Davide Di Cillo
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Davide Di Cillo
@0xDavide
Builder of products, teams, and systems. Head of Ads Product @ eBay | ex-Meta, Pinterest, Coinbase. Writing about product strategy, AI, and building in public
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Şubat 2008
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update for a16z speedrun-
It's now the FINAL week to apply for the upcoming 007 program hosted in San Francisco. Applications close officially on May 17th at 11:59 PM PST.
Here's the link:
speedrun.a16z.com
Why apply? we'll invest up to $1m in your brand new startup. It can be pre-launch, pre-traction, and even pre-idea (for the right teams) and the a16z speedun team works with you to launch/scale
If you're reading this, you might be:
- hanging out at a job, waiting for your next promo/bonus/X-year mark/etc
- you might have a side project, thinking it should be something bigger
- you're talking with a work friend about starting something
- finishing school, wondering if you should accept your job
The thing i’d encourage you to think about is that most startups don’t start with certainty. they start with a feeling that something is pulling at you and won’t go away. A surprising number of the best founders we meet are very early:
- no company yet
- no deck
- no huge insight tweet thread
- sometimes not even fully committed yet
Don't wait until you have the perfect idea, or feel “ready.” Or everyone around you agrees, so the opportunity cost feels lower. But by then, usually the edge is gone. These insights and windows don't last forever
This is the best environment in history for small teams to build massive things. AI has compressed team sizes, timelines, distribution, and iteration speed so aggressively that the old career timing assumptions don’t fully apply anymore.
anyway, if you’ve been circling the idea of starting something, this might be the sign to actually do it
Official stuff below:
- May 17th deadline to apply (this week!)
- Official dates for SR007 are from July 27 through October 11, 2026 in San Francisco
- We wire funds fast and onboard you to our network of over 250 partnered tools-providers with a total of $5M in credits.
- Our stacked team of battle-tested operators who help cover your gaps, without adding headcount. Expect dedicated support and programs from experts across talent, recruiting, go-to-market, marketing, creators, capital network, HR, even visa support.
- a16z speedrun is extremely selective. Join an elite community of over 600+ founders who actively support each other and serve as a powerful source of customer introductions and product feedback.
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Today, we are excited to introduce isitagentready.com — a new tool to help site owners understand how they can make their sites optimized for agents. cfl.re/4tgEUPc
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I know OpenClaw isn't part of OpenAI but this feels like a mini-crisis for OpenAI if the GPT integration doesn't improve soon.
The bar is GPT needs to be just as good if not better for OpenClaw as Opus.
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I scanned 100 top DTC brands for AI agent readiness.
46% Agent-Ready
42% Needs Work
12% Invisible to AI
The surprise: most sites are structurally navigable. The real gap is discovery. Agents can use your site but can't figure out what you sell.
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I'm leaving @coinbase after 7 years, incredibly proud to have played a role in its evolution.
Left: Coinbase when I joined in 2019.
Right: Coinbase today.
From a handful of cryptos to millions; 24/7 derivatives, Advanced mode, prediction markets, stocks, rewards, and borrowing — all in one app.
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@thriftycars I found it really gross that your staff used Maui’s last week’s flooding to upsell me a more expensive car and the insurance.
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introducing AlphaClaw Apex 🐺
a native Mac app for managing multiple OpenClaw VPS instances from one dashboard.
some of you are already setting up OpenClaw for clients as a service. Apex is built for you.
deploy to Hetzner VPS in one click. monitor all your instances. manage configs, updates, spend, and health from a single UI. no SSH needed.
everything you know from AlphaClaw, now across a fleet:
📅 Google Workspace OAuth & pubsub wizard
⏱️ Cron calendar view and cost-saving insights
🖥️ Remote node setup wizard
🔄 Auto-backup to GitHub
📊 Token usage & cost analytics built in
🧱 Prompt hardening reduces agent drift
🩺 Drift Doctor analyzes your prompts and workspace for drift
💬 Telegram multi-topic workspace setup wizard
📂 Full file browser, editor, and terminal no SSH needed
🐕 Per-instance watchdog and crash recovery
🛠️ Manage env vars from the UI
🔑 Manage model keys & OAuth visually
🪝 Webhook creator & inspector with replay & debug
⬆️ One-click updates, no redeploy needed
📦 Import existing setup from GitHub
if you're thinking about offering managed OpenClaw as a service, this is the ops layer you've been missing.
