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John Backus

@backus

Dissonant and obsessive try-hard. Founder and CTO @getcognito (acquired by @Plaid)

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calendar_today31-08-2012 03:26:05

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Excited to share what I've been building 🚀 Introducing Codegen codegen.com ⚡ Agent-driven software development for enterprise codebases ⚡ We've raised $16mm from Thrive Capital and others to bring this to the world - techcrunch.com/2023/11/16/cod… 👇 More below

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In this podcast, Alain Meier and I discussed how we turned a college business into a $250M exit w/ just $2M in funding. Discussion includes: - building a gritty disagreeable culture - going from industry outsider → expert - reality of startups & acquisitions thisweekinfintech.com/cognito

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Product Managers are these magical creatures that lead to you somehow have both of these thoughts at the same time: • "What exactly are these people DOING?" • "I think I need more of them??"

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This thing is AMAZING. Actually as good as the promo video makes it seem which is rarely the case with these AI product launches IMO. I made ~30 songs last night across 6 different genres. All sounded professional. About as mind blowing as ChatGPT was when it first came out.

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Announcing: Plaid Layer Early customers are onboarding up to 25% more customers by using Layer. That's 10 - 25% more customers fully KYC'd with bank accounts connected, ready to go! Most fintechs are thrilled to get a 1-2% lift on this conversion metric. Insane difference.

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Excited to share what I've been building... Say hello to Fractal, the first AI-native messaging app. It's the only place where you can chat with multiple AI Personas and people together, in the same space. Check it out here: apps.apple.com/us/app/fractal…

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We need a presidential address declaring it rude and unacceptable to watch videos out loud with sound in public spaces (airports, restaurants, etc). Decency is losing this war, we can't go on like this!