james hawkins

2015: announce a seed round 2020: announce a bridge round of debt financing 2026: announce a series E + F round simultaneously 2030: announce an idea, pre-seed, seed, Series A-Z, acquisition, spin-out, and shutdown 2035: ship dark mode

a lot of people have asked me about my views on AGI. to put it simply, if you take a holistic view of the current swim lanes, it becomes clear that there are both upstream and downstream issues of preventing synergistic opportunities. we're at risk of boiling the ocean without this on our radar, and it becomes a true paradigm shift once we can think outside the box and align on our core competencies. hope that helps!

i think this must be a cry for help from paul

don't even care anymore

Max the Hedgehog has emerged as a dark horse candidate to be the next James Bond, according to Variety.

wow, AI does it again i recently discovered i ran out of food in my fridge. before AI, i would have just slowly starved. but this time, i just asked Claude. it told me there are these things called "stores" that will sell me new food. there was one just 3 minutes away. unfortunately 3 minutes is a bit too far and Waymo isn't in my area yet so i'll probably just starve still cool though!

if you don't have a line item in your AI startup's budget for "squirrel training to make them chew the internet cables of your biggest competitor" then i can't help you succeed. you just don't have that dog in you. or squirrel.

my side project apparently has 103,427 vulnerabilites it took just one prompt to fix all i did was ask Claude to add this logo to my website problem solved

i can't say much, but these coming weeks will change everything you're really not ready for what's coming well done to the lab that made this happen There. I made a sufficiently vague post about something big happening. Want me to make it even more vague, or lean in to the fear angle? Also, while I have you, did you still want to order that Hello Kitty-themed mechanical keyboard?

how it feels to spawn an army of superintelligent agents to build a generational startup (Uber for dogs where the dogs are the drivers)

startup emails, ranked 1. firstname@ 2. firstinitial@ 3. firstinitiallastinitial@ 4. firstname.lastname@ 5. firstinitial.lastname@ the crazy thing is these are almost always available, because people usually pick their own names instead

did anyone else know that if you use Microsoft Copilot, you can just send DMs to Satya Nadella whenever you want? now what i just said might be true. might not be. you don't know. you've never used Copilot, and neither have i

UPDATED Anthropic interview questions (final round): - would you still work for us if the stock went to zero? - would you still work for us if you had to pay for us to work here? - would you take this job if it meant you had to use our models within Copilot? - would you work for us if your commute involved a series of bridges with trolls who tell riddles? - would you still love me if i was a worm?

imagine typing "make it lookb etter" every hour from here

absolutely jazzed to have been watching Hatem and team build this. literally could solve all disease. even more important than b2b saas :o

i feel like we're close to the era of people selling $99 ebooks that explain how to get rich with gpus

yep it’s happening

"bro if you're not using looping recursively improving cloud agents you're falling beh-" you wake up. the year is 2018. you just got a job offer after a Leetcode interview. they're offering you $200k to move to Mountain View. $60k in stock a year - you've done it, you've secured generational wealth. these weird cookie banners started popping up on every website. life is good.