Icons hosted a dinner with Eric Horvitz, the Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft. He's working at the frontier of AI development, and here's one of his core insights about AI and the future of jobs:

The consensus on AGI is that it will leave no jobs for humans; therefore, no purpose to continue living. Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 shared during his dinner with Icons that, contrary to what the masses believe is actually true, AI will reshape the work, not end it. Skeptics outnumber

During his dinner with Icons, Dmitri Alperovitch, the co-founder of one of the most iconic cybersecurity companies, CrowdStrike, shared his core principle when it comes to choosing the right people to work with: Never settle when it comes to the qualities of your hires.

SV Icons' dinner with Hemant Taneja is the one to remember. Hemant is the CEO of General Catalyst and has invested in companies that have transformed industries forever. The three lessons he shared that none of us will forget include: 1) Pattern recognition can kill innovation -

Icons had the honor of hosting Yann LeCun, the Chief AI Scientist at Meta. It was fascinating to hear insights on LLMs and his research from a global thought leader, a pioneer in deep learning, and truly one of the most unique scientists in our Era. Thank you, Yann!

It was a pleasure hosting qw, the founder of Alliance, for our dinner at Icons. 1) Founders > ideas. 2) Raise only what you need. 3) Solve the problems you experienced. 4) Privacy is the next big vertical for funding. These and every other insightful take from the

We were honored to host Ali Yahya, general partner at a16z crypto, for our dinner last week. Contrary to popular opinion, Ali thinks that Finance is not the only use case of blockchains - they invert the relationship between hardware & software, creating global public

We started Laborup with a simple belief: America can’t rebuild its industrial base without rebuilding how we hire the people who power it. We raised $7.7M to build the defining AI solution that is Solving America's $1 Trillion Manufacturing Labor Crisis. I sat down with

9/12/7 is better than 9/9/6 - Alex is a top performer of SV Icons

Let's celebrate this moment of recognition of our community by Stanford. Stanford one love 🥰