Swarm riders and Swarm-native companies
AI-use even among highly AI-native people is power-law distributed.
There seems to be a new class of people — call them “swarm riders” — who are capable of consistently commanding large swarms of agents to productive ends.
This is a new
Zipline is now one of the largest autonomous robotics companies in the world, operating with scale, safety, and a magical user experience for consumers and merchants (including Walmart, Uber, etc)
Excited for Paradigm to lead this $1.5B round
Today, Zipline raised $1.5b at a $21.5b valuation.
When we started Zipline, flying autonomously in the US was illegal. Which made it really hard to convince investors to give us money! But we were too naive to think that meant we shouldn’t try.
We started the company on a cow
At an election watch party and we're consistently stunned at how slow and dumb and boring all the big establishment services are. Big win for prediction markets tonight
