The middle of building a startup is weird. Big companies launch things in your space. Investors say the market is crowded. Twitter says AI will replace everything. And you just keep shipping.

Traditional SaaS businesses in finance are going to be obsolete by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg, Reuters etc)

Alt-X (At-X) builds AI agents that turn real estate deal documents into fully built underwriting models in Excel automatically, with every number cited back to the source. Congrats on the launch, Ryan Samadi and Michael! ycombinator.com/launches/PjC-a…

Y Combinator Alt-X Ryan Samadi We got AI Excel before GTA 6

Alexandre Lam make something people want

User growth since launch has been absolutely insane, DM me for free pro and ultra credits

A great heuristic for startup health can be measured by whether or not they have a company cafe

Y Combinator Demo Day in the books, grateful to be part of such an amazing community of founders.

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Alt-X top spot 🚀🚀🚀

Amazing how many Alt-X competitors don’t even have live and downloadable excel products— if you have no version that is open to the public you will lose, I guess i should be glad that they are lost on this fact.

Who has an OAI basketball I can buy

Work is the food of the soul

If your company doesn’t have a product that is free to distribute you’re basically vaporware as far as I’m concerned

LLMs are echo chambering us into oblivion

One common denominator among legends is they persevered through tough times. Onwards and upwards 🚀 We need him on the pod Jonah

The commoditization of software changed startup GTM forever. Most founders used to ask: “How do we build the product?” Now the real questions are: -Building moat -Generating non-commoditized PNL -If we are a commodity, how do we distribute better than everyone else?

It’s ridiculous how much slop has pervaded cold outreach emails. All with the same form “Sounds fair enough?” Bs At the end like it’s a wolf of Wall Street pitch. Make your outreach good if you want a good engagement rate.