Hunter Walk

Screendoor

Helping the Screendoor team fund and support amazing emerging managers who are changing the face(s) of venture capital

Co-Founder

Homebrew

Providing early stage investment, assistance & love to entrepreneurs building companies

Investments include ShieldAI, Plaid, Gusto, Chime, Cruise, Bowery Farming and other FinTech, SaaS, API, marketplace, commerce businesses.

Learn more at www.homebrew.co & follow us on Twitter via @homebrew

Partner

Google

2012-13: Evolving YouTube as a platform for social causes, education & change.
2007-11: Lead the product team responsible for building YouTube into one of the world's largest websites. Working with great people to build amazing products for YouTube.com, our monetization, mobile, international and content identification strategies.
2006: Google's video platform/ad+content syndication
2003-06: AdSense

Director, Product Management

Linden Lab

Created Second Life, a Time Magazine Coolest Invention of 2002 and a leading virtual world with over 15m users.

Built (or helped build) product management, product marketing, marketing and communications, live community, business development. Wrote business plan, product overview, funding models. Launched and named product. Led website design. Did first co-marketing deals with Intel, Nvidia, Apple. Negotiated software licenses. Had lots of fun.

Director of Everything Non-Engineering (founding team)

Mattel

Summer between Y1 and Y2 of Stanford B-School. Always wanted to work in a toy company. Part of a small corporate strategy group with a project to help define Mattel's video game strategy. Three major accomplishments:

1. Created video game industry overview and recommended strategy, delivered to CEO and executive team

2. Performed due diligence and successful negotiations for purchase of a genealogy software company

3. Performaned due diligence and preliminary negotiations for acquisition of a Tier 1 video game publisher (public company)

Corporate Strategy and New Product Development

Deloitte Consulting

strategy and ops followed by helping to found our firm's Change Management practice which focuses on people and process. Now w/ hundreds of consultants and tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue.

Management Consultant

Back in the day we made a go of this crazy late night talk show which no one thought would succeed. One of the highlights of my life!

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Partner at Homebrew, seed stage VC fund. Providing early stage investment, assistance & love to entrepreneurs such as Chime, Plaid, Gusto, Bowery Farming, Finix, Noyo, Orum, ShieldAI, Cruise and other fintech, SaaS, machine learning, marketplace, commerce businesses.

Previously built products which earn > $1b in annual revenue and generate over a billion daily pageviews. Scale!

* Led product @ YouTube for 2007-2011, 40x traffic growth
* Managed teams of 40+ people
* Founding team member at Linden Lab (creators of Second Life) 
* Active angel investor and advisor
* East Coast guy growing West Coast roots
* One wife, one baby, one old house
* Stanford MBA, Vassar BA

Specialties: product development, product management, product marketing, marketing communications, business development, entrepreneurship, sarcastic quipping, humility

Introducing Limitless: a personalized AI powered by what you’ve seen, said, or heard.

It’s a web app, Mac app, Windows app, and a wearable.

0:06 Reveal
0:48 Why Limitless?
1:39 Demo
3:05 Pendant
4:27 Privacy
5:23 Confidential Cloud
6:36 Rewind
7:12 Roadmap
9:25 Vision

Beautiful pictures of MQ-35 V-BAT during the solar eclipse. That is all. 
 
The greatest victory requires no war. 

#VBAT #MQ35 #BuildwithShieldAI #greatestvictory #solareclipse

Shield AI flew 44 MQ-35 VBAT sorties around the world yesterday. WHAT A DAY!

Other recent customer feedback: "You all saved our asses. We thought we were going to have to do that mission with helicopters."  

And here's a cool pic: 

Sixth aircraft flown by our AI pilot Hivemind. 100s of deployments of Hivemind on these six different aircraft. So proud of the team that continues to achieve on some of the hardest technical challenges in aerospace. 

We're hiring at Mercury! We're looking for senior Product Managers who are interested in building zero-to-one offerings and scaling them to audacious business goals. If this is you (or someone you know), check out the JD below!

mercury.com • 2 min read

Senior Product Manager - Expansion | Mercury Careers

More than 100 million Americans are targeted by financial institutions who make money off of them with overdraft fees, account minimums, payday loans and more. 

We're going to end that. 

At Chime, we're building simple, rewarding and delightfully fair financial products for everyday Americans — and we're growing our PM team! 

We're hiring PMs and Managers across our Growth, Spending, Financial Security, Risk, Data and Support teams. If you're interested in using your skills to help us unlock financial progress for everyone, hit the link below: 

careers.chime.com • 3 min read

Product Manager

MERCURY PERSONAL is finally here!

Get all the power of Mercury — now for your personal account.

Up to 5.00% APY savings*, $5M FDIC insurance**, free domestic wires, for a flat $240/yr fee.

