Rory O'Reilly

We’re excited to announce that @KnotAPIs is now live with @CashApp. The Cash App Card is one of the largest debit card programs in the United States. With Knot's CardSwitcher™, Cash App cardholders can instantly add their card across the merchants they use most, including Amazon, Apple, Walmart, Uber, and 100+ more, without ever leaving the app. Cash App has always focused on creating intuitive financial experiences. Knot builds on that by driving activation and spend for Cash App, reducing churn and abandoned carts for merchants, and giving users a frictionless way to use their Cash App Card. We’re proud to power an even more seamless Cash App Card experience and excited for what’s ahead. More to come.

@mikulaja And soon the world! Thank you for being such a great partner and investor!

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I'm thrilled to announce that Knot is expanding into Canada, partnering with @RBC, the country's largest bank. For years, we've built the merchant connectivity layer across the U.S., linking the people, financial institutions, and merchants behind everyday spend. Now, we're taking it international with RBC. RBC didn't become Canada's largest bank by standing still. They move early, they invest in their clients, and they push the industry forward. That is exactly the kind of partner we want to be building alongside. For RBC cardholders, the experience is seamless. From the moment a card is in hand, their spend follows it across the merchants and subscriptions they rely on. No reentering details, no failed charges, no gaps when a card is reissued. Canada is our first market beyond the U.S., and it won't be the last. Huge thanks to the RBC team for being such great partners.

@Johnmcelhone Insane John. Love it!

From stealth, privileged to introduce American Turbines. We're building a new class of small, highly manufacturable gas turbines for rapid-to-deploy energy generation. ​Abundant energy is the soil from which everything else grows: intelligence, industry, the next century of work. ​The only way forward is energy generation we can scale by orders of magnitude. We're building that here at American Turbines. Hyper manufacturable, by design. @amturbines

@marcinplaz Love this

I watched the Midjourney scanner get built from my desk; here's a look behind the scenes

@cory 👏

congrats to the Etched team on coming out of stealth with a working chip and over $1 billion in signed customer contracts! and $800M raised at a $5B valuation proud to be their very first believer and investor in 2022 while they were still students at Harvard

@czhu1729 Boom!! Let’s rock! Couldn’t be more proud

Three years ago this was a handful of us and a bet that felt obvious to us and crazy to most: the world was going to need vastly more inference than anyone was building for, and the systems to serve it didn't exist yet. Today it's 400+ of the best engineers I've ever worked with, real silicon, and racks shipping this summer. Building frontier inference systems is hard. AI moves fast. Doing both at once takes an absurd group of people, and somehow we found them. Grateful beyond words to my cofounders @UbertiGavin and @robertwachen and the whole team. Incredibly proud of what everyone has put into this. The hardest and best part is still ahead.

@robertwachen @UbertiGavin @czhu1729 Couldn’t be more proud. Congrats!

Bringing our first rack to life has been nothing short of exhilarating and grueling. @UbertiGavin @czhu1729 and I hibernated in San Jose for three years building the team, solving thousands of problems, and convincing the world to believe in us. I'm excited to finally start sharing what we've built. I think you'll love it, and we're just getting started:

@Etched So proud of ya’ll!

We're coming out of stealth. We've built our first racks after a successful A0 tapeout, $1B+ in customer contracts, and $800m raised. Early customer tests show us achieving SOTA throughput, latency, and power efficiency on inference workloads. Our first racks ship this summer.

@fiscal_ai O’Reilly 🍀

This is the CEO of O'Reilly Automotive. 17-years old: Parts Specialist 45-years old: CEO What a career. $ORLY

@eglyman @karimatiyeh @tryramp @rahulgs is the man - congrats to the team and great work.

