Day 1 posting a celebrity until they respond MrBeast, but a Blue Tiger 🔵🐯

Serena Williams Alexis Ohanian 🗽, but cats 😺 (1/3)

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Coincidentally just 6 weeks prior to October 7th, I finished producing a short film about my Russian Jewish parents' intense immigration story. The entire sentiment of the film was contrasting how unthinkably terrible it was growing up Jewish in the Soviet Union versus how safe

Announcing: ODF’s Top Companies of 2024 In 5 years, ODF founders have started 1k+ startups worth billions. Here’s our list of companies that made major progress in the last year, ranging from pre-seed to series D. beondeck.com/top-companies-…

Excited to share a big update — I’ve started a new company! 🚀 It’s been an incredible 4 years at Retool — 7 new products from Workflows to Retool AI, 100s of Retools, and 1,000,000s of apps. Thank you to David Hsu for taking the chance on acquiring our startup all those years

Last week I over-indulged in tech podcasts & the X timeline so wrote this piece on the current state of discourse & it's reality for company building + investing. Timely with all the shouting & clout chasing around Deepseek, its a good reminder. Everyone is talking their book.

Today Warmly, finalizes our $17M Series A for our AI Sales Platform. This extra $6M extension comes from RTP Global with participation from Felicis & NFX Sign up to get 500 warm leads/month free at Warmly.ai! Read more here: tech.eu/2025/02/04/war…

Today I’m officially launching my new company, Paid backed by @EQTVentures and Sequoia Capital with €10M in pre-seed funding. Paid is the business engine that empowers AI Agent builders to monetize their creations. With just five lines of code, Agent builders can deploy

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Founders - don't bring on a sales team until you nail Product Market [Message] Fit. Your value proposition or your messaging is the bread & butter of what makes communication about your product idea successful. Yet many founders don't get the importance of that early on and

Going CLEAR Day 517: Yesterday I posted an unpaid internship position & because apparently that is illegal in California, I went viral on X. I’ve now changed the position to paid but am in a tough position: paying is not a good use of company funds vs just using AI. Here’s what

OH in San Francisco Child: “What’s an Uber?” Adult: “It’s like a Waymo, but with a driver”

The new 10x engineer is a forward deployed AI engineer embedded by the humans at Codegen 1 day in person + >10 min human slack response (>1 second codegen response) changed the trajectory of our $5m ARR saas company Thank you Jay Hack and team!

Today we're excited to launch Pace, the agentic process outsourcer (APO) for the insurance industry.

Solo founders are underestimated. We’re changing that. In May we launched the Solo Founders Program (<1% acceptance rate) for six founders to build together in SF. 60 days in: millions raised, 35k GitHub stars, rapid growth. Join us: Fall 2025 applications close soon.

Introducing: Marketing Ops Agent by Warmly, // the #1 AI to create the most precise, real-time, auto updating list of target accounts ⭐️ Bluntly: this is the most powerful launch in Warmly’s history. This agent is the result of 250+ interviews with Marketing & Demand Gen

Grateful to see Warmly, on the top list!

lol Block/Square stock is up like 20% on laying off 40% of their headcount while growing and profitable. The Faustian bargain that big tech made with society was by creating a nuevoaristocracy of laptop-class landed gentry, their founders and shareholders were allowed to become