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VC Firm Invests in Experimental Tech Projects First

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23 September 2025 4h26

oh fun! we’re a vc firm that occasionally blows its money on weird experiments which are simply intended to do it first before other people beat me.

Updating dealflow digest for post-LLM era insights

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23 September 2025 4h01

i have dealflow digest but it’s a bit outdated so want to update it (this was pre-LLM)

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Scale AI’s Data Labeling Quality Problem: A Critical Analysis

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23 September 2025 2h56

> be me
> Alexandr Wang, born January 1997
> age 19, drop out of MIT
> co-found Scale AI
> "what if we label data, but mid?"
> convince every LLM company that this is fine > 2016–2023
> flood the market with barely-labeled goat photos and out-of-context Reddit takes
> call it

Founders Share Your Projects and Fundraising Plans

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22 September 2025 23h45

since i'm getting many DMs about this, if you're open to sharing publicy – what are you building and how much are you raising? (investor friends, check out the replies)

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ProfluentBio Launches AI-Powered Biological Design Platform

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22 September 2025 23h35

first of many deals we’re announcing @ProfluentBio – bringing frontier ai capabilities to biological design

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Next Strategic Move After GPU Business Settlement

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22 September 2025 22h56

Once the GPU business is settled, I think this should be my next move.

Investor interested in discovering cool early-stage startups

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22 September 2025 22h01

I rarely enter at seed, but always interested in knowing about cool startups

Unicorns and Aliens: Founders Beyond Traditional VC Networks

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22 September 2025 20h12

nothing deep – first two characters that i thought of (though in retrospect, maybe the unicorn is a nod to successful startups, and the alien is a nod to founders outside of typical VC networks)