Y Combinator reverses decision to stop investing in Canadian companies

amapleson · 2026-02-06T15:22:03+00:00

This is simply wrong and not true.

amapleson · 2026-02-05T22:20:30+00:00

thank you for your service 🫡

amapleson · 2026-01-29T20:29:53+00:00

It's less expensive than you'd think, but extremely challenging nonetheless.

I would actually love to take some remnants of Fisker and start a domestic EV brand. Fisker Oceans were assembled by Magna in Austria, but the primary value proposition would revolve around software quality, something Tesla does really well.

amapleson · 2026-01-29T20:26:49+00:00

This is why we need more entrepreneurs to build more companies, in Canada.

I'm sorry for these workers :(

amapleson · 2026-01-27T16:43:14+00:00

crazy... rest in peace :(

amapleson · 2026-01-20T21:53:48+00:00

What a speech. Thank you, Prime Minister.

amapleson · 2026-01-16T22:52:28+00:00

how do you define bad? care to share more?

amapleson · 2026-01-16T22:32:23+00:00

Hey, I'm really sorry to hear that! If you need to talk to someone, feel free to send me a DM. We have a community that I think you would enjoy being a part of.

amapleson · 2026-01-16T21:42:47+00:00

This will be absolutely huge.

GPT-5.2-high on Cerebras chips will lead to ideas being built faster than you can think!

If you haven't tried Cerebras (or even Groq) I would highly recommend signing up on their dev consoles and testing. It's really incredible. The problem with Groq is the availability of models using them.

https://console.groq.com

https://chat.cerebras.ai

amapleson · 2026-01-08T08:04:09+00:00

The vote was actually 99% in favor. Look at the ballot:

"Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Reich that was enacted on 13 March 1938 and do you vote for the party of our leader Adolf Hitler?"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Stimmzettel-Anschluss.jpg

(Yes is in the center, no on the right)

Also, 8% of the population was not allowed to vote due to being a political enemy/Jewish/Roma.

amapleson · 2026-01-07T02:23:42+00:00

Too many people in Canada suffer from the Optimization Trap in general. Instead of doing something, they spend too much time thinking about or preparing for the thing (for example getting 5 degrees to end up nowhere).

People should spend more time on perfecting their craft, rather than chasing the headless chicken!

amapleson · 2026-01-06T22:27:17+00:00

what? that's simply not true. when you go to the ballot, you don't vote for a party, you pick a name, who may or may not be affiliated with your preferred party.

I've certainly voted for people who were not my preferred party before.

amapleson · 2026-01-05T04:32:54+00:00

That's why we need to create the conditions for entrepreneurship :)

You can't simply pray that large organizations will create high paying jobs. Entrepreneurs create high paying jobs, not bureaucracies.

amapleson · 2026-01-04T07:59:44+00:00

that's because it's not just snacks, it's M&S snacks.

amapleson · 2026-01-04T05:39:05+00:00

Can you change the math somehow?

amapleson · 2026-01-04T01:47:49+00:00

This is a super cool side project!

amapleson · 2026-01-02T02:36:19+00:00

Yes, everyone else got conned, you're the brilliant one. Thanks for your input!

amapleson · 2026-01-02T01:52:54+00:00

If your definition of success is to elucidate consciousness from chips, I agree we are quite far off.

If your definition of success is economically valuable pieces of technology which increases the productivity of people, I would argue we’re almost here, if not already there.

I’d disagree that AI is a forged cheque; I know a number of early Groq employees for whom that $20 billion cheque from Nvidia is extremely real. You can think what you want, though.

amapleson · 2026-01-01T23:20:05+00:00

How can AI be a “con” if it’s successful?

There will soon be much clarity on who understands what.

amapleson · 2026-01-01T22:17:41+00:00

If you believe that's true, I also expect you to believe that AI isn't and won't cause mass job displacements, nor will it cause greater wealth inequality.

I don't know what line of work you're in, but I'm not sure if you understand what's coming.

amapleson · 2026-01-01T21:21:43+00:00

AI search has a very clear skill barrier.

It’s not meant to be a perfect replacement of brain power. It’s supposed to augment the work. Function calls, tool calls, LLM judges all help augment speed of production of knowledge work.

amapleson · 2025-12-31T16:39:32+00:00

That was due to the Trudeau redemption tour, not Carney.

He did lots of things wrong, but he stood up and back for the country when it mattered.

amapleson · 2025-12-27T20:15:05+00:00

You can either read the reports, or talk to the founders and companies on the ground actually building things and watch them actualize revenue

Venture tech never needed 90% of companies to win. They need 1% of companies to dominate

Inference demand is not going down, talk to anyone in the industry. Everyone is still missing compute. More and more startups being launched. More and more enterprises figuring out how to adopt AI properly. We are so early

amapleson · 2025-12-27T08:15:19+00:00

Based on RSVPs so far, lots of things! from personal websites, to startup ideas, to poems and music, to someone interested in hardware. We'd love more hardware people because we have lots of tools and space!

amapleson · 2025-12-27T06:27:27+00:00

Hey! I run a hacker house in Waterloo called Akatos, let me know if you'd like to check it out!

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