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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“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts” -Richard Feynman (1966) feynman.com/science/what-i…
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on AI, Building in Fintech, and Contrarian Bets Robinhood broke from the consensus: zero commissions when competitors charged $10, mobile-first when the expectation was desktop, and bold branding in response to disillusionment with the financial system.…
Here’s a small thing you can do: Watch “15 DAYS” and share it widely. If you’re a journalist, write about it. If you’re a donor, fund free screenings. If you’re a politician, host one. If you’re a parent, spread the word to parents. @Rstorechildhood nypost.com/2025/11/17/opi…
One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people: Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Sounds simple on the…
what if the AI creates/enables/unlocks new higher-paying jobs? by trying to prevent organizational evolution due to technology, you are limiting technology’s ability to create more value for workers. if you had done this with the emergence of the tractor to protect loss of jobs…
*The big platforms have gold bricks everywhere and will pick up the closest gold bricks* A very compelling framework I learned/heard from @DanRose999 I was running a payment company, TrialPay, that handled payments for almost every social gaming company. All of these social…
INDUSTRIES NOT MARKETS - The investing mistake we keep making is looking at categories like AI Code like markets (with one winner) instead of industries with a dozen - As these categories evolve expect to see horizontal winners at every part of the stack and then vertical winners…
Does anyone know how to get in touch with a human at Interactive Brokers? The depth of product they have is great, the level of support is worst in class
“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said...is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary…But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
I firmly believe we are at a watershed moment in the history of mathematics. In the coming years, using LLMs for math research will become mainstream, and so will Lean formalization, made easier by LLMs. (1/4)
On the verge of a Mamdani victory, decided to re-read Ed Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer's paper on the Curley Effect: nber.org/system/files/w…
We sat down with Reid Hoffman to talk about the future trajectory of copilots and agents, whether true AGI requires consciousness, and what friendship and purpose will ultimately mean in a world where machines can do everything. 00:00 Introduction 01:15 Investing in AI & Silicon…
🚨How does an AI-native startup unseat an incumbent?🚨 👇Enter the Greenfield Strategy: AI-native startup bingo. The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation. One of the most powerful, and…
Deel has raised $300M at a $17.3B valuation We started about 6 years ago, struggling to even make $10K. I've never shared this before because of how embarrassing our start was. The story of how we went from $1K to $1B and the advice I'd give to my younger self:
Paging anyone at Apple to fix the steaming pile of garbage that is Apple Screentime. The whole team should be fired. It never works, WSJ and others report on it, Apple never fixes it. Below from my son today. @JoannaStern
Does anyone have any connectivity to a senior person at @apple who can do something about Screentime? It doesn’t work at all. This isn’t a kid outsmarting the parent thing, or a user error thing, it’s a “the software doesn’t work” thing.
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