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Peter Deng
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Peter Deng
@pxd
Joined March 2007
So pumped to be the first-check investor in @periodiclabs! @LiamFedus and @ekindogus are the perfect cofounders to lead us towards accelerating scientific discovery. Story of how we wrote the check and why we have such conviction: felicis.com/insight/period… Excited for the future!- We’ve raised our $350M Series C at a $10B valuation from @felicis, @benchmark, and @generalcatalyst. Just 2 years after starting, Mercor is paying $1.5 million per day to experts in our marketplace. We’re creating a new category of work in the AI economy, where software
- Fund X! Here we go!Here’s to the founders. We see what you see. We just raised $900M - our largest fund yet - to back those who are brave and daring enough to imagine the radically new.
00:00 - My 10-day silent meditation experience: “To The Edge of Consciousness” medium.com/mindfulness-an…
- Refreshing your product process: a summary of the talk I gave to @firstround a few months ago -- firstround.com/article/Proces…
- Been a wild two days. Just backed two amazing startups with incredible founders in completely different spaces. Love learning from and working with great people.
- Waking up and realizing that @gdb was in your team’s slack channel, watching all along is a unique kind of inspiring.watching an openai team building something new is a unique kind of inspiring
- I've always been more of a fan of albums than playlists. Got a new pair of headphones over the holidays, a new DAC, and signed up for Tidal. Whipped up a GPT to find and go deep on some new stuff.
- A program for creating more emotional maturity in boys in tough neighborhoods. Inspiring to see this type of work. npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/…
- How coat hangers are made:
- Inspired by @TonyHsieh's talk at #wisdom2conf. So much to think about. First up: creating more collisions at work.
- Grateful to be working with such a talented team at @instagram. So much awesomeness this week, and it's only Wednesday.
