dubai for TOKEN2049 — who will be there? 🤝

Please join us!

...even if you were protesting us a couple years ago. No hard feelings 🙃

🚀 We're excited to announce our Silicon Valley National Security Hackathon in San Francisco on May 4th-5th at SHACK15!

In collaboration with Shield Capital, Anduril Industries, Founders Fund, IQT Labs, Vannevar Labs, Stanford Gordian Knot Center and Stanford's Defense Tech Club.

Two days of…

.Founders Fund partner Trae Stephens on taking Anduril Industries public: 'I think there's a window that will make sense for us but certainly not in the next year.'
Deirdre Bosa chats with him on defense tech, an AI bubble, investing in OpenAI, and more.

It was an honor to talk #defensetech with Anduril Industries co-founder and Founders Fund partner Trae Stephens on stage at the #UpfrontSummit !

“I'm going to do my best to make the world not only a different place but also a better place — I think that is my role.”

Learning how to do VC? Take every pitch you can. That doesn't mean wasting an entrepreneurs time!

You need reps and so do they. It will be hard to predict which founders blow you away.

Some of the investments I made in my first year while I was still learning ended up being…

Listen to Harry Stebbings 's excellent interview with Trae Stephens... Trae's an incredible investor and also (obviously) my co-founder at Anduril Industries 😎

Patient paralyzed from the shoulders down plays chess with the help of the Neuralink chip in his brain.

'It was like using the force on a cursor, and I could get it to move wherever I wanted.'

We're releasing our mission 1 pharma results today!!

We have a detailed scientific paper you can read through, or the one-liner is...

Them space drugs cooked real good

And thanks to Alex Knapp Forbes for covering our pre-print publication today

'I don't believe that things enter stasis. I think the future is some sort of incredible utopia or humanity is over. Those are roughly the stakes.' Mike Solana

conversations about the future tend to bifurcate between a belief technology will kill us all and a belief there is no risk at all in innovation. in fact, we’re obviously at risk of the apocalypse, but that’s a good thing actually. hereticon is back.

Devin is the first agentic product I’ve seen that successfully tackles multi-hundred step tasks by balancing long-term planning, skills, and memory.

one of the few AI startups worth paying close attention to. congrats to Scott Wu and team, and grateful to have FF involved

Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer.

Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork.

Devin is…

Things are indeed about to get real, real weird. I spent the last couple of weeks using a coding assisstant AI that can create web sites, debug code and do massive coding jobs all on its own. It's name is Devin and it's backed by $21 million from Peter Thiel and others.…

At last night's StrictlyVC event, Trae Stephens, General Partner at Founders Fund, shared the ideal case for a VC

Sharing our investment in Avail

Over the past few months, we’ve gotten to know the Avail team better and quickly realized they are one of a kind...

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Expect the unexpected!

So excited to announce our $6.3M seed led by Founders Fund and a16z with participation from Also Capital, Long Journey Ventures , BoxGroup, Humba Ventures

At Northwood we have our sights on building a data highway between earth and space. We are designing…

Greatly appreciate John Coogan and Founders Fund for their involvement in the El Segundo Defense Tech Hackathon — sharing how “Zero to One” principles fit within defense tech