China’s growth summed up:
1980 GDP: $300B
2017 GDP: $12T
40% of all global growth since 2008 is from China
Every two years since 2008, the incremental growth is that of India’s entire economy
Every 16 weeks an economy the size of Greece is created
Every 25 weeks a new Israel
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- Replying to @wolfejoshNuclear is safest form of energy the world has known (measured on death rates / TWh). Humans are bad at calculating risk, our population rather breath coal smoke over decades. More deaths likely happen from installing solar on roofs than from anything related to nuclear.
- One of my favorite hypocrisies. We largely idolize sports superstars but berate people who created their wealth through business and inventing.1/ Inviting storm of CONTROVERSY—with a parable of INEQUALITY (you will know when i am serious or sarcastic) Talk about structural problems + a system that needs to be totally dismantled—problem goes back over 20 years. You will share my outrage about this kind of inequity....
- Replying to @bernhardssonThis is a good post why PyTorch 2.0 and triton are disruptive to Cuda
- We at @Lux_Capital are thrilled to lead @huggingface $15M Series A round! In the past year the team has won both the ML and open source community (~19k stars, 1M installs, 200 contributors) and believe will become de facto standard in NLP. More below:Hugging Face raises $15 million to build open source community for cutting-edge conversational AI wp.me/p8wLEc-aLuI by @kharijohnson
- Had an investor tell me yesterday "just learned about this company 48 hours ago and we will invest". Strikes me as strange to be proud & brag about committing to a 10 year+ relationship after 48 hours..(company has been around for a few years)
- Huge news. The NYSE starting to put the wheels in motion to allow a primary raise with a direct listing. Will change IPO’s. This was hinted at during the Direct Listing event hosted by @bgurley and @patrick_oshag when Stacey, President of NYSE presented
- Congrats to @huggingface on their Series C! Also great to welcome @sequoia (@gradypb@sonyatweetybird) and Coatue (David Cahn) to the Hugging Face team. 🤗🤗🤗 “…what GitHub is for software, Hugging Face has become for machine learning.”
- Mind blown. Ant Financial just raised the largest private round with a $14B raise at possibly a $150B valuation according to WSJ?! And what’s even crazier, as @wolfejosh pointed out most people have NEVER heard of this company.
- We live in Silicon Valley...how is this a thing?!
- Replying to @zebulgarForgot who tweeted this but clubhouse biggest enemy is warm weather. 100% true
- Congrats to the Hugging Face team on their $40M Series B led by Addition (welcome Lee Fixel to the board)! In just a year since the Series A it is abundantly clear that Hugging Face has built the best positioned company in NLP. and yes to below, I grew up in Ft. Lauderdale 🤗Fun fact: I raised this round from Florida (multiple VCs flew in), led by Lee Fixel who was raised near Fort Lauderdale thanks to @BrandonReeves08 & @MayaBakhai who were both raised in a 30 miles radius too! techcrunch.com/2021/03/11/hug…
- Replying to @devonzuegel“Don't get me wrong, America has a lot of problems, but spending time with the people here who've left Cuba or Venezuela or Haiti some other part of the world to make the USA their home has is a reminder of what makes America special” 100%
