Keith Schacht’s Weblog

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About me

I'm one part inventor, one part explainer, and one part entrepreneur.
I post regularly on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.

I've started many companies and sold a few. My first was in college; I sold it my junior year and dropped out. My "first love" was Inventables. It opened many doors like speaking at TED, meeting amazing people, and it had a modest outcome. My biggest success was Mystery Science (YC S17). I co-founded this with Mystery Doug, and it became the most widely used science curriculum in American schools (and outside of school, kids have viewed videos hundreds of millions of times on YouTube). This business had a great sale to Discovery Education.

These days I'm prototyping lots of ideas as I consider new projects, and actively investing in lots of startups. I've gone deep on the capabilities of AI, particularly around voice control. I continue to build out my personal Jarvis (demo 1 and demo 2) and open-sourced some of the code as a ChatGPT alternative. (This demo was an early source of inspiration). I'm also spending a lot of time on 3D printing and loving the latest capabilities.

  • I lived in SF for a decade and now live in Austin
  • I've been building on the internet since the BBS I ran in 1994
  • I spent a short time as a product manager at Facebook back in 2010
Ideas that are important to me:
  • We live in the best time ever in the history of the world. The fundamental driver of this progress is good ideas and their application, most evident in the tremendous advancements of science and technology over the past few hundred years.
  • A small group of talented people, gathered together with a shared purpose, can have a significant impact on the world.
  • The most important meta skills are learning how to manage your own psychology and identify the implicit philosophic ideas that you hold.

Contact

I am at "kr" followed by my last name at gmail.com

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