"everything around that you call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you" - Steve Jobs
new z fellows cohort starting soon. interviewing now for it.
zfellows.com
who plays chess?
hosting an event in NYC next week with Hans Niemann (chess grandmaster)
he’s going to play 10 people simultaneously
prioritizing builders and people who just moved to nyc
@ reply or DM if u want to join
Congrats to Adam, Dean, and the entire team at Owner!!
Adam and I serendipitously met at a dinner in many years ago.
We spent hours together the next day, and the day after that I wrote the very first check into Owner.
Owner is still in its early days. I feel very luck to
Owner has raised $240M, reached a $2.3B valuation, and crossed $100M ARR.
Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the round, joined by Meritech, Redpoint, Headline, & Jack Altman.
The world is racing to build AI to replace people’s jobs. Owner is building AI to do the opposite:
in October of 2022, the founders of Etched were looking to raise pre-seed funding.
<4 years they're shipping chips and racks
congrats to the whole team at etched
(here's a screenshot from their Z Fellows application)
We've raised $700M at a $21B valuation from Jane Street, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, A16Z, Peter Thiel, BCV, and Blackstone.
We're also excited to share that we've shipped our first rack to Jane Street.