Cold calling just got a whole lot warmer—we at Leaping AI (YC W25) just overhauled outbound calling with best-in-voice-ai experience 1. Easily navigate IVRs and detect voicemail 2. Configure retries 3. See successful calls (the only ones that matter) 4. ???? 5. PROFIT

Only in SF: founder pulled up to YC and glued his startup QR code 200 times in front of the door. Pitching to prospective users (YC founders) and YC partners.

Man’s telling me to stop eating, looking at screens and now also exercising 4 hours before sleep. Should I just go and look at a wall Bryan Johnson?

Overheard in SF at a dinner with YC founders: “We celebrated our fundraise by watching family guy … it was sick bro.”

Don’t give up because someone else launched first It only matters who is left standing at the end

2025: meetings with two humans and three AI note takers

Difference between YC voice AI startups who pivot or die, and the ones that get $200k+ enterprise contracts? E👏V👏A👏L👏S Let me explain...

Expectation management is super important when pitching AI agents!!

Feels like entirety of Munich has YC interviews next week. Good luck everyone!

"Voice AI really starts making economic sense at 500+ calls or 20+ agents" 📊 This insight from Kevin Wu (Leaping AI (YC W25)) is reshaping how enterprises think about voice AI deployment. Why the threshold? Implementation costs are relatively fixed regardless of scale, but

Overheard in SF: the Bay Area has been taken over by too many non-technical people

I already had 99 problems. Thanks OpenAI and outages for adding another one:/

News media reaching out to us as a former employer of Soham. Feels like True Crime + Kardashians. Don’t buy the “dire financials” excuse. Bro wasn’t pushy on salary + 17 Silicon Valley paychecks over 3 years and my man is still in debt?? The truth is still out there in the dark

Padel in USA: $60. Padel in Spain: $4. That’s why USA has higher GDP.

Seems like a guy named Keith is now the most interesting person in SF after the Soham thing

OAI producing graphs like this. But who cares. We don’t need McKinsey grade slides. Just better performing models.

Next CDTM startup that I mentored just got into YC X25. Feel like a kingmaker.

1 year ago I was living in Germany and broke. We pitched 50 VCs for $500k Pre-seed and all of them said no. One year later, I moved to SF and raised $4.7M from Nexus, YC and Paul Graham with the round done in less than a week. The YC effect:)