Justin Fineberg

Excited to share that @Cassidy_AI has raised a $10M Series A 🎉 This round was led by @HOFCapital alongside @thegp, @neo, @alumniventures, and others. Our mission is simple: make AI automation & agents accessible to every team, for the unique processes only *your* company does.👇

@suzannexie Let's go!!!

1/ Exciting news: I’ve left Neo to join forces with a team of career military special operators and intelligence professionals to launch a new National Security focused venture fund with Strider Capital: stridercapital.com

The most exciting thing about software was that everyone had the same tools. Some kid in a dorm room could build something more powerful than a billion dollar company. Student films are going to be able to pull off what a Spielberg budget could...

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so many people did "everything right"...got the MBA, worked at McKinsey, and have nothing to show for it. The MBA was valuable when it was a filter. Companies couldn't evaluate talent, so they outsourced it to business schools. Now the frameworks are on YouTube and companies have hired enough MBAs who could analyze a business but couldn't run one. Consulting is the same. The value was pattern matching... "we've seen this at forty other companies, here's what works." But there aren't patterns anymore. AI is restructuring how work gets done and the consultants are figuring it out in real time like everyone else. The "risky" path, building things, learning by doing, might actually be safer.

@gregisenberg And the very best AI products don’t just have retention, they’ve got stellar ~expansion~

I'll say the quiet parts out loud: A lot of AI companies that raised $10M, $50M, even $250M+ have SERIOUS churn problems. A lot of AI products get tried because they’re the cool new thing. People sign up, poke around, feel the wow moment, tell a friend, maybe even pay for a month or two. Then real life kicks in and the subscription quietly gets canceled 3-6 months later. I call this "vibe revenue". Money that comes from curiosity, novelty, or FOMO rather than a product becoming essential to someone’s workflow. People pay because it’s cool to try, not because they can’t imagine their week without it. The dangerous part is that vibe revenue looks exactly like PMF at first!! Growth curves go up and to the right. Feedback sounds positive. Founders keep saying “this is the worst the models will ever be.” when confronted with churn. If I had a nickel, everytime I heard that! But the truth is better models don’t automatically create habits. They don’t fix shallow integration or give a product staying power. In AI, switching costs are low and alternatives show up weekly. Curiosity can carry revenue longer than it should, especially when capital is plentiful. Some of these companies will keep raising. Many will hit a wall when retention tells the full story. A lot of employees who on paper will think they are millionaires will learn this lesson the hard way. The businesses that survive feel different. They get used on boring days, stressful days, and busy days. They don’t rely on wow moments. They earn a permanent slot in how work actually happens and they'll deserve the valuation, the funding etc. Vibe revenue, it's everywhere. Stay safe out there. Am I wrong?

@benln @hf0residency @ycombinator @southpkcommons @fdotinc @seqoia @pearvc @neo @conviction @villageglobal @neo is the best!

For any early founders exploring accelerators, this is my latest shortlist: • @HF0Residency (SF) • @ycombinator (SF) • @southpkcommons (SF/NYC/Bangalore) • @fdotinc (SF) • @Seqoia Arc (US/EU) • @pearvc PearX (SF) • @Neo (SF) • @conviction Embed (SF) • @VillageGlobal Velocity (global) • @a16z Speedrun (SF)

This is why model agnostic automation matters. You want your workflows, your agents, and your internal AI stack to work no matter which model is ahead that month.

One of the biggest time savings from AI agents has nothing to do with the task you automate. It comes from removing all the ~coordination~ wrapped around it. Most work inside enterprises is slowed down by the meetings you need before the work: - The check-ins to clarify things. - The reviews to fix miscommunications. - The handoffs where someone needs the latest context. - The back and forth that happens because humans are never perfectly aligned. Agents skip that entire layer. You give the workflow the context once and it moves from start to finish without needing a single meeting, check-in, or alignment session. People focus on the task being automated, but that’s a small part of the win. The real leverage is removing all the overhead that used to surround it.

Our new workflow co-pilot might be one of my favorite things we’ve shipped... • Describe the automation you want to build and let co-pilot take the first pass • Watch it lay out the full workflow in seconds • Ask for tweaks or extra steps and it updates everything for you

Great opportunity at a fast growing company. Ohana hiring a Partnerships Lead 👇

Going to be showing off one of my personal favorite AI automations this week. Come join @businessbarista and me for the live event👇

@businessbarista Excited to walk through what we built live! Let’s go 🚀

I stole my buddy's CEO AI agent. He recently raised his Series A and was overloaded with meetings. So he built an agentic workflow that lets him stay on top of his entire business without sitting in every meeting. [FYI he's going to teach you how to build it live this week. Link below] This workflow includes: 1) Sales Insights - Detects and reports any competitor mentions across calls, complete with instant research on who they are and how we compare. - Analyzes deal health by updating our CRM with sentiment, next steps, and buying signals. - Each morning, sends a daily report highlighting which deals are most likely to close and the key reasons customers are leaning in or out. 2) Customer Success Insights - Flags feature requests directly from call transcripts so the product team sees what customers want most. - Surfaces unhappy customers the moment a negative sentiment appears on a call, instantly alerting you so you can act fast. 3) AI Assistant - You can search and ask questions about any call, like “Which customers mentioned integrations this week?” or “Show me the top three reasons we lost deals last month.” - The assistant pulls the exact clips, notes, and CRM context on demand. If you want to build this workflow custom for your business, join this week's "Human in the Loop" live event: luma.com/69ksttfk

@michlimlim @cognition @modal @Accel Let’s go! 🎉🎉

Your website should build itself. It should adapt to your visitors and competition in real time. Introducing Flint: autonomous websites. We’re already powering pages for @Cognition and @Modal. Today we announce our $5M seed from @Accel and break out of stealth. More below.

@iamjasonlevin That lox is going to hit different later

Atoning for my shitposts today

Sadly no Shark Tank pitch from me this year… but I did manage to sneak in and talk about AI anyway 🦈

@iamjasonlevin Let’s go! Congrats!

ANNOUNCEMENT: I raised $3 million to make memes. Yes, seriously. Memes make millions. Welcome to the new memelord.com

@ryanbrewer @leonsilicon gg

Had to call in the big guns @leonsilicon

@phineasb @Cassidy_AI @HOFCapital @thegp @neo @alumniventures Thanks Phin- grateful to have @thegp team alongside us! 🚀

@JustinFineberg @Cassidy_AI @HOFCapital @thegp @neo @alumniventures Congrats to the whole team @Cassidy_AI - and thanks for choosing to partner with @theGP from the start!

Excited to share that @Cassidy_AI has raised a $10M Series A 🎉 This round was led by @HOFCapital alongside @thegp, @neo, @alumniventures, and others. Our mission is simple: make AI automation & agents accessible to every team, for the unique processes only *your* company does.👇

@TBabb02 Lol, a lot of love for the Babb fam!

@JustinFineberg you’re the topic of today’s family talk lol

huge

@wesleyytian @Cassidy_AI Thanks!!

Congrats to @JustinFineberg and the @Cassidy_AI team!!