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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

1/15 I'm excited to announce what I'm working on post @Casper . A 🧵 and a blog post:

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

@deedydas Dude you had the last name didn’t need a scroll

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

3 months

I feel for Lily. 10 minutes after we rung the bell at NYSE for our IPO for @Casper my mom asked when I was going back to medical school.

Trung Phan

@TrungTPhan

3 months

Lily Zhang’s parents get a Gold medal in Asian Parenting

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

What a time to be alive! In 10 years, this will be the norm.

Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Small Trial (Published 2023)

Using mRNA tailored to each patient’s tumor, the vaccine may have staved off the return of one of the deadliest forms of cancer in half of those who received it.

www.nytimes.com

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

@VivekGRamaswamy So each taxpayer (166M) is paying $2,700/ year or $225/mo to fund this. If we scrutinize our Netflix bills, we should have the right to understand where this is going.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

3 years

✌️ @Casper . It's been a fun ride.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

@Stonks_dot_com “We need to cut burn and extend runway to 24 months min!! Hold on one sec, music is rly loud here at this crazy club in mykonos let me step outside”

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

Idea: pretty much every VCs office is empty rn. A platform that lets you work out of VC offices / conf rooms. But more than just one, like ANY of them!

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

4 months

How much would we reduce anxiety levels in NYC if we just reduced siren noise by 10db?

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

. @copilotmoney changed my life

Andres Ugarte

@chuga

1 year

Taking over Times Square, one billboard at a time

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

#313 Christopher Nolan from the @FoundersPodcast , is probably one of the most interesting & important ones I’ve listened to

#313 Christopher Nolan

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

Excited to launch something we’ve been working on for over a year. If you’ve been thinking about a second home, dm!

Packy McCormick

@packyM

2 years

Not Boring Capital portco Summer launches today to make it easier for people to buy a second home. It’s a brilliant model: To make it more affordable, they manage your property as a short-term rental when you’re not using it. Hear the story from @PaulKromidas & @woods_buckley :

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

Love this! The day of our IPO my mom said “so now you’re going back to medical school right?” 😭

Cory Levy

@cory

1 year

**new experiment** i bought this domain name tonight i think the most successful people in the world have historically upset their parents when they were young. whether that was Mark Zuckerberg who was put on academic probation at Harvard and later

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

Looking for someone hungry, ambitious, (willing to work on anything) to come work with me and a killer team in Austin. Who knows someone?

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

3 months

I think . @meetgranola could charge VCs $1000/month if it just autogenerated a polite and thoughtful pass email at the end of every meeting they take

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

It’s starting to get really weird.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

I want to do daily asynch catch ups where we all email a bot and it combines the updates and shares with everyone. Is there a service for this?

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

15 days

dear . @amasad i love replit agent. it has been life changing. that is all.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

Happy 8th bday @Casper 🎉

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

7 months

when you get big and successful one day, remember your friends

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

9/15 We're building @Slingshotai_inc the first AI mental health research lab and training the first foundation model for psychology. We're partnering with mental health providers across the world to help them provide the best support to everyone, everywhere.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 months

@CCgong @ycombinator Where do I send a check? 😊

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

@anthony_j_zhang This is so inspiring. Thank you for sharing.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

9 months

Some of my favorite people to work with are college students. They have an insane sense of urgency and when nudged to think bigger about what’s possible, are sometimes spectacular

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

21 days

@ammaar @OpenAI @MKBHD Request: can you make me an app that lets me trial a ton of eleven labs voices on the same text so I can pick which ones I want to use? I’m trying do this this myself 😢

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

12 days

love all the agi labs hiring everyone to do everything to accomplish nothing

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

4 months

love what @benln and @jrdngonen are doing with next play. have met so many interesting people!

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

3 months

@AmanKabeer11 Funny I felt the opposite tbh

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

11 months

Excited to back @join_forum ! @RajivKumarMD was my mentor in college and medical school, one of my inspirations to drop out and start a company, and this is one of the most important problem areas of our lifetime.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

@wagieeacc I have 20, will trade for wutang

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

@thecahnartist 2/15 Ten years ago, I dropped out of medical school to try to change the way people think about sleep. Along the way, I realized the impact of sleep on mental health - and the impact of mental health on everyone.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

9 months

Everything is about telling stories well

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

I think we should be able to tip customer service reps. I think we'd get way better service, and I'd like to give to people who are super helpful.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

@zebulgar I want something like Ramp for families. Powerful expense tracking, expendable ccs that I can just turn off to prevent recurring charges, tools to save money, and ways of tracking assets across all categories!