Get on the waitlist: mercury dot com/personal-banking

I have been using this as my primary account since December. My favorite features:
+ OCR a PDF invoice and I can pay a wire easily
+ Don't have to pull out my hair to pay a domestic wire!
+ Have my PA pay my bills (with approvals!)
+ Trivially search through transactions


*Annual Percentage Yield (APY) is accurate as of 4/01/2024. This is a variable rate account. The interest rate and annual percentage yield may change at any time and without prior notice.

**Deposits in checking and savings accounts are held by our partner bank, Choice Financial Group, Member FDIC. Certain conditions must be satisfied for pass-through insurance to apply.

“The opportunity to watch my algorithms perform from the backseat of a jet aircraft flying at 500mph is truly one of a kind.”

Engineer at Shield AI, and you will build some of the most incredible products in the world, like AI pilots for jets, alongside amazing teammates, and have memorable experiences doing so. It will be hard; your team will push and challenge you to be the best version of yourself, and you will be stronger for it.

We’re always looking for top-tier talent. See our job openings: https://lnkd.in/emrsTyjE

+ Learn more from one of our autonomy engineers Alysha Singh in our latest blog post:
https://lnkd.in/ePmAvB4Y

The greatest victory requires no war.

#buildwithshieldai #engineeringjobs #hiring #womenintech #greatestvictory #aviation

I am so excited to share that we have signed a $30mm financing agreement with the  IFC - International Finance Corporation and Victory Park Capital Advisors.

This partnership is so meaningful for us and has been years in the making. IFC is a global leader in supporting innovative solutions to boost the development of sustainable, resilient, and affordable housing for millions of Latin Americans. We are honored that IFC recognizes the social and economic impact that our work at Habi provides by creating an efficient residential real estate sector and that they have chosen to work alongside us.

An enormous congratulations to the Habi team for the incredible effort: Marcos Kantt, Juan Manuel Diaz Lemaitre, Augusto Rengifo, Liza Giorgi, Mariana Varela Restrepo, Larisa Martínez de la Fuente, Juan Pablo Garavito Jurin, among many more. This was a huge effort and is really meaningful for the company. 

We’re also thankful to the fantastic teams at IFC and VPC. Elizabeth Martinez de Marcano we looking forward to working together for many years to come and Gordon Watson and the entire VPC team, we’re delighted to partner with you again!

Erica Bressan, Leila F. Search, Mohamed Eissa, Don Richman, Joshua Platek, Richard Levy. Thank you!

bloomberg.com • 1 min read

Latin America’s Proptech Habi Gets $30 Million Loan From IFC

Update:
Given all the hype around AI, I figured it was about time for me to dive in and see what all the fuss was about. Perhaps not surprisingly, in my search I found a lot of fluff, vaporware, and shiny things that didn’t really provide much value. 

That led me down the founder route, and I tried pretty hard to find something that both utilized the latest and greatest tech out there, but also provided real tangible value to enterprises in particular. 

In my search I found that Hari Anbarasu and Kushal Byatnal had already made some really impressive progress at Extend, where they had already closed some big enterprise deals just a few months into starting their company, and I couldn’t refuse an offer to join in on their success.

Since joining, I’ve been super excited to get a chance to be hands on working with the latest AI tech while also delivering solutions to customers that they never thought were possible.

If you’re interested in working with me and the team, feel free to reach out and check out our jobs page!

extend-app.notion.site • 1 min read

Careers @ Extend | Notion

👩‍🔬 Finch is hiring an Engineering Manager!

We're searching for an EM located in San Francisco, Seattle, NYC, or Toronto, with a balance of technology and people skills. You’ll manage a first-class engineering team that will scale as the company and business grow.

Here are the details: https://lnkd.in/eKeVZc7N

Join our team of problem solvers who value Velocity, Curiosity, Empathy, and Diverse perspectives!

jobs.lever.co • 2 min read

Finch - Engineering Manager

Excited to share that Moody's Corporation has integrated with TrueBiz. This collaboration leverages TrueBiz's real-time merchant web presence analysis alongside Moody's data and decision solutions. 

We've seen how our joint solution has halved merchant underwriting times for FIs. The combination of our offerings delivers a seamless onboarding experience for legitimate merchants, without sacrificing security or introducing risk.

In the press release linked below Keith Berry says: "TrueBiz is a vital tool for financial institutions verifying business entities. By reducing high-friction processes, we significantly improve the user experience for legitimate merchants while providing robust protection against evolving fraud risks. We're thrilled to incorporate TrueBiz's AI-powered capabilities into our offerings, enhancing our ability to serve our clients effectively."

Read more here:  https://lnkd.in/ejzDZ_Jh 

moodys.com • 3 min read

Moody’s partners with TrueBiz to automate merchant risk assessment and underwriting

Excited to speak at the SomosVC Emerging Manager Showcase in Los Angeles on May 8th on behalf of Screendoor! Can't wait to connect with those helping to shape the future of VC!

