Shaun Maguire (smc.eth)’s Tweets

@caltech

physics PhD // quantum space crypto security (it's a niche but high impact field)

sequoiacap.com/people/shaun-m…Joined May 2010

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Shaun Maguire (smc.eth)’s Tweets

Sequoia Capital

Nov 10

Here is the note we sent to our LPs in GGFIII regarding FTX.

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Iron Fish

@ironfishcrypto

Oct 31

The word is getting out. Last week, we were selected as a Top 50 Most Promising Startup by

@theinformation

Two days later,

ironfish.network/blog/2022/10/3

published an in-depth profile of our founder and CEO

@leanthebean

Sequoia Capital and 4 others

Nov 1

There's no better time for a crypto twitter space than a bear market! Join

@michellebailhe

@gf_256

and

@ret2jazzy

as we talk all things crypto in 35 mins from 10:30am-11:30am PT Should be fun

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Countless attacks have taken place this October

Join us tomorrow at 10:30 am PST to talk about Hacktober and the state of crypto security with @michellebailhe & @shaunmmaguire from Sequoia twitter.com/i/spaces/1yoKM

Michelle Bailhe Fradin

@michellebailhe

Oct 31

Yo! Catch us live tomorrow 10:30am PST talking Hacktober and the state of crypto security with hacker/auditor/founder

@gf_256

@zellic_io

Set your 🚨 & add any Qs below👇

We're at an inflection point where it's about to get 100x easier to spread misinformation with generative AI Dear Media, we are calling on you to be better. Get back to your roots. Slow down and get it right. Democracy literally depends on it.

We're living in a time where it was: - *absolutely not acceptable* to discuss a Covid lab leak theory - where Hunter Biden's laptop was *most definitely fake* - and where Ligma Johnson was a Twitter employee The first two were labelled "misinformation" on social media

And yet this site was used as ground truth to prove his far right ideology. (It's the only source that has been reported so far, doesn't mean it won't prove to be true). Here's the

@latimes

as one example: latimes.com/california/sto

The first time the internet archive / wayback machine has a domain fingerprint was two days ago, on 10/28/22, the same day as the attack

This is a domain that was registered on 9/8/22, despite having content backdated to 8/22/22

Many media outlets have reported that David DePape was a right-wing MAGA guy (who just happened to sell hemp jewelry and live in Berkeley). The source was his "personal blog" frenlyfrens.com, which has since been taken down.

This Paul Pelosi story is pretty nutty. I have no idea what the truth is, but I can say with confidence that much of what has been reported is false. Dear Media, we're sick of being lied to. Please do your jobs and find the truth.

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KΞL

@CobraKel

Oct 29

Let's talk about the website that supposedly belongs to David Depape, the guy who attacked Paul Pelosi. It's obviously fake.

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A+ podcast with

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Here's my conversation with Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy), a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator, and former director of AI at Tesla. This chat was super fun, technical, and inspiring. youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9

Oct 29

If you’re not following

@nypost

you’re missing the plot

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New York Post

@nypost

Pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees trick media outlets: 'Rahul Ligma' trib.al/1mo3PZL

John Fio

@johnhfio

Saw this tweet, looked up and boom. The true magic of twitter 🚀 🪄

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Starlink launch in 2 mins If you’re in SoCal you might be able to see the contrails if you look toward Vandenberg (north of Santa Barbara) spacex.com/launches/sl4-3

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I’m not crazy!

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

Starlink launch in 2 mins If you’re in SoCal you might be able to see the contrails if you look toward Vandenberg (north of Santa Barbara)

spacex.com

SpaceX

Oct 27

Many of the early people into crypto found their way in for deeply personal reasons: - families that fled dictatorships - being obsessed with the math - coming from cyberpunk / hacker roots

@leanthebean

’s journey into crypto doesn’t disappoint!

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Sequoia Capital

Oct 27

For all crypto’s potential, there’s one thing it may need before going mainstream: Privacy. @ironfishcrypto founder @leanthebean is working on it

sequoiacap.com/article/elena-

Oct 19

Our marketing team is on 🔥

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Sequoia Capital

Oct 19

Replying to @pitdesi

We’ve long partnered with outlier founders in the cheese and bread space.

Oct 14

Can’t we all just agree that: Crypto is great ✅ Hardware is great ✅ AI is great ✅ Life sciences is great ✅ It’s SaaS that’s the devil 😈

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Oct 14

Antisemitism is rising again to staggering levels and dark games like this stoke the fires. Keep your eyes open all. Stay vigilant. Almost all content on the internet these days is disinformation.

Oct 14

The implication that most will draw (from the carefully chosen words) here is that JPMC did this in response to Kanye’s antisemitic comments But it seems the letter was actually sent weeks before, in response to Kanye saying he’s moving money to BofA newsweek.com/why-jpmorgan-s

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Candace Owens

@RealCandaceO

Oct 12

Earlier today I learned that @kanyewest was officially kicked out of JP Morgan Chase bank. I was told there was no official reason given, but they sent this letter as well to confirm that he has until late November to find another place for the Yeezy empire to bank.

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Ukraine government official

Mykhailo Fedorov

@FedorovMykhailo

Oct 12

Over 100 cruise missiles attacked 🇺🇦 energy and communications infrastructure. But with Starlink we quickly restored the connection in critical areas. Starlink continues to be an essential part of critical infrastructure.