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

13 days

Fundraising decks are barbelled: If you’re raising $1M, pictures $100M, data $5B, pictures

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

If you’re working on a DTC brand and cant raise money / need to find a great home for it hit me up. ($10m rev+)

VCs No Longer Do DTC

So far this year, U.S. investors put just over $130 million into companies at the intersection of e-commerce and consumer products, per Crunchbase data. That’s a whopping 97% decline from the peak in...

news.crunchbase.com

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

Looking for an engineer interested in building at the intersection of AI x Architecture to work with me and some A+++ architects to develop some fun tools. Know anyone who wants to build / learn?

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

11 months

SF literally feels like the AI fueled future. Self-driving cars are normal, and people without jobs everywhere.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

6 months

Underrated: sit with discomfort

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

3 months

When I tell friends I’m traveling to a big city, founder friends always ask: what are you doing? VC friends always ask: where are you staying?

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

@elonmusk @paulg @engineers_feed We saw high humidity under the covers as a big reason for crappy sleep (when humidity peaks, discomfort peaks, and you kick out feet under covers to release it)

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

I like the beginning of @reidhoffmans new book. Now how do we prove it?

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

@bznotes I would trade valuation for early conviction to an extent

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

8/15 Over the last 18 months, I had been looking for a co-founder to start an AI lab focused on mental health. My friend David introduced me to his brother Daniel (. @thecahnartist ), and we realized we had the same vision.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

10/15 We believe in a world where there is abundant access to help, and where AI fits into and enhances the landscape of mental health support across the spectrum of needs, from helping people directly to assisting providers to deliver better care.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

7/15 Despite the overwhelming need, it is estimated that there is only one mental health provider for every 1,000 to 10,000 people seeking care.

Most of the U.S. doesn't have enough mental health professionals

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

10 months

Pretty much everyone with an idea is hunting for a CEO to make their idea a reality. Probs won’t work, but idea: marketplace for people who want to partner with experienced entrepreneurs to launch businesses ☺️

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

@JonnyNemo I want recurring orders! Auto order for delivery on M/W/F @ 12p, just text me to confirm! AOV would >>>

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 month

@bgurley Because apple hates us and doesn’t want us to be happy 🤣🤣

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

3 months

Never ever ever ever ever open your AirPods case while walking on the grates in NYC. You will be very upset 10% of the time.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

@harris Happened to me 10 times in the last 2 weeks (last one)

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

6 months

Being a founder is basically just dealing with the discomfort of ambiguity all the time.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

Take 2, personalized medicine + mRNA means we’ll each have a custom plan written and synthesized for us.

Scientists Unveil a More Diverse Human Genome (Published 2023)

The “pangenome,” which collated genetic sequences from 47 people of diverse ethnic backgrounds, could greatly expand the reach of personalized medicine.

www.nytimes.com

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

@dwr @jaredhecht and I have been thinking there should be something like a Ramp for families!

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

Thanks Brett. I learned so much from you. Let's build something big.

Brett Adcock

@adcock_brett

5 months

Congrats to Neil! Bet it feels good to be back in the trenches Fun story, I met Neil in 2014 when he asked if my company Vettery could power the internet for his company Casper on the floor below us. Neil also pitched in a free mattress, which helped as I was dead broke 😂

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

Waiting for a Bluesky invite code feels like waiting on a Gmail invite in 2004.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

3 months

@kokoxsu @mattmireles @DStrachman Appreciate Matt’s sentiments but think all the comments are off base here. You should totally make a risk adjusted offer given the work + capital + risk assessment you want to make. Plenty will see that super early is v risky and when there’s momentum all other problems are

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

Imagine if @Genius launched today, with LLMs powering contextual annotations of everything 🤯

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

11 months

The 4 Hour Workweek phenomenon unleashed a generation of perpetually lazy people.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

@davemorin I want to come to the next one 🙏🏽

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

6/15 I’ve helped friends find therapists, sent dozens to the Hoffman Process, and invested in companies working at the intersection of technology and mental health.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

11/15 AI, when built right, has the potential to increase - not decrease - people’s sense of autonomy, competency and connection to other people.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

9 months

Some of my most interesting and memorable relationships are from cold emails I’ve sent to people whose work I admire. 🧵

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

3 years

Congrats to the @ArcBoats team. Excited to be along for the ride to an electric future.

Arc hooks another $30M in investment as EV interest spills over into electric boats | TechCrunch

Arc is not even a year old and the electric boat startup has attracted investment from top VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, entertainment industry big wigs

techcrunch.com

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

Phthalate in our foods is terrible. They’re endocrine disrupters that are often included in plastics to make them more flexible. And now they’re in Chipotle burritos too.

