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Tom Chavez

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Latest Issues

We’re Totally Zucked

You probably read the news about the Meta settlement. Most of the coverage led with the number, which is not an insane journalistic choice. The number itself is news. $17.1B is the largest state consumer-protection settlement in American hi...

8 days ago
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The Call Is Coming From Inside the House

I had dinner recently with a friend who operates at the intersection of AI and politics. He told me a wave of money is flooding into Washington to support stronger AI regulations — a positive development. Advocacy and policy shops are formi...

15 days ago
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AI Sucks

I’ve lived in the same San Francisco zip code for almost thirty years.

Last month the house next door sold. It was a pocket listing – never hit the market, gone in three days. Thirty-five percent over asking, all cash, no inspections. I kn...

22 days ago
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Judgement is the whole job now

“To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.” – Charles Peirce

The aesthetics of a pitch deck change over time, and the winners get copied to death. In the ‘80s it wa...

a month ago
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Vinod Khosla is right about your taxes

My Take:

A founder I put a modest check into just had his exit. It’s his first. I remember that feeling. Watching somebody who spent five years eating shit sandwiches and rolling the boulder up the hill finally stand on top of it never...

a month ago
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    Building data + AI companies for 30 years. (Since it was niche/nerdy.) Exits to Microsoft/Salesforce/LiveRamp. Currently running super{set}. Into: company building, hip-hop, ethical tech, philosophy, and finding better ways forward.

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