Alex Banks

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I help you cut through the noise on business, finance and growth. Chasing my curiosity and sharing what I learn. @throuthenoise

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Tweet May 22, 2023

Two brothers built a ~$3.8B software platform for Weed Shops. Earlier this year, they were ousted in a hostile takeover. The WILD story of Dutchie, the app for Cannabis businesses 🧵 twitter.com/lukesophinos/status/1660642941939875845/photo/1

by Luke Sophinos

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Tweet May 13, 2023

PSA: You need a Chief of Staff. I hired one last year: My productivity doubled – and I’m having a ton more fun. I wish I’d done it years ago. Here's how I did it:

by Michael Girdley

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Tweet Apr 18, 2023

Steve Jobs said: “The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller.” Here’s the storytelling framework Jobs used (that you can too): twitter.com/nathanbaugh27/status/1648311407098621953/photo/1

by Nathan Baugh

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Tweet May 8, 2023

In 1999, an English teacher in Mexico needed a bag to carry his books. How this average school teacher turned that boring bag into $15M: 🧵 twitter.com/BrianFOConnor/status/1655544083803152384/photo/1

by Brian O'Connor

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Tweet Apr 20, 2023

Don’t buy a $500 “prompt engineering” course to learn how to use ChatGPT and other AI tools. Read this thread, and you’ll get everything you need for free:

by Hassan W. Bhatti

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Paper Mar 22, 2023

Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

by Sebastien Bubeck and Ronen Eldan

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Tweet Apr 4, 2023

In 2017, I knew zero people in VC. I took out $50,000 of loans and slept on couches/in cars. By 2022, I managed hundreds of millions, and had backed startups like Ramp and Anduril. The five most important lessons learned building a venture firm *t

by Eric Tarczynski

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Website

Practical Deep Learning for Coders - Practical Deep Learning

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Article

AI risk ≠ AGI risk

by Gary Marcus

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