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founder & managing partner @FiveMountsCap | investing in AI infra & compute | founder @PANONYGroup / @PANewsCN | @forbes 30U30

sf, nyc, taipei
Joined February 2012
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before AGI, can we pls fix AirDrop?
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I’m not a Chinese spy I’m Taiwanese lol
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America has the chips, no place to put them
China has the place, no chips to put in
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storytelling is the only moat
storytelling is the only moat
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wdym you ran out of “gpu rich” so now I have “gpu poor” on my head 😭
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three key people behind Claude Code have left Anthropic in the last two weeks, right before the IPO 👀 Nov 3 Cat Wu Oct 24 Thariq Shihipar Oct 23 Anthony Morris
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investing is conviction wrapped in money
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After every founder pitch I dig harder into what they actually do versus what they say they want to do Turns out a lot of them are just data brokers wrapped in ideas they may never execute
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ppl asking for help securing GPUs when asked for pof: “we’re still finalizing financing” bro 🙄
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you don’t have to adopt AI but your cybersecurity must withstand AI attacks
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never ask a woman her age never ask a $30bn AI company what their revenue is
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Power is no longer a side constraint in AI. It is the constraint. Goldman just put hard numbers on it: $7.6T of capital across compute, data centers, and power through 2031. Data-center power demand expected to rise 170% by 2030. US interconnection queue already more than double existing grid capacity. Median time from application to commercial operation: roughly five years. Large turbines sold out into 2029–31. Chips got the headlines for years. The binding constraints have moved to power, grid interconnection, cooling, skilled labor, and actual time-to-energization. From where we sit as operators and investors, the edge is shifting to teams that can underwrite real delivery timelines and the capital structures that match multi-year physical risk. Model performance still dominates the discourse. Physical delivery risk remains underpriced. Operators and investors who have closed power or data-center deals in the last 12 months - what’s the real gap between announced GW and delivered MW that you’re underwriting for 2027–28?
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Reposting this because apparently some SV founders still don’t know about TSMC or Taiwan, where 90% of the world's most advanced semiconductors are produced 🫠
I've been traveling the world a bit. One of the most incredible experiences was getting to visit Taiwan w/ @JensenHuang. It was wild 🤯.. huge crowds of engineers, insanely good street food at night markets, and of course a lot of good conversations across many days. I caught some of it on video, see below. Alright, that's it from me, love you all ❤️ Timestamps: 0:00 - Highlights 0:46 - Intro 3:25 - Computex: crowds, engineers, tech, future of AI 9:12 - Chat with Jensen: keynote prep & nerves 13:03 - Chat with Jensen: Taiwan's tech history 19:47 - Raohe night market 29:37 - Chat with Jensen: memories from childhood 33:44 - NVIDIA party 40:29 - Lunch: braised pig's feet 43:09 - Chat with Jensen: GPUs, AI, and competition 55:07 - Ningxia night market 1:10:14 - Taiwanese breakfast 1:29:54 - Outro
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still shook that trump changes AI to SI fully expected him to make AI stand for American Intelligence instead
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Today’s inbound: - A “GTM” firm sending AI slop with broken links. - A “Fundraising Opportunity” that was really “Can you raise money for us?” The AI spam epidemic is real.
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Crypto decentralizes capital AI centralizes capital
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The new Spotify logo looks too much like Uber Eats I keep opening the wrong app
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Going to be at NVIDIA GTC next week! Looking to meet people building the infrastructure layer of AI: - deploying capital into compute / data centers - data center owners or operators - GPU miners making the shift to AI compute DM me or drop a comment below👇
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AI first rounds are now larger than a lot of VCs’ total fund size. Wild.
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glad sam altman shares my taste 😌
pantheon is such a good show!
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