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Robert Wachen
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Robert Wachen
Etched
@robertwachen
cofounder @etched. prev @harvard; co-founded prod, mentor labs (acq.)
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Feb 21, 2025
    July 14, 2023 (~19mo ago), I got a call from @suryamidha (pictured), @BrendanFoody, and @adarsh_exe to come to their Menlo Park office ASAP. They had just closed their first major contract and were debating whether to drop out. Adarsh, who had turned down his Bridgewater offer
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    Mercor
    @mercor_ai
    Feb 20, 2025
    Mercor is solving talent allocation in the AI economy. The difference between greatness and failure is the right person being in the right place at the right time. Putting them there is the hardest unsolved problem in capitalism. We’re excited to announce our $100M Series B at
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Mar 21, 2024
    Every company on this list is bottlenecked by compute cost and speed. Grateful to be a Thiel Fellow and be working on Etched with @UbertiGavin @czhu1729
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    Thiel Fellowship
    @thielfellowship
    Mar 21, 2024
    Welcome to the Fellowship! businesswire.com/news/home/2024…
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Apr 3, 2023
    🚨🚨🚨 Super excited to announce EnhanceAI is LIVE on @ProductHunt 🥳🤩 We make it super easy to add AI autocomplete to your code/no-code website. Free to use! ⚡️ @walden_yan and I grinded to get this out - your support and feedback would be huge 🥺🙏
    EnhanceAI: Add AI autocomplete to your website in 2 minutes | Product Hunt
    From producthunt.com
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Apr 17, 2024
    1) Devin’s a great product (have used it many times) 2) Never bet against Walden
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    Walden
    Cognition
    @walden_yan
    Apr 15, 2024
    So people are asking about a Devin run of an Upwork job. I’m the guy in the video! The primary criticism was that I didn’t transcribe the prompt verbatim, which looking back at the screenshot is accurate — I was thinking since Devin already runs inside an EC2 instance I’d try to
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Jul 25, 2022
    At Harvard, so many students "diversify career risk" by joining a bunch of professional organizations. People often say there's just too high of an opportunity cost to commit to one thing. I bet many of them underestimate the risk of NOT committing deeply to something.
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Aug 18, 2025
    Paradigm has saved me from many late nights of spreadsheet work - strongly recommend
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    Anna Monaco
    Paradigm
    @annarmonaco
    Aug 18, 2025
    Paradigm is the AI-native spreadsheet to eliminate menial work. Thousands of users have saved 10,000+ hours with Paradigm, and you can be next. Get your first month free today, then plans start at just $20/month.
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Oct 31, 2024
    GPUs started for graphics and now are used for transformers Maybe Sohu will start for transformers and end up doing graphics
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    Etched
    @Etched
    Oct 31, 2024
    Introducing Oasis: the first playable AI-generated game. We partnered with @DecartAI to build a real-time, interactive world model that runs >10x faster on Sohu. We're open-sourcing the model architecture, weights, and research. Here's how it works (and a demo you can play!):
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Apr 20, 2024
    Hot take: silicon valley assumes that token costs and latency will magically keep dropping by 10x Unfortunately GPUs aren’t getting better fast enough
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    sarah guo
    Conviction
    @saranormous
    Apr 19, 2024
    It is an incredibly safe assumption that models get much cheaper and smarter from here, yet very few founders are acting like it
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Jan 3, 2025
    time traveler @BrendanFoody
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Mar 21, 2024
    Replying to @adarsh_exe and @mercor_ai
    @BrendanFoody unicorn by eoy?
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Feb 19, 2025
    Come hang! $60k in cash prizes and each team gets their own 8xh100, gonna be nuts
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    Etched
    @Etched
    Feb 19, 2025
    We're excited to partner with @cognition_labs @mercor_ai @CoreWeave and @AnthropicAI to host an inference-time compute hackathon, featuring >$60K in cash prizes and >1 exaflop of free compute.
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Sep 18, 2024
    Been crazy to watch Mercor’s journey. Huge congrats and excited for what’s ahead @BrendanFoody @adarsh_exe @suryamidha
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    Brendan (can/do)
    Mercor
    @BrendanFoody
    Sep 18, 2024
    Mercor is solving global labor matching with models that understand human ability. @mercor_ai raised a $30M Series A at a $250M valuation, led by @victoralazarte and @bgurley at @benchmark, with participation from @peterthiel, @jack, @adamdangelo, and @LHSummers.
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Dec 20, 2024
    As long as compute and intelligence are correlated, specialized chips are inevitable
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    ARC Prize
    @arcprize
    Dec 20, 2024
    New verified ARC-AGI-Pub SoTA! @OpenAI o3 has scored a breakthrough 75.7% on the ARC-AGI Semi-Private Evaluation. And a high-compute o3 configuration (not eligible for ARC-AGI-Pub) scored 87.5% on the Semi-Private Eval. 1/4
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Jul 25, 2022
    Replying to @robertwachen
    Ex: it's quite common to join 2-3 tech/VC/consulting groups (5 hours/week commitment) and then TA a class or play a sport. It's very rare to take on no commitments and invest deeply in research / a passion project. Those who do often build something great and leave...
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    Robert Wachen
    Etched
    @robertwachen
    Dec 10, 2024
    The future is here @walden_yan @SilasAlberti
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    Cognition
    @cognition
    Dec 10, 2024
    Devin is generally available today! Just tag Devin to fix frontend bugs, create first-draft PRs for backlog tasks, make refactors, and more. Start building with Devin below:
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