Calling all you entrepreneurs and innovators! The How I Built This shop is now open! Check out this curated collection at:
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For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @nvidia signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
He built a $4B company selling $1 lipstick.
In 2004, Joey Shamah launched e.l.f. Cosmetics with a simple idea:
What if makeup didn’t need to be expensive?
Every major retailer told him it wouldn’t work.
They were wrong. 🧵
In the early 90s, Colin Angle thought he was building robots for space, war zones, and industry.
What he wasn’t building?
A vacuum cleaner.
And yet… that’s the product that changed everything.
Here’s what the story of @iRobot reveals 🧵