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Deedy

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Deedy

@deedydas

Partner at Menlo Ventures. ex-founding Glean, Google Search. Cornell CS. Investor: Anthropic, OpenRouter, Modal, Wispr Flow, Inception, Prime Intellect

San Francisco

Joined August 2011

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Deedy
@deedydas
Jul 17, 2024
ANNOUNCING Today, we're launching the $100M Anthology Fund, an Anthropic and Menlo Ventures partnership to fund Seed and Series As of the next generation of AI startups around the world, with unique benefits! There's never been a better time in technology to be building. 1/7
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Deedy
@deedydas
May 8, 2025
The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.
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Deedy
@deedydas
Dec 13, 2024
Just learnt that WhatsApp has not 10, not 20, but... 150 designers. All working tirelessly to make sure the app looks exactly the same as it did in 2014.
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Deedy
@deedydas
Apr 2, 2024
This is shocking. Facebook gave Netflix all your private messages on Messenger in exchange for all your watch history, while Netflix paid them $100M+ for ads. Meta will sell your data at a heartbeat for profit.
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Deedy
@deedydas
Nov 14, 2022
Tech Layoff Meta - 11k (13%) Twitter - 3.7k (50%) Intel - 20% Snap - 20% Netflix - 450 Robinhood - 30% Stripe, Lyft - 13% Salesforce - 2k Amazon - 10k 120k+ layoffs. 2000-01 dot com layoffs were ~107k. Q4 layoffs have just begun. A brutally cold tech winter is coming.
Deedy
@deedydas
May 10, 2025
>be Pakistan >hide Bin Laden for years >oops.jpg >secretly habor terrorists anyway >terrorists attack Kashmir >"wasn't us" >India strikes terrorist camps >"those were schools and mosques" >schools mysteriously full of AK-47s >hiding terrorists worse than the cricket team
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Deedy
@deedydas
Jul 2, 2024
Gymnastics is the Turing test of video generation models
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Deedy
@deedydas
Oct 28, 2024
All languages covey information at a similar rate when spoken (39bits/s). Languages that are spoken faster have less information density per syllable! One of the coolest results in linguistics.
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Deedy
@deedydas
Jan 23, 2023
Taking over papa's business is not entrepreneurship.
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Deedy
@deedydas
Nov 19, 2024
Everyone thinks this is an exaggeration but there are so many software engineers, not just at FAANG, who I know personally who literally make ~2 code changes a month, few emails, few meetings, remote work, < 5 hours/ week, for ~$200-300k. Here are some of those companies:
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Deedy
@deedydas
Nov 30, 2024
Every time I'm in India, I notice my eyes water more, I blow my nose more and people in general cough more. My parents always said these were "allergies" but whenever they come to visit me in the US, they miraculously disappear. We live in denial of a massive health crisis.
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Deedy
@deedydas
Jun 18, 2024
Your boyfriend probably has to compete with them for a job too
Leonarda Jonie
@Leonardaisfunny
Jun 18, 2024
My gym is full of Indian men. Great. Now I have to compete with them for the 10-pound dumbbells.
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Deedy
@deedydas
Jun 12, 2024
Netravalkar getting Kohli out for a duck proves the Indian uncles were right this whole time. "First get masters in US and become engineer beta, then you play cricket"
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Deedy
@deedydas
Aug 2, 2025
Here he is: the man who turned down a $1B offer over 4yrs from Meta.
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