It's been an honor to work with @ebloch across three amazing companies and products he's built. More from Ethan on the Plaid / ChatGPT journey here!

Wabi 2.0 is live! personal agents are one person, one chat. but the parts of life that matter run on more than one person Wabi is an agent you use together. you talk to it, it does stuff, builds the apps you need, and anyone can join the thread - your partner, your best friend, the preschool moms groupchat school changes pickup time → Wabi updates the family calendar, everyone sees it. a show you’d both love → Wabi finds a night that works, gets the tickets. the trip everyone keeps talking about → Wabi picks the dates, builds the itinerary, books it go start a thread with your people 👇

The first time I used a terminal was when I opened Cygwin in CS101 and typed pwd. Since then, I’ve used a terminal as one of my primary work tools every day. But it wasn’t until coding agents that I wanted to change the terminal itself. I’m really excited to share my side project: Nyx Terminal. It’s built for people running lots of coding agents across many projects at once. It is a tool. It gets out of the way. It reveals itself in the details. There are many terminals. This one is mine, and now it can be yours too. nyxterm.com

Today, we’re launching an ambitious new school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy. Based in San Francisco, The Academy serves the most promising young high school graduates. We think this can be an elite institution that attracts top tier talent. One that prepares students for the future rather than remaining stuck in the past. The #1 goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era. They'll learn primarily by pursuing their own projects, either individually or in groups. There are classes and guest lectures, too, from some truly amazing people who have built modern-day Silicon Valley. The Academy is designed as a network, since that’s the reason students go to school in the first place. Core to that network are our 10 Founding Partners: Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe. The network includes over 50 hiring partners and over 200 speakers and mentors. To join as a hiring partner or faculty member, you can apply on our website. We raised $42M in funding led by @a16z. I'll be CEO and @pmarca and @eriktorenberg will join me on the board. Applications are open for our Founding Class Fellowship, which will be one year and tuition-free. Eventually, pending regulatory approval, we plan to offer a two-year program that charges tuition, similar in cost to an elite private university. We're looking for the most unusually ambitious young builders on the planet. Come join us in San Francisco: theacademysf.com/

I often hear from early startups that they need a freelancer or founding designer to help define themselves. I’d love to help make those connections. If you’re a freelancer, small studio, or open to an interesting founding design role, DM me and I’ll share roles as they come up!

Just learned about Ken Isaacs' "Superchair" (1967). Built-in book rest, shelves, lamp, drink tray, and a seat back that folds into a bed. A place for "inventive work and the individual search for peace of mind", as he put it. It was meant for people to build it themselves, hence the almost unfinished look. Blueprints were published in Popular Science in 1968.

We're back with BYOB, but this time in the 🍎. We’re hosting an event at our NYC office to create a space for coming together to share and talk about design. Much of design history and inspiration lives in books, making it harder to discover online. So, bring a book and share something that inspires you. Join the waitlist 🫒 luma.com/e5xnylu2