Fifi Kara

Delighted to share the news that Aster has raised a $2.4M pre-seed, featured exclusively this morning by @axios. Grateful to have been joined by incredible partners such as, Cake VC, Cornerstone VC, Zeal Capital, Octopus Ventures and many more. axios.com/pro/health-tec…

@namitchadha I started small and simple with some personal life admin and logistics for upcoming travel!

OK I've got openclaw setup. What's everyone using it for?

@patrick_oshag @gokulr This was a great watch, amazing stories from back in the day! 😌

.@gokulr is one of the most prolific product builders and investors of the last 20 years. He helped build the core ads and product businesses at Google, Facebook, Square, and DoorDash, working directly with many of this generation's best founders and CEOs. He's also invested in more than 700 companies giving him an unusually broad view into how products are built and scaled. Gokul has an incredible ability to give precise and prescriptive advice on how to build products, particularly in AI, and he explains his thinking so clearly that you come away knowing exactly how to apply it. We talk about why judgment is the only thing he believes is truly AI-proof, why Zendesk and Slack are more exposed than Salesforce and NetSuite, and what AI-native startups must do to move customers and their data off legacy systems. We cover everything he's learned from building the most important ads businesses, including the only three ways an ad business can make money, and why ChatGPT may be even more powerful than Google or Facebook for highly targeted ads. He also shares inside stories from Larry and Sergey, Zuck, Jack Dorsey, and Tony Xu, about how each of them approaches product, design, and communication. Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:35 The Changing Nature of Product Development 4:09 The Merger of Product and Design 4:54 Managing Non-Deterministic Software 9:06 Judgment: The Future-Proof Human Skill 10:41 Building Durable AI Applications 16:43 The Risk to Legacy Software Companies 21:20 Sources of Stickiness in the Age of AI 23:43 Leadership Lessons from Google 27:41 Learning from Mark Zuckerberg 31:16 Jack Dorsey and the Philosophy of Great Design 35:48 The Product Manager as Editor 40:44 Three Pillars of a Successful Ads Business 49:03 Selecting North Star and Check Metrics 56:04 Hiring Functional Experts for the AI Era 1:00:06 Advice for Managing a Career 1:01:33 Evaluating Founder Authenticity 1:05:20 Best Practices for Board Management 1:11:15 The Kindest Thing

This essay will make you want to work on AI safety. Other things are just not as important right now. darioamodei.com/essay/the-adol…

@cjc Much needed post. Tech way too quiet.

This is indefensible. The victim’s legally owned handgun was removed from the scene, and then ICE agents shot him multiple times. It’s far from law enforcement — it’s just murder. Those who defend this don’t care about law or order. It’s about money, power, and protecting an executive branch that’s already been bought and paid for.

@aaron_epstein This is epic @aaron_epstein ! Nice work

New YC homepage design just launched! 👀 The last few years have been a return to our roots at YC, so we wanted to capture that with our new site, and show what it's really like to go through the batch. There's also a bunch of fun easter eggs throughout – thread below!

@EconstratPB I don’t know I think this kind of is a “moonshot” you’d be surprised how just staring with something small can be a huge catalyst for folks. This is definitely an experiment for us all the observe the results.

This is the dumbest shit. $250 compounded at 10% for 20yrs is $1681. Assuming no one fucks anything up. 😂 Invest $6.25B into early childhood nutrition or early literacy will blow away that kind of return by a moonshot.

Do you ever as a parent stop getting ads from Little Spoon?

@RefilweSeboko Good for you Fifi!

Late bloomer checking in: just signed the lease to my first apartment at 37 😅🥹

@DemiCaruso Literally same, I love getting asked if I’m Habesha, I feel part of the community in a way 😅

As a mixed Black & Indian person who is constantly being asked if I’m East African I hate that you’re not wrong 😭

CoffeeShop on 21st is my go to. Not surprised to see it here, always overhearing founders working from there.

@gustaf Congratulations Gustaf! He’s adorable!

Two and a half months ago our son was born. Being a parent is really hard but also the best thing in the world.

@IsabelHalfCaff Groundfloor, 455 Valencia Street,SF CA 94103

if you work in an office, hotel, gym, school, anywhere that there's colleagues and a centralized fridge location -- reply to this twt with your office shipping address and email address and we will send you cases of laurel's

I kind of miss the days when being a founder was a fringe thing. It’s great how much is accessible now, especially capital but ideas weren’t as cheap back then.

@nickclement Oh we do and they all need to talk to each other. Humans are often default lazy, agents will just get shit done.

I’m not sure the world needs this many AI assistants

Thank you Koby! This is such a great reminder the nay-sayers are way too loud right now! The future is incredibly exciting.

@rohindhar My fave Kevin Ho coming in at #44. & congrats Rohin!

There are approximately 5000 real estate agents in San Francisco Of those, 1503 have closed at least one transaction representing the buyer this year Here are the top 50 real estate buyers agents in San Francisco for the first three quarters of 2025, as measured by sales volume when representing buyers Coming in at number 17 is this guy! Please consider this is a humble (not humble?) advertisement for my services representing buyers purchasing real estate in San Francisco (I also represent sellers, but ~85% buyers at the moment) Buying a home in San Francisco is like being parachuted onto an island of hungry cannibals competing over extremely scarce resources (in this case a home) Consider me your guide for successfully eating your competition! With data and negotiating savvy of course, not literally. Either way, my clients win the deal and achieve extraordinary outcomes. Best, Rohin Dhar, San Francisco real estate agent and cannibal guide🙏

Absolutely no one prepares you for the feeling you get when you come home after work (later than usual), due to an early evening event and your 4-month old daughter catches a glimpse of you and proceeds to have the biggest, giddiest smile on her face. Indescribable.

meet our speakers: @FifiKara Co-Founder & CEO, @astercare_ Ex-Meta, YC-backed founder, and self-taught designer, Fifi has scaled products to millions of users and is now leading the charge at Aster. @KrisWoyzbun Co-Founder & CEO, Gumption A 2X tech founder and design leader from Google, IDEO, and SSENSE, Kris is now building an AI Home Design Companion shaping how we live. @zaic Founder & CEO, Haven Headache & Migraine Center From product designer to healthcare founder, Izac is reimagining migraine care with AI-enabled tools and a patient-first perspective.

starting a startup used to be about obsessing over a problem, applying the latest technology, & building a future you wanted to live in unfortunately, too many of you have become cynical you think the ai friend/infinite slop outcome is inevitable it's not. fight back.