really — think from first principles about things. This leads them to hold opinions that are sometimes very outside the Overton window, to be extremely disagreeable — basically to be that guy in the meme standing before a mob going "yes, you are all wrong."
And the reason they can do this isn't courage as much as social ineptitude — it's not that they're strong enough to fight against the grain, it's that they *don't feel* the grain. They're rude by omission, not commission.
Now, my running theory is that this balance — 95% mimesis, 5% first principles, at the expense of social cohesion — is probably finely tuned by nature. Asperger's is almost entirely genetic, and you'd assume that it puts its hosts at such a reproductive disadvantage that it should be rooted out in no time.
And yet it persists, and I actually think it's been with us since time immemorial: the hunter gatherer's aspie was probably the shaman — a weird dude whose brand of wisdom earned him a certain respect, but also kept him forever on the fringe of the tribe.
I think that balance exists because if we were all aspies, society mostly wouldn't be able to work together (even Peter Thiel fired Elon!). And if we were all normies, civilization would devolve into a mimetic black hole — you can get a feel for what that looks like by looking at university campuses.
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you need to be 737 maxxing. you need to have a few screws loose. you need to be dramatically throwing open doors to feel the fresh air outside. you need to be keeping yourself grounded. you need to be lighting yourself on fire occasionally just to feel something.
@spotifypodcasts, I want to use you, but broken features make it painful. Sort by 'recently updated frequently has not properly worked for about 6 months (both mobile and desktop). Fresh episodes are listed under various podcasts, but sorting just doesn't update the order of shows.
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Smart people disagree ON societal design. Wise people disagree WITH societal design.
Below, Crow defends Shear's idea by saying that he is a "smart, thoughtful dude".
If you defend an idea by saying its author is smart and thoughtful, you reveal your underlying assumption of bad ideas come from stupid or thoughtless people.
That's not so. Stupid or thoughtless people don't have bad ideas for what Crow calls "societal design"; they have NO ideas.
The really bad ideas come from smart people.
There's hidden traps in certain IQ levels, and the largest and most dangerous one is "I can design a better society". People fall so in love with their own intelligence that they get seduced by this one great-sounding idea they have for fixing everything or making everything better.
It is that category of idea that ends up getting millions of people killed and collapsing entire civilizations.
Everything works on paper because you assumed that people are rational actors, or that everyone has perfect market knowledge, or that prices don't carry information, or that the chicken is a sphere (to make the math easier).
But in practice, kaboom.
People with ideas like this are doubly dangerous precisely because they are so intelligent. They are good at making just-so stories that sounds workable, and they are good at convincing others that their ideas will work.
And decades later, people are wondering why insulin costs as much as a mortgage payment.
See, society doesn't advance through policy. It doesn't advance with big central plan from a really smart guy, executed by hordes of minions all marching in the same direction. It advances when some dude decides to try something on his own, and 99 times out of 100, he blows himself up or goes bankrupt, but that other 1 time, it works and everyone imitates him.
All of this is why you get a lot of socialists between IQs of 115 and, say, 135. It's not because socialism appeals to the intellect. It's because socialism appeals to the intellectual. It presents him with the prospect of a ready source of centralized power that he can harness to solve all of society's problems with the power of HIS massive brain and brilliant ideas, and then everyone will oooh and aaaaah over how smart he is, just like mom did when he was 7 years old and he solved a difficult math problem.
Policy ideas tend to come from people who put lots of points into intelligence and charisma, but used wisdom as a dump stat, and consequently they can understand the concept of Chesterton's fence, but they're also oh-so-very-good at convincing themselves that it doesn't apply here.
So, to make myself crystal clear:
Socialism isn't just an example of a bad idea in societal design. It is a bad idea because societal design itself is a bad idea.
smart people can disagree on societal design - it's a high dimensional problem with many optima. I also despise communism. that said, I know @eshear and he's an incredibly smart, thoughtful dude - if you're dismissing any of his ideas completely you may be missing something.