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Anne Brandes

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2 years

Thrilled to start my internship @a16z crypto today under @janehk ! I’m excited to be working on ZKPs and other privacy solutions, stables, and scalability research alongside some of the brightest minds in crypto @guywuolletjr @alive_eth

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Mercor is perhaps the best run company I’ve seen in Silicon Valley. They have steadily scaled a thesis on labor markets they were simply right about with a world class team that loves what they do — huge congratulations to @BrendanFoody @adarsh_exe @suryamidha

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Mercor is solving global labor matching with models that understand human ability. @mercor_ai raised a $30M Series A at a $250M valuation, led by @victoralazarte and @bgurley at @benchmark , with participation from @peterthiel , @jack , @adamdangelo , and @LHSummers .

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If you want to found a company, you’ve got to surround yourself by people who push you to be great. Pulling all nighters coding with @mollycantillon , nitpicking product @annarmonaco , and perfecting pitches with @zoyagarg_ has made me a better founder. If you’re young in

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The Sapling Protocol, a fully-shielded by design zkSNARK-based transaction solution created by Zcash, has influenced an incredible amount of privacy solutions. Zcash's Sapling paper is an approachable way to understand the origins of many leading privacy protocols:

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What if scale really is all you need? Just like the rise of ASICs for proof of work, Etched may very well be the silver bullet for the transformer. Congrats to the whole @Etched team

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@Etched

4 months

Meet Sohu, the fastest AI chip of all time. With over 500,000 tokens per second running Llama 70B, Sohu lets you build products that are impossible on GPUs. One 8xSohu server replaces 160 H100s. Sohu is the first specialized chip (ASIC) for transformer models. By specializing,

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Mercor is going to change how labor markets work — excited to see what @BrendanFoody @adarsh_exe @suryamidha do next

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@mercor_ai

10 months

Today, we're announcing $3.6M in funding and the launch of our platform, which uses AI to assess and match talent with companies. Our round is led by @generalcatalyst and includes participation from @ScottDSandell (CEO of NEA), @Soma_Capital , @Link_Ventures , and others.

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I’ve seen customer after customer fall in love with paradigm, check out the hard work of this exceptional team @annarmonaco @michaelalfan0 @June234

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2 months

Introducing Paradigm – a reimagined workspace with AI at its core. Centered around the primitive of a spreadsheet, Paradigm puts swarms of intelligent agents at your fingertips. The real power of Paradigm comes with scale: imagine having tens of thousands of interns working for

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Anne Brandes

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2 years

If you’re working on something similar, I’d love to talk! DMs are open

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Anne Brandes

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2 years

A good argument for why the future is multi-chain is the current structure of internet infra. Every Network Service Provider (NSP) must connect to at least three publicly-owned Network Access Points (NAPs) so that packets can jump between networks.

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@zoyagarg_ @CNBC Zoya is probably the best cold emailer I know, and the only reason this whole house came to be

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@CNBC Thank you to our awesome sponsors @adwane @lorakolodny @LisaSetyon @andevers6 @JenniferHli @stuffyokodraws @annimaniac

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9 months

@leonardtang_ Wdym “feel like”

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Anne Brandes

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2 years

The equivalent design for decentralized private computation is Zexe Zexe uses a combination of homomorphic encryption and ZKPs to enable private defi (protocols have already begun implementing this framework including @AleoHQ )

Anne Brandes

@annembrandes

2 years

The Sapling Protocol, a fully-shielded by design zkSNARK-based transaction solution created by Zcash, has influenced an incredible amount of privacy solutions. Zcash's Sapling paper is an approachable way to understand the origins of many leading privacy protocols:

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@ayushnoori @mollycantillon @annarmonaco @zoyagarg_ Ayush is actually the first peer to tell me he wanted to found a company way back in high school… anything he does next is something to watch

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@MattTtkool @ClavHQ Go Matt!!!

