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fallingsquirrel · 2024-09-18T01:33:11 1726623191

I'm curious to know the topic of these emails. I never once thought to cold email the CEO of a company. (Then again maybe that's why I'm a programmer, not a CEO myself.)

breck · 2024-09-18T01:43:19 1726623799

Most of them are minor ideas like the ones I just copy/pasted below. But sometimes they are longer like this one: https://hub.scroll.pub/applecard/applecard.pdf

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Nope, we don't have one yet though it would be a good idea. I'm looping in Joe for this.

Thanks for the nudge!

Nathan Co-founder & CTO Help: www.airbnb.com/help Recent press: Washington Post http://bit.ly/KkEzT

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Breck Yunits <breck7@gmail.com> wrote:

just curious why you don't have a favicon (or maybe it just doesn't work on my computer)?

- favicon police

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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 06:19:24 -1000

Subject: Idea: OpenAI should invest in TabNine which uses GPT-2

From: Breck Yunits <breck7@gmail.com>

To: SArouter@openai.com

The product is one in a million. Hard to code without it now.

But the kid seems overworked and like he's struggling to keep up with demand (https://github.com/zxqfl/TabNine/issues/179#issuecomment-547...)

soheil · 2024-09-18T03:07:14 1726628834

wow altman hired jacob bc of your email?

breck · 2024-09-18T04:02:47 1726632167

i have no idea. i've sent sam many emails. that's just one. i'm sure most of my ideas are bad, but I like to pretend that 1 in 10 are a worthwhile tip.

he (or his office/AGI reply bot) always humors me into at least believing he's listening ;)

(he has also always generously provided me with great guidance many times over the years, like when he advised me to take the MSFT offer we got in 2014, when I was on the fence, which turned out to be the right move 110%)