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Mike Solana

@micsolana

Oct 11

how do you write a piece like this and not at least include the fact that the subject of your accusations denies them completely

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VICE World News

@VICEWorldNews

Oct 11

Elon Musk spoke directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin before tweeting a proposal to end the war in Ukraine that would have seen territory permanently ceded to Russia, it has been claimed. trib.al/VBRQzD2

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Oct 8

I'm trying to get my money out of PayPal and Venmo but they won't even let me. Infinite loop. Fun. Who will be the arbiter of truth here? PayPal is now the moral police? Bye bye.

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David Marcus

@davidmarcus

Oct 8

It’s hard for me to openly criticize a company I used to love and gave so much to. But @PayPal’s new AUP goes against everything I believe in. A private company now gets to decide to take your money if you say something they disagree with. Insanity. paypalobjects.com/marketing/ua/p

r2c blog — It's time to ignore 98% of dependency alerts. Introducing Semgrep Supply Chain.

Semgrep

@semgrep

Oct 4

🥳 Big news: we’re launching Semgrep Supply Chain to find reachable vulnerable dependencies in your code. We’ve seen teams struggle w/ dependency vulnerabilities and heard software composition analysis (SCA) tools are “false positive factories.” r2c.dev/blog/2022/intr 🧵 1/4

r2c.dev

Based on the Semgrep engine, Semgrep Supply Chain finds reachable vulnerable dependencies in your code

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work Exploring Quantum Weirdness

Oct 4

Another Nobel Prize to the quantum community nytimes.com/2022/10/04/sci Aspect, Hauser and Zeilinger are pioneers of quantum entanglement Congrats to all!

nytimes.com

Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger were recognized for their experiments in an area that has broad implications for secure information transfer and quantum computing.

Oct 4

Thank god AI is coming and we won’t need Gen Z doctors 🤣

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willy

@willystaley

Oct 3

NYU students got an O-Chem professor fired because his class was too hard. nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/

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Sep 29

Endorse

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Andrew Reed

@andrew__reed

Sep 29

Most SaaS benchmarks are mind viruses that - in general - cause companies to make bad business decisions

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Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

Sep 29

Note to CEOs: your burn is too high and your leadership style is too hands-off. Grab the wheel or run out of gas.

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I spoke w/

about Starlink in Iran, he gave me permission to share this: “Starlink is now activated in Iran. It requires the use of terminals in-country, which I suspect the [Iranian] government will not support, but if anyone can get terminals into Iran, they will work"

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Sep 25

The power of Starlink Hopefully widespread for the people of Iran imminently

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COSSACKGUNDI

@cossackgundi

Sep 25

before I surrendered, I made this video I was so scared at this moment but the fact I was able to get this out truly is down to @elonmusk & I want to take a moment to thank you because of your starlink satellite I could inform the world & managed to call my family one last time

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Sep 23

This is great advice. Every time I’ve worked with non Silicon Valley’s companies that used local firms (even if elite in their domain) there were incredibly costly mistakes discovered later, such as not issuing equity properly or allowing small investors blocking rights

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David Ulevitch

@davidu

Sep 23

One of the most no-brainer things a venture-seeking or venture-backed founder outside Silicon Valley can do is get a Silicon Valley law firm to represent them. Avoids future pain and saves time, money, and brain cells.

Sep 22

I’m a psycho crazy person I have an 8 month old son with my genetics Who is therefore also a psycho crazy person FML

Sep 21

For anyone doing ML theory this should be a dream post Math is the way

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Boris Hanin

@BorisHanin

Sep 21

PRINCETON ML THEORY POSTDOC

I'm looking for a theory postdoc with background in math, physics, stats, CS. Share widely. Apply: tinyurl.com/3wtjzdpc @StanfordData @ylecun @shaunmmaguire @SimonsInstitute @DL_Theory @DeepLearningAI_ @jaschasd @MIT_CSAIL @MITMath

Sep 19

I've seen lots of fields move quickly in my career but none as quickly as generative AI This field is evolving at light speed. The playbook needs to be thrown out and rewritten every quarter or so. I'm sure that's true for this article as well, but it's damn good for right now!

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Sonya Huang

@sonyatweetybird

Sep 19

We are entering a new era of human-machine co-creation. If we allow ourselves to dream, then it’s easy to imagine a future where Generative AI is deeply embedded in how we work, create and play.

Excited to share our musings on the space here: sequoiacap.com/article/genera

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Sep 17

it's incredible how people's logic just breaks with this statement missing 1 flight is > missing 0 flights losing 1 candidate is > losing 0 candidates I'm not saying to miss a flight every week, or to nickel and dime candidates

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Sep 17

One of my Expanse co-founders used to say “you don’t value your time if you’ve never missed a flight.” Repurposing this for start-ups: You don’t value your cash and equity if you’ve never lost a candidate due to comp.

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Sep 15

what are all y’all ETH miners gonna do with ur rigs post merge?

Sell them ASAP
14.8%
Mine some other coin
37.8%
Pivot to ML
19.1%
Play hella 8k games
28.3%

230 votesFinal results

Sep 15

The Romans are invading