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Anne Brandes

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2 years

@dystopiabreaker counterpoint: crypto is more intrinsically ideological than deep learning, e.g.: protocols at the intersection of crypto and AI (if executed correctly) will be decentralized and permissionless -> more aligned with libertarianism

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Anne Brandes

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@michaelalfan0 @tryparadigm MICHAEL THE TWITTER INFLUENCER 🗣️🗣️🗣️

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@annarmonaco @CNBC @lorakolodny At every game time moment, Anna made this house work — she’s an executor through and through

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2 years

All in all, centralization can come in many forms. Even a decentralized blockchain can have monopolistic qualities, which inevitably decreases innovation over time.

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@zoyagarg_ Look out world

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Anne Brandes

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2 years

@dystopiabreaker The related problem that I’d be more interested hearing about is data abuse (the flip side of price gouging) in the case of big tech companies that are monopolies in the sense that competitors cannot rival their network effects

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2 years

@janehk @a16z Congratulations Jane ❤️❤️❤️

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Check out the article @CNBC

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Anne Brandes

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2 years

@dystopiabreaker His point re price gouging is connected to his 2021 executive order on promoting competition to decrease inflation, which he seems to be referencing despite the consensus opinion that gas-related inflation is almost entirely due to supply chain disruptions

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Anne Brandes

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1 year

@allisonkmoon So 77.77 cats?

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Anne Brandes

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9 months

@josephsemrai Omg can I try

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Anne Brandes

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1 year

@SellersHill Rockstar! Can’t wait to see what you do with it

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2 years

Great resource for how the internet works (thank you @itsonlysoleil for showing me this way back when):

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@mattyglesias it’s been pretty clear that renewables benefit from economies of scale in a way that nuclear just doesn’t (as of 2022 nuclear was 2x more expensive than renewables, and the gap only has widened) Insofar as nuclear helps create a stable baseload for renewable infrastructure,

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Anne Brandes

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1 year

@_jamico @a16z @gensynai Congrats Jeff!

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Anne Brandes

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1 year

@lukeigel Congrats!!! 🥳

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@lukeigel @trykino Typical Luke W

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Anne Brandes

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2 years

@cronokirby Common sense macro argument: Feedback loops are worse in PoW than PoS because of economies of scale (disproportionate PoW rewards for having more initial resources) + disproportionate PoW rewards == inevitable centralization over time

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@mollycantillon @CNBC @heynox Everyone should take a look at the Nox demo, it’s a window into the future…

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There are also alternatives to NAPs like privately-owned Metropolitan Area Exchanges (MAEs). Both NAPs and MAEs forgo monopoly of provider to allow for the most efficient exchange of information.

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@ansonyuu @annarmonaco @mollycantillon @hahnbeeIee @zoyagarg_ @mellherbert @michivinocour @choxner 🤗

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Anne Brandes

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4 months

@CharlesLiu9 Yay!!!

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Anne Brandes

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2 years

@haydenzadams Great article on this called “Number Three” by Arthur Hayes:

Number Three

(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor…

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Anne Brandes

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2 years

@jamepdx @politico @portlandgeneral This is awesome!

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@jamepdx @washingtonpost Let’s go James!!!

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Anne Brandes

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2 years

@real_philogy @cronokirby @dystopiabreaker Check out the Zexe framework

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Anne Brandes

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@0xaddi Me too

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Anne Brandes

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4 months

@CharlesLiu9 @annarmonaco @mollycantillon @hahnbeeIee @zoyagarg_ @mellherbert @michivinocour @choxner 😎

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Anne Brandes

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6 months

@davemcclure Thanks for all your help, Dave!

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@robertwachen 🚀

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Anne Brandes

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2 years

Just like the first iteration of the internet beginning w/ ARPANET, blockchains should avoid centralization in all forms. Multi-network -> Multi-chain.

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@Scobleizer @mollycantillon @annarmonaco @zoyagarg_ Thanks @Scobleizer , I couldn’t agree more…

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Anne Brandes

@annembrandes

2 years

@dystopiabreaker Some information will inevitably still have to be shared with the government for tax purposes, prosecution, etc. however solutions like differential privacy (retaining individual anonymity in datasets) could help preserve privacy by default in some cases (e.g. census)

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Anne Brandes

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@adebdoh This is awesome!

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