Trung Phan

Trung Phan

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Write on business with @workweekinc. Building an AI research app (https://t.co/fZ5ObIyBGI) and LLM API management platform (https://t.co/VTMMh1VdHR)

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Anthropic on $14B run rate (up 140x in past 3 years). Enterprise/dev focus has been huge and it overtook OpenAI as top enterprise AI API in 2025. > # of customers spending $100,000+ has grown 7x in past year. > # of clients spending $1m a year up from 12 to >500 in last 2 years twitter.com/bearlyai/status/20...

The John Wick franchise has interesting investing back story: directors were short $6m for first film and maxed out their credit cards (Keanu also ponied up all he could). Talent agency CAA tapped its network for financing and an anonymous person did the deal. It was Eva Longoria and she bumped into the directors many years afterwards — they hadn’t really spoken prior — and she told them “Wow, that was the best money I've ever spent.” There’s no confirmation on her return but she was “first on the waterfall” of payments and John Wick made $86m on a budget of $20m (the three sequels have done ~$1B at the box office). twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/...

My wife is about to get the biggest Valentine’s Day dinner surprise of her life

Robin Williams had some thoughts on the origin of Luge (and the Double Luge) twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/...

Fantastic Olympics journey: > 54-year old Rich Ruohonen is a law firm partner > been top American curler for decades but never made Olympics > barely missed qualifying in 2022 and thought dream was over > a team member for 2026 Olympics got sick and they tapped Rich to be an alternative > before leaving for Milan, he set the automatic email reply for his personal injury practice: “I am out of the office. Playing in the Olympics.” > Rich is more than twice as old as the rest of teammates (mid-20s, same age as Rich’s kids) and coaches > he's practicing, cooking and even paying day-to-day expenses for the team > his teammates call him the Team Dad and promise to get him some ice time (which would make him the oldest American Winter Olympics athlete ever) If not, the WSJ dropped this wild article subtitle "All he needs is for one of his teammates to slip and fall." twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/...

Fantastic Olympics journey: > 54-year old Rick Ruohonen is a law firm partner > been top American curler for decades but never made Olympics > barely missed qualifying in 2022 and thought dream was over > a team member for 2026 Olympics got sick and they tapped Rick to be an alternative > before leaving for Milan, he set the automatic email reply for is personal injury practice: “I am out of the office. Playing in the Olympics.” > Rick is more than twice as old as the rest of teammates (mid-20s, same age as Rick's kids) and coaches > he's practicing, cooking and even paying day-to-day expenses for the team > his teammates call him the Team Dad and promise to get him some ice time (which would make him the oldest American Winter Olympics athlete ever) If not, the WSJ dropped this wild article subtitle "All he needs is for one of his teammates to slip and fall." twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/...

My son: “Dad, what should I do when I grow up.” Me seeing the latest AI models:

Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo’s sub-6 minute mile pace running uphill on skis is the most impressive snowy mountain sprint since Rocky shook his Soviet handlers before fighting Ivan Drago

NBC Olympics & Paralympics

Sub-six-minute mile pace uphill on skis: #WinterOlympics SPEED. 🔥

My new favourite Winter Olympic sport: synchronized leaf blowers to dry the ice in the seconds between aerial ski jumps.

Today is the 30th anniversary of IBM's Deep Blue beating Kasparov for the first time in a chess match, which is a good reminder that IBM has somehow outperformed Meta, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon over the past 5 years.

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