Alex Vacca

Humanity's progress is accelerating insanely fast:

Stone Age→Farming: 100,000 yrs
Farming→Steam: 12,000 yrs
Steam→AI: 200 yrs

2000-2014: 100 years of progress in 14.
Moore's Law predicted 32x. AI chips did 1000x.

Law of Accelerating Returns is getting weird with AI🧵👇🏻 https://t.co/a1qtw3iW0Z

In 2013, a 21-year-old emailed Mark Cuban from a Motel 6 after watching Shark Tank.

Cuban replied in 45 minutes.

That cold email eventually led to 230M+ in funding an AI company that predicts laws before Congress.

How a 5-line cold email started it all 🧵

Humanity's progress is accelerating insanely fast:

Stone Age→Farming: 100,000 yrs
Farming→Steam: 12,000 yrs
Steam→AI: 200 yrs

2000-2014: 100 years of progress in 14.
Moore's Law predicted 32x. AI chips did 1000x.

Law of Accelerating Returns is getting weird with AI🧵👇🏻 https://t.co/a1qtw3iW0Z

In 2013, a 21-year-old emailed Mark Cuban from a Motel 6 after watching Shark Tank.

Cuban replied in 45 minutes.

That cold email eventually led to 230M+ in funding an AI company that predicts laws before Congress.

How a 5-line cold email started it all 🧵