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JD Ross

@justindross
13 posts
2026-01-14
My last company, Opendoor ($7B), replaced real estate brokers. Today, my new company WithCoverage raised $42M to replace insurance brokers. It was led by Sequoia & Khosla, the first time @RoelofBotha and @Rabois partnered since PayPal. [video]
2026-01-14 View on X
Axios

WithCoverage, which replaces traditional insurance brokers with its AI-based flat-fee risk management model, raised a $42M Series B led by Sequoia and Khosla

WithCoverage, which replaces traditional insurance brokers with a flat-fee risk management model, raised $42 million in Series B funding …

2025-12-17
Laughed seeing NYTimes say Alexandr Wang “isn't an Engineer” When we hired him as a 17 year old software engineer, he had ranked as the 10th best competitive programmer in the US at IOI [image]
2025-12-17 View on X
Financial Times

Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's all-in bet to make Meta an AI leader, with some saying Alexandr Wang finds Zuckerberg's micromanagement of AI work suffocating

A year of internal disorder, fluctuating priorities and colossal spending at Meta has rattled insiders and investors

2024-06-11
Apple using Apple Silicon in its own data centers (not nVidia chips) to power Apple Intelligence Very interesting, and getting little attention so far
2024-06-11 View on X
Ars Technica

Apple says its Private Cloud Compute for AI processing uses servers with Apple silicon, and “independent experts can inspect the code” that runs on its servers

And publicly reviewable server code means experts can “verify this privacy promise.”

Apple using Apple Silicon in its own data centers (not nVidia chips) to power Apple Intelligence Very interesting, and getting little attention so far
2024-06-11 View on X
Apple Machine Learning Research

Apple details two Apple Intelligence language models: ~3B parameter on-device and a larger model on Apple silicon servers available with Private Cloud Compute

At the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, we introduced Apple Intelligence, a personal intelligence system integrated deeply into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia.

2023-11-23
I'm happy for Sam and especially for the whole OpenAI team Certainly remain interested to hear Adam's story one day — managed to say nothing publicly and retain the board seat, so at minimum he believes strongly in the importance of his role on the board.
2023-11-23 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

4 key takeaways Jason Dorrier / Singularity Hub : OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don't Know Yet, and What Could Be Next New York Times : Explaining OpenAI's Board Shake-Up CNBC :...

I'm happy for Sam and especially for the whole OpenAI team Certainly remain interested to hear Adam's story one day — managed to say nothing publicly and retain the board seat, so at minimum he believes strongly in the importance of his role on the board.
2023-11-23 View on X
The Information

Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern

One day before he was fired by OpenAI's board last week, Sam Altman alluded to a recent technical advance the company …

2023-11-22
I'm happy for Sam and especially for the whole OpenAI team Certainly remain interested to hear Adam's story one day — managed to say nothing publicly and retain the board seat, so at minimum he believes strongly in the importance of his role on the board.
2023-11-22 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.

2023-11-18
I couldn't be less excited about OpenAI as I am right now. I hope Greg and Sam just compete and win.
2023-11-18 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn't “consistently candid in his communications with the board”

The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities …

2023-01-04
Looks like Wyre just shut down their business Everyone in our shared Slack channel disabled except the GC. Hearing no severance.
2023-01-04 View on X
Axios

Sources: crypto payments startup Wyre told staff that it is shutting down; Bolt planned to acquire Wyre for ~$1.5B but canceled the deal in September 2022

Wyre, a crypto payments company founded in 2013, has told employees that it is shutting down amid layoffs, Axios has learned.

2022-12-01
ChatGPT is immediately a better starting point for me than Google for questions I have. This is pretty crazy.
2022-12-01 View on X
MIT Technology Review

OpenAI releases a demo of ChatGPT, a chatbot version of GPT-3 that answers follow-up questions, admits its mistakes, challenges incorrect premises, and more

A chatbot version of GPT-3 that admits its mistakes is more transparent than the original.  But it's still not perfect.

2021-08-27
Crypto feels like the tech world in 2009 — optimistic, experimental, supportive and fun! If you want to work at intersection of music and pioneering technology - DM me Big vision, help creators and join an experienced team https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-27 View on X
The Block

DJ 3LAU launches Royal, which lets users trade shares of song royalty rights as crypto tokens, with $16M in seed funding led by Founders Fund and Paradigm

optimistic, experimental, supportive and fun! If you want to work at intersection of music and pioneering technology - DM me Big vision, help creators and join an experienced team ...

2021-01-25
Clubhouse's whole team is getting appropriate accolades for breaking ground with a new social medium, and I want to give a special props to cofounder @rohanseth for everything he's overcome these last few years to get to this moment https://joinclubhouse.com/...
2021-01-25 View on X
Clubhouse

Clubhouse raises Series B led by a16z, says it has 180+ investors, and will test options for paying creators and begin work on an Android app soon

When I first met Paul Davison, it took about 10 seconds to realize … Tae Kim / Bloomberg : Forget TikTok. Clubhouse Is Social Media's Next Star. Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch : ...

2020-12-22
I want to tell a quick personal story about @rabois, mentorship and making bets. There are hundreds of people who can tell a similar story, but indulge me.
2020-12-22 View on X
Reuters

Opendoor goes public through a merger with a SPAC, as shares rose 5.9% in their Nasdaq debut on Monday, giving Opendoor a market capitalization of $17B