@samilaa

co-founder @lastaccounting, @ycombinator S26, prev @tokenterminal, ex-fighter pilot training

San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2026
Sami Laakkonen retweeted
if bryan johnson actually cared about living forever he'd solve the alignment problem
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good luck, F26!!
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Sami Laakkonen retweeted
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
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Sami Laakkonen retweeted
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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Sami Laakkonen retweeted
have your accountant try arc-agi-3 and let us know how they performed. ours just scored 99.9%
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Sami Laakkonen retweeted
Save me from my international accounting nightmare @lastaccounting
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Last Accounting Company (YC S26) is the agent-native accounting firm. LAC replaces both the traditional accounting firm and legacy accounting software with one end-to-end service. Our agents keep the general ledger always up to date while expert accountants validate everything before it’s filed. Sign up at @lastaccounting and never worry about accounting again 👀
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Sami Laakkonen retweeted
everybody talking about becoming dangerously good at something how about becoming dangerously whatever this is
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launching in 40'
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feels good to be on the main quest for once
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bro what faze apex is in my yc batch!? i was literally the biggest fan growing up 😭
Most of the creator economy has been built around reaching people everywhere. Local businesses need something different: creators who live nearby, posting about places their viewers can actually walk into. Today we’re launching @TryNearbyCom as part of @ycombinator S26, live with 120+ paying restaurants across Southern California. We have spent the last 10 months doing restaurant visits with creators and sitting with hundreds of owners, learning what they actually need. That work grew us over 130% since the batch started with over 90% retention since November. Excited to continue to make local businesses discoverable online, and to turn millions of locals into creators for the businesses around them.
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Sami Laakkonen retweeted
Bro to bro- do not try entrepreneurship if you don't have a high tolerance for uncertainty. For long periods of time, you genuinely won’t know if you’re early, wrong, unlucky, or just stupid. You need to be cheap before you can afford not to be. Because raising money and burning it is easy. Building something people are willing to pay for is hard. You need high self esteem and a low ego and you've to be comfortable being wrong, looking stupid and changing your mind. Most importantly, learn how to lose without becoming a loser. Because you’re going to lose a lot- money, people, deals & time. Just don’t lose your ability to think clearly. And btw, don’t go looking for motivation. It is useless after a while. What you really need is stamina. Both physical & mental.
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i started using @paper today and all my ui design troubles are literally solved
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everybody talking about becoming dangerously good at something how about becoming dangerously whatever this is
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chat im on my last % is this founder mode
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omw to europe (for sales) & there’s @Starlink on the plane!! total game changer been waiting for this @airfrance ftw!
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all about the journey 😌
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we got to visit the @OpenAI office this week! super inspiring. having intelligence on an API still feels mind-blowingly magical to me PS. this is the only photo I took since I was afraid I’d accidentally photograph something top secret 🙈
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what are the best books/materials for learning theory of chess? ive played recreationally since a kid but would love to formalise my thinking
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