Today the Bump app was described as a “golden oldie” 👴🏼

Pretty interesting that LLMs now direct the majority of my discretionary purchases but make no ad revenue whatsoever. Wonder how long that situation will persist for.

Love domain specific agents: AI that does financial research and outputs excel is :chefs-kiss:. Excited to be involved!

So GDP is only growing because of AI capex. The labor market is only growing because of health care spending and social assistance—the latter being a lot of home aides and administrators economic growth right now is basically a Friday church service: just old people + trying to

Even more extreme in complex operational industries is to build or buy the whole business. Then you can fully understand the need by making them the best in the world. _Then_ sell the software. (We are doing this at Valon for a $15B complex regulated operational industry).

Inclusive of compliance but more broad: with the right platform software + reasoning models you can now do ~all backoffice operations (only since December w/ O1). (We should debate roll-ups too, Valon has proven out an alternative approach that is in-between and fast).

Jake Mintz A wedge product can create massive spike in efficiency but the long tail only gets solved when you own the system of record. Many of the largest opportunities out there are as much a technology problem as they are people/organization.

autocorrecting "omw" to "On my way!" is diabolical

So impressed with this team and proud to be involved. Solving a big problem and huge opportunity for improving humanity and defending democracy. My very first hard tech / space investment. YC is the YC for space.

Personally I like em dashes—they hit harder than commas.

Jeff Bezos literally dropped the most underrated winning principle

Multi-player AI is the part that wowed me—excited to see the focus.

Case study on own goaling. No one good would ever work at GM after seeing how they dismantled Cruise.

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And Bluetooth

Our last two interviewees built prototypes for their take home without being asked

Those aren’t in conflict. YC doesn’t say “ask people what they want”

It’s incredible how often b2b AI products can take the shape of more valuable AND easier to use/integrate. So many just explosive businesses ramping up.

why did they call it waymo and not google drive