chief code deprecator @virioai prev: ff @southpkcommons, apm @salesforce, eng @stripe, cs @yale
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founder/VC trivia night:
- every trivia question relies on alpha you could've only milked from first party sources
- no answers are validated aloud
most terminally gossiping team wins
this is like drake v kendrick for people who know what embeddings are
You are a struggling second tier competitor that is more unethical and lying just because you have no decency or sense of proper behavior and shows your desperation. Straight out lying about if Chris being fired I thought would be below even you.
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Khosla is an investor in both Cognition and Factory. khoslaventures.com/category/enter…
Emmett Chen-Ran retweeted
gtm world tour
tomorrow
speakers:
founder appdirect (1.5B) + landbase(42.5M raised)
founder smartly (100M ARR) + zerogtm (10.3M raised)
for revenue leaders interested in the future of ai & gtm
RSVP while tickets are available
@VirioAI @danielsaks @AppDirect @LandbaseGTM @triekki @smartlyio @zero_gtm
all the best things that my team has built with jev in the past week:
1. real-time AI writing detection
as soon as text is written, jev highlights the phrases that are most likely to signal AI writing
2. jev for clustering/knowledge graph construction (vs LLM)
- jev is bad at clustering. it keeps deciding to make new groups instead of adding to existing groups
- no deterioration in decision making ability with higher cardinality of choices, the way that early LLM agents did with tools (it's just bad throughout lmao)
Been Willowing all afternoon and can confirm: it’s lightning fast
Stop #7 of our voice maxing campaign: @virioai!
We dropped by the Virio office to deliver some mics and got to spend time with the team. They’re using Willow to dictate faster and get more done. Such an awesome group of people, and really cool to see what they’re building (shoutout @doubleemt).
Thanks for having us Virio, really enjoyed getting to know you all!
Emmett Chen-Ran retweeted
voice-maxxing stop 7: @VirioAI!
visiting the office of the goats of growth hacking 🐐set everyone up with mics that pick up your voice super well when you’re literally whispering
@doubleemt thanks for welcoming us!!
Sooooo thankful to not be in the idea maze rn
I understand I’m sitting in the cheap seats as an investor but I really do think Startups as an industry has experienced such model collapse over the past 12-24 months as founders have ceded so many spaces to labs and as the echo chamber has gotten louder, that we are at a local bottom for creativity in new company formation idea space.
It's not that there are no *good enough* ideas, just that they are all quite obvious/imaginable, and thus everyone kind of builds the same thing.
I think that barometer or concept matters a lot.
I like to ask people what the last truly unimaginable or unique idea they heard was and have gotten a lot of blank stares in the past year.
when me and my cofos were starting out in the idea maze, we thought that "all the easy ideas had already been taken"
which honestly feels preposterous looking back
a company achieving PMF is a unique response to the particular shape of the world at that moment. every second, that shape changes—which means every second, the set of possible companies to build changes
the user behaviors to optimize are different. the backend tech that unlocks new use cases is different.
an "easy" 2004 company might be hard in 2026, and vice versa:
building openai in 2004 might have been easier than building facebook. and maybe in an alternate timeline where AI happened before social media, they're starting to build facebook in 2026!
us: publishes a /thesis
competitor: publishes a /thesis
us: changes our home page hero section to "content that drives revenue"
competitor: changes their home page hero section and LI tag line to "content that drives revenue"
feels good to be no. 1
realizing how much of technical seniority/experience is just explaining things simply (yet accurately) and concisely
I’ve never been a SWE full time and was brain dead in all of my SWE internships so I never had any really good, really technical mentors
Recently I had a long chat with an exited CTO of an $XXM acq and was struck by how simple and clear a thing he drew on the whiteboard was
progressive disclosure! That’s all it is
Meeting people at their level of abstraction/exposure to the topic and only double clicking into more complexity when asked
I think a lot of technical people feel the need to demonstrate/peacock their technical prowess and try to “out-niche” each other. Plenty of BE eng try to one-up each other in convos by referencing some ever more esoteric thing than their convo partner
But as I’ve interacted with more “staff” eng or CTOs of real cos—technical people who have done excellent technical work—the most common behaviors I see are
1) being fluid and adept at traversing the abstraction ladder of complexity and
2) starting with simplicity by default
It’s a recurring piece of feedback I’ve given all my young engineers on how they communicate: complexity is the easy thing. Simplicity is what’s hard to effect
tbh wispr's new desktop notetaker is nothing special over granola but is actually perfect for my use case
the main thing I look at granola for is the live transcription in the middle of a meeting, and wispr's transcription is just SO much faster
Marketers at frontier cos have it so easy. Every launch it’s just “introducing our most advanced ____ ever” hit enter send
Utterly unsurprising! Congrats to @btaylor for getting to work with @letsleverup