Today @karimatiyeh and I are both taking new titles as Co-CEOs of @tryramp. If you know us, this won't feel like a change. From when we first started building together twelve years ago, our partnership has run on a couple of motivating principles. On decision-making, we trust each other completely to make critical calls for the company across every function. And on organization design, technology is not a distinct part of the company - it is the entirety of it. That is why Karim has for years directly managed risk, operations, and marketing. Most importantly, at Ramp there is no line between the people who build and the people who do everything else. Everyone is a builder. For the last 2,656 days, we have run the company this way. This only makes it formal. We thought it was important to do it now because of how we see the AI exponential reshaping what Ramp can be. Decisions of company strategy are increasingly decisions of technology and systems design. We have always believed every function should be approached as a systems-engineering problem (even when the system was primarily human) but the rise of machine intelligence makes this existential. Every part of the company must be positioned to leverage the continued explosion in model intelligence and capabilities. If we do this well, each step-change in what models can do compounds automatically into better products and faster execution without anyone having to rebuild the company to capture it. If we fail to operate this way we will ultimately be outcompeted by a new company that does. We are also making Rahul Sengottuvelu our CTO. @rahulgs has led Applied AI at Ramp since joining us three years ago through the acquisition of his prior company, Cohere. Before that, his first company was building customer-service agents on GPT-3 at a time when almost no one knew what a large language model was, and he has spent every year since pushing the frontier of what existing models can do. He has also been right on nearly every major technical direction in AI well before it was obvious. Building Ramp now means applying AI to every part of it, and Rahul is the person stepping up to lead that work. We are still very early in the history of Ramp. Our current chapter is perhaps the most dynamic, but we have never been more optimistic on where it is going and the mission has never been more important. The businesses that trust us are navigating the same shift we are, and we intend to be there for all of it: managing their token spend, supercharging their finance teams, and helping them get more out of every dollar and hour. - Eric & Karim

@TheIshanGoswami Love seeing @Baselayerhq as one of the data sources. Doesn’t get better than @jsawadd and his team

internal thesis on why exa will be $100 billion company: exa is no more a websearch company, it is a data company now! (just like tesla is not a car company, but an energy company) and the biggest data company in this ai world could be extremely huge

@zoesnownyc @andruyeung 🤣🤣🤣

@RoryOReilly @andruyeung Omfg.. I promise I’m not a stalker lol

Is Catan popular in the tech community? Who here plays?

@jsawadd @andruyeung ❤️❤️

@andruyeung Very! @RoryOReilly is top 2 in the world

@zoesnownyc @andruyeung 👀👀👀

@andruyeung Lowkey creepy that I know this but I don’t think he’s on twitter so fingers crossed he won’t see but I’m pretty sure the founder of Knot ai is like #3 globally ranked in Catan 😹

@defyneric 👀

i’m compiling a list of all neobanks on X @ all the ones you know

@jack Incredible.

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@brandon I’ve got a few referrals for you 🤝

I was rejected from 100+ jobs in college I flew to the offices of Google, LinkedIn, and Optimizely uninvited and tried to get past security to get an interview I followed up with a company so many times they used the words "cease communications" in their response If all you need is that chance, DM me. We are hiring the most ambitious, trustworthy person we find.

@cory love the way this post is written! Good stuff Cory.

congrats to the Cursor founders and team on the $60B acquisition to SpaceX this is one of those moments where I’m both genuinely excited for the team and kicking myself lol we were around the edges of Cursor in a bunch of ways, but I didn’t do enough to earn the chance to work with the founders directly it's still been cool to see the Z Fellows network show up around the company: the President of Cursor did Z Fellows I invested in the the COO of Cursor's pervious company Cursor acquired a Z Fellows alum company in an all stock (great) acquisition we were introduced to the founder of Cursor by the founder of Etched (Z Fellows alum) big L on my part that we didn't get a chance to work with the Cursor founders but excited for them, the team, and what's next :)

@markpinc Pre-ordered ✨

Most product teams fall into two traps: 1/ Mouse nuts: tiny tweaks no one cares about 2/ Boil the ocean: massive projects that never ship The magic is in the middle. At Zynga, we called it Bold Beats. In CityVille, we added one construction crane on the far side of the river. We didn’t make any announcement. And the community went nuts. When we finally let players build the bridge, daily engagement + revenue exploded. What’s the boldest thing your team can pull off in 30 days? Wrote about it in my new book which is out next week on June 23: lifeatthespeedofplay.com