Showing up at YC is the exact opposite of having a teenager. I walk in and I'm mobbed by people eager to hear my advice about what they should do.

It may be a mistake to ask which occupations are most safe from being taken by AI. What AI (in its current form) is good at is not so much certain jobs, but a certain way of working. It's good at scutwork. So that's the thing to avoid.

“Americans invent as the Greeks sculpted and the Italians painted.” - Times of London at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876

The news is a mix of surprisingly impressive things being done by optimistic founders and surprisingly horrible things being done by cynical politicians.

This is not merely a rhetorical question. Someone should make a serious effort to quantify it. How many people are the Teamsters proposing to kill in Boston, for example?

Today is the deadline to apply for the fall YC batch.

ITV pulling zero punches in this incredible footage - "This landscape of destruction looks otherworldy, but it's not, it's this world - What is happening may come to define one of its darkest eras, one that casts a stain on humanity, which will endure for generations" #Gaza

I just talked to a startup whose market cap, if they succeed, will be so large that we didn't even try to estimate it. It would just sound like fiction to investors.

The S&P 500 is down -16% YTD in Gold terms. Stocks aren’t getting better. Your money is getting worse. Learn the difference.

8.6% of the world's population uses ChatGPT weekly...