1/ Excited to announce our new company Particle This is our first step in a series of models focused on developers. With particle-1, we focused on token efficiency and managed to keep parity in performance while using ~45% fewer tokens. Live now: particle.ai↗

Even if you’re a great programmer, I’ve found it’s a long climb to becoming a decent AI researcher. The skills around debugging training runs and intuitions around what is happening are really different. It’d be smart to start now though—you’d still be early. Lots of promise.↗

1/ Starting my road to learning about AI. I’ve done some courses here and there but I am planning a more consistent effort over the next few years. Mostly documenting my path for others and for fun. Often people suggest things I didn’t know which can be helpful.↗

1/ The first 18 months of a startup: After starting my 2nd company in 2019, I decided I would write down useful lessons I learned or re-learned along the way. Some were hard-earned & others required steady focus. A thread that I hope may help other founders starting out 👇↗

The first B2B game is going to create a new category. It’ll have to be different than normal games though for it to succeed in work culture. Probably less individually competitive and more co-op while scaling to 8-20 people.↗

1/ Getting my first 100 customers always felt like a puzzle. The next 1000 seemed unreachable. Besides, how can you get feedback to make the product better w/o users? After many years, we ended up w/ 6,000+ paying customers. It was a grind to get there.😩 Here's what I Iearned...↗

1/ The first 18 months of starting a company is often life or death. I must've made 5 different companies that each failed within 9 mo. 😭 Each time the company failed I figured out what I could do better. Eventually startup #6 got to $40K/mo by month 18. Here’s what I learned...↗