Frank Chen

@withfries2

Partner at . Tweets about startups, venture investing, AI, autonomy, science, tech, and the future. Sometimes Star Wars. And food. Opinions my own.

California
Joined January 2008

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  1. Retweeted
    Feb 1

    Accurate early detection blood test for cancer is going to be one of the most fundamental breakthroughs of our generation. Within a few years, we will detect cancer at the earliest points when it can be cured:

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  2. Jan 31

    8/ Hey, in my defense I've been at a16z since 2009. Better late than never, amirite? 😂

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  3. Jan 31

    7/ Luckily helped turn this into a win with Opsware

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  4. Jan 31

    6/ Tried at Loucloud to build AWS (kids, this was before hypervisors were for data centers) in 2001

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  5. Jan 31

    5/ Tried at to build Thumbtack++ (++ because we offered both products & services) in 1999

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  6. Jan 31

    4/ Tried at Oracle to build Netflix in 1994 (anyone remember the "information superhighway?") competing against SGI

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  7. Jan 31

    3/ Tried at GO Corporation to build an iPhone (we called them "personal communicators") in 1992

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  8. Jan 31

    2/ I've had a long string of personal experiences with "right idea, wrong time"

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  9. Jan 30

    "There are no bad ideas in tech, only bad timing" My partner makes the case the time is right for , the Airbnb of storage. (If you ever wished you could stash stuff as a nearby neighbor's place for much less than a self-storage place, enjoy!)

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    Jan 29

    🤔 Wondering why you keep hearing that unprotected left turns are an incredible engineering challenge for self-driving cars? Learn more by joining 10k others in subscribing to my free, pun-heavy email newsletter “Let Me Level 5 With You”. 👉

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  11. Jan 21

    2/ We talk missing CS breakthroughs needed for AGI, why setting the dinner table is surprising hard, ways to think about success beyond accuracy, humility and game theory in the design process, and much more!

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  12. Jan 21

    1/ Continuing my series of chats with OG researchers in , join me as I chat with UC Berkeley's delightful Stuart Russell on podcast:

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  13. Jan 19

    Wait, what? (That’s a lot of word processors) (I used WordStar and Volkswriter before the character version of Word.) 🖨

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    Jan 17

    In China, researchers took a social chatbot and enrolled it in university. The result? A published author, fine artist, and MFA recipient (and she can write your annual finance report, too)!

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  15. Jan 14

    I talk with about American AI Initiative as well as a recent government export restriction on a specific type of AI-inside software (and how it's not like the broad encryption export restrictions from Internet 1.0 days) on latest 16 Minutes podcast

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  16. Jan 13
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  17. Jan 13

    As a former product & UX person, I found this talk on how to actually gamify your product fascinating. Deeply counterintuitive but thought-provoking: when & how to make it _harder_ to keep it challenging.

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  18. Jan 13

    Can we turn drug discovery ("where are thou?") to engineering ("continuous process improvement")? Thrilled to join to help make it so. My partner explains: via

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  19. Retweeted
    Jan 6

    Working with has been an absolute dream. It's allowed us to ship features confidently so that our users can also be confident in their money moves.

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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 7

    I'm thrilled to announce that Vineeta Agarwala will be joining as our newest General Partner! has had many different roles in the healthcare space: as a physician, as an operator at tech-driven healthcare companies, and as an investor.

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