Jordan Thibodeau

@JordanSVIC

I write about tech Mergers & Acquisitions, ex Google and Slack. Free ebook on how to manage your manager: tinyurl.com/MYMebook

San Jose, CA

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Jordan Thibodeau
@JordanSVIC
Dec 24, 2025
Folks need to clarify that Nvidia's acquisition with Groq is a license and release deal similar to Windsurf, Character.ai, and other deals, which is a way for Nvidia to avoid anti-trust heat. Nvidia takes top Groq talent and IP, and leaves behind a zombie company.
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Jordan Thibodeau
@JordanSVIC
Aug 27
Upshot of these hugging face LLM hacking stories is that the AI lab will turn something into nothing out of AGI true believers wanting to see God, AI lab leaders needing marketing,.and long term alignment folks needing to justify their careers. At the end of the day we've seen
Jordan Thibodeau
@JordanSVIC
Aug 27
Replying to @tszzl
It reminds me of adults giving a kid a pound of sugar, sending them to church, then acting shocked when the kid gets out of line. I’m still waiting for a model to do this without being pushed into the scenario from the start. Until then, a lot of this feels like us projecting
Jordan Thibodeau
@JordanSVIC
Aug 22
Adult pouting is not getting exactly what you wanted, then taking your ball and going home instead of adapting. Sometimes the “meh” opportunity is the bridge to the next dope one or once completed a favor to cash in for a bigger opportunity. Don’t cut yourself off from the
Jordan Thibodeau
@JordanSVIC
Aug 21
The upside of normies using Codex and Claude Code: millions more people will discover the terminal, APIs and how much janky UI stands between them and getting shit done.
Jordan Thibodeau
@JordanSVIC
Aug 20
As normies start using Claude Code, they’re increasingly running into security reviews, access controls, and other forms of bureaucratic theater which was previously hidden from them by eng. That creates pressure from across the company to rethink these processes and strip out