Andrew Yeung on Twitter / X

Andrew Yeung on Twitter / X

There's a new role every startup is desperate to fill:"Head of IRL"And they're paying $150–$250,000/year for the right personEvery startup is looking for someone to host events and build critical relationships with the stakeholders around the companyLike VCs, talent, and… pic.twitter.com/qswZ1Wy9Ri— Andrew Yeung (@andruyeung) December 10, 2025

Director Michael Kratsios on Twitter / X

Today, roughly the same amount of basic research is done in industry as in academia. It’s time our doctoral training reflected that. @NSF is launching a first-of-its-kind 4-year PhD program at more than 30 universities. Students will spend a year+ embedded with industry… pic.twitter.com/8BzVoRRkBj— Director Michael Kratsios (@mkratsios47) July 29, 2026

Startups Target the Tricky Task of Making AI Seem More Human

Simulated human behavior companies raise millions

An Extended Interview With WordPress Creator Matt Mullenweg

I sat down with Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of WordPress' parent company, Automattic, for an extended interview in March, just ahead of the company's $160 million financing round a month later, which valued the company at $1.16 billion. (Apologies for posting this so long after the fact.) For a company that [...]

The High School That Guarantees You'll Make $1 Million (Ep. 325)

Our conversation with Nat Eliason

Tyler Fisher (@tylerjfisher.com)

Founder, @euphonos.studio. Stop doomscrolling with @sill.social. Watch good NBA games with heatcheck.site. Used to work for a bunch of news orgs. Lapsed Philadelphian in 🇳🇱.

Former Tesla AI boss Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic.

Karpathy, who had also been on the founding team of OpenAI, says he will be working on R&D at Anthropic. Previously, he had been working on “new kind of school that is AI native,” and he says he’s still “deeply passionate about education” and plans to go back to it “in time.” [Image: A screenshot of an X post from Andrej Karpathy. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-8.38.56AM.png?quality=90&strip=all]

Gary Marcus on Twitter / X

Sheer insanity. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta collectively are spending more money than the Manhattan Project *every single month*. More than 12x the Manhattan Project every year.And what they have got to show for it? None are making major profits on AI; none has a… pic.twitter.com/1XeMRxDcQX— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) April 29, 2026

End Game, the startup behind Zombs Royale, raises $3M | TechCrunch

End Game Interactive CEO Yang C. Liu has a refreshingly straightforward description of what he and his co-founder Luke Zbihlyj are up to: "We’re just

Chief people officers—and Jamie Dimon—say AI can’t learn ‘human skills.’ The world's youngest self-made billionaires want to prove them wrong | Fortune

What's the price of training an AI to take your job someday (soon)? Mercor has contract gig listings as high as $150 per hour.

Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for - PostHog

Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…

Matt Webb

I have worked with some of the world’s largest firms on design-led product invention using new technology for over 20 years. I was MD of two London startup accelerators with R/GA Ventures, and co-founder and CEO of pioneering design studio BERG, where we shipped connected products and got work into the New York MoMA.

How John O'Nolan Grew Ghost to $750,000/year

Hello! What's your background, and what are you working on?Hello! 👋🏻  My name is John O'Nolan, and I run a not-for-profit technology foundation w...

The Insider Story of Twilio

This is the insider story of Twilio, told by Co-Founder & CEO Jeff Lawson, from "Idea to IPO" — and now a $63 Billion market cap.

Ed Stone - Founder, Entrepreneur, Fractional CTO.

I'm Ed Stone, an Engineering leader, Founder, Fractional CTO and full-stack developer, based in Vancouver, BC.