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Jul 22
Travis Kalanick is back. After 8 years of building in stealth, he joins Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg to tell the story of his latest company, Atoms, and its vision to digitize the physical world one industry at a time: 01:32 The a16z & Uber backstory 15:36 Different
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travis kalanick
@travisk
Jul 22
Article
a16z. Unfinished Business.
Today, ATOMS is announcing a $1.7B equity investment with lead investor a16z and Ben Horowitz joining the board. As part of this investment we have merged our various businesses into one Atoms equity...
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11h
"Go west, young man"
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12h
.@patrickc on how Stripe got its name: "We just couldn't come up with a good name... We were literally reduced to picking random words late at night." "One of the folks at Stripe had the bright idea of, 'Why don't we just assemble a big list of words and email all of the owners
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"I like to move extremely fast, but in order to move fast, you need to have brakes." Up to 200,000 AI agents wake up at Kavak every day. CPO & AI Officer Alejandro Maza says eval quality is what sets the ceiling on speed at that scale: "So to give you a sense of the scale, 96%
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18h
AI agents at Kavak sell the cars, underwrite the loans, coach the mechanics, and in one Mexican city, run the entire operation. The Latin American used-car marketplace bet on agents three years ago. Today ~95% of interactions and transactions run end-to-end on AI: NPS tripled,
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14h
An hour of agentic computer use may now be cheaper than an hour of human labor: Computer-use agent: $6-8 Offshore outsourced talent: ~$10 US talent: $30-45 "The math only gets better - inference keeps getting cheaper, and open-source models are getting good enough for a growing
Fabrizio Serafini
@fabrisera2000
19h
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Can Agents Use a Computer Yet? We've Got the Data
It seems obvious to say, but if you leave Silicon Valley and go out into the rest of the world and tell them, “there are these things called agents, which are pretty smart, and can do tasks with you,...