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Jon Lai

speedrun
@Tocelot
GP @a16z @speedrun 🌱 | former PM @RiotGames @TencentGlobal | dark souls fan & dad to 3 zerglings
San Francisco, CA
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    Apr 28
    a few tips for @speedrun applicants: 1) brag about your team. what's the most impressive thing you've done? we look for a history of excellence - professional, academic, personal achievements, side hustles, weekend projects etc 2) founder market fit. what's your earned insight
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    a 20yo stanford student turned SF into a playable open-world GTA using apple maps + codex. i've been playing @cdngdev's "San Francisco: the game" this weekend and am genuinely impressed climb buildings, steal cars, hang-glide across the SF skyline. players have logged 16k miles
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    Jon Lai
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    Aug 29
    Having an electric time @playpokemon world championships in SF! ⚡️
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    Aug 28
    It’s time for the machine age! We love backing ambitious founders building hardware startups @speedrun
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    Aug 28
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    The Machine Age Fund
    We’ve raised $1.1B for a16z’s newest fund: the Machine Age Fund. It’s time to open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI: the strongest tool ever developed for solving problems and...
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    @Tocelot
    Aug 25
    loved hosting @thejessezhang of @DecagonAI for a @speedrun fireside chat yesterday! a few of my favorite takeaways: - when doing customer calls, focus on the problem not the suggested solution. your job is to deeply understand the customer pain point and come up with the best
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