Alex Rampell (@arampell) 's Twitter Profile
Alex Rampell

@arampell

Silicon Valley entrepreneur (cofounder@ TrialPay, Yub, Affirm, Point, TXN), investor (General Partner @a16z), husband, father and sarcast (one who is sarcastic)

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Once met a Rabbi (David Wolpe) and asked him about an issue I was going through. Paraphrasing what he told me: ā€œI’ve been doing this for many years and often see people while suffering or amidst tragedy. They often ask ā€˜Why me?ā€™ā€ But almost never has somebody said ā€˜Rabbi, I’m

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Inefficient government is a regressive tax that hurts poor people the most. Guess how long it takes to get a handicapped parking pass by mail (kinda hard to come IN PERSON if you can’t walk) at the California DMV? 1+ month.

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When I spend time with people outside of tech, I am convinced AI is UNDERhyped Show DeepResearch to a Professor Show an AI Nurse to an understaffed hospital administrator An AI reservations agent to an understaffed call center Most people have NO IDEA…and are blown away

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This is really incredible. What we learned during Covid is that infectious disease experts often have tunnel vision and are unable to evaluate potential harms of their disease control efforts. So, no, we should absolutely NOT just do whatever ID experts tell us to do. šŸ¤¦šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø

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The Uncomfortable Truth Behind "15 Days to Slow the Spread" - 5 years ago today. How Deborah Birx relied on faulty models, and manipulated the president and the public. Link in reply

The Uncomfortable Truth Behind "15 Days to Slow the Spread" - 5 years ago today.

How Deborah Birx relied on faulty models, and manipulated the president and the public.

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"mistakes were made" says the woman who encouraged you to make them and called you immoral if you refused. you're going to see more and more of this. "we wuz lied to!" is the low energy path to avoid blame, responsibility, and play the victim.

"mistakes were made" says the woman who encouraged you to make them and called you immoral if you refused.

you're going to see more and more of this.  

"we wuz lied to!" is the low energy path to avoid blame, responsibility, and play the victim.
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ā€œThe essential lesson of finance…is adverse selection: ā€˜If you are being offered a trade, that probably means it’s a bad trade.ā€™ā€ Matt Levine

ā€œThe essential lesson of finance…is adverse selection: ā€˜If you are being offered a trade, that probably means it’s a bad trade.ā€™ā€ <a href="/matt_levine/">Matt Levine</a>
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AI Agents will cause a TAM expansion in enterprise software because you can deliver use-cases that were not tied to tech budgets before. There will be many spaces where there are vastly more agents than seats or where the agent costs multiples of what a seat used to be.

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Reporter: ā€œI’m going to publish an article that says you’re going to do X unless you respond by noonā€ ā€œWe are not doing X, that’s categorically falseā€ Reporter: ā€œok, I’m just going to write that people are *saying* you’re going to do Xā€ Why run news when you can run slander

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Our team a16z is hosting a small group dinner for AI voice agent builders in SF Who should we invite? Looking for anyone who is using voice as a critical wedge for a new product, B2B or B2C!

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Amazing the Brits don’t realize that the only thing that can stop a bad Ninja with a sword is a good Ninja with a sword

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Today, we're announcing Larridin. Our company built to enable organizations to continuously measure and optimize workforce & AI agent productivity. Over the last year, we talked with thousands of our former customers and partners. Again and again we heard the same thing from

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<IRS payment system down> ā€œYou owe us money. But you can’t give it to us. But you still owe it. Have a nice day!ā€

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ā€œYou owe us money. But you can’t give it to us. But you still owe it. Have a nice day!ā€
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1/ In any fast growing organization – one of the best feelings as a manager or CEO is having someone who works for you that I call ā€œSafe Hands.ā€

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Hello! At Descript we are bought in on AI agents - very pleased to announce something we've been working on for awhile: Our agentic video editor - i.e. cursor for video. Sign up to try it out at descript.com/agent

GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

this is the MOST permissionless moment in history. 10 years ago, you needed investors, cofounders, an office, and 6 months of burn just to start a startup. not anymore: 1. you want a startup idea → go mining on reddit, app store reviews etc 2. you want customers → build an

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SEO is slowly losing its dominance. Welcome to GEO. In the age of ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, Generative Engine Optimization is positioned to become the new playbook for brand visibility. It's not about gaming the algorithm — it's about being cited by it. The brands that

SEO is slowly losing its dominance. Welcome to GEO.

In the age of ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, Generative Engine Optimization is positioned to become the new playbook for brand visibility.

It's not about gaming the algorithm — it's about being cited by it.

The brands that