One of the top AI news this cycle is on the talent war for the best AI engineers and researchers. Meta is aggressively poaching, reportedly offering up to $100m signing bonuses, essentially moving us into the pro-athletes bracket. My worry is that for "Small Tech", the startups at
People have been asking me on my thoughts on the recent “PE-fication” of early-stage venture in the SEA region. Basically some VCs are shifting their mindset and are increasingly gunning for 3-5x outcomes rather than 100x bets (e.g., see here). I understand where they are coming from - in
I have been working in early-stage ecosystems for close to eight years now, and every now and then I think about two differing beliefs that I subscribe to. I am drawn deeply to mindfulness and Buddhist philosophy. There's something profoundly right about the idea that contentment comes from