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Dante Maggiotto

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  • Neel Nanda leads the language model interpretability team at Google DeepMind. His commentary includes an independent replication of some of our findings on an open-weight model.
    A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic
  • His commentary includes an independent replication of some of our findings on an open-weight model.
    A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic
  • Prospecting tools get you most emails. You validate them with a deliverability checker. And solve invalids by testing different combinations on ZeroBounce.
    One thousand replies to cold emails
  • All of Anthropic’s co-founders have pledged to donate 80% of our wealth,
    Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
  • 85. Pay a lot of attention to the relationship between cofounders, especially if both/all of you want to be CEO.
    Startup Advice - Sam Altman
  • 45. Most things are not as risky as they seem.
    Startup Advice - Sam Altman
  • 34. It’s standard for founders to keep board control in the first round.
    Startup Advice - Sam Altman
  • I think you only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub: rich people and nerds. They're the limiting reagents in the reaction that produces startups, because they're the only ones present when startups get started. Everyone else will move.
    How to Be Silicon Valley
  • EVERYONE WHO'S ANYONE in the Monolithic, Misanthropic Media and Entertainment Monopoly that Rots Your Mind, Robs You Blind and Keeps You a Slave from Cradle to Grave:
    Everyone Who's Anyone in the Monolithic, Misanthropic Media and Entertainment Monopoly: A Writer's Guide to the All-Pervasive Propaganda Cabal
  • Most founders optimize for the pitch. Always the pitch. Smart founders optimize for the story people tell about them when they leave the room. This is something you cannot replicate, but you can create.
    PLUMSODA on X: "How To Fix Your Startups Aura in 1 Day" / X
  • Aura is the thing you can't put on a slide but everyone in the room knows is there. It's why some founders raise at 50x and others can't get a meeting. Same TAM. Same product. Different frequency. Steve Jobs had it. He wore the same thing every day not because he was too busy to pick clothes but because he understood that repetition becomes ritual becomes religion. The turtleneck wasn't laziness. It was a uniform. Uniforms mean you're part of something. He in fact, worked with renowned designer Issey Miyake on the specific turtleneck and jeans he always wore. He treated his uniform just as car…
    PLUMSODA on X: "How To Fix Your Startups Aura in 1 Day" / X
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data. placeholder
    Curius / Onboarding