Author: tremendousblog
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“I ended up putting $10 million into SolarCity, $70 million into Tesla, and $100 million into SpaceX. I literally had to borrow money for rent. It was a close call.” Elon Musk Elon Musk is the world’s richest man. But in 2008, he was almost broke. Both Tesla and SpaceX…
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+ AI, Elon, Elon Musk, Entrepreneur, Investing, Politics, Reading, Silicon Valley, SpaceX, Tech, Technology, Tesla, TSLA, xAI+
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I’ve spent 10 days meeting amazing founders here in Tokyo. I keep seeing the same strengths, and the same challenges. And I have a solution: The US-Japan Hybrid Startup. Move the founders to the United States. Keep the rest of the team in Japan. This gives a startup the best…
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+ Asia, Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Founders, Investing, Japan, Startups, Tech, Technology, Tokyo, VC, Venture Capital+
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Last week, I landed in Tokyo and put up a single tweet: “What founders should I meet?” It blew up, getting thousands of views. Ever since, I’ve been fielding a flurry of messages from awesome Japanese founders. These are some amazing companies! Here’s what I’m seeing in the Japanese startup…
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+ Asia, Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Founders, Investing, Japan, Startups, Tech, Technology, Tokyo, VC, Venture Capital+
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My favorite breakfast spot in Tokyo is Jonathan’s. This chain serves some of the best eggs and pancakes around — with almost no human workers. I’ve been coming to Japan and Jonathan’s since 2014. In the past, it operated like other restaurants, with service entirely by humans. I arrived in…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, China, Entrepreneur, Japan, Robotics, Robots, Startups, Technology, Travel, VC+
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The best engineers won’t apply to your company. They already have jobs. But now,you can use AI to find them and bring them onboard. Perfectly messages ideal candidates using AI. It learns about their skills, then setsup interviews for you with the best engineers. Within 24 hours, you have 5-10…
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+ Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Finance, HR, Investing, Recruiting, SF, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital, YC+
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Every investor is throwing money at AI. But if you’re building in an unsexy area, is raising money even possible? A frustrated consumer hardware founder recently posed this question to Reddit. He’s seeing VC’s rip huge checks into AI while he’s struggling to raise any money at all. But there’s…
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+ Angel Investing, Angel Investor, Business, Consumer, Engineering, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Founders, Hardware, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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What if AI didn’t just hand you the answer…but actually taught you how to find it? Gemini Guided Learning is a great way to do just that. I tested Guided Learning this morning, having it prep me for my Japan trip this week. It gave me useful, realistic practice that…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Education, gemini, Japanese, Language Learning, LLM, Technology+
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The window for Europe to catch up in AI isn’t just closing — it’s slamming shut. Europe doesn’t have any of the fundamental inputs for AI: Major AI companies Companies large enough to invest hundreds of billions Rare earths Chip fabs Hydrocarbons to power data centers (aside from Norway) Let’s…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Austria, EU, Europe, European Union, Finance, Investing, OpenAI, Politics, Silicon Valley, Startups, Stocks, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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Moonshot just dropped a new, more powerful Kimi: K2.6. I tested it this morning, and it’s the best open source model I’ve used yet. Moonshot claims that Kimi outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on some benchmarks. Better yet, Kimi is dirt cheap to run, making it a popular choice…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, China, Developers, Finance, Investing, K2.6, Kimi, LLM, Moonshot AI, Open source, Silicon Valley, Technology, Venture Capital+
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Elon has quietly released Grok 4.3 Beta, xAI’s most powerful model yet. I tested it this morning, and it’s the best model I’ve ever used. I put 4.3 Beta through a grueling series of tests this morning. I had it analyze 5,000 venture deals, predict the future of the real…
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+ AI, Anthropic, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Claude, Elon, Elon Musk, Finance, Grok, Investing, LLM, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital, xAI+
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