RSVP here to join ➡ https://lu.ma/jvx4l9t3

#SomosVC #venturecapital #emergingmanagers

Introducing MatX: we design hardware tailored for LLMs, to deliver an order of magnitude more computing power so AI labs can make their models an order of magnitude smarter.

Our hardware would make it possible to train GPT-4 and run ChatGPT, but on the budget of a small startup.

Our founding team has designed chips at Google and Amazon, and we’ve built chips with 1/10 the team size typically needed. Here’s how we’re approaching the problem of inefficient and insufficient compute.

While other chips treat all models equally, we dedicate every transistor to maximizing performance on the world’s largest models. Our goal is to make the world’s best AI models run as efficiently as allowed by physics, bringing the world years ahead in AI quality and availability. A world with more widely available intelligence is a happier and more prosperous world—picture people of all socioeconomic levels having access to an AI staff of specialist MDs, tutors, coaches, advisors, and assistants.

Our design focuses on cost efficiency for high-volume pre-training and production inference for large models.

This means:

1/ We’ll support training and inference. Inference first.

2/ We optimize for performance-per-dollar first (we’ll be best by far), and for latency second (we’ll be competitive).

3/ We offer excellent scale-out performance, supporting clusters with hundreds of thousands of chips.

4/ Peak performance is achieved for these workloads: large Transformer-based models (both dense and MoE), ideally 20B+ parameters, and inference having thousands of simultaneous users.

5/ We give you low-level access to the hardware.

We believe that the best hardware is designed jointly by ML hardware experts and LLM experts. Everyone on the MatX team, from new grad to industry veteran, is exceptional. Our industry veterans have built ML chips, ML compilers, and LLMs, at Google or Amazon or various startups.

Our CEO, Reiner Pope, was Efficiency Lead for Google PaLM, where he designed and implemented the world’s fastest LLM inference software.

Our CTO, Mike Gunter, was Chief Architect for one of Google’s ML chips (at the time, Google’s fastest) and was an Architect for Google’s TPUs.

Our CDO Silicon, Avinash Mani, has over 25 years of experience in building products and world-class engineering teams in silicon and software at Amazon, Innovium and Broadcom.

We’re backed by $25M of investment from specialist investors and operators who share our vision, including: Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman (lead investors, and experts in the AI space), Rajiv K. (CEO at Auradine), Amjad Masad (CEO at Replit), Outset Capital, Homebrew, SV Angel. Additionally we have investment from leading AI and LLM researchers including Irwan Bello, James Bradbury, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Ph.D., William (Liam) Fedus, and David Ha.

Check out our Bloomberg profile (https://t.co/kyW43Nph2Y).

Learn more at https://matx.com and consider joining us to build the best chips for LLMs.

AI Is Putting the Silicon Back in Silicon Valley

We have surpassed 10,000 Limitless Pendant orders!

It is truly the world’s most wearable AI.

Order yours today for only $99: https://lnkd.in/gzrvbczR

I'll be (back) at Harvard this Friday to talk about The Future of Carbon Capture at the Harvard Climate Leadership Summit.  Looking forward to what's sure to be a great discussion alongside panelists Cameron Halliday of Mantel Capture, Aliya Haq of Breakthrough Energy, and Andrew Fishbein of Climeworks. Come say hi if you're a founder, student, policymaker, or otherwise working on climate and attending the conference!

https://lnkd.in/e35ZSDii


Underwriting merchants can be complicated, labor-intensive, and risky. 

Finix is now making our automated merchant underwriting solution available to customers. With automated scoring and decisioning, pre-built brandable forms, and easy dashboard management, businesses can onboard merchants within seconds while mitigating risk. Read more here: 

finix.com • 1 min read

Finix Launches Automated Merchant Underwriting

It didn't take long in my new role to confirm that Shield AI is the real deal. 

We're working on some amazing things, and looking for exceptional engineers to join the cause. 

A few of the roles needed:

- Embedded software
- GNC / Controls
- Aerodynamics
- RF / Electrical
- Mechanical Design / Structures
- Software (all the kinds)
- Flight Testing
- Technical Program Management

If you are excellent in your field and want to put your energy into making a meaningful impact on the security of the free world, let's chat.

Full list of posted positions here: https://lnkd.in/gnKPKn8d? 

jobs.lever.co • 1 min read

Shield AI jobs

Max Geller and Katie Spotton have 5 open Engineering roles here at adonis, including Machine Learning, Full Stack, Platform, and DevOps specific opportunities. 

If you or anyone in your network is looking to make a massive dent in the billions spent annually on healthcare admin in the US, while working with a world class team -- please reach out to me in my DM! 


adonis.io • 1 min read

Job @ Adonis

Are you interested in leading a world class team of Program Managers and engineers in building the software ecosystem to train, evaluate and deploy the World's Best AI Pilot?

Shield AI is looking for you.

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