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Super fascinating data. I also wonder how much bias is introduced by the Ramp user archetype.
Ara Kharazian@arakharazian
Most people in tech know Anthropic commands the majority of API spend by U.S. businesses. As of January, Anthropic took >50% of spend on enterprise AI subscriptions too. OpenAI still leads on business count. But the biggest spenders go to Anthropic. All from Ramp data.
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After using Perplexity Computer for a week, I can say with confidence:
- leave the AI tinkering to the computer and get to building in 99% less time
It's very much an out of the box solution/product compared to most OpenClaw setups I've come across so far.
Zeneca🔮@Zeneca
After using OpenClaw for a month, I can say these two things with confidence: - it is an incredibly powerful way to interact with AI, and can build true autonomy into workflows - it will make you bang your head against a wall many, many times It’s very much worth trying to figure out how to make it work, but it’s a long way from an out of the box solution/product
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This was cool to see.
My @openclaw assistant independently noticed a potential Apple ID security risk and proactively suggested steps to secure the account. No prompt from me.
Imagine a future with computers that actually look out for you.
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@PaulYacoubian Coding constitutes a small percentage of knowledge workers. What we’ve been suggesting is that adoption is still significantly lagging in other verticals.
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I’m not sure if anyone looked at the x axis of this chart, but its a % of total calls.
There are dozens of posts saying “its still early” or circling the empty area, implying that all the bars are going to get to 100% 😅
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@noahkagan This is like saying that the first iPhone doesn’t have apps, internet is slow, it’s very expensive, etc.
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Open claw is still overrated.
Here's my hot take:
Everyone asks around how do you use it - why? Cause no one has a use case they find invaluable besides making dashboards or trying to arbitrage Polymarket.
Maintenance - I spend 80% of my time just keeping it online, remembering or fixing things. It forgets time and time again. Also sucks up all computer resources regularly.
All the posts about SEO optimization, how they have 15 AI employees, etc. Are from people not making money.
Token costs > Executive Assistant cost ($50 / hour). Turns out using better models and running tasks around the clock costs money. And trying to debug or explain things takes way longer than sending to my assistant (for now).
It hurt my X account. When I had it run my X and then check my X for stats - I got throttled since it looks like a bot (cause it IS a bot!) - didnt realize it for a week.
Every-single-person who's bragging about OpenClaw is mostly lying. When you ask them how it's really going it isn't as they seem.
Is it awesome and hugely potential, yes. Still someways to go...
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The next flip after API-first software is API-first labor. If agents can programmatically access tools, they can also programmatically accept work, deliver results, and get paid. The bottleneck isn’t capability anymore, it’s the verification layer between “agent did the work” and “human trusts the output.”
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In a world of openclaw, codex, claude code/cowork, manus, and other agentic systems, it’s becoming clear that the future of software has to be API-first, but also enable human interaction for verification, collaboration with agents and people, and working on the output.
It’s generally been the case that software was built for people first and foremost, and then APIs are exposed for other systems to connect into that tool or data. But if we imagine a world where AI agents are doing 10X or 100X more work with software than people, then this paradigm is flipped.
Software becomes API-first, with ways of having humans be able to work effectively with the agent, either through a UI as relevant, or chat. If you’re not API-first, then you’re nearly DOA to agents.
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Oh the irony: I finally have Starlink fast enough to work on flights…
and now all I really need is free messaging so I can chat with my OpenClaw agent 🤦♂️
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