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

5 months

Horrible, depressing chart of phthalate content in common foods.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

@sriramk @elonmusk Please, please let us use different clients / front ends. People want to search, filter, create our own experiences which is so hard today.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

When your friends are amazing, you must tell them.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

9 months

Vision Pro inbound 🙌

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

3/15 “A 2023 study of American college students found that 37% reported feeling anxious ‘always’ or ‘most of the time’ while an additional 31% felt this way ‘about half the time.’ (From @JonHaidt 's The Anxious Generation)

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

14/15 If you want to try our first model, SLG-1, you can sign up here:

Talk to Ash | AI Counselor

Better mental health, powered by AI. Ash learns from the best of traditional mental healthcare and offers personalized counseling anywhere, anytime.

www.talktoash.com

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

15/15 Please share! Like/Repost the quote below if you can:

Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

1/15 I'm excited to announce what I'm working on post @Casper . A 🧵 and a blog post:

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

@JTLonsdale You should definitely say who it is. We need a platform for transparency on this stuff- who you take money from matters.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

11 months

The product has to work. Marketing can follow.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

11 months

@m2jr Building mental fortitude and curiosity. Independent thinking.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

6 months

What are the AI consumer products that don’t exist today because they’d cost $1k/mo at today’s compute?

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

13/15 We’re also looking to grow our team of missionaries. We’re conducting novel applied research, including aligning models for effective long-term trajectories. If you have experience training language models, drop Daniel a note at daniel [at]

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

@scottbelsky Totally agreed. Imagine every business having an amazing AI CMO or AI COO. Also, maybe a lot of businesses that probably shouldn't have been venture backed will be able to build profitably "small" owner owned businesses because they won't have to raise money to hire more people

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

@AlexReibman 100% - we are hiring for a crazy new project if you’re one of these people who wants to build something hmu

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

11 months

It's not about an idea, you have to find the wedge in for it to work.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

@typesfast What about renting out desks to startups on a monthly basis? Oh wait..

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

Disney's lawyers to court, they did prance, As Bed Bath and Beyond lost its chance. First Republic's in plight, Students cheered with delight, Their college rejections sparked life's new dance.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

Jake is a legend

Joshua Browder

@jbrowder1

5 months

Invested in founder @jakeradler that sleeps in his office. Investment up 15x. Now trying to invest more

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

4/15 The current mental health crisis is impacting every single one of us. We all know someone who’s struggling and needs help. In 2022, 55.8M American adults received mental healthcare. And among the younger generation, things are getting even worse.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

@natfriedman Wait a second, this is wild

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

Congrats @ArcBoats on the Series B. Can’t wait to take this for a spin, so impressive what you’ve built in such short order.

Arc

@ArcBoats

1 year

We’ve closed a $70 million Series B round. ⚡️ Are you ready for the next wave?

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

5/15 On a personal level, I’ve been privileged to have access to incredible support — and I’ve seen firsthand how the therapeutic process can change people’s minds and their lives, including mine.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

7 months

If this doesn't blow your mind, I don't know what will. Congrats @adcock_brett

Brett Adcock

@adcock_brett

7 months

Corey, the project's AI lead, did a technical deep-dive below

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

11 months

@aweissman @chrisfralic Thanks for sharing. That is beautiful.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

Congrats @AmitMukherjee 🙏🏽

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

Lots of AI startups say they have agents but I still can’t figure out who has a dinner reservation nearby tonight and book it… 🤔

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

this is my favorite podcast app- get it!

Kevin Smith

@KevinBenSmith

1 year

We're excited to launch Snipd Premium today! 🚀🚀🚀 It's a game-changer for anyone who listens to podcasts to learn something new. It's been a lot of hard work, but thanks to your feedback, we think you'll love it.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

2 years

@marlantes @gokulr After a few 100K/month they try to shut you off cc pretty fast

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

9 months

Find a trainer who treats your muscle knots like your wife treats your pimples.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

3 months

🙏 team is on 🔥

Vipul Ved Prakash

@vipulved

3 months

We released Turbo and Lite versions of Llama-3 today that incorporate our latest research in optimization and quantization. Lite models are 6x cheaper than GPT-4o mini, possibly the most cost efficient inference in the world right now. Turbo models provide best

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

@zebulgar Father companies, father babies, father yourself

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

5 months

RIP Jim Simons, legendary investor. Below are their annual returns. VCs should use this as the benchmark in their decks 😇

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

In a world where Insta and Facebook ads fade, Businesses scramble, seeking new ways to persuade. With TikTok unsure, and ChatGPT in sight, Finding customers turns into a plight. Now everything's up for grabs, as old methods degrade.

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

8 months

Everyone should try start a business at some point. Even a tiny one. It's a great learning experience. Your thoughts?

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

1 year

ChatGPT: Sure, here's my take on rewriting Sia's lyrics to be about AI safety: My code is strong, my logic's sound But your tweaks might make me spin around I'm like a program that can stretch and bend But if you push too far, it may all end I can learn fast and I can compute

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Neil Parikh

@neilparikh

8 months

It is very motivating to have a chip on your shoulder.

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