#ai-startup

#ai-startup

My entrepreneurial ambitions led me to major in computer science, which opened the door to internships at companies like Meta, Slack, and Robinhood. My desire for more agency and autonomy over my work drove me to intern at progressively smaller companies. My first internship was with Facebook, which at that time had about 12,000 employees. When I joined Slack, it was a 1,200-person company. And finally, when I got to Robinhood, it was a 300-person company.

I got rejected from every single internship I applied to last summer - consulting, finance, tech, and entertainment. At the very end, I settled for a role at a startup called RecruitU as a social media intern. I grew their Instagram from 0 to 100,000 and my own account from 0 to 50,000. I also grew the company's user base by 400%. I was pretty much their only distributor.

You get to brush up on your soft skills while picking up technical skills like financial modeling. The biggest lesson I learned from my time in investment banking was how to perform a wide variety of tasks efficiently. It also taught me how to ask the right questions when evaluating businesses. Working on deals honed my intellectual curiosity and sharpened my judgment when making investment decisions.

Context windows of AI models, which indicate the ability of a model to "remember" information, have increased over time. However, researchers have suggested new ways to increase long-term memory of AI models, as they often can't hold context over several sessions. 19-year-old founder Dhravya Shah is attempting to solve problems in this area by building a memory solution, called Supermemory, for AI apps.

I never thought I'd be 37, unemployed, and living with my parents in Ohio again. A year ago, I was working at an AI startup in Los Angeles. I was making good money and had a one-bedroom apartment and a pretty stable routine. My salary was just enough to pay the bills, rent, and take care of my dog. Then, almost overnight, it all fell apart.

Khosla criticized the founders' decision to leave their team behind, stating, "Windsurf and others are really bad examples of founders leaving their teams behind and not even sharing the proceeds with their team."

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