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@0xpunnk lets gooo

Introducing the first AI workforce for hospitality. Hotel guests prefer talking to AI agents. As long as it finishes the job. We've seen it firsthand. Our agents drove higher review scores and satisfaction across over 50 million guest conversations at hotels, resorts, and vacation rentals. Conversion on bookings and upgrades go up 30%.

@MachJustine 😭

first post on x kind of nervous

@jamiecuffe @ThriveCapital @sequoia @emergencecap @pruvencapital @pacecom Congrats!

Today, Pace has raised a $46 million Series B, co-led by @ThriveCapital and @Sequoia, with participation from @emergencecap and @pruvencapital, to help our customers insure more of the world’s risk. @pacecom agents have completed more than 250,000 critical insurance operations, growing 3x every quarter. The world’s leading insurers, like Prudential, WTW and Convex, trust Pace to scale back-office operations. 60% of the world's losses last year went uninsured. Closing this $9 trillion protection gap starts with AI-native operations.

@nicoaferr @withdefault @8vc @owner @AirbyteHQ Congrats Nico and the team!

Today, I'm incredibly excited to announce @withdefault's Series A led by @8vc and our new product. We spent the last three years building the tools and orchestration layer companies like @owner and @AirbyteHQ have used to build infrastructure across their go-to-market functions. Today, we're launching the first real-time data layer for go-to-market, a powerful new revenue agent, and a suite of tools for revenue teams and their agents. It's Day 1.

@_sonith @immad @mercury pumped to listen 🙌

My conversation with @immad, CEO and co-founder of @mercury. Immad's story is so unique yet largely underdiscussed. His father owned a mechanic shop and his mom was a teacher. After immigrating to the US, he spent nearly a decade pivoting before finally selling his first company for 45M. We dug into the sheer pain tolerance required to pivot constantly and still find sources of motivation, something many early-stage founders don't hear about enough. From there, Mercury got off the ground — but with a unique twist. Immad generally doesn't work weekends and has still built one of the most successful fintechs. This goes entirely against Twitter hype that promotes working every waking hour, and Immad's clarity on this topic was refreshing. He feels like he's "playing the bonus levels" and is still just getting started. Mercury is now worth multiple billions of dollars with 500M+ in recurring revenue, 10 consecutive quarters of profitability, and still growing 40% YoY. I hope you enjoy this conversation, Immad's clarity on company building, and learning about his life. PS. As quite the ending, Immad & I tried Habanero hot sauce off his conference room table! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 2:11 Growing Up in Pakistan And Moving to London 6:37 "Yelp For London" and Early Entrepreneurial Endeavors 10:45 Pivoting From Flash Games to Mobile Ad Networks 12:15 Selling a Company After 8 Years of Pivoting 16:42 Thank You to Macroscope and Timeless Partners 17:56 Meeting His Wife Through Facebook 19:09 Finding Your Life’s Work 22:35 The Origins of Mercury 26:44 The Importance of Design at Mercury 27:37 How Mercury Landed Its Initial Customers 29:12 Raising Mercury's Seed Round 31:09 The Choice to Not Work Weekends 34:58 Immad's Best Startup Ideas 36:15 Are There Moats with AI? 38:05 Mercury’s 10-year vision 39:50 From Angel Investing to Formalizing a New Fund 42:13 Paul Graham's Influence 44:33 Parenting Philosophy 46:01 Sources of Happiness 46:52 Immad & I Taste Hot Sauce Off a Conference Table!

@jakeottiger @_sonith Can’t wait

daniel is such a cool dude. i cannot wait to share his story with all of you soon. he runs a cleaning supply distributor and a vintage clothing store in LA. he was also a professional soccer player. we are rolling out Codex to him to help him run his businesses better, reduce monotony, and grow with less stress. in these documentaries, there will be no mention of “ai” nor “ai transformation” just incredible people and businesses that deserve to be heard.

@tylertaewook @ndstudio Absolutely killer

I joined National Design Studio as a Member of Technical Staff in D.C. AI is reshaping how people and systems interact, yet the government services millions rely on are still slow and hard to use. We’re bringing frontier technology and design to rethink these experiences end to end for the entire nation. The team @jgebbia and @as400495 has assembled is exceptional, and I’m excited to play my part. Onwards!

@tkkong @philhchen super exciting!

I’ve started a new company with @philhchen! Phil built frontier LLMs across research & engineering at OpenAI, DeepMind, and Scale. I was shipping AI experiments at Ramp Labs. We've been heads down building personalized AI coworkers for every business. We’re growing our team of researchers, designers, and IMO gold medalists. Reach out if you're interested!

@ptrackrman @ereborbank cook brotha

Excited to announce I’ve joined @ereborbank There are generational companies being built across America today and we are going to build the bank to support them. The innovation bank is open for business, reach out.

@sfspacesquid My fault bro

just saw a leaked interview of my boy failing 2sum in the mercor leaks

@willdphan 🔥

fun collab with a legend—coming soon! 👀

@_AdamMiller_ @robcgiani

In SF until Saturday Would love to connect with people in the storytelling, new media or creative AI space dm me if you want to catch-up!

@adelwu_ @s_afiaziz so good!

mistakenly asked for hot takes on SF vs. NYC at our last NYC event.... but it was such a blast getting to meet so many of our customers in person after working together on Slack for so long! we don't get to visit that often, but had to throw an awesome event with @s_afiaziz while there! drinks, food, and games were flowing and it was such a beautiful venue filmed by @brandonjlu :) @reductoai nyc office.....soon? ;)

@scalar Love it!

introducing agent scalar™ upload OpenAPI spec to scalar (free) → instantly get an MCP server that gives your agent the full API context in ~ 1000 tokens & just 3 tools on average, that cuts native MCP context by 99%... 1/3

@adelwu_ @reductoai 🙌🙌

nyc i am in you! if you: - want to come to my games & cocktail night on thursday, have only a few spots left🍸 - are a @reductoai customer, let me come see you 🫶 - want to grab coffee and chat about growth! DM me! 💌

@boristane @parkerhendo

I'm back nominal.dev

@willdphan wowow

selective focus + transforms are a cheat code to avoid after effects link to article below ↓

@willdphan niceee

wrote a short article on the css perspective property and how to add depth to interfaces

@ycombinator @paysponge 👀

.@paysponge is the easiest way for agents to hold and spend money, and for businesses to sell directly to them. Built by the team behind Stripe's stablecoin financial accounts, stablecoin payments and core money movement systems, Sponge brings deep experience in building financial systems for the new economic actor: agents Congratulations on the launch @sfspacesquid, @ericzhang98, @jaekyongchoi! ycombinator.com/launches/PTD-s…