.Balazs Deme from Pile Capital live on the Main Chain Stage now. 👉 Abstract Wallets As An API Using Pile

Sad to see great companies, and their teams fall apart due to ego/infighting. OpenAI had everything going for them. I'm excited to see what Sam Altman builds next!

Starting an AI or any kind of frontier tech company that pushes the limits of tech in Europe is becoming more of a bad move. Most unfriendly jurisdiction to push for change and actually achieve it.

Perhaps my favorite part of being in SF as a founder: nobody cares what you built or done in Europe. Skill, grit, hard work is all that matters.

Whenever solves getting a cheaper mortgage will win big. Huge problem in both US and Europe. Definitely one sector AI can help. Wonder if anyone is tackling it already.

SWIFT turns 50 today. Unbelievably infuriating how cross-border payments are still stuck in time and have not been solved at scale.

So much to be done still in website creation no-code tools. Any tool that's not a joke nowadays that is good to put together landing pages?

Biggest reality check any founder or team can do is try their product and ask if it feels and works excellent for the problems they are solving. One of the worst places to be in as a startup is having some demand but not the kind where their customers go "wow, sign me up"

Software engineering will feel more and more like pressing tabs.

The most obvious, long-standing problems are the hardest ones to solve.

We don't have a Ramp for Europe. Nothing remotely comes close in terms of product coverage and depth for finance teams.

Every SaaS product being built today should be built with LLM agent use in mind. Both in terms of docs being easy for agents to consume, but also all product actions laid out differently. Accuracy and speed on these workflows will set these products apart from the rest.

2025 will be the year for single person startups. We will see experienced operators take in larger startups

Software engineering is becoming more and more like the growth function. How engineers use newer and newer tools will get them and edge in pace compared to the rest. Engineers already churn from one app to the next if the results are better. This will only accelerate.

Having hired over 50 engineers, I can say that the only thing that matters pre and post recruitment is pace. That's really it. It will continue to be the single most important trait in the AI dev/agent space as well going forward

Best EU founder filter: do they ship on public holidays (we have a lot) or not. 99% get found out. Not working on major public holidays is weak sauce as a founder

AI already replaced mid software engineers and designers, they just just don't know it yet. Whenever you start from the right color scheme and structure for a page, it's going to crush. Bigger the model the better.

Shipping products and features that make you smile when you use them is a pretty solid approach to build great things.

Apple glass but the gl is silent. What a massive downgrade. You'd think with that many designers you could do better. Apparently not!

Dark/Light mode is always a distraction. At smaller startups it signals that you are focusing on the wrong thing, at bigger startups it just says you're losing the plot of what's important to solve for the customer.