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The Hermes Agent Accelerated Business Hackathon presented by @NVIDIAAI × @stripe × @NousResearch starts now, for builders making agents that can earn, spend, and run real operations at any scale. Our NVIDIA integrations let your team run agents safely through NemoClaw, quickly on Nemotron 3 Ultra, and intelligently with access to their extensive agent skills. The new Stripe Skills for Hermes let your agent buy what it needs, provision its own SaaS, and pay for the services it uses. We want to see what kind of business tooling you can build on top of this foundation, whether it’s a fully automated company or a framework to accelerate enterprise functions. Prizes: 1st — $10,000 cash + NVIDIA DGX Spark + $5,000 Stripe Credits 2nd — $5,000 cash + NVIDIA DGX Spark + $3,000 Stripe Credits 3rd — $2,500 cash + NVIDIA DGX Spark + $1,000 Stripe Credits To enter: 1) Tweet a 1-3 minute demo video tagging @NousResearch with a short writeup 2) Drop the link in the submissions channel: discord.gg/nousresearch/P… 3) Fill out the submission form: form.typeform.com/to/hpEifIK4 Judged by Nous Research, NVIDIA, and Stripe on usefulness, viability, and presentation. Submissions due EOD Tuesday, June 30.

Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days. It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories. I think the cause was that Workspace and certain leaders (and projects) were afraid of being disrupted. But the fear wasn't specific to my CLI, it was a broader fear in what agents meant for Workspace. Either way, the irony of my termination was the announcement at Google Cloud Next two days before I was fired that an official Workspace CLI was coming. I want this out there because it is easier for me to explain my story and it is an experience I want to fully own. It's also part of my healing. Nearly 7 years at Google was an incredible opportunity for me and I was fortunate to have wonderful teammates and a manager that fully supported me through these last few months. Thank you.