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Dalton Caldwell
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Dalton Caldwell
@daltonc
- Be the person your LLM thinks you are
- The S&P 500 now has 3 YC companies: DoorDash, Airbnb and Coinbase.
- It's insanely easy to run models like DeepSeek R1 locally via @ollama (YC W21) Once ollama is installed, you just need to type "ollama run deepseek-r1:8b"DeepSeek's first-generation reasoning models are achieving performance comparable to OpenAI's o1 across math, code, and reasoning tasks! Give it a try! 👇 7B distilled: ollama run deepseek-r1:7b More distilled sizes are available. 🧵
- When a startup is competing against a large competitor, they aren't competing with the *entire* company, they are likely competing with some PM focused on internal politics/career progression. With this framing, it shouldn't be surprising to see startups win as often as they do.
- I wonder what % of people know that the way to fix a lot of devices is to reboot them, but have no mental model for *why* this works.
- After 12+ years, 25 batches, and the privilege of advising >1,000+ startups, I’m transitioning to Partner Emeritus at Y Combinator. YC changed my life. I’m grateful to the thousands of founders who trusted me with their journeys, my fellow YC partners and teammates, and to Paul,
- What are the non-obvious second and third order effects of this?
- There is no substitute for a strong internal drive to do things, everything else is built on this foundation.
- One of the most reliable cognitive boosts is to walk around a lot every day.
- One hallmark of a high agency person is someone that can reinvent themselves without skipping a beat.
- Software ate the world, now AI is eating software.
- Keep showing up.
- If you aren't willing to start small it's hard to get started at all.
