Gus Coldebella

Our flagship event for founders in the True Portfolio, #FounderCamp2025, kicks off this week! We can hardly believe it – this will be our 18th Founder Camp to date. See you soon, Founders!

@clarencebethea.bsky.social and @gusco.bsky.social — our partner focused on public policy for emerging technologies — talk pace of AI policy and how to unpack its uncertainty as founders build AI-native companies.

More on shaping new AI policy in the U.S. from Gus: trueventures.com/blog/a-way-f...

Shaping New AI Policy in the U.S. True Partner Gus Coldebella shares ways startup founders building at the forefront of artificial intelligence can influence AI Policy developments and advocate for their industry.

AI technology policy in the U.S. is ripe for the making. @gusco.bsky.social, our partner focused on public policy for emerging technologies, offers an opportunity for startup founders to weigh in on decision making. Get his take on how to make your voice heard: trueventures.com/blog/a-way-f...

Why is every law "obscure" to the reporter writing an article about it?

Lots going on today, but on this MLK Day it's worthwhile to read perhaps his most powerful work: Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

letterfromjail.com

Congratulations to Acting Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Mark Uyeda.

The SEC is no longer a footsoldier in the anti-crypto army.

Independent evaluations of OpenAI’s o3 suggest that it passed math & reasoning benchmarks that were previously considered far out of reach for AI including achieving a score on ARC-AGI that was associated with actually achieving AGI (though the creators of the benchmark don’t think it o3 is AGI)

It is so bad.

"The remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” -Brandeis

The next Congress must grapple with maintaining American leadership in crypto and AI—two of the most consequential technological developments of my lifetime—and incoming Chairman French Hill is a student of, and an expert in, both.

The House Financial Services Committee will be in good hands.

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Paradigm shift: Meta's withholding its latest AI model from the EU due to uncertain regulations could spark EU citizens to demand change.

My thoughts here:

coldebella.substack.com/p/a-glimmer-...

A tour de force. Thanks to Peter van Valkenberg and Coin Center for their clarity:

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Hey y'all! Who's here?

The 1/6 report is an important read for every American -- but if you can't get through the whole thing, the executive summary is compelling.

It's available here:

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-J6-REPORT/GPO-J6-REPORT-1-6

Signed this letter, which with Wednesday's hearing in Congress, correct the record on crypto use in terrorism finance and open up substantive discussion on real solutions.

https://x.com/g_co/status/1725241272296689686?s=46

Thanks to Tom Emmer for stepping up--he would have made a great Speaker.

Now that NameDrop is live, Apple has to make a change: user should be able to choose what My Card info to share via NameDrop, and the system should remember it. Currently doesn't.

Goose, Fox Theater, Oakland

So psyched to talk about stablecoin legislation at #Mainnet2023 with an all-star lineup:

Georgia Quinn / Anchorage
John Yarwood / UDHC and
Heath Tarbert / Circle

See you there.

Happy Constitution & Citizenship Day: celebrating the day 233 years ago that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed it, and all who chose to become US citizens.

If you're 👀 for something appropriate to read:

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

Ray LaMontagne, Wang Theater, Boston

Is friend.tech still a thing? Yup. If you want to give it a try, I just got some fresh new invite codes:

Excited to be joining 2,000+ friends at Messari Mainnet in NYC in two weeks, and talking crypto regulation with some of the industry's finest.

All profits go to the country's leading crypto advocacy groups. Link here: events.messari.io/mainnet2023

Important advocacy project. Members of Congress are influenced by what's going on in their districts--especially when jobs are being created.

https://x.com/amiravalliani/status/1695043387299172640?s=46

Yes, I'm on friend.tech, and you can be too:

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