Day one @AmplifyPartners✅!
I've known this team for the past few years, and have always admired them, 1) because of their deep technical expertise, judgment, and approach to early-stage investing, and 2) because they are really good humans. Excited for this new chapter!
Barr Yaron
1,937 posts
stop trying to make webdings happen // partner @amplifypartners
Joined April 2015
- We surveyed hundreds of engineers building in AI about everything from which models they’re using to whether they’re using a dedicated vector database. And, of course, if they think everyone will have AI girlfriends by 2030. Some highlights 🧵:
00:00- Over the past few months, I’ve spoken to founders and practitioners from companies pushing the edge of audio AI applications: @sunomusic, @DecagonAI, @mercor_ai, @regal_ai, and more. A few themes I’ve been seeing, for anyone building in audio AI:
- Find someone who looks at you the way Fivetran sales reps look at me
- Everyone in AI is talking about text, but @MikeyShulman and @sunomusic are making magic with generative AI for music (the first time I used Suno it blew my mind). I sat down with him to talk about parsing audio data, subjective human preferences, and where the industry is going:
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00:00- One of the wildest experiences was moving from the states to Tel Aviv and getting a “how to work with Americans 101” training at work. The instructor explained that Americans learn “show and tell” in elementary school to solidify the skill set of presenting irrelevant things.Why are Americans, on average, so incredibly good at presenting/selling/ (you could uncharitably call it) BS-ing? Is it something about early/middle/high school education? Culture? Parents teaching their kids?
- Replying to @barrnanas @langchain and 9 othersAnd if you’re looking to learn more (who isn’t), we asked folks to pick the media that they actively learn something from at least once a month. Top newsletters:
- Fresh look, fresh $900M in capital, same core mission. So proud of the @AmplifyPartners team — and beyond lucky to partner with the brilliant founders building the future of AI, infra, devtools (and bio!) Let’s go!!New funds, new look, same Amplify. Announcing our $900M 6th set of funds, our first ever digital bio fund, and our new logo and site. The first (and best) investor for technical founders. amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/fun…
- Breaking: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
- Replying to @barrnanas(3/3) Borrowing wisdom from Instagram, @rauchg talks about the fundamentals of building strong developer experiences with progressive experiences that keep developers in the zone.
00:00 - Replying to @finbarrtimbers💯. But school is “pick your own adventure.” I look back very fondly at long problem sets (and at real analysis)







