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Phoebe Yao

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Phoebe Yao

@phoebeyao

keeping humans relevant @pareto_ai · thiel fellow

San Francisco, CA

Joined February 2016

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Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Jun 23
Today we’re releasing LEAPBench, a benchmark for how efficiently models learn from feedback over many rounds. Most evals only score whether a model eventually reaches a good solution. LEAPBench scores how many tries it took to get there. Two systems can reach the same optimum
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Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Sep 26, 2022
the saddest part about being a startup founder is not being able to fully celebrate your wins. As soon as you start thinking you’ve won, you’re already losing.
Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Mar 15, 2022
The early believers are your stepping stones: I founded my startup with a $1K grant (@1517fund) Dropped out of college with an $8K grant (@tylercowen) Built our team with a $100K grant (@thielfellowship) Today, we announced our $4.5M seed raise!
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Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Sep 22, 2022
building a startup is a genuine act of love. if you're not utterly obsessed with your customers, it's not going to work.
Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Jan 31, 2023
organizing a founder house in Tokyo this April 🌸 imagine 14 person private Ryokan, homemade Japanese breakfast every morning, co-working by night and enjoying cherry blossom season by day dm me to learn more! 🇯🇵
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Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Dec 31, 2020
As an immigrant kid, college was the only dream I knew. 2 yrs back, I met a TF who inspired me to dream beyond the institution. So I took a yr off, founded @pareto_ai, and now we help 100s founders scale startups. The journey has come full circle —honored to be a 2020 TF! 💫
Thiel Fellowship
@thielfellowship
Dec 30, 2020
Replying to @thielfellowship
10 years and 226 Fellows later, Thiel Fellowship projects and companies are worth $70 billion and 99% say they learned more during their Fellowship than they would have in a classroom. businesswire.com/news/home/2020…
Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Mar 22, 2024
Instead of graduating college in 2020, I took the Thiel Fellowship. And joined a cohort of “peers” way out of my league. Impostor syndrome is surreal among 20 startup dropouts. Fortunately, it fades away over dinners, ski trips, and bday parties. Welcome to our 2024 fellows!
Thiel Fellowship
@thielfellowship
Mar 21, 2024
Welcome to the Fellowship! businesswire.com/news/home/2024…
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Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Feb 3, 2022
It’s incredible how 2 yrs transforms a startup. In 2020, I founded a virtual assistant startup. In 2021, we raised 600k to double down on automation. Today, we announced our pivot into data analysis. The lesson: you think you choose the startup, but the startup chooses you.
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Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Jul 11, 2021
dating in SF is like building in public 📣
Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Aug 12, 2021
I love being a solo founder. I’m building a product I love @pareto_ai Serving the most amazing entrepreneurs @davefontenot Surrounded by the best communities in the world @beondeck beondeck.com/case-studies/p…
Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Mar 17, 2022
this community takes it to the next level, no place I’d rather be celebrating our raise than @launchhouse
Launch House 🏠
@launchhouse
Mar 17, 2022
when you raise, you get a cake with your face on it those are the rules congrats @phoebeyao
Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Nov 29, 2022
honored to join the @Forbes Under 30 community today! celebrating with my team at @pareto_ai before going back to tending the fires 🔥 forbes.com/profile/phoebe…
Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Nov 28, 2021
my coach taught me a simple way to be more self aware: there are two types of knowledge. facts are objective: she’s late. meaning is subjective: she’s rude. for every thought, ask yourself: is this a fact or just the story in my head?
Phoebe Yao
@phoebeyao
Jul 28, 2023
I swear it’s 100x harder to run a business as an introvert CEO If not careful, I’m drained by midday by team syncs & have no energy to meet customers Had to learn to confront my limits, stop blaming myself, and start hiring self-managed people
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