bullish on founders that procrastinate->

To young future founders starting out:

Mentorship touted by big tech recruiters is a scam to make you enslaved

If you want to make a successful startup, the only real mentor is the customer

YC Winter 2024 Batch: AI Dominates as Tech Startups Embrace a New Era

What could be good data to indicate the direction of the tech industry? By looking at the statistics of each Y Combinator Batch, we can get an overview of the current direction the tech industry is pointing.…

Introducing play.ai — a new conversational Voice AI platform and API for creating human-like voice agents and voice interfaces.

Powered by our new Large Dialogue Model (LDM), Play LDM 1.0 makes the speech generation contextual; handles turn-taking, interruption,…

Teleo Supervised Autonomy is changing the game for the heavy equipment industry. With autonomous and remote-operated capabilities unlocked by Teleo, Tomahawk Construction enables 1 operator to control 3 articulated dump trucks – while they sit comfortably 40 miles away.…

“Everybody wants an abundant future, but nobody wants to dig no heavy-ass rocks.”

Mining is a $2 trillion industry. It's eons older than prostitution & may be the last industry standing post-AGI. But new discoveries are anemic and VC doesn't touch it.

Enter EARTH AI 🪨

“Apply to YC, get plugged into all the best builders of your generation, stay in San Francisco, and go all in now. Elements of the periodic table of startups are being discovered right now, and you all are the physicists.” Garry Tan

A big fan of Work at Startup by Y Combinator (hats off to the Ryan Choi 🐢💵 !!) We posted a new job two days ago and got hundreds of applicants pretty fast. Quan is great but also it's the best vetting layer to make sure incoming talents love startups.

Listening to Tom Blomfield sharing how to raise VC money at #TcEarlyStage2024
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We raised a Series C!

'We now have over $40M in the bank, are crossing $20M in ARR, and are accelerating.'

This, and more insights into the why and what of our latest funding round in the thread:

🎧🍌 New The Peel with rahul

Rahul Sonwalker is the founder and CEO of Julius, an AI data scientist.

He takes us inside his epic “Ligma Johnson” prank, where he pretended to be fired from Twitter the day Elon acquired the company. He then takes us inside his…

Introducing ReaperAI, a tool to automatically delete dead code from mobile apps 💀🤖

🤔 What % of your (or your employer's) codebase do you think is unused?

Link to join waitlist in 🧵

Crypto is back. @Stripe will start supporting global stablecoin payments this summer. Transactions instantly settle on-chain and automatically convert to fiat. Join the waitlist stripe.com/use-cases/cryp… and watch the demo (h/t @Solana) from Sessions.

This week on the Lightcone:

🫡 Consumer is back
💰 What’s getting funded now
😎 How did the vibes get so immaculate?

youtu.be/e1Yhs9BEOSw

Not a lot of people know that we launched ironclad.ai as a AI legal assistant back in 2015. It was fun to reflect on the early days with the amazing team at First Round as part of their PMF Method 🙌

Congrats to Radical on their $4.5M seed!

Radical (YC W23) is building high-altitude solar drones to provide persistent services from the stratosphere, unlocking new opportunities for high-quality imaging, sensing, and telecommunications.

techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/rad…

I would much rather work with a consistent, predictable sales team that works hard every day than a bunch of reps who slam red bulls at the end of each quarter and close a few big deals to get to their number.

tigereye.com/blog/attainmen…

The subscription management platform for apps, RevenueCat (YC S18), just raised a $12M series C to help developers make even more money.

Congrats Jacob Eiting — iap/acc, Miguel Carranza, and team! techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/rev…

Hard to think of something less helpful than teaching young ambitious people to hate technological change. It’s a setup for a life of confusion and frustration.