marketing, events, ops @spc
New York, USA
Joined August 2013
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Susannah Laster retweeted
This is a LP letter that we recently wrote with our lessons on spotting talent from a decade of investing at the frontier.
docsend.com/view/p7wm6mezzbq…
The most common thing you hear about early stage investing is that "It is 90% about the founder".
We agree but have always been unsatisfied by the lack of falsifiability, specificity, and repeatability of that statement.
What are the dimensions of excellence? How do they translate into companies?
It was a pleasure to collaborate with @gopalkraman on this.
Susannah Laster retweeted
Live Design Chat at @SPC SF
Wed 11/4 @ 5PM
@iansilber × @soleio
Ian Silber is the former head of product design at @OpenAI, where he led the design of ChatGPT and Codex. Before that, 8 years at @instagram.
This event has limited seats. SPC members and alum welcome! RSVP below.
Susannah Laster retweeted
Ok, more math with Mr @ScottWu46.
SPC alum @ScottWu46 has always been a math savant.
Here's his take on the moneyball-ization of startups:
Susannah Laster retweeted
SPC alum @ScottWu46 has always been a math savant.
Here's his take on the moneyball-ization of startups:
Susannah Laster retweeted
SF Design Chats at @SPC are BACK:
Wed Nov 4 @iansilber
Tue Nov 10 @alexcornell
Tue Dec 8 @johnbai
Tue Jan 12 @mschoening
Susannah Laster retweeted
We are living through a unique period of extreme technological compression.
The impossible is now possible. The time to be unapologetically maximalist is now.
Come work with us.
At @spc, we are trying to reconcile two things:
1. We have never seen technological progress this rapid or fundamental. Nothing seems impossible.
2. Capital is flowing to consensus teams, in consensus markets, and with consensus terms.
So we’re running a new experiment: $200K, uncapped, to a handful of unapologetically maximalist thinkers who want to try a truly out-there idea.
Susannah Laster retweeted
At @spc, we are trying to reconcile two things:
1. We have never seen technological progress this rapid or fundamental. Nothing seems impossible.
2. Capital is flowing to consensus teams, in consensus markets, and with consensus terms.
So we’re running a new experiment: $200K, uncapped, to a handful of unapologetically maximalist thinkers who want to try a truly out-there idea.
Susannah Laster retweeted
24 hours left to sign up to hack this weekend!
Join us in the pursuit of new biological insights.
We're teaming up with @AnthropicAI, @awscloud, @biohub, @phylo_bio, @OwkinScience, @imyoohealth, & more...
Susannah Laster retweeted
We hosted @Waymo co-CEO @dmitri_dolgov in a Waymo.
It was only right.
Fully autonomous conversation with @adityaag out now.
"The problem you're working on right now is always the hardest. But also the most interesting."
@Dmitri_Dolgov has spent his career on a problem most people said would take 5 years. It's been almost 20.
Stanford DARPA team. Founding member of Google's self-driving project. Co-CEO of @Waymo.
When he started, self-driving was still an open question.
The jump from making it work to making it safe enough for the real world felt enormous.
At @SPC, he talked to me and @rsanghvi about the 2009 milestones that had nothing to do with building a product. The goal was to learn.
Full conversation at SPC out now.
(00:32) The First Time Waymo Felt Real
(03:39) How a Fleet of Waymos Coordinates
(07:47 How People Change the Way They Travel With Waymo
(12:51) How Waymo Started: Understanding the Problem Before Building a Product
(14:58) Inside Waymo’s AI System: Driver, Simulator, and Critic
(22:00) How Waymo Adopts New AI Breakthroughs Without Breaking the Product
(27:02) Why the Last 1% of Autonomous Driving Is So Hard
(25:16) Where Startups Should Build in Physical AI
(44:30) Can the Waymo Driver Become a General Physical AI Agent?
Susannah Laster retweeted
My first time in a @Waymo felt like a religious experience.
Co-CEO @dmitri_dolgov and I talked about it. In a Waymo.
Full conversation at @spc releasing tomorrow.
Susannah Laster retweeted
"Epistemic humility and audacious courage."
The world is moving fast enough that there's a lot you don't know yet. The job is to go learn it and act anyway.
That's the ask of the Founder Fellowship: maximal ambition, and intensity with intent.
Welcome, F26 Founder Fellows!
Susannah Laster retweeted
Join us.
Bio-curious? Join our bio-data hackathon next month.
Find a new biological insight in 48 hours using real data.
With @AnthropicAI, @awscloud, @biohub, @OwkinScience, @phylo_bio, & more...
SIGN UP NOW! ⬇
Susannah Laster retweeted
Bio-curious? Join our bio-data hackathon next month.
Find a new biological insight in 48 hours using real data.
With @AnthropicAI, @awscloud, @biohub, @OwkinScience, @phylo_bio, & more...
SIGN UP NOW! ⬇
SPACE GUN
@LongshotSpace is building a cannon that launches payloads to orbit.
SPC members spent an afternoon at their facility.
Welcome to the future of space launch.
